The night time is disasterous-the girls are not sleeping. Forget the books, nobodies getting any sleep at all! Tess and Gigi take turns keeping Jordan and me up all night! They are out of their car seats, thank God. But they don't fit into the swaddles any more that restrict their arms and legs from moving. Last night we got them down, but then they were up from 3am to 6 am. One or the other is crying, and Jordan puts them in bed with her which gets exhausting.
She's been reading all the baby books on sleep-Healthy babies, Happy Sleep; the cry method, the no cry method.
All the logic goes out the window when you want sleep. So tonight the night time baby nurse, Christine, who is from the Philipines, is coming. Hopefully, Jordan will get some sleep. I am going to a friends.
Young parents get so desperate around this stuff, and with good reason. The babies need feeding every 3 and 1/2 hours. They are "on" you. The new parents spend money on anything that works-sound machines, books, baby nurses, wedges for the crib, swaddles, etc. They are such a hungry market-billions can be made off of them.
Jordan and were laughing at how we've become this return team-the other day we bought an antique rocker, I got it home and saw it was broken in the back where you'd sit. That was the end of the rocker-took it back. I bought a sweeper-it didn't clean very well and the cord wouldn't retract-bam, I took it back.
Jordan wants to get a new couch, and soon we'll need better cribs. But she wants everything organic, so the costs shoot up. Organic cribs are around $1000 -not sure if that includes the mattress. And on and on.
The help and equipment is running over $1000 a week. The money is flying out the door. Well, I'm off to the neighbors!
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