We eventually put a couch in front of ours. They can still reach the mantle but a HUGE bean bag chair as a landing spot, instead of the floor, or me.
Until my 6 year old daredevil rolled it (it is 50 pounds and huge) into the kitchen. He then climbed the fridge and was trying to jump off when I stopped him.
Phew! Aside from a few stitches to hold down the ends this is done! I won’t mention the fact it gives baby access to more areas to the wife!
We’re taking the twins off bottled milk at night, to put an end to the overflowing nappies, disturbed sleep and (more recently) regurgitation.
They eventually got to sleep at 22:30, only to wake up again at 0:00. Ugh, will the screaming never stop?
We got rid of a night feed by reducing the number of scoops of formula in the same volume of water by one each night so she was temporarily full, but was hungry again in the day. It shifted the milk consumption to daytime over a few days. Then she stopped waking for what was just water by the end as she’d had her fill during the day. Now no more night feed.
Food (Milk?) for thought at least! I’m certainly no expert!
I guess the difference is that they’ve been off daytime milk for months, so there is no daytime milk consumption to compensate.
And thus my lack of expertness is exposed!
It’s OK, I don’t expect anyone else to be an expert on our twins =P
I suppose we aren’t quite to a critical point yet with our 2.5yo. Right now she’s drinking about 350ml of goat milk[1]† during story time (which immediately precedes bedtime), but she’s still wearing a diaper to bed. However, because we’re potty training at the moment, we’re trying to cut back on her milk intake during story time; so far our only attempts have been continued/repeated coaching to drink more water during supper and before bedtime.
†: it seems she has an allergic reaction to the cows milk we buy - we’re looking for a dairy that offers “A1” milk to see if that makes a difference
If it helps, our 4 y.o. and 8 y.o. are taking turns lately to move to our bed in the middle of the night. There is less screaming, but more kicking involved… Still undecided about what is worst…
Ants. We have ants, in the middle of winter. This is largely our own fault, cause our son is (mostly) feeding himself in the high chair and has (mostly) stopped trying to wear breakfast as a hat. But it does mean the quick clean up is less through as there’s less obviously food everywhere. Turns out there’s still food everywhere, just hidden.
I’m not looking forward to Summer, when they come out in force.
Good luck! I hope you can report success in a few days.
Well, we only have 3 beds between the 5 of us, and we are only using 2 of them right now (5 year old can’t use her own bed in the room where the twins are screaming and one of us keeps em company).
So yeah, looking forward to getting past this stage.
Hang in there. As we say in Spain, nothing bad last 100 years… one would hope they had used a smaller number… I guess they play it safe that way.
I think, like anything to do with parenthood, it goes in stages. I know it can be very tiring, sometimes devastatingly exhausting, but it is worth it. I don’t regret one minute. One day you will look back and think, God, that went flying.
Just don’t ask me in the middle of the night when I have been kicked in the lower back for the third time by our little one. I might not have the same answer…
Hundred years War?
You could probably rules-lawyer that by claiming it was 3 separate wars 
Technically a modern name, and with long periods without conflict…
2020?
Definitely feels like it
In all fairness, it is going to be 366 days long instead of the usual 365…
Happy to report that the screaming is mostly over. First-time parents take note: do it Mintochris’ way, and not ours. Quit night milk feeds before quitting day milk feeds!
Still takes about 2 hours to get them to sleep though. That’s 20:30 to 22:30 every night where I can’t help out with the housework, or read our eldest a bedtime story.
I used to have to lie in their room for at least 90mins singing non-stop to get our kids to sleep…
We made a rod for our backs with our eldest, we used to let him suck on our finger to go to sleep. Having said that he’s nearly 13 now and called me a w@nker yesterday (tbf, I was annoying him), so the idea of cuddling him to sleep is lovely. He was a terrible sleeper, we had to control cry him to get through the night (pro tip - if you like cricket, do that during a time when your team on the other side of the world so you can listen to the radio).
Our youngest sucked his thumb when he was little. Somehow he slept through from about 2 months. We did nothing to make this happen and we were so, so lucky.
Our boys’ problem was never going to sleep, it was waking up early. Since lockdown though the eldest wakes up at 1030, the youngest slept until 1230 yesterday.
