A podcast by 2 friends in their early 30's chatting about parenting from a Dad's point of view. Always funny, often serious, but always from a Dad's perspective
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A podcast by 2 friends from the UK in their early 30's chatting about parenting from a Dad's point of view. Always funny, often serious, but always from a Dad's perspective
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In its purest form, parenting is knowing that picking up the toy is a waste of your time as you'll be doing it again moments later; then doing it anyway thousands of times a day
Does anyone else get uncontrollable rage when changing nappies and trying to get one wet wipe out of the container and a huge clump of the things come out at once. I honestly cannot describe the anger I feel every time it happens. Exhibit A
#parenting #dads #nappies #rage #twins
Night 10: next stage of #stayandsupport sleep training is to move further away from the cots. We did and were only up for 2 feeds and they slept through from 2-7am 🙌🙌🙌. Almost ready to sleep in our own bed in a separate room. So proud of our little smashers😍
#dadlife #sleep
Night 11,12,13: pro's - we are downstairs watching TV after putting them down for 2 hours in the evening 😀😀
Negatives: Lucie has started waking every 3 hours (hoping its a development phase and will pass) 😬😬 and I thought supporting Arsenal was tough...
#sleeptraining #dads
If anyone wants further detail on sleep training I'm happy to talk through in more detail. Would definitely recommend sleep training with Lucy Wolfe if your little one(s) are struggling with sleep
#stayandsupport #
So sleep training...Night 6, steady progress, only a couple of feeds, decent sleep lengths (3-4 hours)
Night 7: BAG OF SPANNERS
Night 8: it's anybody's guess but if you don't hear about it, assume I've walked into a cave and taken to whittling with the animals
#sleeptraining #sos
Sleep training night 5: the twins have got the let Mum & Dad sit and watch an episode and a half of a series down. Still need a bit of help getting back to sleep but we're getting 4-6 hours sleep per session 👍. Seeing benefits of #stayandsupport
#parenting #twins #sleep #dadlife
So...about night 6....didn't finish a full episode without some upset babies... Not fully down until after midnight. Serves me right for shouting my mouth off on night 5. Lesson learnt and everything crossed for tonight, what a hopeful fool I was 😂
#stayandsupport #sleeptraining
Sleep training night 4: tough start, twins didn't settle until midnight but then slept through for over 6 hours. Swings and roundabouts🥴🥴. Onto night 5. You really get to understand how good/bad your singing voice is in the dead of night singing lullabies
#stayandsupport #twins
Sleep training night 3: Another good performance from the twins. Asleep within 5 minutes using verbal/touch/distraction techniques. Still up a few times but averaging 3+ hours of sleep without waking. The book again for what we've been using blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pr…
#babysleep
So... Night 2 of #stayandsupport sleep training.
5 mins to go down at bedtime. Both slept over 3 hours before needing a feed and one little munchkin slept from 1 - 7am!!
Early days but improving all the time. Day time naps also getting easier
Night 3...
#sleeptraining #dadlife
Last night we left 45 mins between last feed and putting down in cot. Took 20 mins to get them down with a fair amount of crying. Each then slept on average 2-3 hours with only 3 feeds each through the night.
Early days but already seeing improvements!
#parenting #sleeptraining
We have also stopped feeding them to sleep for todays naps and only took 4 minutes for them to go to sleep, actually quicker than before.
Here's hoping 🤞🤞
#twins #sleep #babysleepsolution
#stayandsupport #parenting #dadlife
So before getting into how night 1 of sleep training went. Below is an overview of what the last 2 months have been like pre-training -
- both babies are breastfed exclusively
- 4 naps a day
- fed to sleep for each nap and bedtime
- Mum/Dad up between 12-25 times a night to feed
For any Dad's soon to be starting sleep training, from tonight I'll be giving an update on our progress on sleep training 5 1/2 month old twins. We're following the Lucy Wolfe #babysleepsolution #stayandsupport approach from her book sleepmatters.ie/books/
Wish me luck
#sleep
When you start sleep training and on night #1 having finally managed to put them both to sleep, the smoke alarms decide to go off for no reason 😤😤😤. If anyone needs me, I'll be screaming silently into a towel
#parenting #sleepfails #sleeptraining
Parenting in the bedroom is really just two people whispering loudly to each other and miming terribly that the baby(s) is asleep
#twins #parenting #dadlife #twinlife #bedroomroutine #babysleep #tiredparents #exhausteddad
Every parent:3 in the morning, little one finally going to sleep then a sustained bum trumpet is heard. Its time to play "fart or poop"
Likely dialogue : "how dry did that sound?" and "on a scale of 1-10 where would SQUELCHY be on the fart-poop scale?"
#twins #nosleep #parenting