Good night sweetheart

Here are my babies at around 12 weeks. Can you tell they're related?!

Alice

Juliet

And there endeth the similarity.  Good old Alice was sleeping for 10 hours or so by this point, with no dream feed.  She was relatively easy to settle by this stage, following weeks of shh'ing and patting, but the evenings were quite hard work.  All worth it for the long stretch of sleep, however. What super dooper parents we were.

By contrast, Juliet shows that there's a lot to do with nature rather than nurture.  She is the easiest baby to settle that I have ever known - you just chuck her in the cot and off she goes (sometimes after a little chat or perhaps a song).  She's been like this for weeks.  However, she's still waking in the night.  It was at dead on 3am for about 9 weeks, but she has at least/last progressed to 4.45am which helps.  In the last few days, her nightfeeds have reduced to abour 15 minutes or so - and last night although she was feeding hungrily I stopped her after that amount of time and she settled straight away. 

If only she knew that Alice's sleeping was all down to me.  Hmm.  I have told her that she needs to get it together now that she is 12 weeks old.  However, she just doesn't seem to be listening.  And frankly, since she is so adorable, I'm prepared to humour her until we are all better.  I am feeling fairly demented, however, with the lack of sleep and am trying not to wish this lovely baby stage away.