why won't they sleep at night???

Sara_jm

Ugh! My girls are expert sleepers during the day but at night, forget it. They just want to cry lately.   I am soooo tired. We try to keep them awake during the day, but that's hard to do with 2 month olds who want to sleep. I think they have their days/night mixed up. Is this something they will outgrow? Any suggestions?

ancjph

They need to be on a nap schedule during the day, it will help them so that the don't sleep all day and not at night. We went through that problem. I read the book Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child. It really helped us another triplet mom suggested it to me. Hope that helps a little.

linda98ny

Trying to keep them awake during the day won't help. ?Sleep begets sleep. ?I found it to be very true. ?It's hard because they're not on a routine yet but hopefully soon they'll start sleeping longer. ?Do you have them swaddled at night? ?

tripletmom

The book healthy sleep happy baby is great. One thing to do at night is when they get up to eat, don;t change them, unless you know that they have pooped, keep the lights low and don;t talk to them in the middle of the night. I know that not talking to them seems mean, but really it works, they will know that night time is sleeping time, and not play time.

good luck i hope you get some sleep soon. 

mnj917

We found that about the third month, our boys slept pretty well during the night - from about 12-6.  We let them sleep as much as they want all day/night until about 8pm and then keep them up by playing and talking to them.  They are mostly breastfed, but we do give formula/cereal bottles for the last feeding.  Not sure if it actually does anything, but getting 5-6 hours of sleep is wonderful!

best of luck!

-jen