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macchiatto
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If you do the eat/activity/sleep, come in ...
macchiatto
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My boys are just 3 weeks old so I'm not sure how much you can do this yet (our goal is to get into a routine of eat/activity/sleep during the day and then just eat/sleep at night), but they're both starting to have longer alert times ... however, it does seem like there are usually a couple feedings during the day where they'll be really sleepy during and sleep soundly after, or one of them will be alert for a while after feeding (sometimes all the way till the next feeding!) and the other one will sleep. Same thing at night. Suggestions? Is it too early to really try to do that? I would LOVE to have them on the same schedule; right now DH and I are sleeping in shifts because too often, whoever's on duty will get zero chance to nap because one or both babies will be awake, or sometimes they'll wake up hungry and start falling asleep after an ounce and it takes forever to get them tot ake a full feeding (if you try to put them down after an ounce they'll be awake again before you know it).
In terms of feeding, we go back and forth between feeding one right after the other, and feeding both at once. They also go back and forth between being in sync and out of sync in their schedules since they can go anywhere from 2 to 4 hours between feedings, so if we try to feed one when the other's hungry and it's only been 2 hours, the non-hungry one may have no interest in eating (they're having mostly formula with two bottles a day of EBM). They seem to digest better if they're held while feeding instead of prpped in bouncies/seats but I think that'll change as they get a little bigger.
I'd love any tips you all may have!
fraternal twin boys born january 2009
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Re: If you do the eat/activity/sleep, come in ...
we did sleep/eat/play with DS from day one. for many weeks it was more like sleep/eat/sleep/eat - he wasn't awake much
But the key was that he did not rely on eating to fall asleep.
with twins- i don't have any answers- just that most twin mamas i have talked to IRL and here say to wake the sleeping twin so you feed them at the same time every time.