repost from 0-3..breaking this habit

nikkim76

We have twin DD's. One DD sleeps fine in her crib when we put them down at 10:30 until 3am or sometimes 4. The other one always wakes up like clockwork every night. So I can get some sleep before the next feeding I bring her into bed with me since alot of nights I do the middle of the night feedings. I don't want to continue to do this for many reasons. I try giving her her paci or rocking her and it only works for about 20-30 minutes if I am lucky. And I also don't want her to wake my other DD with crying alittle. She weighs alittle less then my good sleeper so maybe its just a matter of time. Any suggestions would be great!!

Dec31stBride

We did a gradual transition with DS - 1st step was having him sleep on the floor next to the bed in a bouncy seat. At some point, he was sleeping really well in the infant carrier, so we moved that into his room on the floor, then into the crib, then we put the crib mattress on an incline, and eventually down to normal.

baby2121

Im been told to let them hear eachother cry at night.. This lets them get used to the crying, and learn to sleep thru it..

lgurian

mine sleep through each other's crying without a problem. when i did it i would get up and put that paci back in every 30 min. as soon as one would finally fall back asleep the other one would wake up, so i would put HIS paci in every 30 min. i would never rock them or talk to them, just stick that paci in and walk off. sometimes it lasted the 30 min. sometimes he would have it spit out right about the time i lay down again. it sucked but it was worth it when they both started sleeping through the night at around 10 weeks. GL.

Rinnie

I know every baby is different, but I refused to bring the boys to my bed in the beginning.  My DD who is almost 3 sleeps in our bed at sometime during the night every single night.  Why because when she would cry out as a baby, my DH who would go try to get her back to sleep would just bring her to our bed.  I was exhausted so I also allowed it.  I want my bed back.

So when the boys came - we set up a bed in their room.  They didn't STTN night until 13 and then 14 weeks.  13 weeks for my bigger twin and 14 weeks for the smaller.  If you don't have room for a bed, how about a rocker?  My boys also shared a crib until 7 months old.

I would always go to them.  I also heard that you should let them learn to sleep through each others crying and I have to say at 14 months - the do that.  They have never woken each other up at night from crying.

I would either nurse them or cuddle with them in their room on that bed.  I never took them from the room unless I needed light for meds or something.

Now at their age if one will cry out I will go in and pull them and bring them into our room for some cuddle and relaxing and then back to bed.  This is more because it seems like lately their crying will actually wake up their sister and bring her into our bed even earlier.

With regards to the paci, I removed it completely by the time they were STTN.  This was a personel reason for me because I just recently was able to wean my DD from the blasted thing before christmas.  She is almost 3.

Good luck it is hard!