XP from multiples: twin scheduling question (2 months)

LVBlvd

My twins stay on the same feeding schedule during the day easily.  I want your opinions on what to do at night.  Here is our schedule as of now:Bath, jammies, nurse, down for the night:  by 10Braley wakes at 3, very hungry.  So we also wake Jack.  I pump, DH feeds them bottles (both drain 4 ounces), back to bed by 3:45 or 4Braley wakes at 7:45 or 8, very hungry.  So we also wake Jack.  They both nurse vigorously.But Jack is not even stirring either time when we  wake him up.When did you stop waking one twin to keep him/her on the same schedule as the other?I feel like because he eats, he is hungry.  But should we be seeing if he can sleep longer?I am so worried that we would be up again at 4 if we didn't wake him, though.Anyway...thanks for reading this.  What did you do with your twins?

LisaandBryan

aI always had the same dilemma. I always did waek the sleepy one because like you said I was afraid that they would wake up an hour or so later and I'd never get any sleep. So I say for now keep them on the same schedule  but thats' just my opinion.  I tried and still do try to keep them on the same schedule for everthing, eating, napping, it just makes life easier.....

Mrs.Kiltlifter

We had the same delimma. One night I let DD sleep instead of waking her. She slept 7 hours straight. So now we keep them on a strick feeding schedule during the day and DH and I take a baby at night. They go down at 7ish, DS wakes at midnight, 3, and 6 up for the day. DD wakes at 3 and 6. It was a leap of faith on our part in regards to letting DD sleep but it worked for us and encouraged her to STTN.

browneyedgrl4282

i always woke the other up. Do you think maybe Braley needs to increase the amount he drinks before going to sleep?

ardilla

We tried to keep them on the same schedule as much as possible from the very beginning.  If one baby was eating, we woke the other one to eat as well.  What wound up happening sometimes was that if DS was waking to eat but DD wasn't, I'd feed DS first, then, when I was done, woke DD and fed her.  It did elongate the feeding process, but it didn't throw them far off from one another.  We mainly did this while they were still waking for overnight feeds, but one of us was working (DH went back to work when they were 2 weeks old, so I took overnights.  I went back to work when they were 8 weeks old, but just then DH was off for summer break, so he took overnights), so we let that parent sleep in while the other took both babies.

JustaKidAtHeart

When we noticed that it was always the same kid being woken up we let him sleep.  Then we just fed on demand over night.  7am was wake up time and that is when they got back on the same day schedule.  You can always let him sleep one night just to try it and if it doesnt work just go back to waking him.  We found that we had a happier baby when we let him sleep.

mbjmaybebaby

We waited until they were almost 3 months before we stopped waking them all to eat.  We just played with it but if one woke up at any point we woke them all to eat.  Now that we have let them sleep they are all STTN. 

BeccaLandes

Around 2 months, we each took a baby for the night.  My husband would take Benjamin, because he was not nursing well, and I would take Asher.  When I got up with Asher, I would nurse him (very efficient nurser, that was maybe 5 minutes) and pump, which was another 5 minutes.  All in all, I would be up about 20 minutes, as was my husband.  They were each waking once a night, but at different times, so this worked for us.

Around 5 months I was breastfeeding both of them, and my husband would get whoever woke up, bring him into me, and I would nurse in bed.  I wouldn't recommend that strategy, because they began waking more often and my night was completely interrupted.  At that point, we did sleep training!