when did you drop a feeding

homoelmb

My twins are 9 weeks old and starting to do random streches of 4-5 hours at night. We follow a 3 hour feed/play/nap schedule until the 7pm feeding when its their "bedtime." They are soo sleepy at the 10pm feeding and sometimes skip the 1am and last until 230. So, I am not sure if I continue to do the 8 feedings every 3 hours or do I "let them" decide? Any success stories? Also, DS is the one who wakes up on the dot for the 1am or waits until 2-230. I always feed DD for the sake of same schedule but she never takes a full feeding and maybe only a couple ounces. Any advice would be sooo helpful!

OrangeSmoke

I think it was around 7/8 weeks that we ditched the one up both up routine.  Harry showed signs of wanting to sleep longer so we let him.  It was HELL for a while, but eventually they both caught on.  By 3 months, they were both doing 10hrs...

doz&koz

At around 7 weeks we fed them their last evening feeding at 8 and then let them go until they woke up again.  DD slept through the night very quickly making it until around 4:30 or 5.  DS still wanted to eat around 1 or so.  Every time they slept a little later, we made that their new feeding time (meaning that if DS slept until 3, we didn't feed him until at least 3 from there on out).  It only took about 1 - 2 weeks of that and they were sleeping through the night.  They now sleep at least 10 hours a night.