how to get your twins to STTN?

momtwins19

Okay mommys. and some daddy's. I know this has been asked multiple times on here, but i must have missed it each time. how do you get your twins that sleep in the same room to STTN? I have been told by the doctor to let them cry at night because they dont need a bottle in the middle of the night anymore because they are 8mo. old. well, they dont always wake for a bottle at the same time, and when one crys, it wakes the other one up. we only have a 2 bedroom house so i cant seperate them. do i just let them cry and check on them every so often throughout the night and hope after a few sleepless nights they realize they wont get a bottle and start to self soothe?

shellshavintwins

Before my LO's started teething has ruined STTN for us over the last 6 months, yes I would let them cry if they woke up in the middle of the night. I wouldn't even give them their pacifiers back or they'd have me in there all night retrieving them. The longest it took them both back then to fall asleep was 20 minutes but it was usually more like 5. I wish it was still that way, but the teething monster is not done in my house yet.

jenkm

Yeah, we let them CIO unless they scream - like, major teething pain scream.  We're going through another bout of that now, as they're cutting molars (it's awful) - they're just over 1 year old.  Hint, I have tried to go in, dose with medicine and rock back to sleep - it makes it worse.  We now go in like ninjas, squirt medicine in mouth, run back out.  They go back to sleep in 5-10 mins instead of 20 - 30 mins when we pick them up and engage them.

Our boys are in the same room and they are now used to the fact (I think) that we don't go to them at night.  Aside from those rare serious teething issue nights they go back to sleep within about 10 mins on average.  If we went in there every time one woke up crying we'd be zombies.

GL

ETA:  We never check on them in terms of going into their rooms.  We use the monitor.  If I go in, someone wakes up.

momtwins19

ugh i know how that is. the teething monster has been apon us the past few weeks. DD has 4 teeth and i think she's done for the week but DS is getting his 5th and 6th tooth now. ugh. i sware by hylands teething tablets. they are homeopathic. give 2 or 3 in their cheeks 10 mins before bed time, and yours should calm down a little with the teeth. you can give 2 every 4 hours....

momtwins19

jenkm:

Yeah, we let them CIO unless they scream - like, major teething pain scream.  We're going through another bout of that now, as they're cutting molars (it's awful) - they're just over 1 year old.  Hint, I have tried to go in, dose with medicine and rock back to sleep - it makes it worse.  We now go in like ninjas, squirt medicine in mouth, run back out.  They go back to sleep in 5-10 mins instead of 20 - 30 mins when we pick them up and engage them.

Our boys are in the same room and they are now used to the fact (I think) that we don't go to them at night.  Aside from those rare serious teething issue nights they go back to sleep within about 10 mins on average.  If we went in there every time one woke up crying we'd be zombies.

GL

ETA:  We never check on them in terms of going into their rooms.  We use the monitor.  If I go in, someone wakes up.

 

thanks. ill try this on the weekend when DH and I are able to put up with it and not have to worry about him working. hopefully it will only take 3 days. but u never know

OrangeSmoke

Baptize them. 

The day we baptized them, the boys slept for 10 hours and never looked back.  Dh and I aren't religious at all (I'm not even Catholic, but his family is super catholic), but even that made us pause.  We've since told the priest and said they really should make that an ad campaign for the church.

Anyway, I digress.  We don't even keep the monitor on.  Our room is right next to theirs, but they will have to scream to wake us up.  Even in the morning, if I hear them talking (but it's not awake time yet), I leave them until 6:30.  You'd be surprised how much noise they can sleep thru.  Alex will be snoozing away when Harry is screeching on top of his lungs.

They go to bed around 7, and if I hear them fussing before I go to bed at 11, I dreamfeed.  But after that, they are SOL unless they really mean it (see above).

Good luck.

momtwins19

OrangeSmoke:

Baptize them. 

The day we baptized them, the boys slept for 10 hours and never looked back.  Dh and I aren't religious at all (I'm not even Catholic, but his family is super catholic), but even that made us pause.  We've since told the priest and said they really should make that an ad campaign for the church.

Anyway, I digress.  We don't even keep the monitor on.  Our room is right next to theirs, but they will have to scream to wake us up.  Even in the morning, if I hear them talking (but it's not awake time yet), I leave them until 6:30.  You'd be surprised how much noise they can sleep thru.  Alex will be snoozing away when Harry is screeching on top of his lungs.

They go to bed around 7, and if I hear them fussing before I go to bed at 11, I dreamfeed.  But after that, they are SOL unless they really mean it (see above).

Good luck.

 

Mine have been baptised. they got baptised in december 19th. in my husbands step mom's lutheran church. (his step mom basically raised him) we have a baby monitor for my peace of mind. our room is right next to theirs too, but my DD sometimes chokes at night, and i've had a few scares when she wasnt breathing until i picked her up and it scared her enough to shock her system into breathing. 

fallbride110406

Pick up a copy of Ferber's book (Healthy Sleep Habits, Healthy Child) and read it all the way through.  I didn't like the idea of straight CIO and much preferred Ferber's method (progressive waiting approach).  He also talks a lot about sleep and explains why routine is important as well.

Also, I thought they recalled Hyland's Teething Tablets?  https://www.hylands.com/news/hylands-teething-recall.php

UsedToBeGoldie

Babywise- started it day 1 home from the hospital (really, in the hospital b/c BW is pretty much what the nurses do there)... they were STTN at 8w  old... so was DS1.

I don't know how it would work with older babies... but for anyone who is pg or has newborns - it's awesome.

 

amanda31H

momtwins19:

OrangeSmoke:

Baptize them. 

The day we baptized them, the boys slept for 10 hours and never looked back.  Dh and I aren't religious at all (I'm not even Catholic, but his family is super catholic), but even that made us pause.  We've since told the priest and said they really should make that an ad campaign for the church.

Anyway, I digress.  We don't even keep the monitor on.  Our room is right next to theirs, but they will have to scream to wake us up.  Even in the morning, if I hear them talking (but it's not awake time yet), I leave them until 6:30.  You'd be surprised how much noise they can sleep thru.  Alex will be snoozing away when Harry is screeching on top of his lungs.

They go to bed around 7, and if I hear them fussing before I go to bed at 11, I dreamfeed.  But after that, they are SOL unless they really mean it (see above).

Good luck.

 

Mine have been baptised. they got baptised in december 19th. in my husbands step mom's lutheran church. (his step mom basically raised him) we have a baby monitor for my peace of mind. our room is right next to theirs too, but my DD sometimes chokes at night, and i've had a few scares when she wasnt breathing until i picked her up and it scared her enough to shock her system into breathing. 

Wait, what?  I also let the girls CIO from time to time (we normally don't need to have this happen and when they're cutting a tooth I don't let them CIO), but I wouldn't do that if my daughter had stopped breathing on more than one occasion.  Is this something you've discussed with your doctor?

nikinikinine

we didn't do anything special. Just let them sleep when they wanted to and fed them when they woke up. It was like a switch went off at 8 weeks and they just started sleeping longer and longer. Now they go between 7 and 11 hours a night.

what helped them get past the 5-6 hour sleep stage was a white noise CD (ocean waves) and a space heater for their room (which gets really cold in our house).