share your LO's Schedule...

crystaleyes39

I have twin girls that are 7 weeks old.  My girls are only eating 2- 2.5 ounces each feeding, every 3 hours. My one has reflux so it's really hard to increase her yet.

I was just wondering those of you with twins around this age or when they were this age..what their schedules are/were like?? (as far as how long they sleep, how much they eat, how often they eat, tummy time, etc...)

Thanks for sharing!

cookiemonster03

Are they 7 w actual (so right around their EDD)? We basically were on a poop, eat, sleep schedule until about 4 w adjusted.

crystaleyes39

No, they are preemies...so my technical due date wouldnt even be until feb. 11th.

EveTyer24

My girls will be 9 weeks tmw and were 3 and a half wks early. I follow Babywise - eat, activity, sleep during the days.

Now, it seems like we;re really in a routine and they seem to be eating around the same time every day (for the most part) and we'll do an activity, then I can tell they need to sleep. The sleep part is hard for me, I try very hard to get them to stay asleep.

They are eating a little over 4 oz at each feeding and at least once a day they take an additional oz and a half or 2. 

 Hope that helps you! 

crystaleyes39

EveTyer24:

My girls will be 9 weeks tmw and were 3 and a half wks early. I follow Babywise - eat, activity, sleep during the days.

Now, it seems like we;re really in a routine and they seem to be eating around the same time every day (for the most part) and we'll do an activity, then I can tell they need to sleep. The sleep part is hard for me, I try very hard to get them to stay asleep.

They are eating a little over 4 oz at each feeding and at least once a day they take an additional oz and a half or 2. 

 Hope that helps you! 

 

what kind of activities do you do w/ them??

alindt

I wondered this too. My LOs are 7 weeks today and they are still pretty sleepy during the day. I try to follow the eat, activity, sleep routine. Activity is basically looking at them and talking to them and some tummy time. I wake them up after 3 hours if they haven't woken up, so we are on a pretty set schedule of feeding at 6:30 am, 9:30, noon, 2:30, 5, 7 then bath/sponge bath - pjs - bed - bottle at 9. They wake once around 2 or 3 am for a bottle (I EP and bottle feed). They are getting 3 and 3.5 oz in each bottle (the bigger one gets more, they were 2 lbs apart at birth and K is still bigger so she eats more). They were born at almost 36 weeks, so I think they are little behind on their early milestones, as other bumpies have said they might be (I posted a question about this and adjusted age a few days ago). They aren't really social smiling yet and don't really interact yet. HTH!

EveTyer24

Tummy time (only a little bit after they eat because they sometimes spit up)

On their back in the play yard to look at the toys above

Read a story

Show them a toy and have them track it.

It can even be the toys on their bouncers, since you can't always do something with two.  

As soon as they start to fidget or wine, I know they're tired and start the sleep part.

  

cookiemonster03

crystaleyes39:

No, they are preemies...so my technical due date wouldnt even be until feb. 11th.

Around their due date we were really just eating and sleeping. If they were awake after eating, we'd do a couple of minutes of tummy time (they usually fell asleep) or a bath. We didn't start doing more "activities" until they were awake more. Around 2 or 3 w adjusted we started working on an eat-activity-sleep schedule (one of our babies always preferred activity -eat -sleep, something we're still working on). Even things like a walk around a store are stimulating at that age.

ETA: they were eating 1.5-3 oz (depending on the baby) every 2-3 hrs at that age. They were around 5.5 and 7 lbs at their EDD.