Waking the other

sarahvarno

My boys just turned 7 months and they are waking each other up at night. We would like to start sleeping training them because they have started waking at 4am just to cry and they don't eat so I feel CIO might be necessary. Now when the other wakes at 4am the other one is waking also. It just so hard because they are both so overtired at that point and I feel they are playing off each others emotions. Has anyone separated rooms this early? Could it be just a phase?

addison1060

We separated rooms at about 6 months. It needed to be done if any of us wanted to get some sleep. Both are ridiculously light sleepers unfortunately and they didn't start consistently sttn until about 11 months.

Eventually we want to put them back together but I don't see that happening in the immediate future.

ColleenS629

We separated at 4.5 months. We tried to put them back together repeatedly from 4.5-8 months, at which point we gave up and moved the second crib.

tootlebug

Honestly I don't know why those with twins have them share the same room if they don't have to!  Lol, we have to bc we only have a 3 bedroom house right now but we are moving late next spring and will def get a 4 bedroom house for this reason.

We are lucky as our twins sleep well.  But for naps, many times one is in a crib, the other in our room in a pnp.....at night, one falls asleep in the crib, the other in the pnp, then we transfer her to crib once she is a sleep. Sometimes they can fall asleep,simultaneously in their cribs. Then, this doesn't happen much, but if one wakes up crying in the middle of the night, we will move her to a pnp downstairs or let her CIO and move the sleeping twin.  This actually happened last night, one twin jut needed to CIO for 10 minutes. She fell back to sleep and then we moved the sleeping twin back in.  We did do mild CIO and it worked/worked great. They are 4.5 months right now.  They also sleep with a sound machine....than helps if one is just mildly fussing and the other is in a deep sleep.