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sleep ?s - need nightime sleep opinions

eileenm21eileenm21 member
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ok so I had been waking the other twin up when the first one wakes for the most part. now that they are sleeping a little longer, my husband have the same arguement at oh 3 a.m. every morning.  Whether to wake the other up..... he thinks that now that we are getting closer to a "schedule" and they are sleeping "longer" at night (and I am talking 4-5 hours for their first stretch only instead of 3) that waking them discourages them from learning that they should sleep longer..... of course as you all know, the result is that you are up almost all night since they play leap frog in terms of eating at that point, one is at 2am, the next at 3, then again at 5, the next at 6 etc.  I want to know what you all do and think.... to be honest, at 7ish weeks, I don't think we are at a point where we can call anything a firm schedule, but I can see his point in a way.  TIA
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Re: sleep ?s - need nightime sleep opinions

  • PolofskyPolofsky member
    We kept waking up the sleeping twin when the other would wake up, I agree with you about the leapfrog thing
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  • Rose.9.6.03Rose.9.6.03 member
    Well, at two months, the pedi advised that we should stop waking the sleeping baby because the girls were showing signs of being able to sleep longer (4 hour stretches instead of 3).  So I stopped waking the sleeping baby.   For about 2 weeks, it was super painful, babies up all night long.  But by the end, I had one baby completely STTN and the other was getting up only 1 or 2 times.  So those two weeks of pain were totally worth it for me.
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  • benkaribenkari member
    We always woke the others to feed when one was up.  I didn't want to be up all night but they learned very quickly all together to sleep longer.  At 9 weeks they were sleeping a 5-6 hour stretch then by 13 weeks they were all STTN.
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  • preheatedovenpreheatedoven member
    last night was the first time we didn't wake the sleeping baby (DS)....and he slept 6 hrs!!! That is the longest by far. So we really didn't have to leapfrog b/c one didn't need anything, just did the typical feeding routine with the hungry one (DD).
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  • kimarino13kimarino13 member

    We stopped waking the other baby during the nighttime a few weeks ago - probably around 6 weeks.  The night before last, Lily actually slept from 8-5 (which was a fluke) and Sophia slept from 8-2 and then 2-5, so they were back on "schedule" again. 

    I like seeing how long they are able to go individually now, to try to encourage longer stretches if they are ready.


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