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kimarino13
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After 2 rounds of IVF & 2 rounds of FET, we were blessed with identical twin girls!
night feeding question (long, need advice)
kimarino13
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Lily has been STTN (12 hours) for a month now. Sophia has done it here and there, but generally still wakes up around 2 am crying. We have tried patting her back, turning on her glowworm seahorse and letting her work it out, but I usually cave after 20 minutes of fussing out of fear that she'll wake Lily. (Lily always goes back to sleep, so I need to not worry about that so much.)
Our pedi says that she's waking out of habit now (she said that at their 4-month appt a month ago) and that it's OK to do modified CIO to get her to drop it.
She has been eating 35 ounces a day this past week or two, which is a lot for her. She's basically eating 5 more oz a day than Lily, which is the amount in her 2 am bottle.
My gut tells me that her waking up at 2 am is indeed habit and she would be fine to STTN. We have been tossing around the idea of seeing if we can get her to drop that feeding during this long weekend.
What would you do/did you do at 5 months? I realize how lucky we are that they are sleeping so great, even considering Sophia's 2 am bottle. I just wonder if she's ready to move beyond that now. Then I think, well, if she was she would drop it on her own. We have tried reducing that bottle down to 4 oz and that backfired all 3 times we tried it. She still fussed when we put her back down. With 5 oz, she goes right back to sleep.
Sigh. Clearly I am confused. 
Feedback appreciated!
After 2 rounds of IVF & 2 rounds of FET, we were blessed with identical twin girls!
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Re: night feeding question (long, need advice)
Bryce did this for a while with a cup of milk. My pedi told him that it is a habit and that we needed to break him of this. This was after he turned 1 though. She told me to wean him off by decreasing the amount I gave him. Slowly but surely, it worked. He still doesn't STTN great because he has some reflux issues but we are working on it.
One of my DDs kept waking (at least once) per night until 8.5 months... I felt that she was waking up for a reason, and I wanted to help her. (Plus like you said, I didn't want her waking up her sister!)
She is bigger than her sister, so perhaps she needed to eat more. (I BF'ed the girls, so I was never entirely sure how much she had eaten throughout the day.) I think the pedi may have said something similar about being old enough to STTN, etc. But my mommy instinct took over, and I just wanted to do what I thought was best for DD.
She suddenly stopped night waking (although I continued night pumping for having enough for daycare and maintaining supply!) and very rarely gets up now (but now she doesn't get to eat).
She didn't "get used to" waking up and never stop! My advice? She wakes cause she needs something. But go with your gut.
Thanks ladies!
My gut keeps flip flopping. One day I think she wakes up because she's hungry and then the next I think she wakes up out of habit. Sigh. I wish I knew for sure.
After 2 rounds of IVF & 2 rounds of FET, we were blessed with identical twin girls!
I went through the exact same thing because at 3 months they both STTN then started waking up again a few weeks later. At first I fed them to get them back to sleep thinking that they were going through a growth spurt. After several weeks I was in your same dilemma and couldn't figure out if they were waking from hunger or habit.
I ended up separating them into different rooms for a little while then when one would wake up I'd look at the clock and let him cry for 3 minutes. If he was still crying after 3 minutes I'd go in and nurse him. But I'd try to make it as short of a nursing session as possible. Often they'd stop crying and go back to sleep before the 3 minutes was up. Now they are STTN again.
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This may be dumb, but what if I gave her water instead of formula? Then maybe she would end up dropping that bottle faster?
What prompted this is that she was born the bigger twin. Then at 2 months old, Lily ended up bigger than her and was bigger yet at 4 months. Now I can Sophia has not only caught up, but she's bigger than Lily again. She's eating a lot more thanks to that 2 am bottle, which I just don't think she needs anymore...
After 2 rounds of IVF & 2 rounds of FET, we were blessed with identical twin girls!
I'd try that! She'll be all, WTF is this, mom? And then won't bother getting up anymore. In theory, anyway. :P
How to tell my boys apart
The different types of twins and triplets
Jack, Sydney and Carynne, Annaleigh, JW, Eden...forever in our hearts.
My blog * We made the national news!
i agree w/peakay.
she is getting 30oz/day - that's great! the 5oz extra is probably habit.
the water thing worked with vivienne - our ped told us to try this. we watered her bottle down. 25%water, and then increased it bit by bit. she got the point after a while, but it did take a couple weeks of working on this. we also tried making the bottle smaller, and it didn't work... until it did! was a combo, watering down/making smaller. GL.