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If you Ferberized your twins...

Darcie EliciaDarcie Elicia member
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We are planning on Ferberizing our girls next weekend.  They both sleep terribly.  The longest stretch they have ever slept is four hours and that is on an awesome (rare) night.  They are waking up pretty much every hour and require a lot of holding and rocking.  Soooo tired of this. 

They both sleep in the same room and I'm worried that this might be a problem.   Did it work for you or did you have to separate them?  Also curious about if you did a modified version.  How was it different?

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Re: If you Ferberized your twins...

  • April320April320 member
    We did it around 7 or 7.5 months and it worked great.  We kept them in the same room and that wasn't a problem.  We followed the method in Ferber's book - progressive waiting, starting with 3 minutes, then 5, 7, 10.  They were only waking up once a night at that point, and we were pretty sure it was habit, not hunger that was the culprit.  Sure enough, it only took a couple nights before they dropped their final overnight wake/feeding and started sleeping 12 hours straight.  Good luck! 
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  • MrsLntMrsLnt member
    We did less Ferber and more Weissbluth (i.e., straight up extinction) and we left them in the same room.  They were 8.5 months old and we'd hit rock bottom with the sleeping. It was hard, but we all survived.
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    imageMrsLnt:
    We did less Ferber and more Weissbluth (i.e., straight up extinction) and we left them in the same room.  They were 8.5 months old and we'd hit rock bottom with the sleeping. It was hard, but we all survived.

    This.  I did it with all 3 boys around 8 months.  I think that just happened to be my breaking point where if I didn't start getting a full night of sleep I was going to go out of my mind.  

    Feber didn't really work for us.  They were very confused if I would go back in and couldn't understand why I wasn't picking them up if I was in there.  It was 2 or 3 bad nights of a lot of crying but they learned to sooth themselves to sleep instead of having me do it.  The twins were in the same room.

    I will say you have to be 100% ready to deal with the crying.  Otherwise, you will break down after 10 minutes and it is worthless for everyone. 

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