Mamas with outside babies, talk to me about nite time routines and sleep

CNYBride05 · December 2013

5 mos pp and my lack of sleep is catching up with me. I'm going back to work PT in mid Jan and looking for some advice/suggestions/etc.

I'm EBFing and during the day, the girls nurse every 90-150 min (that's an hour and a half to 2 and a half hours). At note, sometimes they'll go 3ish hrs, but generally, it's the same as the day and I'm exhausted. EBFers, how did you do nite time? ETA wake ups are rarely in sync, causing less sleep for mama, but more natural sleep for babies. I'm contemplating waking them one at a time to eat so we can all get a chunk of sleep... Thoughts?

Also, we are transitioning from RnPs to crib very soon (sniff, sniff). Any advice there?

MommyToThree+2 · December 2013

I ebf and would always wake them together. They were on the same schedule and usually woke together. At around 6 months they were sleeping longer stretches so I'd just take whoever woke up back to bed with me and lay on my side and let them nurse while I dozed off. Then I switched them out when the next baby woke up. We mostly coslept.

I moved them from the pnp to their cribs at a year old. They did great and started sttn at that time.

CNYBride05 · December 2013

Until the God-awful 4 mos sleep regression, M was sleeping 10-12 hrs at nite (!!) and N was up a few times. The day they turned 4 mos, they both started waking 3-5x/nite and it has gradually improved over the past month. I'm cool not sttn, but more than an hour at a time would be cool too

. Dreading the move from our room to the crib, but they are rolling and trying to roll in RnPs and it's just not safe anymore.

carrotcake06 · December 2013

I tandem bf, so it's been one eats so the other eats since they came home. They eat every 3 hrs during the day and have one long stretch at night. In general, it's 7am, 10am, 1pm, 4pm, 7pm, 10p. So 6 feeds a day. I work FT, so they get 3 bottles and bf 3x. On weekends, it's all BFing. The schedule is extremely flexible and one they got on themselves around 4mo.

They've recently become crappy sleepers and are waking multiple times a night. I try to soothe first, but will feed if needed but I always feed both MOTN. They are still in RNPs, but like your girls, they are starting to roll and it's just not working anymore.

Wishing35 · December 2013

I formula feed but have always done one up both up, give it a try! Also I was really afraid of giving up the Rnp's but found my girls actually sleep better in their cribs. Within 4 days of being in the crib they slept through the night, they really like to stretch out.

marcellamitchell · December 2013

I ebf my boys. At night before I go to bed I make sure they've been fed, get them down and whichever wakes comes in bed with me and I sleep and nurse, then when the other wakes I turn and nurse the other baby. I don't move an inch when I sleep cuz I have a baby at my back and one on my boob. It seems to be one feed at night and we all sleep together till my 2yr old dd wakes us up.

JenniferF11 · December 2013

I don't EBF, so I can't totally relate but I followed the one up, both up method until about 3 months - they're almost 6 months now. As PP have said I now only wake for MOTN feedings one at a time since they're sleeping longer stretches.

As for the RNP, we swaddled our girls so we first transitioned to a pack and play next to our bed, then in the cribs in swaddles and finally in the cribs in sleep sacks. Quite the transition but it's better to do it sooner than later in case you need to use the Rnp if absolutely necessary for sanity!

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