One Up Both Up Question

shanaynerz · July 2014

We do OUBO pretty religiously, but what do you do if one baby gets up maybe only 2 hours after their last feed, and the other one is still sleeping? I've been getting both up even then because I feel if we don't, then the other baby will get up in less than an hour anyways (they tend to sleep for maybe 3 hours, max 4, between feeds). Is it worth it even if one of them may barely eat? Just wondering what other MoMs might do.

lynnyrd80 · July 2014

We do OUBU right now at almost 5 weeks. One of them tends to wake up first every time, and we wake his brother up because he would be up an hour later if we didn't.

rcnavywife · July 2014

We always did OUBU even if one baby woke early. We have only recently (about 3 months adjusted age) stopped OUBU as they are starting to sleep for 5-6 hr stretches.

carrotcake06 · July 2014

I did OUBU for a looooong time. Two hours in between feeds is pretty normal for itty-bitties. It means you get the least common denominator of sleep but at least you get a break in between feeds. I tandem also, so I'd be all uneven if I just fed one.

lmielocl1 · July 2014

I am so glad you asked this! My boys are 4 weeks old (baby b has only been home from NICU about 5 days) and we have been struggling with how to do this. It has been exhausting! And my inlaws are leaving in a day so I think we are going to need to implement waking up the sleeping baby better!

I wanted to ask: we are formula feeding. How do you feed both at the same time? The NiCU told us not to use bouncy seats etc for our baby b for a few more weeks.

MrsP419 · July 2014

I made the mistake of not doing OUBO yesterday morning. I paid for it when they tag teamed me ALL day.

My question- if you are consistently doing OUBO, how do you know if one twin is ready to skip a feeding/STTN? I could see myself potentially messing with a good thing.

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