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Hi Everyone!
My g/g twins will be 5 months on April 7th.
After 2 weeks on home bed rest and 23 days on hospital bed rest I delivered vaginally at 35 weeks. Twin A came home straight away while Twin B was on the extended stay plan and joined us 17 days later. They are exclusively breastfed and Twin A sleeps through the night [8:30/9pm - 8/8:30am] while Twin B wakes between 3/3:30 eats then goes back down until about 7:30/8am.
I started them on the 90 minutes up 90 minutes down and at the moment they each have 3-4 naps a day. One of the naps is about 2.5-3 hours while the others are about 1-1.5 hours.
And thats where we're at
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@WALLAROO: I hope your week improved!
Yesterday was not a great nap day, which in turn led to a long evening. I had gotten one twin down in the crib and was rocking the other one since he woke up after just a little bit in the crib. Just as he was starting to fall back asleep, my dog goes rampaging through the house because DH had pulled in the driveway (but for some reason he thought it was a stranger) and wakes up both twins. Arggghh! The only plus side was now DH was home to help deal with two cranky babies.
I'm headed back to work next Thursday. Cues the tears. Monday we'll be spending a few hours at the daycare together and Tuesday and Wednesday will be half days for them while I get some dentist appointments done. I'm hoping this way the transition will be a bit easier ... any other twin moms deal with going back to work?
@filly: Welcome! We also follow the 90 minute sleep program, although they're still not quite to the 90 minute awake time frame just yet.
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Hi twin moms!
I am now joining you guys on the other side since I had my babies on June 1.
I have a question about scheduling- did you put yours on a schedule?
Everything I've read online says to do a 3-hour feeding schedule but by the time I change them, feed them, burp them, awaken them to get back to nursing, etc, it feels like there's hardly any time before it's time to eat again!
Also, there's the whole 'never wake a sleeping baby' thing, which we've been doing.
They just started sleeping in 3.5-4 hour stretches at night, so I'm wondering if I could push the feedings to every 4 hours during the day (unless they're hungry, obviously).
I feed them both at the same time, so was thinking about just letting them sleep until at least one wakes up, then waking up the other to keep them in sync.
I'm just worried if I mess with what we've been doing, I'll pay for it tonight.
What do you guys think? Let the babies sleep until they wake themselves up or wake them every three hours, if needed?
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@Trailmix: Congratulations!! To answer your questions ...
Mine are on a flexible routine/schedule. When they were newborn, we fed them every 2.5-3 hours. It does feel like that's all you do in the beginning, but it gets easier, I promise! They're still on a 3-3.5 hour feeding schedule now at almost 6 months old.
I do not believe that the "never wake a sleeping baby" rule applies to twins. We follow the "one up, both up" rule.
That being said, it also depends on how they have napped that day or slept that night. I was also fortunate that mine stayed pretty synced up and would nap for generally the same lengths of time. At night, whenever the first one woke up to eat, we would wake the other one to feed them both at the same time. I asked this same question early on to my pediatrician and she said we should stick to the 3 hour feeding schedule, which we still do during the day. They started STTN in 12 hour stretches at 3.5 months. Plus, as they get older, they'll become more efficient at nursing and feeding, so it won't always take as long for feedings. Early on, we had to wake them for their feedings to make sure that they ate enough during the day.
I would say follow your instincts on what you think works best for your twins. If it doesn't work out well, tomorrow is always a new day!
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@Trailmix: I think I'm in the minority, but we fed and slept on demand until 10 months when we night weaned and sleep trained. My kids just never responded well to a hard and fast schedule, and have very different eating and sleeping temperaments. DD sleeps more and DS eats more often, and even now they have a bottle every 2.5 hours during the day. We tried syncing them overnight for awhile, but I was paranoid about interrupting potential natural elongation of sleep stretches as they got older, so we just kind of slogged through all the wakeups.
We do have a loose schedule for our days now that they are squarely on 2 naps. Awake for threeish hours between sleeps, and milk at wakeup and half hour before sleep. I never woke them up from naps until recently, but occasionally I will now wake DD if she's taking a monster nap that would get them more than an hour out of sync.
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