sleeplessness

Jennifer - posted on 04/21/2009

This is going to sound odd, but have you tried putting them down earlier? We had issues with STT and would get maybe 4 hours out of the girls on a good night. Talking with other MoMs I tried the suggestion of putting them down earlier. I expected to prove them wrong, and it actually worked like a charm! My girls are now 11 months old and they sleep for a solid 10+ hour stretch at night. Only thing I changed was putting them down between 6 and 7 at night instead of later.

A routine helps. White noise helps. Having them in the same room also helps. Ours are in separate cribs, but they can touch each other through the bars if they want to.

Melissa - posted on 04/21/2009

Hi Susan...

I feel for you, boy have I been there. I ALWAYS kept my babies on a sleep schedule but it never worked for me, their sleeping through the night. I have other friends with twins and there are a few of them that told me that theirs didn't sleep either until they were about 18 months old.....well, my babies finally started sleeping through the night at 18 1/2 months, so weird!! Anyway, hopefully time will make things better and you will get some sleep soon. I don't know where you live but my daughter would get cold at night and I started dressing her allot warmer and that seemed to help her allot!!! GOOD LUCK, I have finally had the best 5 months of sleep I have ever had. :)

Melissa

Amy - posted on 04/21/2009

i agree with vicki. i too had to get my twins on a sleep schedual,they still wake up at night,but they slowly fall back to sleep,my twins are now 4.i can also tell you at about 16 months i gave them a comfort stuffy.i also had my girls sleep in seperate beds so they couldn't hurt one another by moveing around,but the beds had to be next to each other so the girls could feel her sisiters hand through the bars.a routin will most definently help,my girls cried much longer but then it stoped all together and now they go to sleep no problem.before i had a bed routine had tried every thing from sleeping on the floor in their room to putting their beds in my room after switching them to a toddler bed.they did not like their toddler beds,and soon they became addicted to co sleeping and i soon was pushed out of my bed nightly.i had enough and put them back into their room i even bought them a twin size bed each so it was more like my bed and not a toddler loud baby bed matteress and was firm for about a week when they got up to come in i didn't say anything i just took them by the hand and led them to their room and got them back into bed and went back to bed myself it was good it payed off,just stick with it it'll pay off for you too.

Vicki - posted on 04/17/2009

I have 8 year old Identical girls, the first year of their life was so hard. My husband and I didn't sleep much. Mine were born at 35 weeks, 4 munutes apart, naturally. They share a room. We had to learn to put them on a sleep schedule. We fed them and bathed them, read to them and put them to bed at 8:30pm. The first night they cried for about 7 minutes, the next night about 3 minutes, then about 1 munute, then they just stopped that and went to sleep. When they woke up we went in the room, quietly checked their diapers, fed them and put them back down. Not too much stimulation, not too much light. It was hard at first but they still have a bedtime. It is 9:00 pm now but they fall asleep when they go into their beds. We also have an 11 year old and we had her in our room for a long time and never slept well. She wouldn't sleep in her own room until she was 5. If you need more info, call me (814)532-6275. I live in Johonstown, Pennyslvania. My name is Vicki