What are your 4-6 month old schedule's like?

I'm trying to nudge mine into a schedule a bit, but I feel like I have no idea what I'm doing.

My twins go to sleep around 7pm and wake up at 8am. I do a dream feed around 11, and my boy wakes up every morning at 4:30 to nurse. (Question, my girl would sleep through this, but I wake her up. Should I stop?)

During the day, it's chaos. They can't stay awake longer than 90 minutes, and only take 30 minute naps. I try to get them to stay up longer, but they just get overtired and then sleep even less! So they end up with 4 or 5 mini naps. Oh and they still nurse every 2 hours during the day.

The 7 pm bedtime they set on their own, it's when they started sleeping longer stretches, so I'm just going with that.

Any help or advice, or if your twins are doing the same thing we can commiserate. :rotflmbo:

 

I really dont remember all that much from that time, it seriously is a blur! I know I was nursing/bottle feeding someone every 3-4 hrs. They got cereal in the morning. Last bottle was around 7, then bed by 7:30, and they both slept till about 6:30 the next morning. I never did dream feeds, and I never woke one if the other got up. If your DD will sleep longer then your DS, I would just let her be. Hope this helps.

 

My DD is nursing every 3-4hours and has cereal/solids 1x a day (if we manage to squeeze it in). She is taking roughly 2-3 naps with a short one in the morning and then a long one in the afternoon and then possibly a catnap before bedtime for a total of around 4hours of nap sleep time. She sleeps 7p-6a most days...unless she is teething <_<

Have you tried anything to get them back to sleep after the 30 min naps? They do go through sleep cycles and one of the most dreaded things is the 45 minute cycle change when I believe (someone correct me if I'm wrong) they go into REM 'deep' sleep. Sometimes this gets disrupted and they just need help getting back to sleep. Also as for waking up your DD, if you want them on the same schedule and not waking her will result in that then let her sleep If it throws off your whole day then I would continue waking her!

Sounds like your doing an excellent job though in my opinion!

 

Thanks for the replies! (And encouragement.) This twins stuff is hard work!

 

This time was a blur too!! Around 4 months they were still feeding every 3 hours. They would be up for 90 minutes, then nap. Mine were cap nappers too, but great night sleepers so I couldn't complain. For the night wakings I would wake the other one if one woke up to eat. I just knew that if I was to feed one the other would wake up the minute I got back into bed and I would get no sleep.

Good luck!

 

Ours goes something like this :

7:30-8am-- Up, diaper change and feed.
10a,-- Nap for about 2 hours
12pm-- Up for another feed, diaper change
2pm-- another 2 hour nap
4pm-- Up for another feed and diaper change
6pm-- Bedtime routine started. ( bath, massage, story, feed)
Bed about 7:30pm- (Ember falls asleep here Kaeda usually will stay up until about 9pm and eat again before going to bed for the night)

Both girls wake about 4 or 5 in the morning for a diaper change and food then go back to sleep until we wake up for the day.

Now not all days go like this and all times are "flexible" but this is our general outline of how most days go.

Each girl gets about 5 feeds a day and about 6 to 8 diapers changes depending on the times they poop etc.

Some days we throw in an extra nap if they seem extra sleepy but that normal is a small cat nap of maybe 30 minutes.

 

I'm sorry I can't help you about napping. Mine slept like 18 hours at 4 months. I remember I thought something was wrong with them. I even posted questions and called doctor lol. But I agree when they wake up from their nap, turn them on their side, pat their butts. A lot of times, I do that they go right back to sleep.

Feeding: at 4-5 months: we were still on 3 hour schedule and we fed them only milk so cereal or solid.
From 5.5 months: I started giving my son (not daughter yet) cereal mixed emb 1 teaspoon/day. It took him 1 week to like it. And we moved to 4 hour schedule, and let them sleep through night.
From 6 months: I give him 2x cereals (still 2 teaspoons /feeding) then slowly introduced veggies.still on 4 hour schedule

My daughter is just all about milk which I'm happy with it.she still only eats solid 2x/day. Cereal for breastfast and 2oz of baby food for lunch now at 8 months. My son has 3 meals/day.

 

I just made a post about this! LoL! My son is doing pretty good with cereals, and my DD hates them. I didn't know if I should hold him back to wait for her or just keep going with him.

 

No don't hold him off. This is what I did. At the solid time, I set them both on the chairs. I mainly fed my son and just let my daughter taste it 1 or 2 spoons. If she give me a puking face, I stopped. Eventually, she got it. And we took her of prevacid and she started eating solid well now. Guess what now she eats way better than him. He is teething his upper front teeth and he hates solid now lol.and his sister eats a lot more than him hehe.

Like I said, just put her in the seat, give her 1-2 spoons. Don't force her.you just want her to realize that its a eating time too.and eventually she will be interested and start eating.I think its a matter of if they want solid or not. So you want to make it fun not a battle.

 

My 4 month old girls are EXACTLY the same! 7pm bedtime, 8am wakeup. At night they wakeup at 12 and 4 to eat. During the day they nurse every 2 hours and I'm lucky if they sleep longer than 40mins. They usually have 4-5 naps a day.

I just go by their cues, when they start yawning and getting bleary eyed I put them down for a nap. I gave up on trying to get them to sleep longer than 40mins - I'm by myself during the day so it's hard to get them both back to sleep once they wake up.

I've just accepted that this is how things are right now! Are yours at least sticking to the same schedule? Mine do... most days... but if one naps longer I've been just letting her. As for the nighttime feedings, I promised myself last month that if I fed one baby, I'd feed the other. Too many nights of thinking "if I don't feed this one, I wonder how long she'll sleep" and then I'm up an hour later feeding her!