do you wake the second twin up when they are up from a nap

We typically give the second twin that's napping 15 - 20 minutes extra to nap if they are still in a sound sleep. What do you do? I find that when I wake up the other twin it sometimes means they are ready to go back down in an hour versus an hour in a half and the other one that was up is ready to go a little longer....thoughts?

 

I dont wake them. Id rather they wake on their own an be happier than waken em an be crabby cause they didnt sleep enough. They will regulate themselves. Our boys are napping at the same tme now an Dev wakes first an Ethen usually sleeps about 1/2 hr to an hour longer. Ethen needs the extra sleep cause hes a crabby little bugger if hes woken :blink:

 

I let them sleep 15-20 minutes longer.

 

It depends how old they are. Since they were 10 months or so, I wait till they are both awake to go in. Of course now, Kara always wakes up earlier. They adapt. Ella has learned to enjoy the "quiet time".

 

I typically let them sleep as long as they can. I found that ours have different sleep needs for different days.

 

We generally let the other sleep but not too much longer or they are on different schedules. But most times when we go in there the other wakes within a few minutes even if we are really quiet. It is like they know or something.

 

I dont wake the other. They are individuals. they are thier own baby. My DD needs much more sleep than my DS. She sleeps a lot more at night, he naps a lot better. Sometimes ones teething or sick when the other is not, some days they are on differnet schedules, some days they are not. I cherish the time that one baby is sleeping and one baby is awake because it gives me built in ONE on ONE time and that I LOVE!

 

I let them sleep, but my DH wakes them up. He's much more regimented than I am.

 

I only wake the other one if it's time to eat...I HAVE to keep them on the same feeding schedule or else I'm feeding babies all day!

 

Somedays if I thought I would be able to catch a nap I would try and keep them going to sleep at the same time. I also had a toddler at home too. But most days, I just let them do their own thing since I wasnt going to get any rest anyway.

 

I let them sleep on their own schedules. There are many days that they go to sleep at the same time, but Karina only naps for 45 minutes and Annelise naps for 3 hours. Their little brains develop while they are sleeping, so I really want to allow them to sleep as much as they need.

 

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I dont wake them. Id rather they wake on their own an be happier than waken em an be crabby cause they didnt sleep enough. They will regulate themselves. Our boys are napping at the same tme now an Dev wakes first an Ethen usually sleeps about 1/2 hr to an hour longer. Ethen needs the extra sleep cause hes a crabby little bugger if hes woken :blink:


Ditto. My DD always needed to sleep more than DS but I´ve noticed it´s starting to even out. There´s about an 30 minute time difference between them now whereas, at one point, it was 1.5 - 2 hours! My two eat better if I let them wake. Having said this, during the day, if 2 hours have gone by and they´re due a feed then I will wake them to eat. That generally works out OK but it´s rare that I have to do this. I once left DS to sleep what he wanted and ended up being up quite a lot during the night as he had slept too much during the day! Lesson was quickly learned!

 

I never wake them from naps. For us, naps seem to dictate their mood for the next couple of hours, so I let them nap when they need to. But, I do try to put them down at the same time roughly so I can have a break. The first few months I put them down independent of one another's nap needs...whenever they showed sleepy signs. But now they are usually tired around the same time, give or take 30 minutes.

 

Mostly I give the waker a chance to wake his bro, but if bro keeps sleeping after a little bit of noise, I figure he's too tired to wake up.