do you wake the sleeping twin?

i would love it if my boys would STTN and its usually the same baby that wakes up every night for his feeding. (not sure if it matters...hes smaller than his brother).
we always wake the sleeping twin and was wondering if i should be doing this. i just dont want to wake up an hour later and feed him so my DH and i each take a baby and feed them.

 

At that age we always woke the other one up because like you said inevitably I would be up an hour later anyway, and I preferred to just get it all done at the same time.

 

I don't always wake the sleeping twin because my husband works nights a lot. When I'm alone, it's easier to handle the boys one at a time. If I'm lucky, I can get the first one fed and back to sleep before his brother wakes up. If you think that one of the twins will sleep through the night, then maybe try not waking him on a night that your DH will be home the next day. It can't hurt to try.

 

I don't wake the other one, because just because one wakes up during the night doesn't necessarily mean the other will wake up, and if they do it might not be for another hour or 2, and thats an hour or two I could be getting sleep. Also- in my case if I wake them to feed them when they aren't hungry they are very gassy & I end up staying up with them longer because they constantly spit up. All in all you know your kiddos best though Good luck!!

 

I stopped waking the sleeping twin somewhere between 2-3 months. They started sleeping 7 hour stretches at 3 months. (Although DD doesn't STTN anymore).

 

Yes, at that age we did the same thing. Once the same twin started showing me he wanted to go longer during the day, I no longer woke him at night and my DH and I just took a baby for the night so we werent up at the same time either.

 

yours are 2 months old so i'm not sure really but this is what our pediatricians said, in and out of the PICU....feed them every so many hours regardless of whether or not they are asleep. if they are asleep wake them up, play with them, change their diapers, undress them, do whatever you can to wake them so they eat.

but like i said, mine are still preemies and need that nutrition every couple of hours for survival, not sure if this rule applies to two month olds.

 

I've never waken a sleeping baby. Sometimes it worked out better feeding one, then the other. The first few months, I didn't get much sleep but they have been STTN for several months, and have created a schedule. There are still times that one will sleep longer than the other, and I just them sleep. It's nice to have some one on one time with each one every now and then.

 

I don't wake the other one up, sometimes, the other will wake up as i put the first one back in the crib, but most of the time, the other twin just sleeps much longer.

 

When ours first came home from the hospital the pediatrican wanted them to eat every three hours because she wanted them to put on some more weight (the story of their lives so far!!!), so we would wake the sleeping twin. Eventually she was happy enough with their weight that we could feed on demand at night but the funny thing was, DS would wake up and cry and by the time I had him changed and his bottle started, DD would wake up, so they pretty much kept the same schedule at night time but eventually STTN.

 

You could experiment and see how it goes. However, we tried it and it never worked...of course, our girls didn't start STTN until 5 months. Everytime we didn't wake the other, I had no more then closed my eyes after getting one fed and back down then the other was up and crying...it made for a long night every time we tried. We just decided it was easier to keep them on the same schedule.

 

I was kind of a scheduling freak, so yes, I always woke the second baby. They were on a strong 3-hour schedule when they came home from the NICU at 30 days old. I was able to feed/diaper both of them by myself in 45 minutes, and they usually woke 2 times a night. (Bedtime at 9:30, up at 12:30 and 3:30, give or take). They slept through at 11 weeks (6 weeks adjusted), so it definitely worked for us!!

 

I also woke the sleeping twin, day or night, until about 3 months old. I tried once not to wake, and I was up every 1.5 hrs ALL dang night, feeding or soothing one twin or another. I vowed never to do that again.

Once I noticed my dd was consistently sleeping still when ds woke for a night feeding, and when she stopped draining her bottles at night, I let her sleep longer. She would go about 7 hrs by 3 months old. Within a week or so ds started sleeping 7-8 hrs too. It was much easier to me to feed them both while I was awake, and then get them both back to sleep so I could sleep a solid 2-3 hr stretch.

 

i don't...i have a firm "let sleeping babies lie" policy...even if they don't wake as "scheduled" i let them sleep...i figure they will wake when they are hungry, and they do, so why should i force them to wake on a schedule? they are growing fine so i see no problem with how they are doing it naturally

 

My wife and I did the same thing. We woke the sleeping baby and each took one. But we've since stopped that. Now we each take one of the babies for the night. That way if one goes for a long stretch then we get some sleep. And I have to say it works whonders. Last night we each got 7 hours of sleep!!! Our girls are 6 1/2 weeks old. We are happy stopped waking the sleeping twin.

 

My girls are 6 1/2 weeks old and right now we are still waking the sleeping twin. I tried a few weeks ago to let Ellie sleep longer at night - since she is always the one we have to wake up - but she was up an hour later and I got no sleep at all that night. So we are back to getting them both up. I will try again in the next few weeks to let her sleep and see if she will go longer. I think it is just trial and error - at least for my girls. I am also waking them up if they are sleeping during the day - whenever I have tried letting one sleep, they wake up like ten minutes into the feeding anyway - so I would rather just get them both up at the same time and feed them together. I do however let them both sleep if they are sleeping - so sometimes they go five to six hours between feedings if they are both sleeping. With my DD (who is now 4), I never woke her to eat - firm believer in let a sleeping baby lie - and she slept through the night on the second night home from the hospital. With twins now it is a little different in trying to keep my sanity. Good luck!

 

i woke the sleeping twin after i finished feeding the one who woke up. i'd burp her, and let her fall back to sleep on me, then i'd put her down and wake the other and do itover again. then i'd pump and go to bed so much easier than waking multiple times in the night!

 

We tried waking the sleeping twin up but it seemed unless it was her idea she just wasn't interested.

 

When they were waking every couple of hours at night I also woke both. Once they started to sleep longer stretches I would not. I found that at that point they both may not wake up. One might sleep through the night but they other wouldn't. Trial and error really.