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Hi all...my twins are six weeks old..most of the day I spend feeding/burping/changing/shushing etc...I am really enjoying it. Though it does get very overwhelming with two older children and a house to run. The older the twins get the longer they are up. Alot of the up time they are not so happy. They keep wanting to be held moved etc. I have two questions is it normal that up time is not happy time? Also, I keep reading that it gets easier. When does it get easier? 3 months 4 months?

Thank you.

 

4 months it really got easier for me. We got into a good groove. But I think every single age has it's challenges!

My girls were barely awake until 2 months! They slept all the time, ate, pooped, burped, that's about it! Everything sounds normal to me!

 

3 to 4 months was when it got a little easier for me, then at 6 months things got even better. It is true that they're up more as they get older BUT they get better at entertaining themselves. Mine are awake right now and playing together so I can take a little break.
When they get older they'll (hopefully) do most of their sleeping at night and just take a couple of short naps during the day but their awake time will get easier. Keep up the good work momma!

 

I say that 3 was the "Magic Number". It got a LOT easier then...routines developed and they were just generally more happy babies. My boys had colic and, just like the doctor said it would, it disappeard literally overnight after the 3 month mark.

I remember thinking WHEN WILL IT GET EASIER??????? But it will!!! Just hang in there!

 

For us it got better around 5-6 months. Each month got better but it was 5/6 where I really began to feel good about it all!! I think you are at the hardest stage right now.

My boys cried a lot! 4 weeks until 12 weeks were really probably the hardest. Hang in there.

 

It got quite a bit better around 3-4 months. They were extremely fussy before that. :hug99:

 

mine are 11 weeks and they are pretty fussy during their awake time, but I also can't get mine to take good naps. Sounds like things are going just about right for you. I can already see my girls getting a little better everyday though.
good luck missy

 

i honestly didn't think it got easier until 6-7 months when they started getting onto a better schedule and SLEEPING longer intervals. ihad always heard ~4 months, but it was longer for us.
sorry about the fusiness- hopefully that should start to decrease soon when they can start to actually play and interact a little more.

 

For us it was around 2 1/2- 3 mos. We got into a routine and got some well deserved sleep (my DH and I not the babies) Now I carry out our day to day routine and they sleep through the night 10-12 hours (with an occasional hiccup now and again depending on our day activites and naps). We did the 'Baby Whisperer Solves all your Problem Techniques' for a while which worked for us. A friend used her book and swore by it, so I tried it, of course she had a singleton, not twins; so I think it was a bit harder to stick to. I actually was too cheap to buy it and got it from the library for free and just kept it out for a while. Basically it's just carrying out the same routine day to day along with the '3-4 hour' feeding schedule/ 'cluster' feeds and 'dream' feeds as she calls them where you get all their milk in before 11 pm even if you have to get them out of their crib, I know it sounds crazy but I had a HARD time with the sleep deprivation and was desperate to try anything that worked for others. Of course life gets busy and you can't always do it by the book. If they get enough stimulation and food they will sleep better at night Unless of course they have colic or other baby related things affecting them like burps or teething, etc.

 

HI! It sound like we are in a similar situation - my twins are 7 weeks old and I have two older children - 3 and 5. How old are your two other kids? Sorry - I have no advice but just wanted to let you know I was thinking of you.

 

I felt like we turned a corner at about 10 weeks...things started getting a little easier. THey are now 4 months and I can hardly remember those long, long days. Today, I am in shock that it is already Friday again! Good luck!

 

I would say by 4 months it was easier in some respects, more sleep, and less running from one baby to the next. :hug99: It's gonna get better. I promise. :hug99:

 

5-10 weeks is always the hardest for me, just with the babies adjusting to things! I think it gets alot easier when they can sit up, but after 2.5 months it starts getting easier!

 

Wow it seemed to work the exact opposite for me. It was SOOO much easier in the beginning, when all they did was eat, sleep, and poop. Once they started getting more mobile and needing more entertainment, it got harder..... My two don't entertain themselves very well. They need toys or Mommy to entertain them. One I SWEAR has baby ADHD - she can NOT focus on any one thing for more than 5 seconds, including eating! LOL Always being nosy trying to see what someone else is doing.....

And also now that they're more mobile (7 months) I'm more worried about the dogs and them - so as they're trying to move more, we're trying to keep them corralled more! They seem to need so much 'stuff' the simple things just do not do it for my babies. Oh and they still wake 3-4 tiimes per night EACH, irregardless of what I try to get them to sleep all night....

Anyways I guess I'm the odd man out here in that it was actually easier for us in the beginning than it is now.