Question about sleeping through the night (m)

When did yours start sleeping through the night and were they breastfed or formula? Also, what do you do with two? Do you just wait until they both sleep the night or do you experiment letting one sleep longer? If one wakes up we always wake the other and feed him/her as well. I feel like it's the only way to stay sane and rested. Lately I've been noticing that it's always Jack that wakes ... but I feel like if anyone could use the extra calories it's Meghan ... she's smaller than Jack. Such a dilemna. Right now they give us a 4 (sometimes 5) hour stretch at night and then the rest of the time it's every 3 hours. I realize that's not bad at all and they go right back to sleep after they eat.

I went back to work today ... maybe that's why I'm interested in this so much! My daughter Katherine slept through at 6 months ... the night we stopped waking her. She was a preemie and at 6 months was just 10 lbs. I'm pretty sure Jack and Meghan are more than 10 lbs now. I'm just curious what the norm is with twins. I'm crossing my fingers it will be in the next few months even though it's really not that bad.

 

My son started sleeping through the night at 2 1/2 months (10 p.m. till 6 a.m.) and my daughter started at around 3 1/2 months. Right around 5 months they started taking their last bottle at 7 p.m. and the sleeping till 6 a.m. (and they still do that at 10 monhts). My kids were formula fed. We did not woke one kid up if the other one woke up to feed at night. Before sleeping through the night, my daugther was pretty consistent with waking every 3-4 hours, but my son could go 5-6 hours sometimes. He was still getting the recommended formula, so we didn't think it was necessary to wake him.

 

We started consistently sleeping through at 4/5 months. They were breastfed.

We were lucky becuase they usually sleep/awake together!

 

At 2 months they started going longer abd my 2.5my DD woudl go 8 hours and at 3 my DS would. About 2 1/2 mon. I started not waking the other one up when one would wake to eat. I was hard for about 2 weeks and then it got easier. Now my DD will always go 10 sometimes 12 hours. But my DS will only go 7-8 and then I have to feed him but he will go right back to sleep until 7-7:30 when they get up. I pu tthem down 8 or 9 depending on wht is going on. You should be starting on the easy time.Oh I am breastfeeding exclusively. It will work as well. Good luck

 

DS slept thru at 2 months--8 hours, DD wouldn't go 6 hours at the most until about 4 1/2 months, but now, at 6 months, she'll go 10 hours, so i would say this was the turning point. Both are breastfed during the day and get formula before bed (just that feed)....we never woke the other just cuz one was awake

good luck, i promise it gets easier

 

My DS slept through the night at 5 months and my DD didn't sleep through until almost a year :blink: I dream fed my babies until about 7 months and that really helped me. After that, they would have to make it through without a bottle. DS did great, DD is just not a good sleeper...I did not wake DS up to feed whenever my DD would wake.

I would also say to follow your intuition on this one...You sometimes just know what you need to do.
HANG IN THERE@

 

QUOTE(butterflygirl @ Dec 19 2007, 03:22 PM) [snapback]540610[/snapback]
. Lately I've been noticing that it's always Jack that wakes ... but I feel like if anyone could use the extra calories it's Meghan ... she's smaller than Jack. Such a dilemna. Right now they give us a 4 (sometimes 5) hour stretch at night and then the rest of the time it's every 3 hours.



I noticed the same thing with ours - I think mine are about the same age as yours. DD is smaller but consisently will do 4 hour stretchs, DS is 3 hours on the money. We started not responding right away if they wake before 3, sometimes it works sometimes not.

I have not woke the other the last few nights - really hard on me but I think it is better for them?

Any way - wanted to let you know that we are having the same things go on. I also started nap training and started shorting the feedings in the middle of the night hoping that they will figure out that night feedings are for doing business.

I am SERIOUSLY considering moving them to 2 rooms since it seems like they wake each other when they are in the early sleep states. Any one else move the bad sleeper out?

Good luck going back!

 

Our kiddos are about the same age and ours are up once a night as well, they eat around 6:30/7, go to sleep, we dreamfeed at 10 and then they are out until 3-4 a.m. and usually eat and go right back down until 7/7:30. I'm waiting for the longer stretch as well but am so glad that most nights they are up for 15 minutes to eat and then back to sleep, a huge improvement from a few weeks ago.

 

QUOTE(xavier2001 @ Dec 19 2007, 07:21 PM) [snapback]541008[/snapback]
Our kiddos are about the same age and ours are up once a night as well, they eat around 6:30/7, go to sleep, we dreamfeed at 10 and then they are out until 3-4 a.m. and usually eat and go right back down until 7/7:30. I'm waiting for the longer stretch as well but am so glad that most nights they are up for 15 minutes to eat and then back to sleep, a huge improvement from a few weeks ago.



That sounds exactly like our nights. We do the dreamfeed around 10-11 and then they are up around 3am ... sometimes it is both of them, sometimes just one and we usually dreamfeed the other one at that time. I was starting to feel like I was the only one who feeds the other one at that time. It has worked really well for us and neither of them ever has a hard time going back to sleep. Plus I don't ever forget who I feed last! :blush: I've only started to wonder about giving up the 10 pm dreamfeed and any dreamfeeds in the middle of the night. But with going back to work I can't be up every hour. Honestly it's not too bad right now, but I could go for a solid 8 hours of sleep. I guess I should have tried this BEFORE I went back to work. Maybe I'll try it over the holidays when I'm off for 1.5 hours.

Also, in terms of us waking my other DD ... she had medical issues that required us to wake her 24 hours a day. I'm having trouble changing my mindset. I know that not all babies NEED that.

 

We tried dropping the 10 p.m. dreamfeed and we ended up getting up twice at night, once around 1 and then again at 4. It seems that they still need 7 bottles a day, I'm thinking once they are drinking more ounces they will be able to drop to 6. I also tried delaying the 10p feeding until 11:30 hoping they would then sleep until 5 or 6 and they still got up at 3 so we are back to waking at 10 so that at least I can sleep from 10:30ish to 3/4. Glad to know that we are on track with where they should be eating wise.

 

ours started going down between 7-7:30 pm at 2 months & woke up once at night to nurse. from 2-5 months they woke anywhere from 1 am to 4 am. they always nursed and were back down within 20 minutes, which i was thankful for. during daylight savings we put them down by 6:30 and it was sooooo good for them that we made it their new bed time! they now go down for the night by 6:15 & sleep until 6 am! it is WONDERFUL!