should i separate them at night?

my mom stayed overnite to help out with the kiddos last night and took DD in her bassinett into her room and she slept from 10-5 and she needed to be woken up for her feeding (mom got worried ) lately she has been staying awake longer thru the day, so maybe she needs more sleep at nite??

usually DD & DS sleep together in the same crib and get up at the same times, but now i'm starting to wonder if it my DS that is waking her up....do you think i should try her in her own crib or is it too soon ??

 

When one woke, I always woke the other until about 4 months. I was too afraid that I would be up all night feeding them if I let one sleep! If you think they are waking each other, though, I might separate them.

 

I did the exact same thing Becky did. Then after that I let the one sleep until he needed me. I also for 4 months after that if one cried I would go and get him and move him to the family room crib so his brother would not be disturbed. Lets just say by the time they were 8 months old I was one exhausted women but, I thought that was what was best at the time for my boys.

 

I had big plans of having the twins sleep in the same crib, but discovered within days that they woke each other up. My girls have been sleeping in separate cribs in the same room basically since the beginning. I never woke the babies for feedings at night, but if one did wake up, the other one normally did also. Rarely did I have to wake the 2nd baby. By 6 wks though, my larger twin stopped waking for the middle of the night feedings so I left her alone. Soon both of them were getting up only for a 6 or 7 o'clock feeding. By 2 months, they were both sleeping from 11-7'ish (sometimes longer). Just this past week, my smaller twin has been getting up for a 4 o'clock feeding, but the other twin sleeps right through. I'm guessing she was having a growth spurt because last night she went from 10:30-8:15. My suggestion is to separate them in cribs if they seem to be waking each other so you can get more sleep. Once they get better at sleeping all night, you can try putting them together again if that's what you want. I would also ask your doctor about needing to wake them. If they were healthy weights (mine were 7 and 5.10 lbs) when born and are gaining weight, I won't wake them! My oldest DD (7.3 lbs.) slept through the night from the very beginning and never had night feedings and she is just fine.

 

thanks for all of your responses...i should have mentioned that my DD is the bigger of the two and the much better eater, (thanks for bringing that up HT) and when I did ask the pedi about it , he said there was no need to wake them since they were gaining weight real well..they both have between 5-7 ounces per feeding, so they are definitely good eaters

i will try to put them in their own cribs and see how it goes for the next few nights..wish me luck

 

When we moved the girls into their cribs at night, around 5months, we napped them separately, but they slept together at night. We just this week separated them at night because they were disturbing each other, pulling each others ears, etc...

I always woke the other and fed them if one woke during the night. They never wake at night anymore though..

 

We put them in separate cribs at 6 weeks old - about the same age yours are now. They did sleep much better once they were in their own cribs.

 

Good luck! We moved our little guys into their own cribs around 2 months, if I remember correctly. I found they slept a little better that way.

 

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When one woke, I always woke the other until about 4 months. I was too afraid that I would be up all night feeding them if I let one sleep! If you think they are waking each other, though, I might separate them.



I did the same thing! Also, the day I separated the babies (about 4 months) my DS slept through the night. My DD still talks and yells every night. It was the best thing for my DS to separate them. good luck!

jen

 

We just moved our little tykes to separate cribs at 5 months. They sleep much better. They kept rolling around the crib and kicking each other before they fell asleep. I was nervous to separate them already but they are sleeping much better now.

You have to do what you think is best for you and your babes.