Sleeping almost through the night? When?

At what age did your twins start sleeping 5-6 hours at night? I'm trying to remember with my older children. Its amazing what you forget in just a few years. We're still only going about 2 1/2 to 3 hours at night and i'm so looking forward to the days they sleep longer. My older kids were good sleepers so i'm praying these two take after them.

 

3 months

Dianna

 

11 months and only with sleep training.

 

My babes started sleeping through the night from about 7-8pm to around 4am at around 3 1/2 months. I think it helped by creating a routine. Sometimes if they woke up in the middle of the night (2-4am) I would definitely try getting them back to sleep by soothing them- rubbing their back, paci,... What I found is that sometimes they are not completely awake, they just needed a little help getting back to a sound sleep.

 

3.5 months is when they started skipping the 10pm feeding... not really helping us, lol. At 4 months they slept through for 2 weeks, then started waking up again usually after 2am. At 6 months they started sleeping until 4-5am, and they've been sleeping through since 7 months.

 

I think around 6 to 8 weeks it starts to get better. I think at 6 weeks they were going 4 hours and by 8 weeks they would go up to 6 hours. Hope you get some sleep soon.

 

This is such a great question and I think all of us are desperate for an answer, but remind yourself that all babies and situations are different so if your twins aren't where other twins are, it's ok! I know it's hard (it's been hard for us too) but I'm constantly reminded by such wonderful twin parents that this does get better...

With that said, my B/G twins are 7 weeks today. DD will sleep 4-6 hours at a time and DS will sleep about the same give or take. My twins sleep most of the daylight hours as well. Although, last night DS took a feeding at 10pm and then slept until 8am this morning! I'm curious to see how it goes tonight...I'm sure it was a fluke, I'm not holding my breath for another 9 hour night.

Anyway hang in there, the nights are long and the days are even longer. But gosh isn't it so wonderful?

 

dd goes 5 out of 7 nights just since this past week or 2, ds- ha! forget about it! hes a handful and up every 3 hours crying

 

Mine started going that long at about 5 weeks. All babies are different though, but it will come.

 

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Mine started going that long at about 5 weeks. All babies are different though, but it will come.

I echo that...I don't remember when we went 5-6 hours at night but I do remember that they started doing 10+ hours around 10 weeks.

 

5-6 hours started happening around 4.5 months....and then it stopped around 8 months. Now they are sleeping 10-11 hours at 10 months. Seems like things are always changing...gotta keep it interesting!

Your babies will get there - hang in there and make sure you sleep whenever you can!

 

Yep, totally different for everyone. You will see a large range of answers. For me, it was about 5 months but they were also 2 months premature.

 

By 2 months we were getting 4 hours...now (3 1/2 mo) we get at least 5-6 almost every night except for growth spurts or strange situations and occasionally even 7 hours :Clap: Ditto pps...they'll do it when they're ready! GL and wishing you many naps!

 

I think it was around the 3 - 3 and a half month mark. At first it was 6 hours, then it went to 8 within days, and now they are just over 5 months and normally sleep straight through from 8-8.30 til around 6.30 or 7am.

 

I was told they start sleeping 5-6 hrs once they reached 11 lbs. Mine started around 11.5 lbs [I think that was just after 2 months]. Now they sleep from 2030 to 0430-0600 [eat] then sleep until 0800 [usually] and they are about 16 lbs. They wake up talking.. not crying :lol:

 

At 4 1/2 months they would sleep from about midnight-1am until about 6 or 7am. They didn't STTN (my definition: 8pm-7am) until they were 8 months old.

 

4 months with sleep training.

 

8 weeks.

 

My twins were born at 38 weeks and they are just now sleeping 6 hours at night. Last night they slept for 7! Good luck!