waking the other one

If one of your LO's wakes up do you wake the other one? I normally did this (with in 30 min of each other), however I let my DS continue sleeping (afternoon nap) and he slept until 3. He then stayed up and they both went down at 6. The few days before that he would not take his third nap, but I was waking him from his afternoon nap to keep them together. So Yesterday I left him to see what he would do. I really don't want to juggle two different schedules but if he is trying to drop that third nap I don't want to block that either. My DD is a shorter napper and still needs that third nap.

Just curious what others do.....they do share a room too.

 

Mine always ate after naps, so if one was still sleeping, I would feed the other, and if he was still sleeping, then I would wake him as well.

 

I wake the other one up to keep them on the same schedule. It is necessary to keep my sanity.

Jenn

 

QUOTE(Jenn Bland @ May 2 2009, 03:30 PM) [snapback]1297556[/snapback]
I wake the other one up to keep them on the same schedule. It is necessary to keep my sanity.

Jenn

If one Twin is sleeping during the night and the other one is waking for a feed to you wake the 1st twin up for a feed too or let them sleep hoping that they will not wake up??

Carrie-Anne

 

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If one Twin is sleeping during the night and the other one is waking for a feed to you wake the 1st twin up for a feed too or let them sleep hoping that they will not wake up??


I can tell you I too always woke them during the night if one woke up. Last night though my DS woke up at 4 and my DD was sound asleep, so I left her to see what would happen......and she slept until 6:45.

 

I stopped waking the other one around 4 or 5 months. Tyler was a much better sleeper then Derek and I felt like it wasnt fair to him to keep waking him. He STTN first too.

 

DATJMOM - was that for day sleep too and di they share a room? What did you do if their schedules were off?

 

Right now at night when one wakes I wake the second one to eat right away. Either dh and I feed them at the same time, or I feed them both at the same time the nights dh gets up for work early.

During the day if one is still sleeping I try to feed the first one, but usually within 5 mins the second one wakes up wanting to be fed too if I try that!

I can't have them on opposing schedules, I would be either feeding/changing or snuggling one all day long and I have 2 other kids to take care of, especially my 2.5 yr old. That doesn't include normal stuff like dishes (aka bottles), laundry and cooking food for us to eat! Scheduling is my sanity!

 

it's weird but my girls are always up at the same time. they must have the same clock or something.

 

mine share a room but separate criibs.

I stopped waking the other at night when I finally felt like Ok If I dont wake <insert name here> and they happen to get up in an hour will I be able to get up again? If the answer was yes then I didnt wake them., If I was too exhausted and knew the answer was no I woke eveyrone together.

For naps--- I try to go by the babies. If one baby is ready to be awake then I enjoy the one on one time with that baby-- or now at this age (14 months) I let him/her have some independent play time while I lay on the couch and relax.

 

For naps, I generally let the sleeping one sleep for up 20 minutes longer, and then wake him. I've found that Mark needs more sleep than Eli. His waking interval right now is close to 2.5 hours, and Eli's is close to 3.

In the morning, Eli usually wakes between 6 and 6:30 and Mark between 6:30-7. Sometimes we have to wake Mark. The good news is that if he sleeps longer then I can put them down for their naps at the same time.

I've never had one taking more naps than the other. I always put both of them down to sleep at the same time and the same number of times a day.

 

I rarely woke the other baby up. Mine slept so poorly anyways that most of the time it wasn't necessary.

 

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DATJMOM - was that for day sleep too and di they share a room? What did you do if their schedules were off?


Yes and Yes.

Sometimes I didnt mind them being off from one another. I was housebound anyway with three kids early on so it didnt bother me not to have them on the same schedule every day. If there was somewhere I had to be then I would try and keep them on the same schedule, but if not it was kinda nice to hold and feed one and not double feed all the time.