The WineTwins are 1 month old and over their birth weight. Both kiddos sleep like crap. Please share your bedtime and night routines. DH and I are struggling.
We try to feed around 9-10pm. Swaddle in sleep sack, put in pacifier and snuggle/rock. Then lay them down in co-sleepers. Baby Boy struggles more than Baby Girl. He sleeps great during the day in the PnP but cries and fusses at night. I go to bed at the same time they do so I can try to get 2.5-3 hours before the 1st wake up. Some nights are good and other nights are a total shit show.
The RnPs were our saving grace at that age, especially the vibrate function along with rocking and shushing to get them to sleep. One twin preferred to be swaddled. The other hated to be swaddled. They both needed pacifiers to sleep. We did OUBU for roughly 3 months...longer than a lot of people do it, but it worked for us.
Rock n plays and white noise machines for life! Well, RnPs for 4 months and white noise machines forever. Lol
We did one up both up for 2 months and didn't get longer stretches until 9 weeks. And that only lasted until 4 months (sleep regression hit big time) and now at 6 months, were just getting back into "good" sleep (3 wake ups each).
Edit: As far as routine, we didn't really have one until 8 weeks or so. Then it was diaper change, pajamas, nurse, white noise machine, lay in rock n plays, then rock to sleep. We did that until 4 months when we moved them to pack n plays so same routine, but put them in the pack n plays instead.
For MOTN, I'd grab one baby, DH got the other, we each changed a diaper then I nursed them and put them back in the RnP. Once they stopped pooping at night, we eliminated the diaper change and I started nursing them individually whenever they woke.
Early on, our routine was like callmeKD's. We still do something very similar and are finally over the 4 month sleep regression (I think). They were still up every 3-4 hours until 2 months or so and then suddenly went to 6-8 hours at a time.
We were also serious about swaddling. We swaddled Z up until about a month ago when she started trying to roll. W only made it swaddled to 3 months. It saved our sanity and helped them to sleep better.
At that age, we did what the other ladies here have described (dimmed lights, white noise, swaddle, etc.), but our babies have been switching up their sleep patterns on us so much in 5.5 months that it's hard to know what "works." Our son was sleeping beautifully through the night since he was like 12 weeks old...and then the 4-month sleep regression hit. It really sucks. I guess my point is just that, no matter how bad/awesome it is and how useless/amazing anything you do may seem, keep in mind that every week can be completely different from the week before in those first few months. It's really quite the test of patience. Hang in there!
Post by requiressnacks on Feb 27, 2017 17:50:46 GMT -5
Basically, we did the same as the others. Cranked the white noise, tight ass swaddle, rock n play, etc. we also did the night feedings in the dark. I was really strict about OUBU and the three hour schedule.
This is the schedule we followed in the early days. I made sure they had "awake" time so they were tired. I didn't get any long stretches until 9 weeks, I think. It was fucking miserable. I did all the MOTN and I was living on the couch. Don't do that. Make your partner help, if possible.
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