Hi Ladies,
I know I'm getting ahead of myself, but I was thinking. If you have a singleton and it's ready to sleep through, no worries because one night you aren't woken and you all sleep through. However, with multiples one might be ready to sleep through and the other/s might not be. So, how do you know? At the moment we wake one to feed if the other is demanding, but using this routine we won't know when one is ready until the other (slower to sleep through) one is ready. I don't know if that made sense or not? It did to me anyway.
I hope someone can make sense of it and give me some suggestions.
Thanks heaps.

Me 27 DH 28
Our IVF Miracles

Hi there.

We are fairly new to this too. But Brodie started to sleep through before Oscar. I just found that he was always still asleep so we left him and just fed Oscar that one night feed (he is quite a bit smaller). They would then wake together for the morning feed. Then it just took a short time and now Oscar is sleeping through too.

Our problems lie in the day sleeps - everytime I go in to re settle, it's a different pair of eyes beaming up at me :confuse:

All the best

RACHEL AND HER BOYS
Barnaby 14

Oscar and Brodie 28/03/05

Hi I used to worry I might be disturbing a good sleeper if I kept waking the other one up too. Basically just do what feels right, you might get clues that one of your babies isn't all that interested in feeding at night, you can just try it out and see what happens for a few nights, if you can get enough rest during the day.
I found that after about a month Samuel was always awake first and I was waking Charlotte up and she wasn't feeding very much. I stopped waking her up and she slept through! YEY!
good luck

Yep... it's a tough call, to wake or not to wake. Most babies by about 6 months should be able to sleep through, and generally when waking, require comfort not food. We found that we had one starting to sleep through so we encouraged the other to do the same, with some comfort settling. It worked for us, and thus far have had very few nights of broken sleep. Actually our 6 yo wakes more than the girls now!

We used the 10 pm dreamfeed too, this certainly helped to get a longer stint overnight, which gradually got longer and longer, then we dropped the dreamfeed. This all coincided with the introduction of more solids etc.

It really is a juggling act with all the balls in the air sometimes. Also neither of our girls would have dummies, so it was either continue feeding or try the settling techniques, I'm glad we opted for the settling. It only took a couple of weeks to really get things sorted, and it worked a treat. Obviously it doesn't suit everyone, and if you have a little one with slower weight gain it doesn't hurt to keep up the night feeds a little longer. We probably could have started earlier with ours but wanted to give the girls that bit extra, so I was happy to keep going until they started to catch up more.

Hope this helps

Sharyn
Meg14/4/99
Hannah & Josie 22/3/04 (33 wks)
DH David



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