Need Help with Night Waking

I agree with feeding her right now. She's still young and probably small as a twin. I have twin boys and they just started sleeping at 4 1/2 months through the night. As far as the crying, ignore it if you can. The other one will get used to it and sleep through it too. Mine can sleep now through nail guns, chain saws, sledgehammers, etc. (We are putting an addition on the house) I'm glad I got them used to noise early on.

In the "Baby Whisperer", it states that sometimes babies do get into these habits. To get them out of the habit, you set your alarm clock to get you up 10-15 minutes before they usually wake up (so, you would get up at 1:45am). Go into the room, pick up the baby, gently wake her and then rock her back to sleep and put her back to bed. The idea is to throw off their "routine" and get them back to sleep naturally.

Hope that helps. Of course, use your instincts...baby may be going through a growth spurt and is just needing some extra nursing sessions (if you are, in fact, nursing).

I would try cereal... they aren't too young! My son is 2 months and is on cereal and sleeps through the night! Try 1 Tlbs for every two oz. and if they still wake up try 1 Tbls for every oz. Good luck!

I do not have twins but just off of experience, couldn't that be a growth spurt and I thought you weren't supposed to consider crying it out until 6 months when their neurological systems are more developed...she sounds hungry but good luck, I am just hypothesizing...my hats off to you with twins, I can not imagine how much work that is.

S.,
My son was a preemie and I noticed that alot of the other preemies in maternity ward were twins. My son woke up at night until he was 5 months old because of this. Otherwise, I'd watch her sleep one night and see if there is a sleep apnea problem.

Hi Stacy,
I have twin boys and I know what you mean about no wanting to wake the other baby! My one son had colic and I did everything to make sure he didn't wake up his brother. I didn't need two crying babies in the night. Maybe its just a grow spurt and she needs a little more to get through the night or maybe a way she can soothe herself like a pacifer or blanket. As far as twin advice I learned the hard way that twins actually can ignore the other one's cries and they will get use to each others noises. Don't be too quick to try and quite them down or you could be doing it for years! They will need to get use to different noises so they can learn how to ignore them. Give it a little time and see if she can soothe herself to sleep if increasing the food doesn't help. Good luck!

S.:

babies wake for many many reasons.... they are startled/ they have dreams/ they replay events of the day...

feeding is soothing... it may not even be about hungry.

P., RLC, IBCLC
Pres. Lactation Support Group, Inc
www.lactationsupportgroup.com

S.
Have you thought about introducing a small amount of cereal into their diet? Maybe before bedtime. If I remember correctly I went through this with my daughter as well and I think the cereal helped. Good luck. I'm sure this to will pass. Good luck.

I think she probably knows now that when she wakes up she will have some special time with Mommy. Does she take a pacifier? Try popping it in and just rubbing her back and see if she goes back to sleep on her own. It's hard to believe that at 4 mo. they could know that they will get what they want by waking up in the middle of the night but they do! I know you are probably exhausted and want to go back to sleep yourself so that's why you are feeding her but I don't think that is a pattern you want to get into. You may have to let her cry it out a little. I guess I was lucky because my crier never woke up the other baby, if that happens you may have to separate them until she gets over the middle of the night waking. I think the main thing is to help her soothe herself to sleep, and that means not picking her up and not feeding her.
Good Luck!!

If she is hungry feed her. I fed mine at night until 6-9 mos old. She may be growing