Re: ? about twin's and sleeping pattern
From: j wang, M.D. (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon, 12 Feb 2001 09:14:02 -0600 (CST)
Some kids just have their own sleep patterns. You best ask their
pediatrician about what to do.
At Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Fizzy wrote:
>
>Iam fully Breastfeeding our twin girls(4months)
>I am having so much trouble with getting the girls (twins 4 months old)
>to
>sleep at the same time, a problem with twins, everyone says if they were
>on the bottle they would be better, that is the few twin mum's I speak
>to say
>when I put them on the bottle they were better, can't see how,
>only advice I get.!!!!
> The problem
>is I try all day to get the girls doing the same thing,sleep together
>feed together ,
>one will sleep for 45min-1hour the other baby wants to sleep for 2
>hours,
>
>I wake the sleeping baby, if I get the first baby up within 30 min's but
>they both
>still want to sleep different length's no matter
>
>how much I keep them up. They still don't sleep through the night
>sometimes they
>will go 6-7 hours but again not
>
>together.????? Any suggestions????, We have 4 boys also, which I
>Breastfeed all of them for over 1 year each,
>when the boys were babies by 9 months I just
>
>let them cry it out, but I feel the twin GIRLS are not old enough, and 2
>crying together
>for hours on end is just crazy with other
>
>children. Thanks (Fizzy)
--
J Wang, M.D
Assitant Clinical Prof.
Tufts University School of Medicine
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