Welcome Nadine, My twins are 3 months and they are soooooo different. Sam loves attention and if he dosen't get it than he crys and crys. Hana just sits in her rocker and watches everything, she loves watching TV and the fish. Hana smiles and talks, Sam smilies talks and also laughs. Nadine all children develop at different rates.
i'm also finding the sleeping thing changing, I could get them both to sleep at the same time but know one's sleeps and the other one is awake you don't get much done during the day. But both of mine sleep all night.
Cathie- sounds good. i tried play group but it wasn't 4 me. and some of the other kids were bullies to Isaac. i should try a twins group tho, i contacted the AMBA and they were no help at all.
My boys sleep all night but we have no ruting at all, i try to just go with the flow and see what happens.
they rolled for the first time last weekend, they are a bit late with all that stuff.
Hope everyone has enjoyed a lovely holiday season! Back to reality now that holidays are over. Ah well...
Our little girls are growing TOO fast! Already crawling and pulling up on furniture. Was sorting some tiny clothes they wore as newborns today - *sniff sniff* can't even remember them being that small!!
Hi Nadine - looks like my girls are about the same age as your babies - mine will be 8 months old in a week or so (eep! where has the time gone?) Our routine is a bit like this (although I'm pretty flexible and usually wait for tired/hungry signs from them - it usually follows the same general pattern):
5:30am - wake. breastfeed. straight back to sleep (uugh. wish I could get them to sleep another hour here!!)
7am - 7:30am - wake up for the day
8am - breakfast
9am - breastfeed
9:30am - sleep
11am - 11:30am - wake
11:30am - lunch
1pm - breastfeed
1pm - 1:30pm - sleep
3pm - 4pm - wake, breastfeed
5pm - dinner
6pm - 6:30pm - bath, breastfeed,
6:30pm - 7pm - bed
Hope that helps! Sounds like your two are having some pretty decent daytime sleeps, it's just a shame they aren't at the same time! Mine are identical and I have heard it is easier to get identical babies on the same routine. Although I have found that putting mine in separate rooms during the daytime sleeps has helped. They still sleep together at night, I just have a portacot set up in the spare room for during the day. I found they were waking each other during the day so this has fixed that problem. Good luck!! I know how hard it is when they play tag-team all day long and you never get a break.
Thanks for your routine.
Mine is very simlar so I guess I am on the right track. The only difference is your girls seem to be able to stay up longer than my two, so I end up with another nap between 5pm-6pm and then off to bed at 8pm. I have tried cutting out the 5pm - 6pm nap and putting them to bed at 7pm ( they are very grumpy between 6-7pm because they are tired)but like your two, mine end up awake at 5am but mine won't go back to sleep.
I am the same Cathie my two sleep in separate rooms, but I also do this during the night. My son with his reflux is the most unsettled at night and he was always waking his sister up. Since I have put them is separate rooms she has settled down a lot ( this has taken about 6 months) and in the last week she has started sleeping through night. She even got 2 teeth last week and still slept fine, I hope she keeps this up.
I am starting a play group for multiples in Feb and there is another lot of twins that are close in age to mine so that should be good. I am hoping by then my 2 should be on only 2 naps a day and be able to stay up that little bit longer.
Thank you everbody else for your comments, I guess I just find it strange that mine are completley different. I even had a bank teller the other day ask me the age difference, when I said 2 mins his jaw dropped and he said "oh they're twins".
they rolled for the first time last weekend, they are a bit late with all that stuff.
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