I have 10 week old twins. I'm finding the days difficult as they rarely sleep at the same time during the day. It is difficult to settle both at once and usually one or both ends up upset. Then when they I do get one down for a sleep they tend to catnap, waking after 30 minutes or so when I might have only just managed to get the other one down. I spend all day settling them!
They will settle in the stroller or the car, but I don't want to create a situation where I can't get them to nap in their cots in the daytime.
Luckily they are good night time sleepers or I'd be in trouble!!
When my twins were that age I rarely got them to sleep at the same time. I swear they actually communicated about it so I always had one baby awake! In the end I just made the most of the opportunity to get one to one cuddles with one baby as the other slept. As they get older they will have more of a defined routine so it will be easier to get them down at the same time, but for now you might have to just put up with their dodgy routine.
Do they sleep in the same cot? I have no personal experience with twins but have a close friend with twin bubbas and she sleeps them together, and they really settle each other.
You're doing a great job! It must be such a challenge but very rewarding.
Lollybaby - thanks. Yeah, they do sleep in the same cot. I find they pretty much don't react to the other one in either a positive or a negative way. They don't wake each other up, but neither do they settle each other. In fact, sometimes I think they don't really conceive of the other one as being a different entity to themselves at all.
Traveller - I'd love to hear more re the defined routine when they are older. Did yours start to settle themselves for naps as they got older? When did this happen and what sort of a routine did they get into? Did you have to help them into it, and if so how did you approach it? Any help is much appreciated!
I found as my twins got older they each started to prefer 3 or 2 naps a day, so I would put them both down at the same time (even if one seemed less sleepy) to make sure the naps coincided to some degree. Often one will wake before the other but I just nip up as soon as I hear the first one waking so the 2nd one can still nap. They slept in separate cots from about 4 months so this helped too as they are more wriggly at his age and they did not wake each other up. They still share a room though and they seem to like knowing the other is just a few feet away.
To be honest though I didn't really try to give them a routine, it was more that we would be busy in the morning, then they would get sleepy so a nap, then lunch, then nap, then play, dinner, and back to bed. I can't remember when they started doing this, I think maybe around the same time they were in separate cots but I could be making that up. My boytwin was sick for a lot of his first year so much of it is a blurr tbh.
Sorry I can't be more help, but feel free to ask any questions as I seem to have survived to 22 months
settling 10 week old twins for daytime sleeps
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