How can I return with my 12 month elderly twins to sleep thru the hours of darkness?
They are both girls and share a room. when one wakes up, she cries and wakes up the other one and vice versa. They don't feed during the dark. They are wrestless sleepers and probably wake up every hour or hour and a half. We have tried the letting them cry themselves to sleep routine and believe me it DOES NOT WORK!! I entail some suggestions please because my husband and i are very tired and we want to sleep. Even if its for 3 hours at a time! We'll take that! Please help.
bathe them in warm sea and then massage their bodies with kid lotion all on their back and stuff. then When your babe naps, allow him to sleep in a well-lit area. This will assist encourage shorter naps, which in turn may aid him sleep better at night.
I already know, by the way you stole my name except you have spaces :D okay, I'll share LOL
anyway, this is the intention I started co-sleeping, they kept waking eachother up. Some of things I tried first that may work for yours, but didn't for mine are...
warm bath and milk right in the past bed, makes them relaxed
white noise machine or soft music
A nightlight, so it's not pitch gloomy
It sounds like they are waking respectively other up.
Is there another room you could put one of them in, or have one contained by with you?
Vodka.
Answers: We hold 11 month old twins in the same room - it is nearly impossible to even try letting them cry it out as they would one and only wake each other!
Do your girls take a pacifier? Ours do, we enjoy about 4 pacifiers in the crib (including a glow-in-the dark one) so that they can find it themselves during the dark and go back to sleep. Unless they are teething or not feeling okay, it has worked for us!
We also try to keep a good bedtime routine - hip bath or wash up with a warm towel, rub with lotion, bottle (not looking forward to giving this up) reading to them in the rocking chair and into bed when they start getting the "sleepy eyed" look.
Hope you can win some sleep soon!
Is there no way you can hold one cot in your room, and one cot in the other room? That way they won't disturb one another, and conceivably you can try the CIO method once again.
It depends on the type of CIO method you used also. If you used the less-harsh version, ie. they cry, you leave the room and wait a few minutes, dance in and reassure them, walk out, they cry, you wait a few more minutes, reassure them...etc etc that sometimes doesn't work. For 12 month olds to be wake every 3 hours, that must be a nightmare. There is the 'elimination' method suggested in the book "Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child" which is supposed to work. Yes it's harsh...basically go them to cry for as long as it takes them to fall asleep, but the case studies surrounded by the book say that's the best way, particularly if they are post colicky babies!
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bathe them in warm sea and then massage their bodies with kid lotion all on their back and stuff. then When your babe naps, allow him to sleep in a well-lit area. This will assist encourage shorter naps, which in turn may aid him sleep better at night.
I already know, by the way you stole my name except you have spaces :D okay, I'll share LOL
anyway, this is the intention I started co-sleeping, they kept waking eachother up. Some of things I tried first that may work for yours, but didn't for mine are...
warm bath and milk right in the past bed, makes them relaxed
white noise machine or soft music
A nightlight, so it's not pitch gloomy
It sounds like they are waking respectively other up.
Is there another room you could put one of them in, or have one contained by with you?
Vodka.
Answers: We hold 11 month old twins in the same room - it is nearly impossible to even try letting them cry it out as they would one and only wake each other!
Do your girls take a pacifier? Ours do, we enjoy about 4 pacifiers in the crib (including a glow-in-the dark one) so that they can find it themselves during the dark and go back to sleep. Unless they are teething or not feeling okay, it has worked for us!
We also try to keep a good bedtime routine - hip bath or wash up with a warm towel, rub with lotion, bottle (not looking forward to giving this up) reading to them in the rocking chair and into bed when they start getting the "sleepy eyed" look.
Hope you can win some sleep soon!
Is there no way you can hold one cot in your room, and one cot in the other room? That way they won't disturb one another, and conceivably you can try the CIO method once again.
It depends on the type of CIO method you used also. If you used the less-harsh version, ie. they cry, you leave the room and wait a few minutes, dance in and reassure them, walk out, they cry, you wait a few more minutes, reassure them...etc etc that sometimes doesn't work. For 12 month olds to be wake every 3 hours, that must be a nightmare. There is the 'elimination' method suggested in the book "Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child" which is supposed to work. Yes it's harsh...basically go them to cry for as long as it takes them to fall asleep, but the case studies surrounded by the book say that's the best way, particularly if they are post colicky babies!
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