getting them sleep through the night

[joesgirl]

Ladies, I was wondering if I could get some advice (and sanity check, to see if I am going in the right direction)? My twins are 12 weeks old (4 weeks premature) and their night time routine is 6/7pm feed, 10/11 feed, and then the 6/7am feed. They get full feeds at the dream feed, i.e., as much as they want. They don't sleep through yet, but I am trying to get them to sleep from the dream feed to morning, so I am settling them with the dummy at night.

How did you get your twins to sleep through the night between dream feed and morning? Did you just let them cry? Settle them with the dummy? Any advice is welcome!

My DS is a bit smaller than my DD, and he is a light sleeper with some tummy issues, so he wakes up much more easily.

Thanks for your help!

According to the night nanny we had for the first few weeks, sleeping through the night is all about what happens during the day.

We had a 3 hourly feeding routine during the day. The aim is to make sure all their milk requirements are met between the hours of 7am and 11pm. We also made sure they had structured naps of about 3 hrs in total, with longest nap being at lunchtime, and an afternoon nap to make sure not overtired.

I mix feed, bf during the day but ff at 7pm and 11pm as more filling.
When they woke in the night we used to feed them bottles of EBM, and was a much smaller feed than their usual (ie 7oz ff at 11pm, only 4oz ebm in the night).I never bf at night as didn't want them to be waking just for cuddles! They never woke more than once in the night, and it gradually got later and later ie 3am, then 4am etc. We started reducing this feed down to 3oz, and they eventually went all the way from 11pm to 630am when they were 12 weeks old. Now at 5mo we dropped the 11pm feed too.

never just let them cry, and we didn't use dummies, we just made sure they were not hungry!

We kept a feed in between 11pm and 7am until about 16 weeks, when one woke I woke the other and fed her too and then they stopped waking of their own accord. Are you offering them£ milk at all? I think 12 weeks is a little early to drop a night feed.