Hello all,
I have gorgeous 16 week old ID boy twins. They are fab...but Mummy is knackered!! I was hoping someone who has been there might be able to offer some advice, please.
They were 5 weeks early and have been guzzling milk madly in an effort to catch up.
They have dropped the 'dreamfeed' and pushed it to 12/1/2am. I've tried to reintroduce it and encourage them to drop the middle of the night one but they're not having it - they wake up and want more milk at around 2.
One of our boys tends to go from 7:30 to midnight ish (which is great) and the other tends to go from 7:30 to 2am (which is even greater). Then there's generally a 3am wake up from one of them. Maybe a 5am thrown in. Then there's the early morning waking when they don't want any more food but are ready to get up.They're gaining weight and feeding well, but I'm completely shattered with all the getting up and going back to sleep. Or trying to!
We have a really good routine during the day with feeds and naps but at night it completely goes to pot and I'm at a loss as to what to try next. So what I wanted to ask is this. Should I wake our boy who is managing longer. OR will this ruin it for him as he's trying to go longer? What did you do? Can you offer any advice? Can anyone lend me some sleep?!!
Thanks everyone x