Seven month twins - different schedules?

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Just wondering if anyone has had a similar experience who can offer advice. My twins are nearly seven months old and we've been struggling to get my son down at night - he starts crying soon after being put down, and this last week he's also cried twice before his midday nap. Both twins are currently on three naps a day and I've been putting them down together and getting them up together. However this has been mainly based on my daughter's tired signals as she clearly gets tired much more quickly than he does. Wondering about whether his difficulties going down could be because he's ready to drop to two naps? He fell asleep an hour later than her one day last week when he refused to go down and I left him sleeping after she woke - he slept till 3.30 and coped perfectly well until a 6.30 bedtime. She can still only just about manage two hours awake before she is exhausted. The thing is I don't know how I would cope with having one of them sleeping nearly all day! They don't nap on the go anymore so I would never be able to leave the house! Has anyone been in this situation and what did you do about it? So far I've tried just lengthening his wake time before bed so he goes down half an hour after her - he's had two good nights in a row, but cried yesterday before his second nap again. Today I've put her down (she's been asleep twenty minutes) and kept him up and he's still playing happily independently on the floor. I'll try putting him down when he seems tired but it means I will never ever be able to go out 😐 has anyone had this and how long did it last??

Could it be that he may want more food? I have twin nieces there was a point were one of them ate so much more than the other, it eventually evened out again, but during that phase she was harder to settle into her naps and at night and woke up within the night but was settled with her bottle.

Yes, in my experience this is a typical time when their needs might be different. Especially for Boy/Girl twin, but even for my my two girls there were definitely times
when they slept or ate similarly and times when they didn't. If you'd had them two years apart you wouldn't expect them to behave exactly the same day by day (you wouldn't even remember!) it's aggravating bit it generally passes after a couple of weeks and you will fall into a new routine that works for everyone. Try to follow their individual sleep and eat cues for a while, even if they are different (whilst appreciating that sometimes they clash and it's tricky to meet their needs). This too shall pass!

Thank you!