Should i wake one twin to feed both at the same time?

[TaraQ]

My twin boys are now 5 weeks old - born at 35 weeks. One has always been bigger with a much greater appitite. After a month of breatfeeding, both are now just on formula. During the day, both will go about 3 hours between feeds (not sure if this is good or not!). At night though, the bigger one will happily go 4 or 4 and a half hours between feeds yet the smaller one will only go 3 hours.

Since they were born, we have always woken the other to feed them together but when they were weighed last week the larger one had put on 1 lb in weight in a week and the neo-natal team implied that this was rather a lot and we discussed whether I was overfeeding him. He is bascally getting an extra feed a day becasue he is getting a feed at night that he doesn't actually need (but he will quite happily take it!). Overthe past few nights my dh and I have just fed them when they individually wake but we seem to spend all night feeding.

What do you all do? Also, do your twins wake each other? Friends of mine who have twins have said that their twins didn't wake each other but mine do!!!!! Will they grow out of this? xx

My twins luckely don't wake each other so hopefully yours will grow out of it as well.

My DH and I take a twin each so at night only one of us has to be awake. We have an older child that at least one of us has to be awake enough to deal with.

To begin with though we were just up all the time with both of them but that settled down about 8 weeks and now at 15weeks they are sleeping through the night.

As for feeding them I feed them when they are hungry and sometimes that means one of them gets an extra feed but it evens out over time. Now if I can just get the boy twin to stop screaming when his eyes are open then life would be good!