My whole house has decided to wake at 3:30 PLEASE HELP!!!

[Johnskymberlina]

Hi all,

Firstly I just want to clarify this isn't a my child won't sleep question!

So I have three children, a son who is 2 and a half and twin girls that are nearly 5 months.

Son sleeps 6/7pm-7/8am all depends on if he has a bath or had a busy day etc. I work from home so he had the luxury of getting up when he wants!

Twins sleep from 6/7pm-6/7am, again wake when they want really

BUT the past three nights things have taken a huge nose dive.

So the girls are on semi solids, eating weetabix, dinner and pudding, tea, alongside around 24oz of milk. Last feed of 8oz is a dream feed at 10pm.

They went through a routine of waking at 4ish for about 2oz, literally just habit, we left them one night and after a couple of minutes they went back to sleep. Anyway 3:30 they have decided to wake and then wake my son. 1st twin cries and goes back to sleep, 2nd twin wakes has 2oz and then projectiles it all back up all over MY side of the bed and my son cries and then I hear him rummaging in his toy box. Leaves us all shattered and then they are sleeping in till 10ish - again not a problem but we can't go on like this. I have epilepsy and sleep is paramount for seizures, being sleep deprived is my trigger so it's a health aspect as well, what use am I to my children laying on the floor shaking??

Anyway so do we leave the twins? put our son back to bed? We can't figure out what's best. The girls are still in our room and went a 4 night stint of sleeping through - once we get to a week they are going in their own room but we all just need to re figure this out as all 5 of us are knackered and grumpy!!!

Thankyou for reading xxxxxxx

By propping up... I mean I put some thick books under the feet at one side of the cot so she slept at a slight angle. Once she was moving around more I rolled a towel up and put it under the mattress.

Hugs galore that's a good idea, always seems to be at the same time like when they poo at the same time etc so maybe that's the same concept?? They are very in tune together as well like feeding etc

I feel for them as well as much as myself as they wake up in awful moods now

Ok just to update and just in case anyone comes past this thread and it didn't have an outcome! The waking my eldest worked so far. He got up, breakfast, play room and then went out, tea and bath and then immediately fell asleep whilst we were doing singing so ended up singing to myself!!

The girls had a dream feed of 6oz at 11 and then winged a bit for a couple of minutes and then they went back to sleep, my alarm woke them at 6:30 and they drank 7oz so at 4 they mustn't have been hungry!

Today they've not had much food as spent a lot of time asleep and I don't like to wake them as I know they are growing when they sleep and they do seem to be going through a growth spurt

Anyway dream feed at 10 and hopefully harmony will be restored! If it's for a feed or nappy change I'm fine with them waking obviously but I don't want them doing just for a habit

Xxxxxxxxx

Nice one OP

Good luck! Sounds like you’re making progress.

Glad it's working out better OP.

Just wanted to echo other posters with regards to the early introduction of food.
This shouldn't be done till around 6 months at least and all the checks are met (sitting up unaided etc)
There's no such thing as a younger baby not being satisfied with milk. If they want more milk, give it to them. They have growth spurts too.
It could be that their bellies are full of weetabix so there's no space for milk even though they require it. Have you tried pace feeding?