Twins Routine @16 Weeks

[Jem123]

Hi,
Im just wondering if my routine for my twin daughters is ok.

7.30 - Awake & Play time
8.00 - Feed
9/9.30 - Sleep
11.00 - 11.30 - Awake & Play
12.00 - Feed
1/1.30 - Sleep
3/3.30 - Awake and Play
4.00 - Feed & Play time in their high chairs while mummy cooks tea and dances around the kitchen (My girls think I'm crazy )
5.30/6.00 - Cat nap for 30 minutes.
6.30 - Bath time, my husband and I do a baby each. alternating each night.
6.50 - Feed and story.
7.00 - Bed
3.00 - 4.00 - Feed and back to bed.

They do stir approximately 3/4 times a night for their dummy/teething gel. They are currently teething and have been since they were 8 weeks so thats been hard going with 2 babies.

I'd love to be able to drop the 3/4am feed but they are still young, I have tried to dream feed them before I go to bed around 10 but they just wake up and I struggle the settle them back down again as they want to be awake. Only take me 30 minutes to feed/wind them both so it's not too bad getting up at 3am to feed them but then I struggle to fall back to sleep

Does this sound ok? Worried they were sleeping too much in the day but if they don't they get over tired and irritable. The smaller twin sleeps a nit more through the day.

They are both on 4 x 6oz bottles per day and 5oz overnight. They have only been on 6oz bottles for 1 week. they have been having 5 x 5oz bottles perviously, fear of increasing due to doctor saying I was over feeding.

25oz a day for almost 4 month old babies doesn't seem like over feeding to me. Baby A is now 14lb 14 and Baby B is 12b 5. I recently changed doctor, my health visitor didn't think I was over feeding and actually said they could have more according to the 150ml per kg rule. The doctor believed its 120 - 130ml per kg.

 

[calm]

I had no routine at 4 months, nights were starting to get good, and they just woke for 2 feeds and slept at night. But days were crazy. Mine were eating loads and frequently, I fed on demand and they demanded a lot. I was never told they were eating too much. Mine are now 12 months and their routine works like a dream, but at 4 months I was pulling my hair out to be honest X

 

[JumpingIn]

This reads like a sample from all those 'how to raise your baby'/ 'what your baby should be doing now' books and pages. Want a sample from my routine?

9am Zach is overtired and screaming as he had had 2 hours sleep all night. Rock Zach for 35 minutes to make the screaming stop
9.35: Nap in my arms at an uncomfortable angle
9.45: Zach wakes. Recommence rocking
10: Give up on rocking and try to distract Zach from his exhaustion with toys
10.10: Feed. 1oz taken
10.11-10.39: Quietly sob while Zach sits in the bouncy chair
10.40: Feed again. 1oz taken
10.41: Sleep
10.50: Wake up screaming

You get the picture. The point is this...At 4 months, if you have anything remotely resembling what you posted you are living a parenting dream and you've nailed it.

 

[Jem123]

JumpingIn, I really feel for you. I bet you are actually exhausted! My smaller twin (actually born 1.5oz bigger) has reflux so from 3 weeks til 8 weeks I was at breaking point (Hubby had gone back to work and In was truly on my own). It was so bad I had to put the girls straight in the car and go to my mum and dads so thy could help me.

My girls do play up, for example at around 08.30, D wants to go back to sleep and gets really irritable so after trying to distract her for a but longer she drops off but she's very unsettled during sleep throughout the day and constantly wriggling and waking herself up. E, is bit more chilled and likes to be awake most of the day. I have to cover had her face with a blanket to get her to go off. She fights it so much that by the time half 3 come she's over tired and crying, luckily a bottle and some teething gel does the trick and she has a cat nap.

My nights for the past 5 nights have been horrendous with E wanting to be awake from midnight, shouting out and just smiling at me.


Calm, I started a bath/bed time routine at 2 weeks and its worked great. They now know when its nearing half 6 as they get ratty. Minus the teething and reflux, my girls are good.