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Hi, I have a 10 months old couple (boy-girl). My husband and I are still trying to have a routine to make them sleep, but we have no clue what should be the time they should sleep. Yeahhhhh we are first-time parents !!!!
My little girl use to have her milk in the crib and fall sleep around 9pm. Is it to late for a 10 months old?
My little boy doesn't sleep after his milk. He stands up in the crib and make a lot of noise. We use to take him to the living room.... and back to the crib later.... but he is still fighting against sleeping. I don't think it's the best way, but I have to put him on my bed e hold him until he falls sleep (around 10:30pm). Any suggestion????
Thank you all, Drika |
| Posted by Adriana on 10/03/2008 10:49 AM
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Well,
I started a routine with my twins about a week after they were born. I read several parenting books and then kind of made up a game plan of my own. We use a cross between Baby Wise and Hip Mama techniques. From my experience with my older child and now my twins, I have learned that you establish the eating and play time schedule and sleep time kind of falls into place by its self after the other two are in routine form. The best formula that has worked for me is Eat/Wake/Sleep cycles, in that specific order. So that way you're not relying on the bottle to get them to sleep. This removes the bottle in the crib dilemma (which was nearly impossible for my husband and I to break our older son of) We made the mistake of giving our older son a bottle to go to sleep with and he would just drink it down, throw it out of the crib and be awake anyway. argh! So when the twins were born we just made sure that they ate as soon as they woke up from a nap, kept them awake long enough afterwords that they were tired and put them down in the crib with no soothing! Wala! However we didn't start this technique until later with our older child and it was a nightmare to train him into a new schedule once we already had him established in the old one...You'll probably have a few rough nights, but I suggest reading Baby Wise by Gary Ezzo and Robert Bucknam, and also the Hip Mama's Survival quide by Ariel Gore. Both great! Good luck, getting babes to sleep is never a fun task. |
| posted by Donna on 10/04/2008 10:54 PM
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We too worked on a routine early on but even with the routine bedtime is not fun. My twins are 13 months old and they wake up at 6 am (although sometimes they sleep until 7, but this is rare), they have a bottle, cheerios, play, and have outmeal at 8:30 am and by 9 they are usually napping. Then they may take another nap during the afternoon, after lunch, but for the night they go to bed early. We start dinner routine at 5:30, sometimes I'll change the time depending on whether they are hungry earlier or later, then they are in bed by 7 pm. Our routine for bedtime is a bath after dinner, they play, my husband reads to them in the family room, they play some more and when they begin to rub their eyes we take them to their rooms (they are in separate rooms) with a bottle. We give them their bottle with them in our laps and they fall asleep in our arms. This is the way that's worked for us, you might find that a different routine works for you. We tried leaving them in their cribs wide awake for them to CIO but that only made things worse because they would make each other cry.
hope that helps. |
| posted by Cristina on 12/16/2008 11:09 AM
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HI
My name is LaNette. I'm expeting twin boys this spring. Any suggestions on how to get them on the same sleep schedule? |
| posted by LaNette on 12/30/2008 06:56 PM
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I am of no help, my twin sons go to bed regularly at 10 or later even without a nap. They are 2.5. They usually sleep during the night. We did have them at a bedtime around 9/ 9:30, but that went out the window the first time someone got sick.
A week b4 they turned 2, they started getting out of the crib. We changed their bed to a daybed witha wood rail. Now they can atleast get back in the bed while I stand at the gate to their room. |
| posted by Nicole on 01/19/2009 06:46 PM
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We have a new routine, once their show "the wonder pets" goes off, we turn off the tv and head into their room for story time. This lasts about 15 minutes and they we leave them with night light and the hall bathroom light on, which I turn off a short while later. They look forward to reading in the room and usually sleep thru the night unless one of their "bears" is lost. One has a large bear and the other has a small one. |
| posted by Nicole on 04/06/2009 09:26 PM
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