[House] San Francisco Parents of Multiples SFPOM General Discussion forum digest - 2/13/2014

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San Francisco Parents of Multiples SFPOM General Discussion 2/12/2014
10:16 am - 2/13/2014

1. Tahoe/Truckee for ski week house available! (liz_mccarthy)
2. Sleep advice please - sleep train just my boy or both t...
(juneb21)
3. Comment: Sleep advice please - sleep train just... (lmcdowell)

1. Tahoe/Truckee for ski week house available!
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liz_mccarthy - 2/12/2014 7:19 pm

 Hi, our house is available over ski week (now thru
 2/26) or longer..with the new snow it's time to get up
 there!www.TruckeeMountainHouse.com for all the details
 see the link above.Best to call/text me if
 interested!Liz McCarthy415-250-4929

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2. Sleep advice please - sleep train just my boy or both twins
together?
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juneb21 - 2/12/2014 12:25 pm

 So my 4 month old b/g twins have been sleeping in
 separate rooms, just to help my sanity in the middle of
 the night. I have been weaning them both off of the 3am
 night feeding by gradually reducing the amount that I
 offer them at that time. After reducing to just water a
 few nights ago, my girl has slept through the night
 twice in a row! She sleeps in a swing (not moving) and
 swaddled. My boy, however, has still been waking up at
 3am, 4am, 4:20am, etc. My husband and I are considering
 doing a Ferber-style (gradually increasing time
 increments) sleep training with him starting on Friday.
 How important is it for things to be "exactly how they
 will always be" before sleep training? For example,
 should I move my girl back into the nursery, unswaddle
 her and sleep train the both of them together? Or,
 because she is sleeping through the night swaddled in
 the swing, should I give her some time to build that
 sleep habit on her own and worry about moving her to
 the crib/unswaddling later? My concern is that waiting
 to move her might mean that we would need to sleep
 train again. But, I also don't want to disrupt the good
 habits that she is creating on her own right now.
 Thanks for your advice!

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 3. lmcdowell says...
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 2/12/2014 10:02 pm
 
 My night nanny had the approach of 'rip the bandaid
 off'. For example, we completely unswaddled them when
 we decided to; no one arm in and one arm out. Ours
 always slept in the same crib together, well, until
 they were rolling over, then we moved them to separate
 cribs. But my night nanny said it was important to have
 them together, to get used to each others' sounds, even
 if initially one would wake up the other. Now that mine
 are almost 10 months, there are times when I rush in to
 bring one out when I hear one crying, but I recognize
 the 'I'm awake and not going back to sleep cry' and
 this only happens occasionally during naps, when I'd
 rather have one up, than both, especially one who was
 not ready to wake up yet. They generally sleep really
 well, both at night and during naps and really only
 wake each other up if it's close enough to their wake
 up time (so not in the middle of the night, if one
 happens to wake up, which is extremely rare).I think
 everyone probably does it differently, but I would do
 it all at once. You'll probably have some rough nights,
 but hopefully it will all be done at once and you won't
 have to go through it again each time you need to
 change something. Good luck!
 Email author: lauren.mcdowell at ymail.com
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