MOTN feedings

[linz]

Did one twin start sttn before the other or did you continue to always wake both to eat?

DD usually gets up around 130/2 to eat. I pump while feeding and then get DS up (who's bigger). Then at 5 H and I get both up to feed and then we get ready for work. They wake for the day around 8. They don't go to daycare for now...FIL watches them at our house.

I'm wondering if DS could sleep till the 5 feeding but I'm nervous to not wake him and then he'll get up around 4 and throw everything off. I'd rather wake both them go back to bed and an hour later the other wake.

[Narwhal]

This could be because our boys were in the NICU and on a schedule for so long, but I think they woke up about the same time to eat for a long while. Until about 8 months maybe? Around 9 months, one of my boys would sttn once in a while, so we each took a baby whenever he woke up. That way if one sttn, lucky us! If not, we were only up once.
You could try letting you son sleep for a few nights and you'll probably get a good idea of when he would wake up, or if he would at all. I would rather be up once for a longer chunk than up two times a night, but that is just me. . The good thing about them being so little is you can try things for a bit and I don't feel like it throws a kink into their routine. And, babies change their "normal" ever other week anyway. 

[vtdiamond]

I've been wondering the same thing. I've been following the, "when one wakes up, they both wake up," for feedings. They seem to switch off with who starts crying for the MOTN feeding. Dh and I will both get up for the feeding as we are FF, and one of us will take a baby and start feeding.

But I have started to wonder how to handle this as they get older when one of them may be able to STTN. I'm scared to not get one up and then have them wake up at a random time, amd cut our sleep and potentially wake up the other baby.

[kershnic]

We stopped one up both up probably around 4 months. I was breastfeeding, so every wake up I would feed B and then stand over the crib watching a sleeping A not wanting to wake her up. So I decided to see what happened. She STTN pretty consistently for a month or two. Then it all went to hell (sickness, vacation, daycare start, swaddle drop, Etc.) and I considered going back to one up both up, but I didn't in the interest of teaching them to sleep.

Now at 11 months A is back to mostly STTN while B still wakes (sometimes just fusses back to sleep, sometimes needs to be fed). A has mostly sleep trained herself, whereas B has fought every sleep training effort tooth and nail.