Night weaning?

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Anyone night wean their twins that shared a room? My girls are 12.5 mos and I would like to night wean but continue nursing during the day. Honestly, even if I could get down to one motnfeeding I'd be happy.

The problem is that they share a room. If I send my husband in to soothe them back down there will inevitably be a lot of crying. Then the other one will wake and chaos will break out and he won't be able to get them back down. Then if I go in they won't settle without nursing.

Anyone have experience with this? Suggestions? If I just wait it out when will they stop on their own? 18? Lol

With my son I was able to send my husband in at 13mos, but he was alone so the crying wasn't an issue.

[demandypants]

I am not nursing my twins but my terrible sleeping DD night weaned on her own around 13 months after her molars cut, and she started STTN. It was like a switch went off and she was ready. Perhaps your girls will hit a similar stage?

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Mar 27, 2015 8:45:59 GMT -5 demandypants said:

I am not nursing my twins but my terrible sleeping DD night weaned on her own around 13 months after her molars cut, and she started STTN. It was like a switch went off and she was ready. Perhaps your girls will hit a similar stage?

I hope so! They are both teething right now and this winter has been full of one illness after another so I know this has contributed to the frequent night wakings. Im.just longing for sleep! I have been sleep deprived since May 2012 when J was born Lol. By the time he was night weaned I was pregnsnt again and slept horribly while pregnant with the girls. I just want to sleep lol.

[kershnic]

I am by no means a night weaning success story. I'm so tired I can hardly remember what we've done to get here, but we're mostly down to one feeding per night (maybe 50% of nights it's only one baby, and 50% of nights it's both).

This may not be what you want to hear, but we did the bulk of night weaning by putting them in separate rooms. Squeaky mostly night weaned herself, and she went into the nursery back in November. Squishy stayed in our room and I was feeding her multiple times a night. We did a troublesome tots gradual reduction in the amount of nursing time. We moved Squish into the nursery in January, and for a while DW gave her a 1-2oz bottle when she woke and if Squeaky also woke I nursed her for 2 minutes. DW has much better success at entering the nursery without waking Squeaky than I do. We did a little CIO trying to space feedings out a bit and especially to eliminate a 10/11pm feeding. But I am very very frustrated that I can't come up with a good way to get rid of that last feeding or to wake Squeaky less often. (Squeaky almost never wakes on her own to demand milk, but once she's woken up by either her sister screaming or one of us going in there to assist her sister then Squeaky gets VERY VERY mad and won't go back to sleep without milk.)

[julez]

We followed this advice and it worked amazingly well. childsleepscience.wordpress.com/tag/night-weaning/ I cut the babies' remaining feeding by a few minutes each night for about two weeks. I also used the same method to wean them down to one feeding a night from two. It's a bit of work, and for us at least it wasn't without crying, but I was surprised at how little crying there was. By the time we got to the end of the weaning process, I went in one night at the time they usually ate and said, "I love you. It's time to rest now. I'll see you in the morning." I didn't pick them up or touch them (that was so hard but I didn't want to reinforce them being awake) and then I left the room. The second night H went in and did the same thing. By the third night of no feeding, there was less than 5 minutes of protest and they have slept 12 hours consistently since. This was all just before (a week or so before) their first birthday. They're 15 months next week.