Hello, Parents of Reddit. My wife and I have 5-month old twin boys and have been dealing with poor sleeping for the past 3 weeks or so. Around that time, we made some changes to their routines that could obviously be playing a role in the recent disruptions. First, we moved them into their nursery and out of our bedroom. We also removed their Nap Nanny sleepers and they are now laying flat on their backs in their separate cribs. And last, we introduced cereal (gruel, mush) at around the same time. Separately, none of produced any obvious issues aside from perhaps increased gas/discomfort. 

My wife and I have been researching the Weissbluth method, which we intend to start but haven't yet for fear the boys were too young and letting them cry for too long could result in adverse effects such as heightened anxiety. We are preparing to begin over the next week or so. 

I work full-time and my wife works part-time so she's allowed most (read: 99%) of the burden to fall on her shoulders so that I can sleep and be rested for work each day. I do what I can, but I know how hard this has been on her and I want to see if any other parents of twins, or parents generally, had any advice for us. I get home from work at 7:30pm and selfishly or not, I want to see them when I get home, so we're trying to work on a plan that sees us putting them to sleep after their last bottle feeding of the night, or around 8pm. 

The past week has been terrible. One or the other is up every hour or two. Sometimes it's with eyes closed and a paci replacement does the trick. Sometimes it's gas. Sometimes it's hunger even though we're trying to eliminate the night feedings entirely.
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Hello, Parents of Reddit. My wife and I have 5-month old twin boys and have been dealing with poor sleeping for the past 3 weeks or so. Around that time, we made some changes to their routines that could obviously be playing a role in the recent disruptions. First, we moved them into their nursery and out of our bedroom. We also removed their Nap Nanny sleepers and they are now laying flat on their backs in their separate cribs. And last, we introduced cereal (gruel, mush) at around the same time. Separately, none of produced any obvious issues aside from perhaps increased gas/discomfort. 

My wife and I have been researching the Weissbluth method, which we intend to start but haven't yet for fear the boys were too young and letting them cry for too long could result in adverse effects such as heightened anxiety. We are preparing to begin over the next week or so. 

I work full-time and my wife works part-time so she's allowed most (read: 99%) of the burden to fall on her shoulders so that I can sleep and be rested for work each day. I do what I can, but I know how hard this has been on her and I want to see if any other parents of twins, or parents generally, had any advice for us. I get home from work at 7:30pm and selfishly or not, I want to see them when I get home, so we're trying to work on a plan that sees us putting them to sleep after their last bottle feeding of the night, or around 8pm. 

The past week has been terrible. One or the other is up every hour or two. Sometimes it's with eyes closed and a paci replacement does the trick. Sometimes it's gas. Sometimes it's hunger even though we're trying to eliminate the night feedings entirely.
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