My twins have never learnt to go to sleep on their own. They used to do it in their bouncy chairs at around 4-5 months, but then it stopped. So they were fed to sleep, and when I stopped bf at 12 months, rocked to sleep.
Naps are done in pushchair (home or out).
They do not have any comforte (though I tried!), one has a dummy but his sister (who is the one who struggles most) nothing (except my necklace, she likes to fiddle with it while I rock her to sleep or place on her on our bed next to me while I wait for her to drift off).
Problem is sometimes it can take ages, and by the time I have managed to get them both to sleep my evening is gone . They are also getting very heavy.(my arms have never been so toned though
I have occasionally tried some sort of cc, but I give in after a few minutes as their cries become increasingly desperate.
We have just got back from holidays which have totally disrupted their routine as they were going to sleep very late, this has however meant they have stopped waking for milk, and will sleep through or the most just continue sleeping in our bed (I then transfer them back).
Our routine goes like this:
7ish bath (not every day in winter though)
8ish I take one upstairs, bottle and rocked to sleep, (the other is left with my older dcs as dh gets home late), then repeat with t2.
We never got into the book thing as they seemed to get more excited with it rather helping them calm down.
Any ideas what to do???
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18 month old twins still rocked to sleep, how to stop??
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ClairesTravellingCircus · 22/08/2013 13:32
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