How we got our twins sleeping through the night at SIX MONTHS!

Would you believe me if I told you we got our TWINS fully sleep trained at SIX…SIX..yes SIX months with little to NO wake ups even now at 9 months in age?? Was I terrified on sleep training my babies and felt bad at first… YES!! But here we are… everybody in the house is now getting REST at night and I love that for us. This post is specifically for what worked best for me and my twins and I am no pediatrician or sleep expert.. so please consult with either of them with questions or concerns for baby sleep.

So when we first brought the twins home they were co-sleeping (I know, I know) with us in the bed. BUT, co-sleeping as in we have a king size bed and then had them in their dockatots. Babies were comfortable but hubs and I were barely hanging on… LITERALLY. We were gifted the twin bassinet (pictured below) and our twins absolutely HATED… HATED it.. So, we knew when we move (do not recommend moving your entire life with two month old babies) that we would eventually want to transition them into their nursery and start their sleep training. Disclaimer: I will say when we moved, we had the twins out of the bed with us but still sleeping in their dockatots in their cribs. I don’t know what it was about the dockatots but my twins loved their dockatot and got some of the BEST sleep in them. Anyways… for me… I didn’t have the strength or the mental space to start sleep training till they were six months, with the transition of moving, PP, and just being physically exhausted, I just wasn’t ready till then. It wasn’t till one day when I was completely burnt out… sleep deprived… annoyed… and sad, I just told my hubs this is the weekend we are starting sleep training!! Sleep training without their dockatot and in a sleep sack (wearable blanket) with their white noise sound machine in their OWN room.

We went with the Ferber method where my husband and I would take turns going in their room in intervals until our babies was sleep. I didn’t want to do the “CIO” method because who wants to just hear their babies scream?! So it was a little reassuring for me that I could go in every 5,10,15,20 minutes to comfort my babies. Now, with the Ferber method the goal is to NOT take your baby out of the crib, so I would go in an assure them that they were safe… telling them “Mommy was just in the next room”… rub their back or head, and just positively affirm then that WE can do this. This maybe took about a week for them to get then hang of it and finally made it sleeping through the night with maybe one to no wake ups. With this method, we also made sure that our babies were eating or had enough calories during the day to make sure that they were FULL so that there was no middle of the night feedings. This helped a ton with making sure they were FULL and were awake during their wake windows during the day so that when it was time for bed they would be tired. To the day we still have a very strict bedtime routine, so our twins know that when we are starting this routine they getting prepared for bedtime.

I hope this helps for anyone who is sleep training their babies, and my advice is to give yourself grace, your baby | babies grace, and PATIENCE for your hubs / partner. Do what’s best for you and your family, create a schedule and stick to it. It’s hard at first but it gets easier. :)

xoxo