So I figured that I could prepare myself by reading--it always worked in the past! In addition to my private collection (pictured above) I've also checked out numerous books from the library. All very informative! Scheduled feeding or demand feeding? Put babies on a sleep schedule or never wake a sleeping baby? Soothe to sleep? Feed twins together or separately? The answers to these questions are all here...too bad they contradict each other!
If only I could find the book titled "Tanzen and Makett: Everything Chaci Needs to Know". Let me know if you see it.
By the way, out of all these resources, my favorite is the B.B. Sleep Solutions DVD, done by a sleep specialist in SLC. Wish we lived closer, she does private consults and sleep parties. You can get the DVD off her website, http://www.bbsleepsolutions.com/
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I felt the same way when I had Gwen. I liked the Healthy Sleep Habits book, but I'd never heard of B.B. Sleep Solutions. I'll have to check it out. I'm still longing for more sleep than I'm getting.
I went to a BB Sleep Solutions party when Lexie was 5 weeks old and have also watched the DVD. Her philosophy is based on Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child...so that's why I got that and read it to. Luckily I found enough in those resources that worked for us so I didn't have to do quite as much research as you have done. All the conflicting info out there can be very confusing. I hope you find what works for you guys!!
I love your babies first year week by week it is so great especially when you get to feeding baby food good luck, they just don't sleep no matter how many books you read or how desperate you come but they are so worth it hang in there. (Tayler slept through the night at 8 months but I'm sure others do it much sooner)
What a small world. Jami Kent was my roommate at BYU for a couple of years...
Chaci
I know this sounds so cruel, but the best thing we have ever done for both of our kids is to let them scream it out at night. It was SO HARD, but sooo worth it! Don't know how that works with twins, but that's what saved my sanity. Three nights of complete heartbreak (wear ear plugs and turn on the bathroom fan), but it really does teach them how to fall asleep. We read Healthy Sleep Habits, Healthy Child too. Highly recommend it.
As a follow up, we let Brett scream it out when he was 4 months old. I only lasted until 2 months with Brooke. Basically, once the pediatrician said she didn't need to get up to eat, we did sleep training.
Chaci your comments make me think of something your great grandpa Jackman used to say. "just decide what you want to do about raising your children, then if you begin to dbout yourself you can just read books till you find an expert that agrees with you." He was wise. Aunt Juli
I've been trying to decide what to do - particularly in the sleep department with this next baby that's coming. With Levi, I did Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child. Worked great, and has since been an awesome sleeper. But I HATED letting him cry. I still hate it, thinking about it. BUT, he's super, super, super happy, and I don't think it caused him any psychological problems. :) So this time around, I think I might try an educational approach I'm sure you're familiar with - using the least restrictive/coercive methods first, and if they don't work, move to the greater. I'll probably try no cry sleep solution, and if it doesn't work, try the cry method. Try the sweetest, "reward" solution, and if it doesn't work, a punishment, right? I know, last thing you need is more advice...
Wow. That's a lot of books! I've read quite a few of them, but its crazy to see them all together! Healthy Sleep Habits seems to be the one that has helped me the most! Our babies only recently have begun sleeping through the night. Its heaven! I sometimes think though that I must be the world's worst person when it comes to figuring out how to get kids to sleep (since our 2 year old keeps giving us sleep trouble, still!).
But I think the key is to stay home and just figure out a schedule. Our boys weren't quite ready for the 9 am, 1 pm, and 3 pm nap schedule so I just have been putting them down 1-2 hours after they wake up for all their naps and its working. Letting them fall asleep by themselves was really hard at first, but now its so much better! Cause it's almost impossible for me to rock them to sleep with Maggie wanting so much of my attention. Anyway, I guess what it really boils down to is that you have to take all the research and opinions and information and just reason through it until you find something that makes sense and works for you and more importantly for Makett and Tanzen.
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