Question Of The Week: What Are Your Best Tips for Getting Multiples to Sleep Better?

To start off, all my friends who just became brand new parents thinks I'm some kind of mom with super powers because I have two. Sorry, but I'm not superwoman. I google stuff all the time because I don't know. But the biggest thing that helped me was when I realized that even though I have two, doesn't mean they are the same person. They will want to sleep, eat, play, fuss, all at different schedules. You just can't put them on the EXACT same schedule, won't happen. But do the best you can. Mine are 7 months now and they eat baby food 3 times a day, and "snack" on formula before and in between feedings. This is important because the more calories they get a day the less likely they will wake up in the middle of the night "needing" to eat. Once I stuff them during the day they put themselves on there own schedule of when bedtime was. About 8:30 they finish dinner and about 10-30 minutes later, they are done for the day. Even if one doesn't seem as sleepy as the other I ATTEMPT to put both of them down. If one wants to fuss, wait a few minutes to see if they are really fussing because they aren't ready for bed or just fussing because they can. Don't just jump up the second they cry. Also, at this stage start reading up on separation anxiety if your babies (or baby) becomes more fussy than usual.