night waking

what are her daytime naps like and what is her bedtime?

maybe time to cut back on the daytime nap?

she does sound as if she is over tired.


IT's hard because you do have the other twin next to her, and disturbing the sibling is a big concern.


However, I do think that kids who sleep together tend to ignore the other's sounds. (I have a 13 month year old and a 3 year old who sleep together) and oftentimes the chatterings of the older don't even stir the other one.


I definitely agree with WM description of overtiredness. Trying to get your baby to sleep longer will be difficult but well worth it. She is waking up in her light sleep (which cycles around about 45 minutes to an hour after going to sleep) which is why she wakes up.


May I ask how she is falling asleep? What methods do you use to get her to sleep? (both naps and her inital bedtime.)

well - sleep theory states that the conditions your baby falls asleep in are the ones that he or she will want to wake up to in light sleep - and if she wakes up in the same conditions she'll quickly drop back to sleep - but if something has changed, she'll wake up and cry.


since she is falling asleep with the pacifier, I am guessing that it falls out when she falls into deep sleep, and when she wakes up and it's not there, is why she wakes up and has a harder time settling.


My advice (if you want it) would be getting rid of the pacifier altogether. (Shriek! What! How!!) but if you got rid of the pacifier, she wouldn't miss it in the night when she wakes up during light sleep, therefore increasing the possibility that she would sleep through the night.


Alternatively, you could let her suck on it awhile, and remove it when she is drowsy and let her fall asleep without it.


Good luck...one never knows what will do the trick.

I have two, (now three yr olds) and I had the same problem with my daughter at one yrs old. I would rush into her and immediately give her a bottle to avoid her waking up the other one, and boy was that a big mistake!She soon got wise that as soon as she cried, I would dash in. Well can I just say she is now three and she has just started to sleep through the night! I have not had a nights sleep in over 3 and a half years and at the worst I was up 16 times a night, so I know what you are going through! Also regarding the dummy, my paediatrician advised me early on to discontinue the dummy as they now know that it causes more ear problems with children that suck dummies.

I stopped mine with a day! and it was no problem...

Good luck! and by the way I found Dr Richard Ferbers book of How to solve your childs sleep problems very useful. It has a chapter on night wakings and reducing feeding etc...