Messy Feeding Times

Felin and I had a lengthy discussion about how to let babies sleep through the night yesterday. We have been trying to let the babies sleep at least 8 hours straight but without success. Both of us always disagree on when to have the last feed and whether we should just wake the babies up to feed etc... I think its pretty tiring for all of us and spending so much time predicting when they will hungry or forcing them to drink when they are not hungry.

I met one of my client few days ago and she told me that her baby which is merely 3 weeks older than my babies are already sleeping thru and am following mother's sleeping hours. He is fed only 4 times a day with 180ml each. I was blown off by what she said. I then read in the twins and babies facebook page and saw how many parents actually achieved the 7pm to 7am sleep without feeding in between. I was marvelled by what they said and kept wondering if my babies can do the same.

We came to a consensus to improve the situation... We will try drag 9pm to 6am sleep with one feed in between first.
1) Let them sleep around 9pm latest with last feed about 8:30pm.
2) Allow a night feed around 1 - 1:30am with max FM feed
3) Drag next feed till at least 6-7am. (Am telling our helper to try drag the feed)
4) Use the medium sized tit for feeds for faster feed so they don't always drink, stop, drink, play, etc...

They are already coming 5 months and we are going to introduce solids soon and I hope we can get the feeding pattern right first.