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Twins Sleeping Problems: 9 Tips to Help You and Your Babies to Get a Good Nights Sleep

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So what can you do to teach your twins how to sleep through the night? Here we go:

1. Be realistic: infants and very small babies are just not able to sleep more than a couple or three hours at a time. They still need to adapt to the world they have been born into and have to learn the fact that the night is for sleeping and the day for playing, eating, going for walks... With twins the process of adaption might be longer, often they are smaller than singletons and more so if they are born premature.

2. Make sure your twins get regular naps during the day. Babies need more sleep than they get at night, if they take naps during the day they will sleep better during the night.

3. Have a bedtime routine. Avoid too much excitement before bedtime, quiet activities like reading a story (although they won't be able to understand a word, they will enjoy the calming tone of your voice), sing a song, give them a relaxing bath... Beware though, some babies get really wound up by all the activity that comes with a bath!

4. Get you twins at the same schedule. This will be possible with most twins, but not all of them. But having your twins taking their naps at the same time will free up time for you – to do household chores, catch up on other duties or get some rest yourself.

5. Teach your twins to go to sleep by themselves. This is possibly the single most important thing you can do to ensure your babies sleep though the night. If they are able to fall asleep by themselves when you put them to bed, they will be able to do the same when they wake up at night.

6. Let your twins sleep in the same bed. Most twins (but again: not all of them) are comforted by the presence of their sibling. This is especially true for small babies. Later on there will be a moment when they start or fighting or playing with each other, both activities that won't allow them to go to sleep. Then you know it is time for a second bed (and even for two separate rooms, my twins just started to throw their bunnies and dolls at each other and had the time of their lives – but they didn't go to sleep!)

7. If your twins are really nervous, you can try to swaddle them. Swaddling is a century old technique of wrapping the baby up in a blanket so it can't really move its legs and feet too much. Swaggling helps especially nervous babies to calm down.

8. When your twins wake up at night, make sure they go right back to sleep by making circumstances as uninteresting for them as possible. Don't switch on the light, don't talk too much to your babies, don't sing, feed them, carry them around, dance with them... Teach them that the night is for sleeping.

9. Last, but not least: don't listen too much to what every body else is telling you. It seems that virtually everbody has an opinion on why your babies won't sleep, and you will get more pieces of contradictory advice than you can handle. You are the one who knows your twins best, and you will be able to solve their sleeping problems!

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I read this years ago (way younger than I should have) and it's this book centering around these twin girls (age 9-13?) and one of them is pretty much evil and the evil one recieves a doll for christmas. The story then goes on to tell of how when one twin was hurt, the other would feel it so the evil twin does some creepy blood ritual thing and then only the good twin ever gets hurt, stuff happens and then the evil one winds up in an abandoned mine?
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