sleep help!

hi, i have 8 week old twins and we cannot get them to sleep at nighttime in our house.

we had just stayed at his parents house and they slept nearly all night. well rested babies. and then we come home and they have their naps, but as soon as it becomes nighttime they are non stop crying. refuse to sleep in their crib day or night bur it’s worse at night.

we have tried separating them. we have a routine. we have upped their feeds and we non stop burp them because they get bad trapped wind. we do warm baths with nice massages. we do everything possible and yet still no luck.

any suggestion? i don’t know what more i can do. they flair their legs and arms around and wake themselves up or straight up just fight their sleep constantly until they are overtired.

i need help!!

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Couple things we did that has worked...but to be honest I think 8 weeks is a little too young to be sleeping through the night. At 8 weeks ours were still waking up every 3-4 hours for feeds but definitely not non stop crying before bed. Putting them down was relatively easy at 8 weeks...mine are now 13 weeks and just now getting into a rhythm (only wake up once).

Anywho, here's what worked for us. We used swaddles (the halo microfleece ones were great!) and when those didn't work anymore we transitioned to sleep sacks. We don't give big bottles before bed, caused acid reflux and too much gas so we give a big bottle around 4/5pm then normal bottle around 8pm. I did research and read that if they get their calories throughout the day then they won't need to wake up as much at night so try to feed more frequently or bigger bottles during day. We use white noise machine to put them to sleep and keep it on for about an hr on low.

If they are crying screaming alot then it's likely trapped gas, you can use infant gas drops. We use MYLICON and works great! We also keep the temp of the room they sleep in around 68, 69 degrees. They got way too fussy if it was any warmer...also pay attention to wake windows! This one is a biggie.Good luck!

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