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What can I do about my husband falling asleep holding the babies? Hes always been a very tired person he doesnt cope without a full nights sleep, weve just had twins. He keeps falling asleep whilst holding one so often and its making me so paranoid and upset.

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My partner used to do the same! Especially the newborn stage but it started to get better when they went down to 1 or 2 bottles a night as he was getting a bit more sleep and now he wakes up as soon as they make a noise! Sometimes I would just feed them myself because it used to frustrate me, I would use a twin feeding pillow and hold both bottles then wind one and then the other it does become exhausting but it will eventually get easier 💗

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From about 2 months old but they never settled in their next to me bed so I had to put a baby pod in their beds which helped them sleep longer as they were more comfy! I try and keep the routine of bath, bottle and bed. But remember every baby is different, your doing amazing especially having to deal with a sleepy partner I feel you đŸ„Č xx

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My husband was the same - our twins are 7 months old now and it does get easier! The lack of sleep at the beginning is awful - to make sure either of us got some sleep we would both do a ‘shift’ each so the other could get a solid few hours which helped the overall tiredness, but if he was doing a night feed he would usually stand up and walk about to stay away. It does get better I promise â˜ș we are down to 1 feed a night!

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Me and my partner also did shifts like Katie in the end! He was more of a night owl so he could handle staying up late and doing their feeds whereas I can handle morning feeds so it worked out for us both! X

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Yeah mine used to do this, I started just doing every single feed and let him have a whole night sleep so he could look after them awake in the day. How old are they? They drop night feeds fast. Mine went from 8 bottles a day to 7 bottles at week 5 then 6 bottles week 7 and then 5 bottles a day ever since, 9 months old now.

I see your little ones had reflux, mine is still bad. By a good swing chair, I had the maxi cosi cassia chairs and after a feed pop that baby in there and put it on a slow swing for 20 minutes after a feed xx

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