Hi!
My trips are 9 mos (8 adjusted) and we do not sleep well at night. I usually spent half a night on the couch with one of them so the others won't wake up. And there are three small naps (20-30 mins) through the day. They also stopped drinking their bottle ( only drink it while asleep) so I am thinking something needs to be changed with the menu as well...
Here is the daily schedule:
5-5.30am Bottle 4oz, hopefully they'll fall back asleep till 6.30
6.30-7am Fully Awake
7.30-8am Breakfast (cereal)
9.30-10am Nap
11am Snack (yogurt, rice cookie). Used to take the bottle too but wouldn't now
12-12.30 Nap
2-3pm Lunch (home made blended soup, fruit puree)
4-5pm Nap (they will sleep longer if we go outside)
6-7pm Dinner (cereal+fruit puree 1 jar)
7.45pm Bed time
10pm Bottle 4oz(they'll drink about 2oz)
Any suggestions will be appreciated~! Happy Holidays!!!

GBB triplets born @ 35 weeks 5 days on 03/24/2011
Triplet A 3 lbs 14oz
Triplet B 3 lbs 13oz
Triplet C 5 lbs 4oz

First, you are probably going to have to let them Cry It Out to sleep through the night. Second, your schedule is strange. They should be sleeping 11-12 hours a night with 2 naps but no night feedings. Also, they are probably drinking less because they hit 9 months. Intake usually drops then and they only need 20-24 ounces of formula/BM a day now. I could barely get mine to take 18-20 ounces. They are eating quite often too. They might not be hungry enough to eat much by the next meal time.

They probably need to be on a 4 hour schedule with 3 meals. You can add snacks if they need them but I didn't. Here is a sample schedule of ours at that age using your times.

6:30am Wake up
7:00am Breakfast followed by bottle
Morning nap at some point. Ours was usually 1-1.5 hours.
11:00am Lunch followed by bottle
Afternoon nap at some point. Probably 1.5-2 hours for us. They usually slept until just before the next feeding.
3:00pm Dinner followed by bottle
7:00pm Bedtime bottle followed by bed. This can be a little bit earlier if necessary.

Obviously you can tweak the times to suit your kids and family's needs. We were on an 8-12-4-8 feeding schedule and they ususally woke up 20-30 minutes before the 1st bottle and went to bed after the last one.

NO feedings after that. They don't need to get up at 10pm to eat. They don't need to be fed a bottle and then back to sleep before breakfast. If they fight that, let them CIO. They need to learn to sleep through the night and sleep through each other's cries. If someone is really disruptive you can CIO in a PNP in another room.

You have created some bad habits by continuing to feed them at night although they are old enough not to need it and taking them out of the room every time they cry. Now is the time to re-train them. There will likely be a few ugly days but babies are smart. After a few days of a new routine you will be surprised how well they will adapt.

Lori

http://yesidohavemyhandsfull.blogspot.com/

Our schedule at that age-
7am- awake, diaper change and 8oz bottle
8am- breakfast (cereal and fruit)
9am- wash up, diaper change and dressed for day
10a- nap for 2 hours
12noon- diaper change and lunch (baby food)
230p- 8 oz bottle
3p- nap for 2 hours
530p- dinner (baby food)
7p- nighttime wash up, PJ's
730p- 8oz bottle
8pm- bedtime

Good luck


Judie and Victor
lucky parents to
Frankie 3/95
Maggie 7/96
Rose 7/96
Elizabeth 7/96

My triplets are almost 3 so it is hard to remember the schedule exactly, but i do know that we kept them fairly warm at night and, at one point, did have to let them cry it out. Ours slept through the night at 4 months and we stuck to 4-6 ounce bottles every 4 hours, but it was a bit less when they started to eat solids. One thing we did early on was play a CD for them throughout the night. It is called Dreamsurf and it just ocean waves over and over. If we had this on, they slept, but if not they would wake up. We also kept them VERY bundled up. Some almost thought we were cruel and said they were probably hot, but honestly they were premature, small, and did not have a lot of fat to keep them warm so they actualy LIKED the added layers. We put cloth-like underpants (diaper training pants from my older son) on them OVER their diapers. This helped as if they leaked, it didn't wake them up because it would just go onto the underpants. It also meant less washing of sheets for me--just had to wash the cloth underpants more frequently. Many kids wake up because they are wet and cold so anything you can do to keep them dry will help. They may not be waking up just to eat. I hope this helps. I will try to track down my schedule as well since it seemed to work well for us.

Good luck. It is rough, but it does get better!

Jennifer

P.S. The schedule posted by PA triplets seems to ring a bell. We were definitely on a 4 hour schedule!

Jennifer

I agree with pretty much everything Lori said.

We didn't do exactly a 4-hr schedule, but we were definitely on a 3-meal plus afternoon snack routine by then. Feeding and sleeping are so closely tied together with kids and babies...full babies sleep longer/better and well-rested babies eat better. So, pick a schedule with 3-4 meals, stick to it, and they will catch on--they will also be much happier babies, better able to entertain themselves, and ready to learn. Plus, you're starting good eating/sleeping habits early that will pay dividends down the road.

Rebecca

Laura (6)
Lucas (3)
Aubrie, Emily, & Teresa born 7/5/10 at 34w3d.

Well first, I cannot let them cry it out. It just doesn't work with me. I don't let them cry at all.
Second, pretty much it is a 3 full meals a day. 8am-2pm-6pm, everything else is snack in between. And the reason I give them a bottle while they sleep at 10pm is to get their required milk in. Otherwise, I can drop it completely. I cannot make them sleep till 6.30-7am, they'll wake up at 5am screaming for a bottle. They don't want to go back to sleep afterward but I am not ready to start my day at 5am...
We live in an apartment building and they are all in one room so if one wakes up they all get up, that's why I take them out of the room, so they others can sleep. They are very light sleepers, 20-30 minutes naps. I try not to disturb them at all so they'll sleep more but it doesn't work, they just wake up.

nap for 2 hours??? never happened to u

I do the layers, and I've tried to music.
We were always on 3hr feedings like they taught us in the hospital till about 5month, then I introduced cereal and they would last about 4-5am now.
I tried stretching for 4 hrs but it didn't work out. I am pretty happy now I just wanted them to sleep a little more then that. When I hear about kids that sleep 9 to 9, I lose it...

Babies cry. They just do. If you aren't willing to let them cry at all I don't see how they are ever going to learn to self soothe and sleep longer stretches. Most of had our babies sleeping in the same room and they learned to sleep through each other's cries. I can't tell you how many people have come to this site and swore they would never CIO. Then, in desperation they tried it and wondered why they didn't do it sooner. Crying doesn't make you a mean or bad mother and it isn't going to hurt the babies at all.

Also, infants do not really need to snack between meals. I just don't think your kids have time to get hungry.

Lori

http://yesidohavemyhandsfull.blogspot.com/

I read this four times and I'm still not sure I'm reading it correctly. Are they only drinking 6 ounces of formula A DAY? You need to cut out all that food, which has no calories, and give them more bottles.