Help! Twin Advice Needed--scheduling Naps

Nap cycle begins with the feed cycle (so hunger is not interfering with nap). I don't know how you are feeding so how realistic it is to feed them at the same time, but I would try a 3 hour schedule with them. If you can't feed at the same time, maybe ones schedule can be slightly later than the others, but anyway, here's what the schedule would look like.
6am eat
7:30-9am nap
9am eat
10:30-noon nap
noon eat
1:30-3 nap
3pm eat
4:30-6pm nap
6pm eat
7:30-9pm nap
9pm eat
10:30pm eat and to bed
Feed on demand in the night, but then wake for that consistent first morning feeding to help them to learn day from night and to train their bodies to sleep consistently and thus sleep together. Keep this 3 hour schedule up until after they are sleeping through the night consistently and then when they show signs of being ready to lengthen the stretches, you can move on to a 4 hour schedule. The naps begin half way through feedings.

My twins were on a schedule ( feeding and sleeping) at 11 weeks. They were born full term however and I think that makes a difference. I followed a book called "Getting Babywise" by Dr. Elliot. It was based on a feeding/sleeping schedule and withing three days of following the method they were both on the same schedule and sleeping thru the night.....MY TWINS ARE NOW 7 AND STILL HAVE GREAT SLEEP HABITS. Hang in there...it only gets better!!

Sorry I didn't see this sooner. Hopefully you are having more luck. Basically, you dictate it. If you want/need to feed every 3 hours, you wake them up. Or if they dictate -- If one is up and the other isn't, you wake the other one and feed at the same time. More than likely, I found, that if I let the other one sleep, about 10 minutes into feeding the other woke up anyway. We have been consistent with the kids napping/eating at the same time and they are 15 month old. Once in a blue moon, they'll be off kilter but then when PM nap rolls around, they go to bed still at same time. Good luck!

I put my twins on 3 hour nap/eat schedules when they where first born. At first I had a hard time putting them down, and found the swing normally did the trick after a change and a feeding. Once they where 2 months I would let them sleep for as long as they wanted to until they got up. Once one got up, I always got the other one up, to get them on the same schedule. At about 4 months they started sleeping for longer periods (5 plus hours). I believe it was around then that I started letting them cry it out, if they got up sooner.

Good luck, this is a very difficult time, since the lack of sleep starts taking its toll. It gets easier!!

My twins didn't get on a schedule until they were about 4 1/2 months. When one would go to sleep, we wouldn't try to get the other one to, but when that one went down-the other one was waking up. After about 3 months, I noticed that they both started falling asleep around 10:00 in the morning (after waking at 6:00). So I started working around that. If the other one tries to fall asleep earlier, keep him up so you can get them both down and get some sleep yourself. I guess my advice is to see if you can find a pattern in the way they want to sleep and work a schedule around that.

I just wanted to say that I think you "Twin Mommies" are awesome. I can't imagine having twins!! Big Kudos to you ladies!

I think they may be a little too young to get them on a consistent nap schedule, but within a month or two you should be able to. I also think they are too young to let them cry it out. Although you definitely want to keep trying because it will be any day now that they will be able to get on a schedule. Mine are almost 3 now and it's hard to remember exactly when they started but I have to say by about 3-4 months is when they got on their schedule.
Good luck!