The Newborn Twins Sleep Guide: The Nap and Nighttime Sanity Saver for Your Duo's First Five Months

by Natalie Díaz, Kim West

Parenting twins: Double the joy, double the fun, and double the sleep deprivation!

Let the dynamic duo of Natalie Diaz from Twiniversity and Sleep Lady Kim West come to the rescue, equipping you and your adorable twinnies with the ultimate gentle sleep solutions, right from the moment they enter this world through the first five months.

Raising twins doesn’t have to fill you with sleep dread. There are many small ways to help them sleep just a little bit better right now—long before your duo is ready for sleep training—and together, these can add up to significantly better sleep for everyone!

As founder of Twiniversity, Natalie Diaz has welcomed millions of parents into the rewarding world of parenting twins. Now, she and longtime friend Kim West, known around the world as The Sleep Lady®, turn their attention to helping parents of twins navigate their babies’ early months.

In month-by-month chapters that are easy to navigate (even in the middle of the night!), this sleep road map will teach you:

• How sleep shaping can begin during your twin pregnancy through nursery setup and more
• How feeding, attachment, soothing, and temperament all factor into your babies’ sleep—with strategies to navigate the unique demands of caring for two
• Alternatives to the “cry it out” method once your babies are developmentally ready to self-soothe
• Key developmental milestones from birth through five months and how to encourage sleep at every stage
• How preterm birth, and therefore sleep, impact your twins’ early life and how to best support your duo during that time
• Why it’s so important to take care of yourself during this sleep coaching stage

It’s easy to get overwhelmed by conflicting advice on sleep training, nap coaching, sleep schedules, and more. The Newborn Twins Sleep Guide provides clear guidance and a gentle approach to help you feel better about the entire sleep process, from A to ZZZs.

Genres: Parenting

304 pages, Paperback

Published March 5, 2024

About the author

Natalie Díaz was born and raised in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California, on the banks of the Colorado River. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. Her first poetry collection, When My Brother Was an Aztec, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2012. Her second poetry collection, Postcolonial Love Poems is published by Graywolf Press in 2020. She is 2018 MacArthur Foundation Fellow, a Lannan Literary Fellow and a Native Arts Council Foundation Artist Fellow. She was awarded a Bread Loaf Fellowship, the Holmes National Poetry Prize, a Hodder Fellowship, and a PEN/Civitella Ranieri Foundation Residency, as well as being awarded a US Artists Ford Fellowship. Díaz teaches at the Arizona State University Creative Writing MFA program.

Reviews

[Kay's Pallet · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book really ground my gears. I have a 4 month old and I was expecting some helpful advice that could transfer to 1 baby. Basically the "best" advice this book gave was to do all the other sleep couching advice that's out there, but with the help of another adult. That's the only twin specific advice. It also had such a condescending tone and really annoying jargon (if I never have to read/ hear the words "kiddos" or "twinnies" again, it'll be too soon. Like serious she used these 2 words more often than the words "babies" or "twins.").

There also didn't seem to be any trouble shooting. It's just follow the advice and keep doing it until it works, "no matter how long it takes." Bro. As a first time mom who works full time, I don't have all night to try these methods until they work and I can only imagine that's harder with twins.

I gave this 3 stars though, because I never want to bring down the ratings of any parenting book (unless it gives harmful advice). Just because it got on every nerve I have and I don't like the advice, doesn't mean someone else won't find it helpful. If this book helped get your baby or babies to sleep, I'm really happy for you! Keep doing what works <3

[Kellianne · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is great and focuses on twins with a helpful spouse.

[Carla May · Rating 4 out of 5]

Probably the most important book I will read this year ;)
Highly recommended for the families expecting twins who know they will all need their sleep!

[Emily · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you are expecting twins, this is absolutely essential and should be one of the top two books to read before they arrive or in the early weeks. (My number ONE recommendation is Natalie Diaz’s first book.)

Its only flaw is that it can be a bit repetitive. But I think that’s intentional and wise, given the by-definition sleep-deprived audience.