Sara McGinnis
posted in CelebritiesZoe Saldana is having a tough time getting her 6-month-old twin boys to sleep for a solid chunk of time.
Speaking of raising Cy and Bowie with husband Marco Saldana the actress joked while appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, “It’s great. It’s a blessing. We know because people keep telling us. No, we’re very, very happy. It’s just like whatever you do—if you change a diaper and you put one down, it’s like you have to do it all over again. That’s when they’re in a good mood. But if they’re having a tantrum and it’s at the same time...”
Unfortunately there's no shortage of tears being shed in their home.
“Sleep training twins is no joke because you put one to sleep and you lay him down, and the other one has been asleep, but then that one wakes up and the other one wakes up so then everybody’s crying, then my husband and I are crying…You’re like, ‘Oh, my God,’” she went on to share.
"It’s overwhelming because there are so many different methods," Zoe Saldana elaborated before explaining an interesting technique to man again the long nights:
"Just the other day, my sister, who has a 9-month-old, shared with us the method that she did. She brought the piece of paper and grabbed us both with a bottle of vodka. She goes, ‘What do you guys have?’ That’s how her and her husband did it. Because the moment you hear your child cry, it’s like it rips the guts out of you. And it’s like, we have two. It’s crazy.
So there’s a bottle of Skinnygirl and we had the monitor with the volume all the way high. We have this little note thing, this log that you have to be logging in all the time. We put them down, say ‘mommy and daddy love you’ in Italian and Spanish—well get to that later—and then we walk out and they’re having a meltdown. So then you have to time it, then you go in. And my sister, I’m like, ‘Can we go in? Can we go in?’ ‘OK, go in now.’ And we go in and I’m like, ‘What do we do?’ No eye contact, just say ‘mommy and daddy love you’—in Italian and Spanish—and she would come pull us out. So by the third time, it had been 45 minutes already. We were kind of buzzed. It’s heart wrenching. My husband doesn’t drink and he’s like, ‘Gimme that bottle!’
So then we go and we just finally abort. We abort mission. We take our kids. I take one, he takes the other, and we’re both crying. The boys’ bodies are, like, their bodies are weeping…and you go, ‘Oh, my God, he’s never going to forgive me for this.’ And then, Marco and I are talking in the room going, ‘It’s not for us. It’s too archaic. There has to be a more gentle method. They did it because they’re insensitive. They don’t care about their children.’ My sister’s outside with the monitor at full volume—and our best friend! They were just like, ‘We get it.’”
Vodka shots when the baby cries? That's a new one to me!
Although I can't say I recommend anyone do the same (the last thing you need when sleep is so precious is to lose the quality of what you do get to booze), I can commiserate. The 15 months my youngest son cried all night are one of the hardest things I've ever been through.
My firstborn tricked me into thinking I was really good at this parenting thing by being an easy baby who slept through the night by two months old. I didn't understand why other parents had such a hard time with it, but boy howdy did I get served a large piece of humbling pie when our second son arrived. To this day my heart goes out to anyone who's struggling with sleep deprivation.
The part of Zoe's interview about vodka obviously caught my attention, but another bit did too. When Jimmy Kimmel suggested having the twins sleep in separate rooms she said, "They were born together. It’s unnatural to separate them. In my mind, it just makes sense."
And now I'm curious...
Parents of multiples, do you think it's unnatural to separate your babies at bedtime?
Photo: Matt Baron/BEImages
Hopefully one day soon Zoe Saldana's twins will snooze as well as these babes, who prove naps can happen anywhere:
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