Zoe Saldana Says 'Sleep training twins is no joke' & Details Own Experience

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Zoe Saldana, a new mom to twins, recently appeared on the Jimmy Kimmel Live! show and talked about her experience sleep training her sons.

During the appearance that happened on Thursday, the 36-year-old confessed sleep training twins can be "overwhelming."
She gushed about her 6-month-old twins, Bowie and Cy, and joked to Kimmel, "It's great. It's a blessing. We know because people keep telling us."

She continued on a more serious note, "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..."

"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 said.

She admitted being overwhelmed because there are so many different methods for parents to choose from. She then shared a recent attempt to use the strategy used by her sister. E! News reports that Zoe's sister shared the method she used for her own child who is slightly older. 

"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!' "Zoe recanted of her experience.

In the end, Zoe and Marco decided the couldn't do it and proceeded to take their kids while crying.

The "Guardians of the Galaxy" star found the process exceptionally hard like other parents known, hearing your children cry is gut-wrenching, "it's like it rips the guts out of you. And it's like, we have two. It's crazy," she added.