Comments on: Sleeping arrangements for twins

By: Selmada

Selmada — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 06:28:31 +0000

“we” were great sharing a crib for the first few months. In fact, at 3 months, one of my boys slept through the night (12 hours). Then his brother learnt to roll (and roll and roll) and ended up on his head many times. Until my other crib gets here (from a neighbor) the roller is in the crib and my stationary boy in my bed, where he wakes up every 4 hours for food. (but I admit I love when I wake up in the morning and he’s just waiting for my eyes to open so he can greet me with a huge, massive grin!)
They will continue to share my room for a while since I live in a one bedroom apartment.
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By: Fran

Fran — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:09:10 +0000

Just last week we moved our just-about-to-be-8-month-old frat boys into separate cribs overnight. They had been alternating between each others’ cribs (same room) for the nighttime so that when we inevitably needed to separate them they were familiar with both cribs. They’ve been napping separately for a couple of months because they have different sleep schedules (ugh).

Finally H began waking up I by practicing his rolling over and rocking on his knees, so separate cribs it is. They sleep AWESOMELY now. I had about a day’s worth of heartache over losing some sort of cute sleeping in the same bed thing, but I got over it in a hurry when the kids were cheerier in the morning!

By: Tina

Tina — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:31:00 +0000

Mine started by sharing a Pack N Play. Then they were 2 babies, 2 cribs at about 6 weeks. Now, they are still 2 babies-2 cribs-one room for naps and at night EXCEPT FOR when one of them is having issues napping (it is always the same little Troublemaker ).

In that case, I have the Pack N Play in my closet (only other place it can go that is quiet and isolated). So Troublemaker naps in there and the other one stays in his crib and everyone sleeps a better nap! Naps are precious.
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By: Mommy, Esq.

Mommy, Esq. — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:57:47 +0000

I always thought that we’d have them share a crib (I was never going to have them in my room though – too little sleep for Mama with every noise waking me up). But when they came home we had them in separate cribs (per advice of the baby nurse) and it was easier. One would sleep while the other ate and if both were up I could bounce one in a bouncy chair while feeding the other. Some day they will have their own rooms but for now we nap them separately (one in the guest room in a pack-n-play) and sleep them together at night in the same room.
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By: Quadmama

Quadmama — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:28:04 +0000

When I first had all my girls home from the NICU we only had three cribs, so two had to share. It was amazing how much better they slept when we finally had that fourth crib. I know so many parents with multiples have had success when their babies co-sleep, but it just didn’t work for us. In the spring we’ll finally be splitting them in to two rooms and I’m driving myself crazy trying to figure out who will be rooming together.
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By: Nicole

Nicole — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:43:09 +0000

Our sleeping arrangements were very easy and straightfoward. At first, they shared a crib in their room and around 3 months, we moved Collette into her own crib in teh same room.

I think it was easy for us to do this because we had the nursery ready about 2 months before they arrived and I didn’t end up nursing them so having them in our room didn’t make much sense. Plus, our room does not have much space so a crib or even pack’n'play would not have fit. And bassinettes were so expensive and I knew they would only fit for a month, it didn’t seem worth it.
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