Do your twins share a room?

I am torn about separating my girls. I really don't want to as we dont readily have an extra room available, all though I could make it happen if need be. Eventually do they just get used to the other ones noises and sleep through it? If you did separate them, when and why did you choose to do so? If you did CIO, did you do it with them in the same room?

 

I'm planning on keeping my girlies in the same room for as long as possible (or until we can buy a bigger house!!). We don't want to give up DH's office/guest room....(plus that is one of the few rooms that actually doesnt have ANY baby stuff in it!)

I think in the past couple weeks they are getting more used to each others noises/crying (well, we only have 1 noisy one...and she tries her HARDEST to make sure her sister doesnt sleep for longer than she does!). Kids seem to adapt pretty good so I am hoping that that we can make one room work

 

My twins (now age 4) have always shared a room and have never been able to sleep through each other noise. We didn't have the space to seperate them.

When they were between 2-3 1/2, naps were a nightmare becasue they would fool around so much. I always ended up having to seperate them for naps.

When they turned three, we put them together in a queen size bed (from seperate toddler beds) and it's been great. We did this because they sleep well togther when we are on vacation and it the same bed.

So, I guess my answer to you is that at different ages it would have been easier to have their own space. What I always ended up doing was having a pack n play/ couch/ our bed available for those times when they needed to be seperated.

 

Mine are almost 6, and have always shared a room. They have also slept through eachothers cries. I remember when they were around two, one was standing in his crib for 10 min calling the other one by name, and that child never budged!

 

My girls are 20 months and have always shared a room. We're going to keep it that way until they strongly voice otherwise (and are old enough to discuss why). My girls will most often sleep through each other's cries. It's not often one wakes up because of the other one.

We did CIO with Emma and it did disturb Lauren a bit, but she wasn't screaming along with her sister.

 

So far, ours are in the same room and luckily they don't bother each other when they cry. We are using our other room as a guest room/play room for now. We'll see what happens down the road though!

 

Ours were sharing a room (even a crib!) until they were maybe 5 mo old. Then they just started interfering with each others' sleep too much. I had sentimental visions of always keeping them together, but nobody was getting enough sleep. Once they were separated, things got much better.

 

My two shared a crib until they were 6 months old. At 6 months, they went into their own cribs, in the same room. I had to do CIO with Jake at 6 months, while they were sharing. Emma woke up a couple of times, but eventually slept through his cries. At 23 months, they are now still in the same room, sharing a regular bed, since Jake was climbing out of the crib!

 

Mine share a room but honestly if we had the extra space I would seperate them. DD is a very light sleeper and is constantly being woken up by DS. DS on the other hand can sleep through anything. There are many many mornings when I bring DS into our bed around 5 or 6 b/c I don't want him to wake up his sister, but really I think it would be better for him to work it out in his own crib.

 

Mine share. They are 5. My sister and I shared until we were 10 and 12. At that age their brothers will be out of the house and they will probably want separate rooms. Before that, if sleep disturbances aren't an issue, I don't see a reason to separate. Back in the dark ages, when I grew up, everyone had to share a room!

 

Mine share a room for now....sometimes they sleep through each other's cries, and sometimes they don't. But it hasn't been a huge problem so far....I keep white noise on that masks a lot of the noise.

The plan is to keep them together in the nursery while they're still in cribs, and then separate them into their big girl/boy rooms when they move to toddler or regular beds -- I'm guessing at age 2, unless someone is a serious monkey before then and starts climbing out! (ahem, Kevan...)

 

For us, we only had one room left in our house so when we found out it was twins we had to move my SD to the smaller back bedroom because two cribs would have never fit in there. The answer to your questions is YES, it takes time but they most definately get used to each other and eventually will tune the other out. I have one that falls asleep faster then the other and also usually wakes first but it doesn't affect the other's sleep. I guess because we had no other choice they had to get used to each other. I think the first year is just difficult all around so like anything it will get easier.

 

I had this same dilema when we just moved into our new house and had extra space. We decided to let them share the room until we thought it was time that they have seperate rooms just for being boy/girl....maybe around school age. At first DS would wake when DD cried but now he doesn't and DD always slept through his crying since he did it for the first 6 week she got used to it. They have their days when it works and when it doesn't but it is much easier for us too!

GL

 

No mine don't share a room. We seperated them at about 3 1/2 months adjusted when they were always waking each other up and I felt like I had to run in at every whimper. My goal is to put them back together at some point, so far I've just been to chicken since thing really work this way.

Erica

 

Mine share a room, they don't really wake each other up but once they are too big to share a crib, then they will have their own rooms.

 

My girls shared a crib until about 5 months when we moved them each to their own crib. They share a room now and probably until they are alot older, they don't bother each other too much and it actually helps when they do wake up around the same time because they have someone to talk to until I make my way in there, very rarely do they cry when they wake up anymore. I'm guessing because they have each other in there.

 

[SIZE=10pt]My two share a room. There are times that they do 'wake' the other up before they're ready <_< , most of the time DD (she doesn't seem to need as much sleep)

I love them being in the same room in the mornings. They usually (99% of the time) wake up super happy as one will wake up and then start 'talking' to the other until they wake up. They usually do this for about half an hour. The days the other won't/doesn't wake up....the one that woke up first is cranky ~ go figure!

If they were interrupting each others sleep often enough I would probably consider it.

April [/SIZE]

 

My twins, at 3, still share a room. They will share until the baby is a little older. At that time, Nolan and Liam will start sharing and Meghan will have her own room (maybe 2 years or so from now). I'm surprised by how many people plan to separate at young ages, especially same sex siblings. I shared a room with two sisters until I was 22!

 

What I would do to be able to separate mine! I'd LOVE to but we just don't have the house set up at this time. Half the time, one or the other gets shipped downstairs at some point in the night to our guest room in a PNP. We HATE doing it, but it's the only way to get a little more sleep. If only they'd sleep through each other, but I can't expect them to when I can't sleep through them!

I really hoped mine would do better together, but they just don't.

 

Mine share a room, and will continue to until they voice a strong opinion on wanting their own room (which will be a very long while, I'm sure). I'd say 98% of the time they do not wake each other up. We have the room to separate them, but we don't plan on it until they ask.

 

My girls still share a crib and the 3 of us share a room! It definitely makes the night feedings a little easier because I dont have to go far. Its toughest on me though because if they even fart I wake up!

 

Mine share. And when one usually Derek is pitching a fit in the middle of the night, Tyler will often sleep through. And even in the morning if one wakes and is screaming at the other one...that baby is still asleep. We dont have any plans to separate but if need be we are open to it.

 

Mine have seperate bedrooms. DS was a great night sleeper and frankly, I got so sick of them waking each other up that I moved Lacey to a new room once she needed her own crib. It has been soooooooooooo much easier since then. I was surprised that so many twins still share a room!!

Just wanted to add they 3 months old when we moved her.

 

I had every intention on having my kids share a crib initially and then separate them into their rooms later on. The 1st night home from the hospital, the sharing thing wasn't working and we separated them to their own cribs in their own rooms and it has been that way every since.