Family bed

Are there any other moms co-sleeping with their twins & still night nursing at 12 months?

 

yep, right here!

 

Still night nursing (although we are just shy of 11 months) but no longer co-sleeping and its not really by choice. We moved our LOs to their room at 6 months, Ive since tried to bring them to bed several times (especially nights where its a nursing marathon) but they think its more fun than anything! They can crawl and stand, and pull my hair, and get up real close to your face so they can see you in the dark and then giggle real loud LOL wish they would sleep with us sometimes but guess Im glad they know their room, their cribs = sleepytime!!

 

QUOTE(happychck @ Jan 13 2009, 09:23 PM) [snapback]1146237[/snapback]
yep, right here!



How do you do nap time? I am having a real challenge. Tried having each in a crib in a seperate room today - going back and forth to comfort and put back down...one got to sleep for about 20 minutes, while the other REALLY came unglued and took a long time to calm down and a 2 hour nap lap to recover.

 

QUOTE(E&Msmom @ Jan 13 2009, 11:34 PM) [snapback]1146348[/snapback]
Still night nursing (although we are just shy of 11 months) but no longer co-sleeping and its not really by choice. We moved our LOs to their room at 6 months, Ive since tried to bring them to bed several times (especially nights where its a nursing marathon) but they think its more fun than anything! They can crawl and stand, and pull my hair, and get up real close to your face so they can see you in the dark and then giggle real loud LOL wish they would sleep with us sometimes but guess Im glad they know their room, their cribs = sleepytime!!


How did you go about transfering them from the family bed into cribs? I am not ready to do this yet but am hoping to after I night wean in spring.

 

I co slept way past one year and nursed. I also still have my 5 year old crawling into bed in the middle of the night. I don't mind.

 

I coslept with the twins until they were several months over 3. We just transitioned them to "big girl beds" in early November in preparation for the arrival of our newest little girl in early March. I wanted to transition them well before she came so that they wouldn't associate my not sleeping with them anymore with her. I didn't want them to "blame" her. The transition actually went surprisingly well. We prepped them a lot ... talked about it for a month before it happened, let them choose their bedding, got princess canopies etc. They still ask from time to time for me to sleep with them. It breaks my heart, because I'd love to!

 

DID you read my mind....I was gonna ask about family bed today. My dh and I share our bed with our 2 year old twins. they have toddler beds that they nap in but refuse to sleep in at night. I ahev been co sleeping since birth cause i nursed for 16 months and it was easier than anything else to have them sleep with us. Now we are going to try IVF again and I don't want to be pregnant (hopefully) with 2 2 year olds sleeping with us and even more so with a new infant or two trying to transition at night to toddler beds but isn't working ....any ideas.....i don't wnat to do it when i am pregnant cause i don't want them to think it is cause of the baby they have to leave. i know i am a woose

 

i'm sorry i just noticed your question!

we do naps the same way i always put them to sleep when i am alone--in the living room! they fall asleep there (one nurses, the other in a boppy in my lap) and i put them in their cribs when they fall asleep. this way, if someone does not fall alseep, i can get the sleeping one out of the room. at night we also put them to sleep in their cribs when we are not there, and then bring them into bed w/us when they wake up later on after we've gone to sleep (no, they don't sttn. we are planning on doing a 'sleep learning' thing in a couple weeks, when dh's schedule lets up. the woman is called "the sleep lady" and sounds pretty cool.... dh is gone so often at night that we haven't been great at teaching them to soothe themselves. i am totally ready to have them sleep in their cribs all night long. though, just not ready to have them sleep in a different room!).

we started using the cribs at about six or seven months adjusted, when they could jump over the bed rails!

the going back and forth thing sucks. there's no real easy way w/twins!

take care, jl



QUOTE(Marya @ Jan 14 2009, 03:52 PM) [snapback]1147527[/snapback]
How do you do nap time? I am having a real challenge. Tried having each in a crib in a seperate room today - going back and forth to comfort and put back down...one got to sleep for about 20 minutes, while the other REALLY came unglued and took a long time to calm down and a 2 hour nap lap to recover.

 

I coslept and nursed past one year. My twins never had conventional cribs nor did they ever nap in the "night crib" after one year they napped on mats on the living room floor. I sometimes nursed them to sleep at nap time by laying on the floor next to them.
As for transfering them to their own bed. We had a twin size bed build with crib rails, actually higher than standard crib rails so they were never able to climb out of it, we started leaving the door down around around 30 months because we had started potty training and encouraged them to get out by themselves to go potty, and at 36 months we took the rails off entirely. They still both sleep in it with their heads at opposite ends. During the transition time I was able to climb in there myself since it was twin size and lay with them until they fell asleep. Sometimes I fell alseep too, but if I woke up later in the night I'd move to my own bed. Our house is tiny, even though in separate rooms, my bed was only 5 steps away, and I think that helped the transition, they knew I was near and I could here them as soon as they woke up. We also never close their bedroom door. I don't believe in shutting my children in like that. If they wake up early in the mornings they climb into bed with us.

 

QUOTE(Marya @ Jan 14 2009, 02:53 PM) [snapback]1147528[/snapback]
How did you go about transfering them from the family bed into cribs? I am not ready to do this yet but am hoping to after I night wean in spring.


Baby steps THey slept in our room until 3-4 months. Then we started putting them down for naps/bedtime in their cribs.It took quite a bit of rocking, back patting, shooshing etc. then if/when they woke up during the night we would bring them back to bed with us. We did that until they were 8 months or so. Now when they wake up we just go to them and help them in their room. we cant get them to sleep anywhere else!

 

I still sleep with the little girls (they're 13 months and still nurse at night). DH usually sleeps with DD1 most nights, upon request-otherwise he kind of floats around (couch, twin bed meant for the babies, etc). For naps I put them on their twin mattress on the floor and snuggle them until they fall asleep. That's also how I put them to sleep at night, until ten or so when I go to bed, then they usually wake up and come in with me.