how long did your twins stay in the same room?

we are in the process of moving to a house- we are wondering how many bedrooms we need for our family now and maybe in a few years with more children coming.

how long did your twins stay in the same bedroom? we have boy/girl twins.
are they still in the same room- how old are they?

thank you for your help!

jamie

 

we are in the process of moving to a house- we are wondering how many bedrooms we need for our family now and maybe in a few years with more children coming.

how long did your twins stay in the same bedroom? we have boy/girl twins.
are they still in the same room- how old are they?

thank you for your help!

jamie

 

We moved our twins into their own rooms at 7 months. We have 4 bedrooms and 3 kids, so everyone has their own room. It works out really nice for us. Now if one gets up in the middle of the night it doesn't wake anyone else up. I'm glad we did it. I have b/g twins.

 

Ours are almost 2 and they still share a room. We will likely separate when they ask for it.

 

We just moved last week (Thursday) and took the opportunity to separate our 10 month boy/girl twins at that time. The first days were rough, but sleeping and happing is now back on track and they are napping much better than before because they don't wake each other up.

40+mom

 

I don't have boy/girl twins, but my older two (son and daughter) are 6 adn 5 and they still share a room. Mainly because we have no where else to put them in the apartment.

When we buy a house we need at least 4 bedrooms. Or an office or something we can turn into a bedroom.

 

My boys are 5 1/2 years and do not want seperate rooms. We had them in twin beds right up beside each other since they were 2 yo. Just a month ago we bought a bunk bed because their room is just too small with two twin beds. For the 1st couple of nights one on top and then the next night they switched. After that, they have both been sleeping on the bottom full bed snuggled right up against each other. Good luck if you are seperating.... Mine just aren't ready yet....

 

We moved our kids to their own rooms at 18 months. It was an incredibly smooth transition and something we should have done from the beginning (hindsight is always 20/20 right?). They sleep better, play better, and best of all, we keep almost all their toys in their rooms. Which means I have my family room again.

If you have an option of providing them with their own rooms, I highly recommend it. We did it in anticipation of moving them into their own big kid beds. But even though that won't be for awhile, they are very attached to their rooms.

 

we made it to 14 months! LOL!

 

i'm not wanting to separate them- a friend had their boy/girl twins in the same room til 3rd grade. i just worry about boy/girl issues. i work with college students and their are too many weird crazy stories about their childhoods. maybe i'm worrying too much about it.

 

If you're mostly worried about b/g issues (Flowers in the Attic?), I wouldn't. There are lots of reasons for people to have messed-up childhoods, but I doubt that voluntary room-sharing is one of them. I think it would still be great to have two rooms for two kids (I wish we did!), but they can still share a bedroom as long as they want to, and the other room can be the playroom.

 

My b/g twins are still sharing a room at 27 months. I am planning to keep them in a room together for a few more years. I have 5 bedrooms in my house: the master, the nursery, the twin's future big kid room, a guest room and their play room. Eventually I will move one of them into the guest room, but it has steep/winding steps coming off it and I'm nervous about one of them being in there right now. I like having the 5th bedroom for a playroom, but eventually I will move the playroom to the basement when they are a little older and I'm not as nervous about the steps. I think 4 bedrooms would be good and 5 would be great

 

Mine just turned 23 months and are still in the same room. I plan on splitting them up when we move which will either be this year or next year - when we have an extra bedroom. Our third bedroom now is more storage than an extra bedroom right now. They seem pretty attached to sharing a room too, so I'm not sure how they would do if we split them up now anyhow. We'll see. I'm sure they will let us know when they are ready.

 

Mine are G/G, but I plan on keeping them together until they want their own room. We are about to begin building a 4/5 bedroom home, but I plan to put all 3 girls in one room, use one for a playroom, guest room, our room, and DH's office.
sue

 

My goal was to have them stay in the same room (b/b) until they were 3, then they could individualize their "own" room at that time.

I have realized that my goals don't play any part in my twins! LOL They moved to separate rooms about a month after they turned 2.

(That 4th room was my sewing/toy room, and it's sooo cold in winter! - I hated to give it up!)

 

G/g twins here and I sometimes wish I could have separate bedrooms for them... Rachel sleeps longer and I think Alexis sometimes wakes her up in the morning b/c Alexis wants to get up and greet the world quite loudly and rambunctiously... But there's no other issues and generally they both get the amount of sleep they need. When we move (if), I'd like to have a home with 2 master suites or 2 bedrooms connected to a bathroom w/ a double sink, full tub/shower, and possibly even 2 toilets. The girls would share the bathroom and one room could be a play room for now and later when they hit junior high I'd give them the option of having their own room.

 

Hi there! Since you are looking, I think I would shoot for a four bedroom house, as well. Even if one of the rooms is small, that can always be the nursery or play room. And like other pp have said, if you can, separate them early...

My g/b twins are still in the same room at 28 months, and I think they will have to room together a little while longer because baby #3 is on it's way! We only have three bedrooms and I don't see us moving to a bigger house until I go back to work--which will be awhile, too. Our plan is after this next baby is a couple of years old, we will put it with it's big sister or brother, and then have separate sex bedrooms for the children. So we are looking at separating the twins around 4 or 5.

Happy house hunting!!
Kate

PS-It was great to see you at the wedding!!

 

I have b/g twins and we separated a few days after their 2nd birthday. We moved into a new house and it has been bliss. I actually discovered which one was the good sleeper, and it wasn't the one I thought!! He was really the problem. I know someone with b/g twins that are 5 and they won't sleep in separate rooms. She wishes she hadn't waited so long to try and make the change.

 

Mine are still in the same room and really seem to enjoy each other's company. At night, they will talk a little before falling asleep...we can hear them over the baby monitor and it so cute! We'll probably keep them together for quite some time!

 

angela-
that is SO SO true- thanks for your advice!

GO PACKERS!!!!

 

B/G 5 year olds still sharing a room. It is the only room we have so they will continue to share indefinitely.

 

I plan on keeping them together untill they are about 7 or we get an extension (sp?) whatever comes first. We only have a 2 bedroom and houses here are unbelieveably overpriced so we can not afford to move. x

 

My sister and I shared until we were 10 and 12 (there was another bedroom, but it was my dad's study). Then my other sister shared with my sister (she was 3) and I got my own room. Mine are g/g, and they will share at least until the boys leave home. We have three bedrooms, everyone shares.

 

We have a 3 bedroom house. One of those bedrooms serves as an office (until next week ). My b/g twins will share a room for a while longer, they are 23 months now. When the baby gets a little older, we will end up putting the two children of the same sex in one room.

 

Mine still share a room at 23 months, and they probably will indefinitely. I have 4 bedrooms and 4 kids, so they'll be together until their big brother goes off to college.

 

Mine are sharing still. We plan to move them to their own at about 3 years old.

 

Mine are B/G and 14 months, but they are still sharing. They have been since day 1. We technically have 3 bedrooms, Master bedroom, oldest DD's room, and the twins share room. We do however have 2 toy rooms(one for babies and one for older DD) that could be changed into a bedroom if need be. But until there is an issue with them sharing, they will stay in the same room. I haven't had any isuues with sleeping and one keeping the other up...that might be a deal breaker, and I would consider splitting them up, so they would sleep better.

 

My boy/girl twins are sharing till they say they want their own room! Right now the 3rd bedroom is our guest room and I love having friends come to stay!

I love how they chat to each other at night and when they wake in the morning they keep each other entertained and laughing till we are ready to get out of bed. Mine sleep fairly well in the same room. However Phoebe did say "Shush, Archer" the other night Guess she was ready for sleep sooner than he was!

-D

 

Mine still share a room and will for quite some time yet

They are the only ones of our kids who do not have their own rooms. We could separate them, but DH would have to give up his office

 

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Originally posted by twoin2005:
We moved our kids to their own rooms at 18 months. It was an incredibly smooth transition and something we should have done from the beginning (hindsight is always 20/20 right?). They sleep better, play better, and best of all, we keep almost all their toys in their rooms. Which means I have my family room again.



OH I AGREE 100%, we just separated them last week (decorating a second nursery/room was a struggle with two 8 mo old and is not something I would want to do again anytime soon, but it turned out so cute so I am glad I went the extra mile). Anyway, looking back, I should have separated them from day one. They sleep much better and longer apart.

 

My g/g twins are 12 months old and still in the same room. There beds are head to head and they seem lost when one isn't in the room. So I don't feel that now would be a good time to seperate. I think when they are a few years older that may change but until I see a reason to seperate, why mess with what's working.

 

My B/G twins will be 4 next month and are still sharing a room. I was hoping to separate them into their own rooms when they turned 5 in preparation of them being in separate rooms during the day at Kindergarten.

However, just this week Ren asked for his own room- with a little prompting it turned out he wanted his own room because Justin (daycare friend) has his own room. When I asked him if he really wanted to sleep in a different room than Marie, he flipped out- it turns out that he had no idea what 'own room' meant in practice and only wanted it because it was something someone else had...

Marie, OTOH, says that she doesn't want her own room and that if she gets her own room: "I'll sleep in Ren's floor. I no want to be alone in my room".

So I'm just going to play it be ear and see what happens, but right now the thinking is sometime probably in 8-18 months from now (4.5-5.5 years old)....