If you had the room, would you separate them?

Jack and Lily are in separate rooms for naps, different cribs, same room for nighttime. They are geting close to STTN but are waking up at 5:45 or 6am and getting them to go back down is difficult. 9/10 times one will go back down and the other fusses which keeps the other up or wakes the other up again.


I have four rooms upstairs (master is downstairs). Two bigger rooms - one is their nursery right now and one is a guest room. We also have two smaller rooms that share a bathroom and one is a guest room and one is my office. I am thinking that the best thing to do is move them each into one of the smaller rooms that share a bathroom. I can then use the bigger rooms with their own bathrooms as guestrooms and one of the them is big enough to fit my desk and office stuff as well. It makes me sad to think about separating them but I guess we could leave the doors between them open (the bathroom doors) and it will be kind of like they are together. Right now Lily naps in the pnp in one of the guestrooms and this would allow her to nap in her own crib!

Anyway, if you had the space would you separate them? They are boy/girl twins and are 6mos. old. Why or why not?

Thanks,
Amy

 

If you think it might help them sleep, I would.

Oops, that posted before I finished! We also have four bedrooms upstairs, but that includes the master.....two of those are jack n' jill that share a bath, like yours. Right now my older DD is in one of those, and the other is a guest room -- and the babies are in the bigger room that has its own bathroom.

Our plan is roughly to put them in the jack n' jill bedrooms when they hit 2 and move out of their cribs, and put my older DD back in the bigger room (it used to be hers until the babies came along).

But, if we have any sleep problems before then, we might speed up this timeline! I hate to do it, though, because I worked so hard on decorating their nursery, and it came out so cute....

We debated having our girls share a bathroom, and giving DS his own room w/ bath -- but we decided to let the two younger ones share instead, despite being B/G....

 

YES!!!

I have b/g 18 month old twins. We separated them at about 7 months old, and it was the best thing we ever did. They are light sleepeers, and no one was getting much sleep when they shared a room.

We had planned on splitting them up eventually anyway, but just did it sooner and gave one the old geust room.

I highly recommend it if you have the room. They are together all day, so they don't seem to mind that alone time for naps and bedtime.

Go for it!!

 

yes definately! mine wake each other up all the time if they are in the same room. two beds are good for at night but if i had a bigger house i would definately put them in separate rooms and mine are only 5 months old now

Lots of love!
Meshell

 

I have ID girls and no, I would not seperate them.

 

Mine are 5 and still in the same room. The spare bedroom is their playroom. My (non-twin) sister and I shared a room until we were 10 and 12. I plan to have my girls sharing until then. I would probably separate b/g twins earlier, but I think it's a good childhood experience to share rooms. However, mine did not wake each other up.

 

Everyone says that twins learn to sleep through each other's cries and noises but that has not been our experience over the last 9 months. If I had a bigger house I would put my boys in separate rooms in a heartbeat. Right now I have them separated for naps and most nights I end up sleeping with James in the office from about 3 a.m. until 6:45.

 

I wouldn't, because now that mine are older, they entertain each other at bedtime and in the morning. It's possible they would fall asleep a little quicker or sleep a little later (at least Sarah would) if they were separated, but they sleep pretty well anyway, and it's clear that they really enjoy being together. Also, although Amy wakes Sarah up nearly every morning, Sarah doesn't seem sleep deprived.

We do separate them for naps, although I am considering ending that, as Amy is close to outgrowing the PNP.

A lot of people's twins sleep better separately, though, so don't be afraid to try it if you think it would work best for your family.

 

Mine are almost a year and I would say yes and no. But I am going to give it more time. I know we would all get better sleep or at least one of the boys would, but I just dont have the heart to do it.

 

Ours started sleeping MUCH better when we separated them.