Separate Rooms

Hi there,

I have 9 month old b/g twins..... They are in the same room at the moment but I have to keep moving Olivia out during the night because she still wakes up and fusses and can wake up her bro.

Has anyone got their twins in two rooms???

Jenn

 

Hi,
Welcome to TS! :sign0016: My boys have always been in the same room. Around 6 months they were both having sleep issues so we had to have them cry it out. They are now able to sleep through each others cry. We do not have another bedroom so we had to keep them together. I know others have separated their babies. If we had an extra room, I have a feeling we would have too.

 

QUOTE(seamusnicholas @ May 18 2007, 01:03 PM) [snapback]260140[/snapback]
Hi,
Welcome to TS! :sign0016: My boys have always been in the same room. Around 6 months they were both having sleep issues so we had to have them cry it out. They are now able to sleep through each others cry. We do not have another bedroom so we had to keep them together. I know others have separated their babies. If we had an extra room, I have a feeling we would have too.



How long did it take to get used to each others cry!? I'm having a similar issue, but I just stopped taking the "crier" out of the room and am patting his back, instead. I wish I had another room as well! I have 4 bedrooms, and the other 2 are taken by an au pair and my DD!

 

QUOTE(LynnMarie @ May 18 2007, 08:29 AM) [snapback]260179[/snapback]
How long did it take to get used to each others cry!? I'm having a similar issue, but I just stopped taking the "crier" out of the room and am patting his back, instead. I wish I had another room as well! I have 4 bedrooms, and the other 2 are taken by an au pair and my DD!



It took the duration of the time we did CIO. THe first night they woke when the other woke and they both cried. The second day, when one cried, the other got up too and cried a little but went back to sleep and by the 3-4 day, they cried at different times. Officially I would say about 5-7 days they were totally sleeping through cries.

Nap time is different. It is a hit or miss if they will sleep through. So that stinks. I think because it is not such a deep sleep that they are in.

 

It's so hard....

My son doesn't cry.... he screams... so I can't do any CIO. My dd cries and I could let her fuss it out and go back, but my son is the light sleeper....

ahhhhhhh

We have a spare room.. which will eventually be for my son, but we would have to take apart a crib, which is a HUGE pain, to put it in the other room....

 

Our twins started off in the same room. They are my first babies, so I didn't know what to expect and thought it would be easier to have them together. Wrong!
When my son strated teeething, he would shriek in the middle of the night. He is a screamer not a crier. So, CIO does not work for us so well. And my daughter would wake every time he screamed, so none of us got any sleep. Smae thing for naps.
Finally when they were around your babies age - 9 months - we moved my daughter into the guest room. It was going to be her room anyway when we would eventually separate them.
It was a pain to dismantle the big crib and move it, but worth the effort. The guest room is still not decorated as her room yet, but at least we all get some rest
My mom keeps telling me - oh you should have kept them together, don't they miss each other, etc., but they are together all day anyway, so I think they are ok with the change. If I waited too much longer, then it may have posed a problem.
If I could give any advice to expectant twin moms, is if you have the extra room, use it!
Good luck!

 

QUOTE(Rose524 @ May 18 2007, 10:53 AM) [snapback]260264[/snapback]
If I could give any advice to expectant twin moms, is if you have the extra room, use it!
Good luck!



Rose, Thank you so much... we are going to make the switch tomorrow!

Jenn

 

We separated our twins into their own rooms at 7 months, for that same reason. Emilie was having a harder time taking a nap and we didn't want it to effect Trevor's naps. We had an extra room and knew they would eventually each have their own room so we did it then. It has been great. Now if one of them wakes up the other one does not.

 

Mine have been in two rooms for a while, since about 3 months I guess. Every month or so we try them in the same room again but it just doesn't work out. One will wake the other in the morning and for naps they just stand up and talk to eachother. Two rooms work great for us. By the way, we didn't want to take apart a crib and put it together again, so one sleeps in the pack n play. We alternate them every few weeks.

 

my 16 monthers are still in the same CRIB. I moved them out fo one crib at about 10 months and then when baby sister was born they moved back into two. soon they are going into toddler beds and we are all so excited.

but yes, they will still be in the one room.

 

Ours sleep in the same room. That being said for the first 7 months of their lives whoever woke first and began crying I would rush in to get them, get them back to sleep and put them in the family room crib....then I would cat nap in the family room between the wakings.

After going back to work and 8 weeks of exhaustion because they were getting up 6-10 times a night we began CIO. They miraculously sleep through each others crys 99% of the time. I only go to them if they are in hysterics, teething or sick. The majority of the time within one to two minutes they are back to sleep.

The first week or so of CIO was really rough for us but, it has been a life saver. Not that we do not have a bad night here or there but, I am more normal now that I am not so sleep deprived. The kids also know that they are okay and can get themselves to sleep with out Dh or myself.

 

OH yes...at four months, I moved my DD out of the room and my DS slept through the night! ha
So, they are in separate rooms with sounds machines...

jen