sharing between twins.. to what extent

hi,
my baby girls are a month old now and i have question regarding sharing.. till now we dont keep seperate clothing for them and their bottles keep getting interchanged. so what should be shared and what not between twins at this stage and even as they grow older..?

ketki

 

I have b/g twins and the only thing that's not shared is clothing, and I even have some neutral things like onesies and socks that I do share between them. I think as they grow older they'll start to naturally get their 'own' things.
They do have their 'own' carseats and highchairs, though because they're different sizes and I don't want to have to adjust the straps each time, so we keep them in the same one.

 

Our ped said they can even share the same pacifiers...it does not matter (they never ended up liking pacifiers though). He said if one gets sick the other will get sick anyways since they play with the same toys and are around each other all day.

The only thing that I keep separate are their bottles but that has always been so I know how much they drank. Everything else is shared including clothes and jackets. Their winter/spring hats have their name on it so that is the only thing that is not shared!

I started off with the intention of sharing medicine droppers but ended up even using the same medicine dropper.

 

Our girls share everything. It's just easier that way. My MIL tries to assign a sippy cup to each girl when she watches them, but they end up drinking from each other's anyway and she just gets exasperated trying to keep things straight. Why give yourself extra work?

 

Gosh, mine share everything, I even feed them off the same spoon! I do have "boy" clothes and "girl" clothes that they don't share, only because DH would have a come apart if I put Sam in some of Emily's cute pink stuff!!

I don't think that it really matters though, as they get older and use more stuff it gets harder to keep things separate, they are going to catch each other's germs no matter what, so I wouldn't worry too much about separating things!

 

My boys share everything. I don't dress them in matching clothes that often so they have one large wardrobe to share. They share pacifiers because it's hard to keep track of who had which one last. After feeding if one didn't want all of his bottle and the other is still hungry I will let him finish his brother's bottle instead of making a new one. I look at it as similar to my older kids drinking out of my glass...no big deal. It just makes my life easier.

 

Nicole and Danielle shared everything and they still do at almost 3 years old. I would use the same spoon when feeding them too. I wouldn't share their bottles as much but that was to keep track of how much they drank but would give one the other bottle if there was some left.

 

Just about everything gets shared in this house!!

 

Same here - other than some gender specific clothes - they share everything

 

Mine share everything but clothes (boy/girl). They even share bottles occasionally. If Lila doesn't finish hers I will quite often give it to Luke since he will always take more. I figure if one gets sick the other will anyway because they are always sucking on each other's hands, toes, etc. :laughing:

 

Mine share everything, clothes, bottles, spoons, toys, you name it they share it

 

So Nevan is wearing purple socks today lol... We share everything including thumbs and toes... I wouldn't be too worried as they are in such close proximity anyway.

 

Mine share everything but clothes, I have always dressed them alike and they wear different sizes so no sharing.

 

We share everything. There are some clothes that I prefer to put one in over the other, but it's not a hard-fast rule

 

They share everything except bottles, spoons and bowls.

 

My girls share everything. Just the other day, some friends were over and I couldn't find McKenna's pacifier, so I reached into Genevieve's chair and got hers. When I put it in McKenna's mouth, both of the ladies were confused at first and then they both, at the same time, said "well, i guess it doesn't matter does it?!" and they laughed. Oh how much fun is it to be a twin mommy?!! :wub:

 

mine share everything. They do have their own carseats, cause of the size differnce and they each have their own blankets, cause i though that would be nice for them to each have their own and they are a little different from each others...

 

QUOTE(kajulie @ Apr 11 2007, 07:39 PM) [snapback]215184[/snapback]
mine share everything. They do have their own carseats, cause of the size differnce and they each have their own blankets, cause i though that would be nice for them to each have their own and they are a little different from each others...


I did mean to say that they have different car seats. Norah has hers and Nevan has his, they are adjusted differently due to height and weight differences.

 

QUOTE(cclott @ Apr 11 2007, 04:34 PM) [snapback]214803[/snapback]
Gosh, mine share everything, I even feed them off the same spoon! I do have "boy" clothes and "girl" clothes that they don't share, only because DH would have a come apart if I put Sam in some of Emily's cute pink stuff!!

I don't think that it really matters though, as they get older and use more stuff it gets harder to keep things separate, they are going to catch each other's germs no matter what, so I wouldn't worry too much about separating things!

My thoughts as well. Even the part about DH flipping out if the boy was in a pink outfit. Man, my DH flips out if Em is wearing an outfit with a lot of blue (even though it has flowers ).

Mine don't share binkies though. When they took the same kind they did, but now they each take a different one.

 

My girls have mostly all their own things.... I have differnt color bottles that each one uses and the same amount of each color. They have there own clothes even if the outfit matches, with the exception of a bin of onsies that they share. They have there own car seats (seperarted by a color tag on them.... their pacis are also color seperated. I have two very different girls so I wanted to get used to them having their own things and not always grouping them as liking and wanting the same things......

 

We pretty much share everything but the clothes - unless nothing else is clean

 

In our house everything is/was shared except:
Pacifiers, which seems silly now, but we tried at first to keep from passing germs back & forth. They gave up the pacis around 3 months, before the stage when they would have "shared" by themselves.
Shoes because they are different sizes.
Coats are semi-interchangeable, but now that they are older, they get used to wearing a certain coat every day and think of it as theirs, so it's just easier to keep it that way.
Carseats because Sarah was always bigger, and it was a pain to keep readjusting the straps.
Loveys, because no one should have to share their lovey.

 

Mine share pretty much everything too. It was funny b/c in the hospital the OB & the nurses were talking about that & said...well, they shared a uterus, so they should be okay sharing other things. LOL!

 

There isn't one thing that my girls don't share. It just makes life easier for us.

 

My girls shared everything when younger. As they got older they stopped sharing everything now they have their own clothes because they are two different sizes and they have some of their own cups and forks. They each have certain colors they like and they know is theres. Then they have other cups and stuff that they share. They even have their own toys now too. I think when they are younger then it doesn't matter but as they get older they will express an interest in their own things.

 

Mine share everything. I figured there was no way to keep them from each others germs, so I didn't even try. When they were younger, they shared binkys, but they're starting to show a preference for which one is "theirs" now.

 

i usually dress the twins alike, they they have thier own wardrobe, they share bottles and if they took dummies im sure they would share them.

im afraid there is no way that you cant share with twins, they are always going to find eachothers dummy/bottle and shove it in their own mouth.

 

my boys are almost a yr and they share everything, if 1 doesnt finish a bottle the other 1 will take it, i feed them off the same spoon also.they dont share clothes b/c caleb is till in 3 -6 mths and caden is in 12mths so they really cant share clothes. but toher than that they share everything!

 

The only thing my 2 dont share is clothes and dummies! OOh thats a lie actually they share each others vests and babygrows sometimes and come to think of it they sometimes have each tother dummies too! So my 2 share everything lol. x

 

So far we share everything - even the spoon and bowl.

 

Mine share everything too with the exception of Faiths cute little pink and purple outfits and headbands.

 

they share everything here except spoon I always use different spoon for them. They have there own car seats and there own cribs and high chairs and bounces but other then that they share....
Oh yea they use 2 different diapers

 

QUOTE(Erykah @ Apr 11 2007, 05:43 PM) [snapback]214965[/snapback]
So Nevan is wearing purple socks today lol... We share everything including thumbs and toes... I wouldn't be too worried as they are in such close proximity anyway.


this is my house too, they share everything!

 

Our boys share everything but bottles since we need to know what they are consuming. We tried to keep at least pacifiers seperate in the beginning but when a baby is fussy and needs one .... they get whats there

 

My girls share clothes, bouncies, car seats, blankets and things like that. They normally don't share pacifiers or bottles. We have one DD who uses the "solid" color paci and one who uses the clear. I do give one DD the other's bottle if she didn't finish, but I usually change the nipple first. But, as time goes on, I can see where keeping things separate may just be extra work for us as they start to play more together, etc.