when they first come home..

what does/did/plan to use first few months babies are home? as far as sleeping arrangements i mean...co-sleeper? 1 crib in same room as you? babies in their own rooms? anything else? just curious what everyone else is gonna do, i know i want them in the same room as me, i just dont know if i want them in a crib, bassinet, whatever

 

We are going to have them in our room in the pack n play bassinet for awhile. Then, we are moving them to one room to share a crib until 3-4 months. Then, they will move to their own cribs in their own rooms. The timeline will be dictated by how they are doing, but that is the general plan for now. I am curious to hear what others are doing.

Sandi

 

We set up the crib with big dreams of 2 cute babies snuggling.. Well my babies dislike being near eachother all the time... They sleep in swings.. DS has been moved to the crib 2 weeks ago and DD still sleeps in the swing.. She has AR. Just be aware that whatever you plan might not happen...

 

Mine slept in a co-sleeper next to me for the first few months (and often fell asleep next to me while nursing). Once we got 4 hour stretches at night I moved them to the nursery.

Reyna

 

Plan is to have them in the pack and play bassinet next to the bed at first. Not sure for how long. Will kind of play it all by ear.

Dianna

 

We're hoping to have them in separate cribs in the room across the hall from us.

 

We intended to have them share a crib in the nursery while DH and I took turns sleeping with them (on a bed that was in that room).
What we wound up with was babies sleeping in bouncy seats in the living room while DH and I took turns sleeping on the couch.

We switched because they seemed to prefer sleeping in bouncy seats, and it was also easier to have them in the living room because it was closer to the kitchen (where we made bottles) and the dining room (where we stuck the changing table and all their clothes). We basically lived in the living room for 5 months and only went to the home office to do paperwork and to the bedroom to sleep.

The lesson is -- Make a plan, but you won't really know till after they're home what works best for you.

 

We followed the advice of a friend of mine and used two bassinets (which she let us borrow). We have a very small room and so it was nice to put one bassinet on each side of the bed. That way, DH and I were each "in charge" of a baby each night. The bassinets were convenient because we could wheel them to other rooms or separate them if need be. This arrangement lasted for about a month.

From one to three months, they slept in a mini crib at the foot of our bed (again, we borrowed this). It was the size of a pack n play. It did not fit on the sides of our bed and so we moved the kids into this once they were sleeping longer (or should I say more predictable) stretches. At this point, they needed a lot less soothing to fall asleep as well, so we no longer needed them RIGHT next to us.

At three months, we moved them into a large crib in their own bedroom which they shared. That did not last long, since they were growing so fast and starting to wake each other up. At around four months we moved them to their own cribs, sharing the same bedroom.

 

We intended for them to sleep in the pack and play in our room for the first few weeks at least, but I was unable to sleep with all their "baby noises" (on top of which my babies are really loud sleepers). So after week one the boys were sleeping in one crib across the hall in their own room.Pretty soon I think I will be moving them into their own cribs.

 

We didn't intend on ever putting the babies in our room with us...but Morgan came home on an apnea monitor that would scare me to death if it went off and I had to go running into the other room. So, we co-slept them in a bassinet for the first 3 weeks they were home. After that, I was too tired to listen to every grunt and groan they made while sleeping and I would keep waking up (DH slept right through, of course...lol) so we moved them into the nursery (which is right next to our room). They slept in the same crib until they were 3 months old, then we moved them into their own cribs (still in the same room).

 

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We set up the crib with big dreams of 2 cute babies snuggling.. Well my babies dislike being near eachother all the time... They sleep in swings.. DS has been moved to the crib 2 weeks ago and DD still sleeps in the swing.. She has AR. Just be aware that whatever you plan might not happen...


Ours sleep in bouncers at the moment. So, the beautiful nursery is relatively only used for some diaper changes and for keeping clothes in so far...

 

Our house is built that it has a HUGE master bedroom upstairs and downstair (split entry) is two smaller bedrooms. So, for the first two months, the twins slept in two bassenetts in our room. Then we moved them downstairs to their own cribs set up in the nursery.

 

We went through SO many different configurations in the first three months. My advice is - be flexible! We planned on having them sleep in our room initially - that lasted about the first 2 hours of their first night home. My son made so much noise that we couldn't sleep - just funny baby noises, I can't even remember what they were now.

So they started sharing a P&P in their own room, but would frequently end up in bed with us. At some point we moved them to a co-sleeper in our room. I recall for awhile they would go to sleep in bed with us - one of them sleeping on each of us, right on our chests was the only way they'd settle down. Then I'd do the midnight feeding and put them down in the co-sleeper in our room, DH would do the 3AM feeding and move them to the P&P in their room, then I'd do the 6AM feeding and put them in the swings back in our room . . . I have no idea how we came up with this system, but it worked for us and they wouldn't really be "up" until the 9AM feeding.

And don't worry - all this weirdness in early sleeping schedules doesn't mean you'll never have a good system. Mine are almost 3 now and sleep 11-12 hours a night and still nap 2-3 hours a day, each in their own room (in fact, I'm wondering where they are now - almost 8:30 and not a peep - I need to go wake them up for daycare!)

-Rachel

 

Mine co-slept in a crib in our room till 6mo then we split them up in their room into 2 cribs... at that time they were ready to sleep seperate. Every time I go in to get them in the morning, they are standing talkin to each other....so cute!

 

Ours will be together in our room, haven't decided yet if I'm putting one of the cribs or the pack n play in our room, but they'll be next to us. We did this with both older sons for quite awhile before they went into their own rooms across the hall. I found that for me, I sleep better knowing that the babies are right there (especially with nursing).

 

we had them both in the Arm's Reach Cosleeper next to our bed for 7 or 8 weeks? Then they went to same crib in the nursery. At 4 months, they went to seperate cribs, same room.

Good Luck!

 

I am really liking hearing how everything has worked for the different moms here! I'm going to make a note of the different things people have said works for them, and if our ideal works for us, great, if not, I'll have a list of other things to try!!!

 

Ours slept in sidebyside pnp (the smallest version) until about 8 months, then in the nursery in side by side cribs.

 

We are in the process of moving so right now they are in a PNP next to each other in our bedroom. It's nice cause we can just roll out of bed at night and change them and then feed them while sitting in our bed. When we move in two weeks they will be in their own room together in a crib until they are big enough to each be in their own crib.

 

thanks for all the ideas!

 

Ours were in the pack-n-play/bassinet in our room for the first 4 months. It was just easier to have them there with feedings, plus I didn't want their crying to wake our older DD.