Where do/did your babies sleep?

When they were around 2-3 months old? Right now my b/g twins are 8 weeks old and are sleeping together in the pack n play (with the bassinet thing that has them up higher) in our room next to the bed. Well DS is already over 10 lbs and DD is getting close to 9 lbs....the directions say not to let the babies sleep in the bassinet part once they hit 25 lbs...well our little guys are getting close to that. They do have cribs in their room but I'm not comfortable yet with having them sleep in their own room, or having them sleep separated from each other. So, where did your babies sleep when they were around this age?

Thanks!!

 

Ours were in their cribs in the bedroom next to ours. I didn't use a monitor as I could hear them whenever they peeped for me For our boys, they actually started to sleep better when we put them into their own cribs so it worked for us. I know others that had them co-sleep longer as it worked for them. Good Luck with your decision

 

At three months they started sleeping in their own rooms. Before that they were in a bassinet in our room {seperate} but we weren't getting any sleep because I kept hearing them grunt/move, plus they woke up when they heard us moving. So that's why we moved them in their room at that age. They almost immediately started sleeping better. Could you put their crib in your room? That way they get used to the crib and you'll still have them near by? Good luck!

 

We put our girls in their separate cribs at 7 weeks. We did have to bring them to bed with us several times a week for weeks after that though. By 4.5 months they were in their cribs full time.

 

Ours slept in our room in their bouncy chairs for only the first 3 or 4 nights. They made so much noise while sleeping that I was getting NO sleep! We moved them into a shared crib in their room after that and they've been there ever since.

We don't use a monitor either...because I could still hear every little noise. Since their room is just down the hall from ours, we leave all the doors open and we hear them fine.

 

Our girls are in a shared crib in the nursery. I plan to put them in their own cribs at around two months. My brother who's a pediatrician said that is when we should start really working on a sleep schedule.

 

ours pretty much slept in our arms, sometimes ds would sleep in the pnp. At the 3 month mark we got them both in the pnp together, then when it started to sag a little (bad I know but it's the only place they would sleep) we moved the pnp into the nursery for a few nights so they could get used to the room, then into one crib together. When they started rolling we seperated them into 2 cribs as they were kicking each other all over the place. I thought it would be hard to seperate them but they did great, I was the one who wa a bit sad!!

 

Thanks for the replies everyone! I appreciate the responses, I just don't know if I could sleep with them in their own room I'm paranoid too much and they are still getting up every 2 1/2 to 3 hours to eat and it's so much easier to have them right next to me....maybe we'll try and get a crib in our room at least for the next month or two. They were 6 weeks premature, and did have some breathing issues so we have the Angel Care monitor now. Plus, their room is a little ways away from ours, so I want to make sure that I would be able to hear them ok....hhmmm.....

I'll try to figure something out.

Thanks again everyone! :good:

 

I too am not ready for them to move to their own room. I guess it might be better for everyone's sleep, but ... I've read that keeping the baby(ies) in the room with you can help prevent SIDS up to 20%. Possibly because no one gets as deep of sleep, but deep sleep is one of the things they think may be a factor in SIDS.

That said, ours outgrew sleeping in the arms reach cosleeper together a couple weeks ago (DS is too long). So we brought the Pack n play into the bedroom. Now we have the cosleeper and the packnplay on my side of the bed side by side. DS sleeps in the pnp and DD in the cosleeper. It seems to be working well for us for now and we'll probably continue this way for a bit.

 

My girls slept in the pack n play in our room until they were 4 months old, yes it was bowing in the middle at 2 months so we put them on down, took the top part out. I felt like their room was too far away when they were that littLE. Now we live in a new house where their room is next to ours so they share a crib with a monitor ( yes they are just next door) They sleep in there until dadddy goes to work then they come snuggle with me until we get up.

 

QUOTE(*Sully* @ Jan 27 2008, 05:22 PM) [snapback]592145[/snapback]
I too am not ready for them to move to their own room. I guess it might be better for everyone's sleep, but ... I've read that keeping the baby(ies) in the room with you can help prevent SIDS up to 20%. Possibly because no one gets as deep of sleep, but deep sleep is one of the things they think may be a factor in SIDS.

That said, ours outgrew sleeping in the arms reach cosleeper together a couple weeks ago (DS is too long). So we brought the Pack n play into the bedroom. Now we have the cosleeper and the packnplay on my side of the bed side by side. DS sleeps in the pnp and DD in the cosleeper. It seems to be working well for us for now and we'll probably continue this way for a bit.


Have you tried putting them in the co sleeper the long way? My husband actually started putting them this way right away and I thought hey it works!

 

QUOTE(Stephanie1074 @ Jan 27 2008, 08:49 PM) [snapback]592367[/snapback]
Have you tried putting them in the co sleeper the long way? My husband actually started putting them this way right away and I thought hey it works!


Stephanie - I hope that yours can sleep that way for awhile. It would be so much better to only have the cosleeper beside the bed!

Mine tend to hit or kick one another too much. We do swaddle, but not always their arms and DD has this thing she does where she'll kick both legs up together and twist. For the first month or two we could put them in there every which way and they fit with room to spare. Then for about 3-4 weeks we realized they had to be across the width to not disturb one another too much. Then DS seemed too long for this to be comfy as of last week.

I don't think that ours are going to be cobedders. They disturb one another. I also don't understand the twins that don't disturb one another when they cry. Mine set each other off in a matter of seconds. I'm trying to get DD's bed in order in the nursery so that I can start getting her acclimated to it since they've spent all their nursery time in DS's bed (naps, safe area to put them, sometimes dressing). I think I need to get her an identical mobile though because it seems unfair for her to move away from the fishes.

 

Ours were in separate cribs in the nursery (next to our bedroom) from the first night they were home....five days after they were born. We kept their door closed, too, but we kept a monitor on all the time.

Maybe I'm weird that I didn't really worry about their safety? They woke up to eat every 3 hours in the beginning, and they were swaddled tightly and didn't really move enough to smother on anything....and there are no other SIDS risk factors in our home (cigarette smoke, etc.)....so I really didn't fret.

We all got a lot more sleep that way, too...

 

My babies slept in their baby papasans for the first 4 months.

They then slept in bassinettes next to me until about 5 months.

They now sleep in portacribs next to me still. I like having them next to me.

They do have regular cribs in the nursery, but hardly ever sleep inthere.

 

Mine slept together in a crib in our room until they were 3 months (well they spent the first part of the night in their own room and then we brought them into our room after their late feeding, when we went to bed) and then at 3 months we put them in their own cribs in their own room. They sleep very well in their own cribs - much better in fact. They were getting too big and wiggly to share. Their room is beside ours so I could always here them if they needed us. Within 2 weeks of moving them to their own cribs/room they were both sleeping 12 hours without a feeding.

 

Mine napped together in their room in a crib and at night they shared a pnp in my room. I separated them when they started to roll on each other! :lol:

 

When we first brought ours home, 18 days old we tried putting them in the same crib in the nursery. After a week or so we realized that when one fussed it woke up the other so we put them in their own cribs. They have always slept in the nursery though. My room is right next to them and I have a video monitor so I always felt comfortable. For over three weeks now, they are STTN from 11-8 so I am real happy with our sleeping arrangements.

 

QUOTE(*Sully* @ Jan 27 2008, 10:01 PM) [snapback]592499[/snapback]
Stephanie - I hope that yours can sleep that way for awhile. It would be so much better to only have the cosleeper beside the bed!

Mine tend to hit or kick one another too much. We do swaddle, but not always their arms and DD has this thing she does where she'll kick both legs up together and twist. For the first month or two we could put them in there every which way and they fit with room to spare. Then for about 3-4 weeks we realized they had to be across the width to not disturb one another too much. Then DS seemed too long for this to be comfy as of last week.

I don't think that ours are going to be cobedders. They disturb one another. I also don't understand the twins that don't disturb one another when they cry. Mine set each other off in a matter of seconds. I'm trying to get DD's bed in order in the nursery so that I can start getting her acclimated to it since they've spent all their nursery time in DS's bed (naps, safe area to put them, sometimes dressing). I think I need to get her an identical mobile though because it seems unfair for her to move away from the fishes.


Kerry -

I have been lucky. Mine do hit/kick eachother, but they are not really bothered by it. They also are not disturbed by each others crying. I was really suprised at this since people were telling me before they were born that when one cried the other would ect... Not true in my case. In fact, in the beginning my mother kept trying to get me to wake and feed if one woke and the other didn't. In theory it sounded good, but it never worked for us. My guys have never been able to be awakened to feed. If they were sleeping that was it! Overall we have been really lucky and they have been good sleepers and eaters. The only exception was the very long hard struggle to get them to breastfeed, after about 3 weeks they caught on and we have not looked back!!!

I dread the day that they can't sleep together! Just before we got pregnant we bought a 2 family house thinking that we would live in it for about a year while we saved and then we would buy another single family house and rent both floors of the 2-family... Then we got pregnant with twins and I have not really worked since 20 weeks pregnancy (I am a teacher), and most likely wont until at least next fall so the saving thing hasn't really happened! Anyway, we live in a very small apartment with all 5 of us (me, my husband, my daughter, & the twins) in the same room!!! I cannot imagine where we would put 2 cribs!!! I have been praying that once they are in the crib they will be able to sleep together w/ a divider for a while! If not, Maybe wecan hang a bed from the ceiling :rofl:

 

well mine arnt here yet but i got the arms reach co sleeper i hear it works out really well for awhile so were going to give that a shot!

 

my girls slept together in their co-sleeper until they were 2 months old and then we started the transition into their cribs. There were and still are many nights when one or even both end up in bed with us, but having them in their own room has helped all of us to sleep better. I have a video monitor that I recently turned the volume down on b/c I was getting up for every little peep-they are right across the hall, so I hear everything anyway...
Good luck and remember always do what is best for you and the babies...it took me a couple of days to stop chickening out and actually move them out of our room and the co-sleeper stayed up next to my bed for a good month before we packed it away!

 

Our's slept together in pnp until they were about 3-4 months old and then we transitioned them into their cribs in the nursery. We have the cribs right next to each other so they could still see each other thru the slats. Honestly it was more traumatic for me than them. They slept better apart in their own cribs.. and I slept better having them in another room so I didn't wake at every sound. GL!

 

We had them in their cribs by then. Pretty much soon as they came home we put them in their cribs. They adjusted easily, and I slept better. It worked for us.

 

PnP till 3 months then their cribs... I missed them being next to us but we adjusted...