Where do you plan to have the babies sleep?

It was our intentions to have the babies sleep in their crib from the first night. The nursery is right next to our bedroom. What is everyone else going to do?

 

We got a co-sleeper and will use it for both babies until they get too big, as I am hoping to breastfeed and that'll make night feeds easier.

 

We purchased the arm's reach co-sleeper. So, right next to me, in the bed! I co-slept with both of my other sons (literally in my bed). I figured two in the bed is too much. Especially because their father is a deep, deep, deep, deep sleeper :lazy: *LOL*. I know ONE baby does not equal TWO babIES...so we'll see how co-sleeping and breastfeeding in bed works for us. I'm not assuming anything at this point :unknw: .

angel

 

i HOPING to co-sleep. either with an arms reach co-sleeper, or the graco pack and play that has two bassinets...i guess the pack n play isnt really co-sleeping. but i want them right next to the bed. im going to ATTEMPT to breastfeed, but this is my first pregnancy, so who knows what will happen!

 

The boys will sleep in their room, which is right next to ours. Don't feel comfortable having them in our room, as it is the coldest room in the house. Old house, insulation is not that great. I room can get freezing and I don't want the boys sleeping in that, their room is nice and warm.

Dianna

 

In their cribs. I had DS sleep in the pack and play next to my bed as I was the most paranoid mom on the planet... didn't help that he had bad reflux and had to sleep on an incline. But with these, we will be using the Angel Care monitors that my BFF used for her twins. They gave her the peace of mind and sleep she needed to help make it through those rough first 3 months.

The twins will have the bedroom across the hall from us.

 

we have two pack and plays, one on either side of the bed. We're planning to BF, so having them in our room will make it easier. When they are sleeping for longer periods, we'll move them to their own room.

 

They will be sleeping together in the co-sleeper. I'm hoping this will make breastfeeding easier, plus we will have visitors who will stay in the nursery, so they do need to sleep near us

 

We are having them sleep in the same crib in our bedroom. We have a second crib, but it is upstairs in the nursery which is far away from our room. We eventually plan on having them in their own cribs in the nursey but not right away. With BF I think it would be too hard to go up and down the stairs all the time.

 

They will be in our room in the Pack N Play next to our bed. I wouldn't be surprised if when they outgrow that, we move one of the cribs in the room! I like them close for the first few months or so.

 

Our plan was to keep them in their bassinets next to our bed for a few weeks. We did just that and it worked wonderfully. Then when they were able to wake, eat, and fall RIGHT back to sleep at night, we put them in a mini-crib in our room together (size of a pack n play that was on loan). At three months we transitioned them to their own room, where they shared a crib for another month.

 

Mine slept in a portable crib in our room for the first 3 months (together), then we moved them into 1 crib in their room and eventually two cribs.

 

We have the arm's reach co-sleeper and sometimes they both sleep in it, sometimes one sleeps in it and our high-needs boy is in our bed with me, and sometimes BOTH are in our bed! We've just ordered Amby beds to try to help our fussy boy. Those will be in our room as well. We didn't move DD to her own room until 9 months, and will probably do the same with the boys.

 

My BIL & SIL bought us the double pack n play that we plan to have in our room until we move them into their room. We have two cribs, but will probably start with one...but we honestly have no clue what we're doing!

 

I plan on using the Pack-n-Play in our room for the first few weeks, then they will transistion to their cribs. I did this with my 3 other babies and it worked great! So, hopefully this will work for the twins as well!

 

I think you'll find that your plans change repeatedly...even hourly.
We were living in a temp apartment and had 2 bassinets on loan. For nighttime sleep, they started in one, but woke each other. So into separate bassinets. Sometimes they slept next to us in the bed, sometimes on our chests. Eventually they slept in their carseats because it helped with the reflux. They eventually transitioned to their cribs at about 3 months old. This was a godsend because I found that I could notsleep with them in the room. Every snort or sigh woke me up.

Be prepared to do what works...no matter how crazy it is. Aaron spent most naps in the swing until at least 6 months of age.

 

We have a single bassinet in our room that will slide up right next to the bed for the first few weeks while I'm recovering from c-section. I'll be able to do night feedings without getting up. Then they will be in their own room once I'm fully recovered - just down the hall - in one crib at first.

I did not sleep well wth my DD in our room and she quickly moved down the hall so we could all sleep better!

Angela

 

We had the girls in bassinets in our room and they also slept with us part of the night. I didn't want to go to another room to feed them a few times a night and I also didn't want to disassemble the cribs to get them into our room. If I had realized that the cribs wouldn't fit out the door, I just would have had Paul assemble them in our room in the first place.

Dax slept with us at night and in his crib at naps. He went to his crib full time about 2 months ago.

 

We had the cosleeper because I intended to breastfeed. When that did not workout, I still wanted them next to me. It ended up that their startle relex always woke them up when they laid flat so that is when they began to sleep in a swing and/or carseat. They slept in their carseat until just over 4 months. They also had reflux so sleeping on an incline was something they also needed.

 

For the first two months my boys slept wherever whenever (swings, bouncy chairs, pack&play, cribs). I had planned to have them sleeping their cribs from day one, but it just didn't work that way. i would just be flexible and see how things go. My boys have been sleeping together in their twin pack&play for the past month and they just started STTN, but tonight I plan to put them in their cribs. We will see how it goes.

 

CoSleep! We do have a ArmsReach Mini sleeper and I will likely be in the bed myself with the babies.
DH and Lilly may go into the "nursery" to the Full size bed there.

 

PNP in our room for the first month till the colic set in, then swings in our room through the summer (AC window unit) then put them in the cribs at 4 months in their own rooms and they're still in the cribs (separate - they move too much at night to be in the same crib)...

 

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It was our intentions to have the babies sleep in their crib from the first night. The nursery is right next to our bedroom. What is everyone else going to do?

I've been thinking about this a lot. We have some baby stuff from our 1st baby- regular pack n play and bassinet worked
very well for us. Bassinett first 3 months right next to me when we went to bed. And downstairs was the pak-n-play
for during the day and just hanging out watching TV ext. But now being in a new house with a different floor plan
I'm so confused. We plan on getting a night nurse the first 2 months. My family is getting me the twin pak n play from
Babies R US. We'll use that and I guess move it around when need be. And have the other one as well for another
room. The bassinet worked great for me with my first child, but they say twins like to be together? Later,around 3 months
or so I will move them to the crib and with in a few months after that I'll get another crib so their in their own crib.
Hope this helps. I'm trying to figure it out too.

 

I would love to have them both sleep with us in the bed, and we've actually looked into getting a king sized bed, as DH and I are both king sized ppl (he's 6'4" and I'm 6'). BUT, we have 1 crib in our room and one in the nursery, so they will probably be sharing a crib in our room, so DH can get them to me in the middle of the night to BF. Crib is even on his side When they are older, they will go into their own cribs in the nursery. Just as an aside, DS slept with me until he was 8.5mths old.

 

We got one of the graco pack n plays with the twin bassinets. They'll be in our room at night until we establish a good nightly feeding schedule, then move them into their crib... at least thats our plan.

 

My twins are 10 days old...
And my room is huge so I share it with the babies. They are both in one crib for right now. And they RARELY sleep in the bed with me. For an hour if anything at all.

So in the crib, in the same room.
One of my babies is very loud and fussy and the other is quite and it doesn't seem to bother either one when they're fussy- they sleep right through it!!

 

i had a cradle i intended to use in my room at first, but it was too low. it hurt immediatley after the c-sect to try to bend over that far to lift them. So they were in the cribs in their room from the 1st night at home. we had them room-in in the hospital one night with us and I couldn't deal with all the little squeaks and grunts right next to me.

For some inane reason I wasn't comfortable having them sleep in the PNP at night when i would be sleeping.

 

We're going to use a co-sleeper for the first few months at least or until they're sleeping through the night. We did that with our dd and it worked out good, so we're hoping it does again.

 

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i had a cradle i intended to use in my room at first, but it was too low. it hurt immediatley after the c-sect to try to bend over that far to lift them. So they were in the cribs in their room from the 1st night at home. we had them room-in in the hospital one night with us and I couldn't deal with all the little squeaks and grunts right next to me.

For some inane reason I wasn't comfortable having them sleep in the PNP at night when i would be sleeping.

Glad to read this, have been feeling like a horrible mother as reading this thread, with not even planning on them sleeping in our room.

Dianna

 

Rachel (20m) is still co-sleeping with us ... I hope to have her moved into her toddler bed (at the foot of our bed) by the time the babies get here. Of course, I'm working on weaning her, as well ... this is all slow-going ....

I'm planning on setting both babies up in the Pack N Play bassinette, right next to the bed ....
I thought about the Arm's Reach co-sleeper, too ...

 

Well I had a pack & play in my room, and there cribs all set up, I THOUGHT I was all ready. I ended up pulling the mattress pad off my bed so S/O could sleep (he had to work early) and slept on the floor in there room with them. The first 6ish weeks you do what you have to to "survive" or at least get SOME sleep. The best way for the girls was us together, they slept MUCH better that way, and before I had them I was anti-cosleeping lol.

 

Our twins will sleep in their own room as long as there are not any problems. Our first child did that and has been in her own crib/bed since day one and we have never had any problems getting her to go into her room or go down for naps. She is almost 3 now.

 

we used bassinetts with rollers on the bottom and mobiles. They were great and we just rolled them around the house wherever we were since in the beginnning all they do is sleep. Since mine were so little at birth between 4 and 5 lbs they slept in them for months.

 

We're getting the double PNP for our room, since I am planning to breastfeed. Then, when they can sleep for more than a few hours at a time we will move them into their room. It worked with DD, so we are planning to do the same this time.