Where will your babies sleep?

We are looking at buying the big items soon.. crib, double strollers, etc. We are planning to keep them in a porta crib in our room in the beginning and then in the same crib for awhile.. but how long? When should the twins go to separate cribs? I am sure there is no right or wrong answer just looking for ideas. We are having a boy and a girl. So I want separate bedding for the cribs but don't want to separate them too early! Thanks for the ideas!!

 

I kept both girls in one crib and had them in positioners and never had an issue with them. We just didn't have enough room in our room to put an extra anything in there. Plus, their door was just a few steps away from ours, so I felt totally comfortable them sleeping in there (I'm a really light sleeper as well). When they began rolling over is when I separated them into two cribs.

 

mine started out in my room and slept in the same PnP for the first month, then were in swings for the next 3 months and then we separated them into their own cribs in their room at 4 mos...

 

Hi Momof6...this is literally the last thing I am dragging my feet on!

We are having two wee girls and have two cribs set up in their nursery. Then we have a mini crib set up on the first floor. I think??? we are going to set up a portable crib in our room for an unspecified amount of time.

I REALLY, REALLY, REALLY want to get the 'Joovy Room2' for our room [and house, for sports events, taking to friends, everything really]...I have been obsessing about it, looking at pictures and colors and angles for over a month now...I just need to click 'BUY' already!!. The drawback is, from other Moms' experience, that if the babes are born via c-section, it may be hard to bend over into the Joovy [or a Pack n'Play]. These are our first babes so I do not know what is practical, realistic or totally overboard. Hmmmm.

In my mind's eye, I see the babes sleeping in our room for ___x___ number of days or months, then moving close by to the nursery and one shared crib for ____x____ months. Once they wake each other up we will then put them in separate cribs. From there I envision them sharing a room, never fighting, being best friends forever while under our roof until they move out at age 18 to join the local nunnery. :laughing:

Pretty much everyone has told me that the babes will let us know what works...and it will probably be nothing like we envision. Parenthood. YaY! Exciting.

 

We plan on keeping the twins in a Graco Twin bassinet pack n play(super cool item)for first few months, you don't have to bend over to get them if you are recovering from a c-section. We will then move them into seperate cribs so one won't roll over onto the other one. I've read to keeep them in seperate beds/bassinets(but still next to each other) to reduce the risk of SIDS. Good Luck!

 

Oh how I envisioned 2 babies sleeping in the same crib. And wow, did my Baby A HATE sleeping with his brother. B hated being cold and while swaddled would wiggle over to A and annoy the crap out of him. Our also got into a bouncy sear habit- they preferred sleeping at an angle verses on their backs. So... If I could do it again, I'd set up 2 cribs in their rooms for later, get a cosleeper for the bed (maybe 2- 1 on each side of the bed) and put a pnp in the living room for naps.

 

We used the twin pack n play for, oh say about 2 nights and then it was straight to their cribs. My house is small so things that weren't super necessary we got rid of, donated, etc. Fortunately the twins nursery shares a wall with our bedroom and I slept with the monitor next to my head every night for a bit.

 

If you have the space, I put a crib right next to my bed. We have a really high bed, so it was almost like a cosleeper.. I could easily roll over and get a baby out of the crib when it was time to feed in the middle of the night and it saved us a lot of trips down the hall and I could very easily feed them in bed. We separated them at 5 months when they were rolling around too much and disturbing each other at night.

 

We still have ours in the PNP in our bedroom. They'll be 4 months next week and just starting to wiggle around at night and while Anna (our big girl) sleeps through the night Ally (smaller) will still wake sometimes at night and bump into Anna - not always waking her up, but don't want to risk it! Probably in the next month I'll put them in the crib in their room! Then we'll have to look at borrowing a crib from my brother when they start rolling over.

Also, if you are recovering from a C-section - most PNP have a "high" setting and you can just reach without any problem.

 

We PLAN on putting them in the pnp in our room, they have thier own cribs in the nursery...Id LOVE for them to sleep there... in all honesty I KNOW that wont happen for a bit...with me nursing and the (lack) of sleep schedule our room seems to be the easiest... for DD she went through a month where she would only sleep in her swing? wierd, but hey she SLEPT so I was all about it.

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Our twins will share a crib in my bedroom for a while. Luckily it's a huge room with a sitting area and that's where we put the crib and still have room for a recliner and mini fridge and all the baby "stuff". We have a 3 bedroom house with a 4th room that is used as an office but my two teenagers occupy the other 2 bedrooms and for some reason they just aren't even open to the idea of sharing their bedrooms. LOL Our "plan" is to clean out that office and convert it into a play room/bedroom for the twins in a year or so but we will see. My DH is the procrastinator of the century and nothing gets done around here quickly.

 

A&R initally slept in a co-sleeper with all four sides up, kind of a basinette type of thing. That was fine for three weeks, then they moved into a crib. Together. They slept in the same crib until they were about six months old. I used a bolster pillow to separate them after a while. They sell crib separators now, I think I saw some on onestepahead.com.

If I had to do it again, I would skip the co-sleeper and get a porta-crib. They could have used that longer and one could have slept in it long term.

 

Mine slept in their room and shared a crib for the first 6 months. Our rooms are not big enough for two cribs, so when they outgrew sharing the one crib, they moved to separate rooms.

 

Mine were in the NICU for the first 2 months. When we brought them home they stayed in our room in the PNP for 2 months. At 4 months we moved them to their bedroom and put them in separate cribs. Actually DD slept for a bit in her infant carrier because she would not sleep on her back (used to being put on her tummy in the NICU). At 7 months we put them in separate bedrooms. :good:

 

I'm intending to have my twins share a crib with us for the 1st few months before separating them.

Were there any problems when they were separated?

 

Pediatric's recommend that they not co-bed because of SIDS. I have 2 boys and I put them in their own cribs as soon as they got home (they were 2 months premature and by the time I got them home they were 5 pounds each). My home is small so their bedroom crib is about 12 feet from my head but I got a summer video and sound monitor for piece of mind. My hubby could sleep through everything, but I found that I could hear every sniffle, snort, and movement - so I started turning the sound off just so I could sleep. I can't imagine having them in my bed or in my room - I would never have gotten any sleep. although they had bad acid reflux that peaked around 5 months of age and the only way I could get them to sleep at that point was putting them in laundry baskets on top of down pillows at a severe angle. We called them our "moses baskets" and kept them in our kind size bed between us because we were deathly afriad that they would suffocate. Needless to say - our pediatrician wasn't happy but at that point that was all i could figure out to get them to sleep. It worked for about 2 months until the basket became too short and I had to transition them back to the cribs.

Whatever you start with, just be prepared to be flexible.

 

Be prepared that what you hope/think will happen may not. My girls hated being close to each other and still do at 18 months. They slept in the top of the pack and play with something in between them so they would not touch until 8 weeks old, and then we transitioned to two cribs in their room. It would go great some nights and other nights they would end up in the bed with me or I would take one and DH would take one. They did nap in the pack and play until their combined weight was about 22 pounds.....maybe three months or so. Good luck trying to figure it all out!!

 

The boys have 2 cribs in their room that are L shaped in a corner of the nursery. They were tiny at birth since they were 5 weeks premature so it was easy to put them on opposite sides of the same crib without risk of them touching each other. I want to say they slept on opposite sides of the same crib until about 4 months. The transition was easy for me. They didn't have separation anxiety or anything like that. However, they did spend 7 and 10 days in separate places while in the Pediatric Intensive Care.

RE: the SIDS issue and co-sleeping, my DH works in public safety in fire rescue as a fire fighter/EMT and has been to numerous classes and seminars regarding SIDS. From the scientific point of view, SIDS is something that is totally unexplainable and cannot be explained or prevented. Most of the declared SIDS cases are actually due to suffocation, which is why the Pediatrics Association would recommend not to use co-sleepers or sleep positioners. I know it's pretty controversial but it's not an issue of SIDS it's an issue of suffocation.

 

Our boys stayed in a pack n play in our room for about the 1st 2 wks. After that I just wasn't really getting any sleep listening to all of their noises. We moved the twins into a nursery and our older 3 shared the 3rd bdrm. They slept in the full size crib together for 21 months. We finally moved them to a bottom twin size bunk (head on each end) that they shared for another 2 yrs or so and then they transitioned up to a full size bottom bunk, where they still sleep now at newly turned 6. They've never been separated and do not want to be separated. I just figure at some point they'll want their own beds. I mean.....how many 25 yr old twins do you sleeping together? LOL!

I figure we'll do the same with these 2 too.

 

My first twins slept in my room for 4 weeks then in 1 crib until 6 mo. After that we set up the other crib and seperated them.

 

My boys shared a crib in their own room until about 3 months. My twin A, Nathaniel was a mover at night, and kept going over to William. I was afraid he would smoother him, so I seperated them.

 

Both my sets of twins slept together.

A&E slept together in the same crib till transitioning to toddler beds (but found them together till about age 3).

D&D slept in a double wide cradle till 4 months and then went to a shared crib. Soon I will try to put them in separate beds in the same room (they are 20mo now).