Moving babies to their cribs - advice please!

Wantastickybaby

Our girls have been sleeping in a pack 'n play, swing, or bouncy seats since they came home from the hospital.  We plan to move them to their cribs this weekend and I'm feeling really nervous!

For one thing, it's been really easy to pop their pacifiers back in when they're sleeping two feet away from where we're watching t.v.  I'm afraid we'll be running around like maniacs from the living room to the nursery to replace pacifiers.

Also, what if they don't like sleeping in the cribs?  They're so comfy in their seats and I'm not sure they'll like being in the big cribs...

They're sleeping between 3-4.5 hours at night and we think they would do better in the nursery (the cats have been waking them up by wrestling in the living room near where they sleep).

I'm babbling because I'm tired, but any advice on transitioning twins to the nursery?  One crib or two at first?  Do we put them down with their pacifiers in, even though they'll fall out and the girls might want them replaced?  Any other suggestions?  I'm really nervous that we've gotten into a good rhythm and we're about to ruin it (but we think it's worth a try because we're hoping the girls will sleep better).

Thanks & Happy Thanksgiving! 

lisa&andy

I can't help with transitioning to their cribs, we started ours out in the cribs. But I would put them in their own seperate cribs, they have been sleeping in their swings and bouncy seats so they haven't been having that closeness, plus they are getting to an age where they are going to wiggle and move around, possibly waking the other. As for the paci's, we put ours down with them in their mouths, we do drowsy but awake, and if we see/hear that they have lost it and are starting to get worked up looking for it, we will go put it back in. Otherwise, we just leave it out and they will fall asleep. Once they are asleep, it falls out and we will go move it. Have you been swaddling when they sleep? I would start/keep doing it when you move them to their cribs, it may make it an easier transition. Good luck!

AlpacaBunny

Our babies have been in their crib from the start, but we do still have issues with getting them settled and with pacis.  Jack takes his paci at bed time, Caroline does not.  And yes, we do have to go in there a million times to replace the paci or now to roll them back over, or reposition them in the crib b/c they are rolling all over.  Ours are in the same crib, have been since we came home.  I think they do great in there.  Yours might like to be in the same crib since they are so used to being more snuggled in with the bouncy seat or swing, they might like to just have each other nearby.  We also have the bear that makes heartbeat sounds in the room with them, and that seems to help them.  Good luck!  I hope it goes well.

CateElizabeth

Sorry I don't have an answer for you, but how did they do in the Pack 'n' Play together?  I am trying to decide whether to register for a PNP for them to sleep in together at first (which I could then use as a play yard later), or if a co-sleeper is a better choice.  I also have 2 bouncers (vibrating seats) on the registry!

RobynK

We just made the switch cold turkey at about the same age as your babies and they went into seperate cribs in the nursery.  The first week you will be scared and want to check on them all of the time, for this I suggest investing in a video monitor so you can look at them without waking them by opening a door.

After a week you will start really sleeping well again for those few hours your girls are asleep and you'll wonder why it took you so long to move them....I promise

They may even surprise you and not need their paci's - you can start with them in but who knows, maybe they will grunt a few times when they fall out and you won't hear them and then they will go back to sleep...it could happen!

RobynK

CateElizabeth:

Sorry I don't have an answer for you, but how did they do in the Pack 'n' Play together?  I am trying to decide whether to register for a PNP for them to sleep in together at first (which I could then use as a play yard later), or if a co-sleeper is a better choice.  I also have 2 bouncers (vibrating seats) on the registry!

Mine slept fine in the PNP together on and off for 2.5 months (also in their swings or bouncy seats).  We had one downstairs for naps and some nights and one upstairs....you can't go wrong with a PNP and they are great for traveling when the kids get older so they have a place to sleep.

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we just moved the twins to their cribs- after 5mos of sleeping right next to us in bedside cosleepers - and its hard to have to get up and walk into their room if one of them starts to fuss- since we're so used to just reaching over!

Thankfully they don't wake much at all anymore - the first few nights they both woke a lot - just needed pacis --- but now they are used to it and last night - nobody woke at all- whew!

make sure they are swaddled really good.  Gibby sleeps better if he feels confined a bit- so we got one of those sleep positioners that just has an edge on both sides of him- i think he felt too "lost" in the big crib without it. Now he's doing great.

They have nice "Dreams in Sight" projection mobiles so they can see it spinning even in the dark- which helps them go right to sleep - we put them down drowsy but awake.

Also- a white noise machine = great!