Anyone separate their twins

jbl126

I am thinking I may have to do this sooner rather than later.  Ava tends to be a better sleeper than Lauryn who now likes to wake up a couple times a night.  I want to try and let her put herself back to sleep but I can only let her go for so long since I do not want her waking Ava.  Same with naps.  I really want to keep them in the same room for awhile but this waking each other up is for the birds!

PianoPlayingSarah

My girls will be 3 in April and we are going to move them to their own rooms within the next few months.  They can sleep through one of their sisters crying but they do wake each other a lot.

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we have no choice- we live in a 3BR house - and with 3 kids - that means 2 will always have to share.

I shared with my sister from birth until about age 7. 

If you have the extra room- I see nothing wrong with splitting them- but you can also make it work with them together, too- people do it all the times with twins and kids of different ages, too.

macchiatto

Goldie_Locks_5:

we have no choice- we live in a 3BR house - and with 3 kids - that means 2 will always have to share.

I shared with my sister from birth until about age 7. 

If you have the extra room- I see nothing wrong with splitting them- but you can also make it work with them together, too- people do it all the times with twins and kids of different ages, too.

Ditto this. We also have no choice (2 kids, 2bdrm house) but you can make it work if you have to. If you don't have to, it's worth trying to separate them. 

gumiberg

yes, because my son will sleep 12 hours if my daughter doesnt wake him.  he actually does a great job sleeping through her night wakings, but i find that i treat her differently (ie feed her instead of soothe her) to get her quiet more quickly when he is in the room.

and for naps, one usually goes down easily and one goes down with a fight (which one is which depends on the day) so i seperate them for naps as well.

i am hoping to eventually reunite them though.

NJLH

Unfortunately, I had to split the girls aroun 8 months...they constantly woke each other. I hated doing it. One is in the nice nursery and one in the guest room, which we really need to renovate (its on our long list of things to do)!

nbjenni

I did when they were younger b/c Natalie would STTN and Audrey would wake up several times. Now, they share the same room and usually sleep through each other talking/playing/yelling.

carissasmom

Mine are even still in the same crib, but do whatever works best for you!  Mine are always going to have to share as we only have 2 children bedrooms and my DD is in the 2nd.  Until they are old enough to have a room in the basement they will share a room.

Trixie6717

We had to temporarily do it last week. L was teething bad and waking up every hour. He started waking up A. So we set up the pack n play in our bedroom for L and left A in his room. A STTN every night after that. Over the weekend L started sleeping better so we moved him back into their room and they both STTN last night. (With the exception of A waking up at 3 because he peed through his diaper, but I change him and he goes right back to sleep thank goodness.)

groovygrl

I've debated it b/c DS can STTN & DD can't & if she cries out loudly will wake him up, but so far he seems to be able to go back to sleep without excess soothing etc. 

It sounds stupid but the biggest barrier to me having tried it before he started STTN (when I suspected he could but she was waking him) is the cribs...they don't fit through the door & the thought of disassembling & reassembling is a nightmare, it took a professional furniture delivery guy 1 1/2 hrs to assemble it so I can only imagine what would happen if MH & I tried.