Newborn Twin Sleeping Arrangements??

chica180

Hello there

My husband and I are trying to figure out where our twins will sleep when we first bring them home. We really want to have sleep together for as long as possible.  We have a pack n play with bassinet, but it only holds up to 15lbs. It will probably work for a little while, but we're not sure what do after that.  We orginally thought we'd set one crib up in our room and they'd sleep together there.  But we just realized that it won't fit through the door, so to move it into their room when the time comes, we'd have to take it apart and reassemble it. (something I've heard is a royal pain!!)  If anyone has any suggestions, I would really appreciate it.  Thanks!

Shelley-Bean

You can look on craigslist for a bassinet, or a cradle.  My father is making me a cradle and I'm putting that in our bedroom and they will share it. When they grow out of that, they will move to their cribs.

Good luck!

~~emily~~

I am having my twins in a couple of weeks, and I plan on putting them both in the pack n play beside my bed until they get too big  then moving them to the crib. I will probably have them sleep together in one crib until they start rolling over or get into different sleeping patterns. Hope that helps and good luck

GSwans

~~emily~~:

I am having my twins in a couple of weeks, and I plan on putting them both in the pack n play beside my bed until they get too big? then moving them to the crib. I will probably have them sleep together in one crib until they start rolling over or get into different sleeping patterns. Hope that helps and good luck

This is exactly what we did. ?Moved them out of the PNP bassinets and into a shared crib at 3 weeks, and then just recently separated them into separate cribs when they started wiggling/moving too much in their sleep.?

ougrad1

We have two pack and plays but, they're sleeping much better in their bouncy seats so, that's where they are sleeping for now.  

 

I think you'll find that you'll put them anywhere it is that they will sleep in the beginning through trial and error.   

 

My little girl has moved around WAY to much from the very beginning to let them sleep together.

 

 

bkjcwedding

My little guys slept next to our bed in their Rock n Plays until the grunting and general noisyness cause me to kick them out.  They now sleep in their room in their Little Lamb seats. 

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We had one in our room.  DH had to disassemble to move into our room and again to move it back into the nursery.  It really wasn't that hard, it probably took him 15 minutes or so.  We had them in our room for about the first 6.t months or so and it was worth it.  I miss having them in there, every morning they'd wake up and look over into our bed and smile at us.

mamam

ougrad1:

We have two pack and plays but, they're sleeping much better in their bouncy seats so, that's where they are sleeping for now.  

 

 

OMG this is us!  They live in the bouncers so much I'm worried about their spines. The pack n play is in our room but has become the storage area for extra diapers, clothes, blankets since we're upstairs and their room is downstairs.  I'm guessing I will get a 2nd PNP at some point because I don't want to move them to their rooms until they are sleeping in large blocks during the night.

macchiatto

My boys shared an Arm's Reach Original Cosleeper (goes up to 30 lbs so its better for twins than a PnP) at first. They would've outgrown a shared PnP by about 3 weeks; they gained rapidly in the early months. We actually ended up moving them to a shared crib in their room much earlier than we had planned though. They were awake so much at night and made so much noise even when they were sleeping that we moved them to the nursery after less than 2 weeks; DH and I slept in shifts after that until they started STTN.

OrangeSmoke

They shared a PnP in our room until about a week ago when they hit the 15lb limit.  We;ve since moved them into their own room and now they share a crib.

They love their bouncys but I can't wrap my head around letting them sleep in it all night.  Somehow all day is fine, but not all night.  Just my craziness I guess.

BTW, it's not that hard to take apart and put together a crib.  We've done it a few times, it takes dh about a hour.

chica180

Thanks everyone for the suggestions! Seems like we have lots of options and I have a feeling we'll figure it through trial and error.

regenab

We put ours straight to cribs at night when they came home from the hospital. But during the day they slept together in a PNP downstairs (we had 2 floors). I used the bassinet part for only about 3 weeks and then they got too close to that 15lb weight limit and then I just put them in the PNP together without the bassinet. They napped together in the PNP until about 9 weeks old and that is when I started working on getting them to nap in their cribs during the day just like at night. So I would think you could use just one PNP for the both of them without the bassinet part for the first 8-10 weeks and then if you want to keep them in your room some more maybe look on craigs list and see if someone is selling a used PNP cheap or hit a yardsale for a second PNP. Honestly if you are planning on traveling in the next 2 years with them you are probably going to need a second PNP anyway. So if you find a good deal I would pick up a second one.

E&RMommy

Totally trial and error to see what works for you! 

Our babies each have a bassinet.  For the first three weeks at home, they slept together in one bassinet (babies were small enough to lay side ways instead of length wise so we could fit them in it together).  Now that they are getting a little bigger and mobile, they are each in their own bassinet.  Ever since they started the 3 week growth spurt and were eating every 1.5 - 2 hours around the clock, they've spent more time in bouncy chairs between feedings.  They seem to really like them, and from what I can read it's too early to start bad habits.

As far as where they are located....they are in the living room.  DH and I split up the night shift, so the parent caring for the babies sleeps out there (if they can even get any sleep in!).  Our master bedroom is also downstairs making the other parent only a shout away if help is needed.  It's important that we get solid sleep while it's the other's turn, so that's why the babies are not in our bedroom (they are too nosiy and never sleep solidly until the next feeding).  When DH is caring for them I come out and pump on the couch and then go right back to sleep. 

At some point we will transition them to upstairs where their nursery is located.  We are going to purchase a microwave and a small refrigerator so that we don't have to go up and down the stairs in the night (I am EPing so being able to make bottles easily will help).

Good luck!  It's really just trial and error.  I would have loved to nurse them; that would make life much easier.  But they never really got it, and I am headed back to work.  If I could have nursed them at night they probably would have stayed in our room.