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Tildie4

We were surprised by this pregnancy and even more so that we are expecting twins.  We don't want them to room with our other children.  The oldest is entering middle school and needs her own space.  The other is entering elementary and his room space is limited.  Therefore, we plan to have them share a crib in our room.  Is this going to be too disruptive to the babies sleeping and ours too?  Our older two always slept in their own rooms past the second month.  I know it's common for twins to sleep together and I hope they comfort eachother.  But I remember the noise one can make and how easily startled they can be by us.  Right now this is our only choice, but I don't know how long we can make it work.  Have any of you had to deal with this and how long were you able to make it work? 

natb22

I can't speak to how long this will work since mine are still only a few weeks old, but we have been living by the one up both up rule, so it isn't a huge deal if one wakes the other. The only exception is nap time during the day, but honsetly, when one cries the other usually sleeps through it like she is used to it. You can always nap them in different areas so they don't disturbe each other during the day.

As far as having them in your room with you, it will definately be easier for the first little while so you can easily feed them, but we've found we and they sleep better when they are in their own room so that we aren't waking up with their every sound.

Bethany06

Like pp I am no expert since my girls too are only a few weeks old.  But we started with them in our room in bassinets-we were up at every grunt, cry and movement. Just the other day we tried putting them in their cribs and its been so much nicer.  We look at the video monitor to see if they really need something or are just being noisy- and there is more room in their room to change diapers and feed them.  Girls with older twins may have better advice for you though!

bsmead

This is exactly what we plan on doing... for the first 6 months anyway.

We live in a 3 bedroom house, and while our older boys (4 & 6) could share a room now, we dont have the extra funds to buy bunkbeds. (we plan on doing this at tax time when we will move everyone to their new rooms)

Our plan for now (the babies arent here yet) is to have them share a crib in our room for a few months.  Hopefully we can keep them this way until around Christmas, but we will see.  Then at tax time we are buying bunkbeds for the older boys and new matching cribs for the twin boys.   I was a little sad because this is our first home and I finally have the means to decorate a nursery, but then I realized that we have had all our kids in our room for the first year anyway.

 

 

AlishaMay

We had both of our girls together in a co-sleeper next to my bed for the first 6 weeks.  At that point they began waking each other and DH and I up.  At that point, we moved them to separate cribs in a shared room, and they (and we) slept much better.  Our pedi was fine with them sleeping together at that point, but not much beyond.  She said that once they can start wiggling themselves around, they will gravitate toward each other, but won't have the ability to roll away from one another yet.

That said, you do what you need to do, and work with what you have.  Babies are far more adaptable, and flexible then we tend to give them credit for.  The only thing I would suggest is maybe looking at 2 mini cribs in your room, and invest in a white noise machine.  GL and congratulations!

MrsLnt

Tildie4:

We were surprised by this pregnancy and even more so that we are expecting twins.  We don't want them to room with our other children.  The oldest is entering middle school and needs her own space.  The other is entering elementary and his room space is limited.  Therefore, we plan to have them share a crib in our room.  Is this going to be too disruptive to the babies sleeping and ours too?  Our older two always slept in their own rooms past the second month.  I know it's common for twins to sleep together and I hope they comfort eachother.  But I remember the noise one can make and how easily startled they can be by us.  Right now this is our only choice, but I don't know how long we can make it work.  Have any of you had to deal with this and how long were you able to make it work? 

I don't think this is as common as it used to be.  Lots of people on this board are warned against their babies sharing a crib as a SIDS risk. 

If you're going to put them both in your room for awhile, I'd probably get mini co-sleepers so they can each have their own space.  By 3 months, mine we still swaddled but still could somehow move around the crib. 

We had ours in their own room, in their own crib from day 1.  Their room is next to ours so it wasn't appreciably farther at night to go in their room versus our room.  I think the short stretches of sleep we got were better because we had our room to ourselves.

AFaul

I think that initially this will be fine, although like PP said we slept a lot better once the girls were in a different room (they did lots of loud grunting). My girls have always slept through the other ones crying so I don't think they would wake each other up. But once my girls were 3 or 4 months they could somehow wiggle or roll all over their cribs. At this point I feel like 2 in one crib would have been disruptive to sleep and actually dangerous. Could you try 2 Pac'N'Plays in your room or 2 mini cribs?

Rangergal9

Our girls slept in the FP rock-n-plays in our room for the first 3 weeks.  Then they got too noisy so we just moved the RNPs into their room.  We had them sleep in those until about 3 months when we finally transitioned them to their cribs.  If you are tight for space hte RNPs take up less room than a crib!

amanda31H

The girls slept in our room in a full size crib that they shared until about 11 weeks.  After that I moved them to the nursery and in their own cribs.  Once we moved them, I realized we should have moved them earlier!! I couldn't have my kids in my room much past 8 weeks next time. 

Is your middle school child a boy also?  My brothers roomed together in middle school, it's no big deal.  That's what I'd do.

meldoo2002

The boys shared the original co-sleeper until they were about 4 months old and a crib for naps until they were about 6 months old.  Mine were late to develop motor skills, but once they started rolling we separated them.