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Twins sharing room

Kinda Sucks.  We aren't moving until next spring and will get a four bedroom house.  Until then, our girls have to share a room.  We have a pnp in our bedroom and one in a ( very clean) laundry room. We usually have to have them nap separate bc one goes to sleep right away but the other will stay up and fuss. At night, they usually fall asleep separate then we transfer the one in the pnp to her crib. They usually sttn. But, if one wakes, we have to put her in the pnp in our room, them I will go sleep with my son bc I can't sleep in the same room as baby, or we use the pnp in the laundry room. We can't put the pnp anywhere else bc the downstairs has really high ceilings and you hear everything. It would just be so much easier if they had their own rooms. They can listen to the other fuss but only for short periods of time. Is anyone else in the same situation? How did you work it out? I know I'm lucky bc they sleep great at night and one takes two 2.5 hour naps a day, but I just feel bad putting one in the pnp sometimes...and it's always the same baby ... Can't wait to move out of this house.

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  • Ours have learned to tune each other out.....they have had no other choice. 

    ETA:  Both our old and new houses have 4 bedrooms.  So we still have 2 extra bedrooms.  The benefit now is that they talk to each other and keep each other company while awake.  We will split them eventually but only when forced.  We just got through the "tough times" and worked through it. 

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  • my singletons have shared a room since my youngest was 2mo old. i shared  a room with my sister until i was twelve and then still went to her bedroom at night because i couldnt sleep (and im the older one). the twins will share a room as long as they possibly can.
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  • We could have split our two up too but have decided to have them share a room. I've read a lot of GOOD things about sharing a room. Plus I won't have to have two changing tables, two dressers, two baby monitors, etc.
  • What are the positives? I'm going to research this a bit now. 

    Pits comforting though that so many of you have chosen this and/or like it. 

  • imagegablegurl:
    We could have split our two up too but have decided to have them share a room. I've read a lot of GOOD things about sharing a room. Plus I won't have to have two changing tables, two dressers, two baby monitors, etc.

     

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  • The triplets have shared a room since they came home, they napped in their room at the same time up until we moved them to big kid beds at 3. The girls will probably always share, but we have a 3rd bedroom that is the "boys room" but Xander is not ready to be without his sisters yet.
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  • I cannot imagine ever separating my girls.  My sister and I shared a room and my twin sisters shared a room.  It's almost like a right to passage.  Sharing a room means having someone to play giant or smell my feet when your supposed to be asleep. It means having someone to tell your secrets to or bug the crap out of you when your trying to sleep.  It teaches you how to share, how to tolerate someone in your space.  It prepares you for dorm life and roommates.  Most of all it gives you the gift having someone who knows you and your dirty socks under your bed.   

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  • Our babies have shared a room from day one, they just started sleeping in seperate cribs about three weeks ago.  We have three bedrooms but only two are upstairs and I'm not ready for them to be farther away so I figured as long as we are in this house they will be together.  The good thing is that they don't seem to be bothered when one is aeake and one is sleeping.  I hope it stays that way!!!! :)
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  • My boys have shared a room forever - it actually works out really well for us because they can play with each other and keep each other company (from their separate cribs).  They are able to sleep through each other's wake ups, and if they don't they go back to sleep very easily.  I think they'd be lost if I separated them - we have a 3 BR, but the 3rd is our computer/catch all room.  I'd love to keep them together as long as possible.
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  • We're in a 2BR so they have always shared a room. They did get used to tuning each other out. Sure there are times when they wake each other up or keep each other up but it's awfully darn cute listening to the conversations they have when they're in bed for the night or when they first wake up. :)
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  • We live in a tiny 1920s 2 bedroom bungalow. Our girls share a room, and one can literally scream her head off and her sister won't even stir. I think they just got used to each other because they had no other option. Kids having their own rooms is a pretty new development, historically. Even my sister and I shared rooms until we were in high school. Kids are amazingly adaptive. They learn to sleep through a lot in a shared room.

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  • So far they seem to sleep through each others noises, but if one is flat out crying we will usually get them. We haven't sleep trained or CIO or what have you.

    We live in a very small 1950's house, and won't likely be moving until they start school, so they will be sharing for quite a while.

    I think I got my own room when I was 12. Otherwise I shared with my brother who was 5 years younger than me. My H shared a room (and a bed) with his brother when he was really little. Once ours get out of toddler bed and if we are in the same house, we might do the same. Two twin beds won't fit in their room.

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  • My boys share a room, and I plan for them to do so permanantly.  From time to time we've had to separate them and use a pack and play for that.  But they're now sleeping through the night most of the time and don't bother each other.  Typically if one does wake the other up, he goes right back to sleep once his crying brother is taken out of the room.
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  • imageE&RMommy:

    Ours have learned to tune each other out.....they have had no other choice. 

    ETA:  Both our old and new houses have 4 bedrooms.  So we still have 2 extra bedrooms.  The benefit now is that they talk to each other and keep each other company while awake.  We will split them eventually but only when forced.  We just got through the "tough times" and worked through it. 

    this ... our girls wake up at 7am but will chill in their cribs in their room and entetain each other for an HOUR if not more...   one is a cryer and one is not and it does not seem to bother here very rarely do they wake eachother up

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  • Our twins and toddler share a room and they have learned to tune eachother out.
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