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transitioning twins to toddlers beds and sharing room
For those of you that have already done this, how did your LO's do with sharing a room in beds. I am worried they won't sleep and keep each other up at night and during naps. Just wanted to get some thoughts from MoM's who have been here.
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Re: transitioning twins to toddlers beds and sharing room
Oh cr@p. I saw the heading of this post and thought YAY! someone will say what worked and that what you experienced didn't happen! H is really starting to look like she'll be climbing out soon...so we're still formulating our plan A while we have time. Guess we might need plan B (and maybe a C just for good measure)!
In our situation, it turned out okay...at night. Once we cover them up at night, they are in bed. Sometimes someone will fuss for a little bit, but they stay in bed 99% of the time. When they wake up in the mornings they basically stay in bed for the most part too and play.
Naps are a completely different story, but I think we were in trouble before we transitioned to toddler beds. They sleep great at daycare during the week, but on the weekends they will play (and not stay in bed) for quite a while. However, they were pretty much doing that in their cribs too (other than the getting out of bed part of course!). I've basically either resigned myself to driving around if they really need a nap or just enjoying them falling asleep relatively early on weekend nights. :-)
***Twin fraternal girls born at 35w6d in 12/2008***
Whenever this question arises, I like to respond with a link to a blog post describing our first day of big girl beds.
https://thegreatumbrellaheist.blogspot.com/2010/01/toddler-beds-day-one.html
First, naps for us went to hell around 2.5. If I want them to nap, I need to sit in their room until they fall asleep. I moved their nap back a bit, and now I only sit in their for 15 minutes or so. It's worth it to me because we're all happier with a nap in.
We moved to toddler beds just before three. One of my girls climbed out of her crib once, but I nipped that in the bud quickly because I was dreading this transition. At that age, we had a few weeks of transition but it wasn't too bad. Now though, they've started to love playing together during the day which continues into the night. It takes usually around an hour for them to fall asleep. I refuse to sit in their room and police this, since they need to learn how to do this on their own eventually. Some nights it's not too bad, other nights they drive me bonkers because they are out of their room every five minutes telling me something. Once they're asleep, they're out for the night though.