1 or 2 nurseries?

salsamcg · August 2014

Hi all

Thought I'd stop lurking for a minute to ask how you all handled nurseries. I didn't see anything posted, but it's possible I missed it.

We're due in January with our first 2 and are planning on doing 2 separate nurseries. The 2 rooms are like a foot from each other. Obviously they'll probably be in our room for the first few montha, but after that we thought it would be easier to go ahead and separate them, rather than making it harder to do in the future. Did anyone else do this, or is 1 nursery preferred? We'll definitely have 2 cribs as I've read it can be unsafe for them to share, and I'll go ahead and admit I'm going to be a nervous ma! haha

On a separate note, we've decided on the Chicco Cortina Together stroller and KeyFit seats. Any thoughts/tips? Thanks!

ETA: spelling, detail

Ylvelill · August 2014

We have one nursery and one playroom. They are currently in one crib with our pediatricians blessing

salsamcg · August 2014

@Ylvelill how long will you be using the one crib?

salsamcg · August 2014

@Happy_Yahoo_Personaler lol @ cat checking the room. I know the feeling. My husband thinks we can fit 2 of everything in 1 of the rooms but I'm not so sure! Idk how he'll feel once we find out the sexes.

Bigboneded · August 2014

In my experience as a nurse, twins prefer to be together. We will be keeping ours together, probably until they are old enough to need/desire their own rooms

Ylvelill · August 2014

@kcm187‌ They are currently 8 weeks and in crib in our room. We figure once they get mobile we will split them and move them to the nursery.

salsamcg · August 2014

Thanks for the input ladies

I'll have to pass it on to DH. January's coming up fast and we need to get started!

jfoster516 · August 2014

I'm having triplets so we had no choice but to do 2 nurseries. That being said luckily we are having bbg so we just sperate by gender. They will all sleep in the and crib at first and we will sperate them when they start moving.

carrotcake06 · August 2014

The twins share a room and we have an older one as well. All boys.

I prefer my kids in their own room from the day come home from the hospital. I'm not against room sharing or even bed sharing, but it never worked out for us. Newborns are noisy sleepers and everyone got more sleep in separate rooms.

We have 3 bedrooms and they are all pretty large (we recently moved from a very small 3 bedroom - the third bedroom was maybe 50sf. Not kidding). We'll be in out new house for a while but it's likely not forever, so if everyone wants their own room down the line, so be it.

Having them in the same room as babies is more convenient than anything else. Tandem feedings, plus one dresser, changing table and glider. The only bedroom thing you need two of is a crib.

LittleLady77 · August 2014

Our twins share a room. We have the space for them each to have their own but it is so much easier to have them together. Only 1 changing table, 1 video monitor, 1 sound machine, 1 humidifier etc. we do story time at night and I'm just not sure how you would do that when you split them up. In the end, they don't wake each other up and they love being together. I'm all for one room.

pinkmickey24 · August 2014

We have one room for the boys. They were born in May and crib shared until the end of January. They started waking up in the middle of the night so we separated them and they went back to sleeping through the night. It's nice in the mornings because they entertain one another if they wake up before I am ready to get them ready for daycare.

Jenn06L80 · August 2014

I would love to have two nurseries but we don't have enough rooms in our house. Our ties will always share unless we love.

We do have two cribs in the room and one dresser for them to share. Right now A is in her crib and J is still in the rock n play in our room.

Mama-Bear · August 2014

Mine are 4.5 (will be 5 in December) and have ALWAYS shared a room. They shared a crib until they were around 8m when they started waking each other. DH thinks we'll separate them someday in the future but I don't see that in the plans anytime soon.

Dragonfly1226 · August 2014

Our twins slept in one crib in our room for the first three months. Then they moved to their room, which they share. They still share a room. We have an extra room, but it is so much easier to put them down for naps and to bed in one room instead of having to go back and forth between rooms. The shared room also made MOTN nursing sessions easier because we did one up, both up anyway. They don't wake each other up - even if one is fussing or crying. We have a fourth bedroom but are keeping K&A together and using the fourth as a guest bedroom.

LegallyBlonde217 · August 2014

My b/g twins just turned 2 and they're still in the same room. We're moving to a new house next month with plenty of bedrooms, but I still plan to put them in the same room. They love being together. They wake up in the mornings and talk to each other. By the time I get in there, they are cracking up at each other and having a morning party. I think they do a lot of twin bonding in their room. I have no idea when I'll separate them, but I assume DD will want her own space at some point.

curlylocks3 · August 2014

We have one. Our third bedroom is a guest room and H does work at the desk in there on weekends. Down the line it theoretically could be made into a bedroom for one of them but by then I suspect we will have moved. I plan to keep them in the same room for a few years at least. They are 3 months now. We never crib shared because we tried for naps and they didn't sleep well- not sure if they were already used to their own space from the NICU or what.

HeavenBlessedMom · August 2014

The triplets were all in their own room the day they each got home from nicu. My DD did the same. Why keep them in your room and make the transition harder in the future, right? We had them in 1 room and used a 2nd room as a nighttime room for when each woke up. Now we separated 1 who stirs and wakes the other 2 up. They all sleep better. 1 in 1 room, 2 in the other.

shanaynerz · August 2014

Ours share a room, but will be split up eventually as they're b/g. We have two cribs in their room and we split them up already. They actually moved quite a bit and I didn't want them hitting each other (which had already happened) so we moved them to separate cribs. I couldn't imagine doing MOTN feedings with them already separated, so that's something to really consider.

Lyndsey13 · August 2014

We had them in our room for the first 2 months in 1 pack n play. Then they moved to their own cribs but spent some nights in the swings in their room. By 4 months, one twin was a great sleeper and one was a horrible sleeper. The great sleeper was being seriously disturbed, so we separated them. The great sleeper started consistently sleeping through the night around 8 months but the poor sleeper didn't sleep through until 18 months! We just moved and really wanted them to share a room again, so we could have a play room. Now at 2, they share a room and do great. They actually like being together now.

I would just prepare for them needing their own space to sleep. I was not ready for that and it was a really hard decision to make but it worked out great.

dmurrie · August 2014

Our b/g twins are 1 month and share a room but have separate cribs. They've been in the nursery across the hall from day 1. If you're bf'ing you might want them in your room to start out, especially if their room(s) aren't right next to yours. It didn't work out for us, so having them in another room and trading feedings overnight is great. That being said, the MOTN feeding is probably the #1 reason to bunk them up together if you go that route. Or at least have something set up in one of the rooms where you can bring the other tein in and do one up both up overnight and feed them together. That being said, I'm not sure what we would have done if we had an extra bedroom. Their older sister is in the other bedroom. We're currently renting, so they'll share a room until either this June or until they're almost 2, whenever we find our own place. At that time, they'll either all be in their own rooms if we have enough space or we'll have the girls share a room. I wouldn't put the baby girl in with our toddler now, because we are all happier when big sister gets enough sleep.

PinkinProvence · August 2014

We have one nursery even though we have the room for two.

I don't know how you would manage overnight feedings if they were in different rooms. It would be crazy! Also, I never used a bassinet or kept them in my room even though I was breastfeeding. I do have a bed in their nursery though that I used often in the newborn stage.

Mine slept in the same crib (horizontally) for about the first 3 months. Then we switched to separate cribs. It broke my heart to separate them at that point, I would have felt awful having them in separate rooms!

Of course, they do wake each other up sometimes but for the most part they don't affect each other's sleeping.

auntjessy · August 2014

I set up one nursery and now kind of wish I'd set up two since we have the space. Be prepared to find out what works best for them. I wish I'd waited to even set it up, since I slept in the guest room with them for so long anyway. At night, my babies are now great sleepers. Still waking every 3 hrs to eat, but going right back to sleep. Daytime naps are an entirely different story. This is why I wish I'd set up separate nurseries and started them sleeping in their own cribs as early as possible. I'm sure once they become a little more attached to each other they may want to go back to sharing a room. We'll see.

KDR1979 · August 2014

We had 1 nursery with 2 cribs. They started sleeping in their room around 3-4 months. Sleep was a HUGE issue for us though, so we separated them when they were 8 months old. I was sad to do this b/c so many people say that twins like sharing a room. DD was the problem though. DS has STTN almost every single night since he has had his own room. DD just recently started sleeping after having a sleep study and finding periodic limb movements, low ferritin and starting daily iron!

cls78 · August 2014

I am going to do one nursery and move one to their own room when they are older and ready.

FaeryStarGazer · August 2014

My girls are way older, but I have a cute little story about sharing a room.

In our old house, we had to have them share and they shared a very small room; it was like 10x10. It was fine and they shared until 2012 (they were almost 5). Then, we moved to Ohio in to a much larger house. The girls decided they would not share a room, so Molly choose the biggest room at the end of the hall. Everything was good until we started finding them sleeping on the floor in each other's rooms. When asked about it, Molly told me, "Momma, I wasn't made to be alone."

:x Lilly still liked having her own space so we moved Molly to a room across the hall from Lilly. We allow them to have sister-sleep overs and it's all good.

Long story short, let them share-- if you don't you may trip over one of them sleeping on the floor next to the other

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