hello to all with twins :)

Chairettie - posted on 01/13/2012

Hi Mary! Congrats on hur lil ones! I have 18 month old faternal twin girls. The slept in a pack & play for the first month or so in my room then I put them in one crib for a month or so and then separated them because they were wiggle worms and always seemed to be on top of each other - so I felt it was safest at that point to separate them but they share room and their beds are side by side....the entertain one another. I love to hear them chit chatting (baby talk) back and forth and laughing at one another :o) very sweet!!!

Kylee - posted on 01/12/2012

Seperate is safer and thats what we did.

Maria - posted on 01/09/2012

i always put my girls in a crib when they were babies

Jennifer - posted on 12/21/2011

My twin boys have always slept in the same bed. They are now almost 4 and are used to it. I did at one point have two cribs though because one twin moved a lot while he slept and woke the other up, but that passed and i put them back together. but its really your choice. Feel free to ask me more questions about twins. ill try and give you pointers about having twins as best i can.

Cherie - posted on 12/21/2011

i put mine in the same crib for a few weeks and as they got bigger moved them to different cribs but still in the same room and side by side so they could have contact through the bars if they wanted

Rebecca - posted on 12/20/2011

hi mary my twins are 3.5months and i have them in the same crib however i do not lie them next to eachother i have their heads either end and their feet meet in the middle coz otherwise they punch and wake eachother up but they lied next to each other for the first month. i have one of each. i feed on demand as my son tends to eat so much my breast milk does not carry for them both so i usually fed him a bottle unless my daughter stays asleep them i give him mine both get feed in the morning from me then its just up to them wen theey wake up. i cannot wake and feed as they dont wanna eat if they woken from sleep they will just scream at me till they fall back to sleep. all babies are different i have a friend who was able to wake her girls and feed them so they were both fed at the same time. they do sleep all thrugh night last feed is usually bout 10pm and they sleep till bout 7am my son is about every 4hrs and my daughter 3hrs as she still quite small so needs more. if you have questions i will be happy to help if i no th answer myself. enjoy pregnancy and enjoy them.

Lynetta - posted on 12/19/2011

Hi May, My twin boys are now 4 years old and I offer 2 suggestions. First when you feed one feed the other even if you have to wake them up, this will make your life much easier. Second, let them sleep together it will comfor them and they will sleep longer. I put my boys just close enough so they would know the other was there and I did this until they started moving around then switched to seperate cribs but side by side. Also I feed evey 3hours and by 12 weeks the last meal was at 9pm and they would sleep until 6am. Just thought of this one I had to switch to formula because I could not keep up with the demand of breast feeding and my youngest twin had a problem keeping the formula down. A Natural doctor suggested I add a pinch of rice cereal to his bottle even though he was only 6 weeks just to keep the formula down and it worked. Also for constipation try 1/4 teaspoon of flax seed oil with milk should work in about 6 hours, I had tried everything else and flax seed was the only thing that worked for my boys. Good luck and dont forget to take care of yourself you will need all of your strength.

Sara - posted on 12/17/2011

Hi Mary,
Congrats on the twins, it is a great adventure and you will love every second of it!! Maybe not the lack of sleep but, it does get better. I have 5-month boy/girl twins and they sleep together at night in the same crib. They soothe each other and my girl really enjoys snuggling with her brother. I tried separating them and they were very restless, it was an exhausting 1 week attempt. You might have to try a couple of things and figure out what works best for you. Every twin is different. The best advice I got was from another twin mom(2 sets of twins in 4 years), she told me "write all of your plans down for raising twins....schedules, ideas, everything you read in the books, do you have it all down?? Now crumple it up and throw it away and just go with it" Scary but, true. Good luck with your babies.

Emily - posted on 12/12/2011

Congratulations on your twins on the way! I have boy/girl twins that are now 2 1/2, and I think the sleeping arrangements really depend on the twins and the parents, but both are factors you might not really figure out until you have the twins. We thought we would do certain things that really changed once we had the babies! I had a c-section and we live in a 2-story, so for the first week after we got home, they slept in a bassinet very close to me. The first few days they slept in it together, and then we seperated them into two bassinets. However, once I was better with stairs, we moved them upstairs into the nursery, where they shared a crib until they were about 6 weeks old. That worked really well, as we had two cribs, and that way if one spat up in the middle of the night, I just moved them into the other crib which was ready to go, and stripped the first crib and left putting new bedding in until morning. Once they started to move a bit and get just a bit bigger, we moved them into seperate cribs in the same room, right beside each other. That also seemed to work fine. I should also note I slept in their room on a little loveseat until they were about 9 or 10 weeks old (yes, it was a little, um, "cozy" in there, but it really worked well). That way when one woke up for a feed, I was able to get them changed and wake the other to feed them both at the same time, then pop them back into bed, and back to sleep until the next feed. As a first time, rather nervous mom, it was really nice to be with them for the first bit, and also it was so quick to do feeds. After 9 weeks or so, though, we decided to try me sleeping back in our roomm, and honestly, I think both the babies and me slept better (NOT what I had expected!). I stil would check on them about 10 times a night, LOL, but I got more and more comfortable relatively quickly. At two and a half, we have just put them in their own room, although I don't know that it was 100% necessary, but they like having their own space. Until then, we had them in the same room even in toddler beds, and I found they rarely woke each other up when one was crying., which had been my big fear. Good luck with your twins, and feel free to ask any questions you have!

Innocentia - posted on 12/06/2011

hello :) ask way.....i sleep with mine

Michelle - posted on 12/03/2011

Hi Mary, Congrats!

Like others have said, it really seems to depend on the babies and your household. We had two cribs ready, thought we'd use only one. Our boys came home at different times (5 days in the NICU for my smaller boy), and when we put them in the crib together, one boy flailed so much in his sleep, we had to go to two cribs almost right away. They seemed ok with it... at 2 months or so, the other boy turned out to be a sleep creeper... we'd never know where we'd find him in the morning, so it was likely for the best!

Friends of mine kept their twins together until they were 6 mos or so. It all depends.

Michelle

Nicole - posted on 11/26/2011

Congratulations! I had my twins sleep in seperate cribs. I also had a boy and girl.

Celeste - posted on 11/26/2011

It really depends on the babies and how you as a parent feel. For us, my twins slept in an Arms Reach Cosleeper next to our bed as it was easier to nurse them. They went to their own separate cribs at around 6 months.

However, I know some moms of twins have their twins in the same crib. It really depends!

Tami - posted on 11/25/2011

HI Mary,
Twin girls are great, built in best friends. Sleeping arrangements depend on what you want. Many parents have them sleep together for a time due to them being used to being close in the womb. I had seperate cribs from day 1 and never had an issue with anxiety due to them being apart after birth. My girls are 19 now and excellent kids. This is the place for questions if you have them.
Best of luck to you!