Any tips on moving twins from cots to beds

[kristatwin]

My twins are 3 next month and have to say have had a very peacful and quiet 3 years as far as bedtime is concerned, am moving them into beds in 2 weeks.

And i feel all hell will break lose when they realise they can escape at bedtime, they will be sharing a room, and am dreading it, am sure all you multiple mums out there must have a few tricks up your sleeve, so that bedtime is still peaceful and destressful, love it at 6.30 when i have a couple of hours to recouperate, feel this may be now a thing of the past.

I would be tempted to put them to bed using the normal routine and then say I am just going to sit here and read a book for a while until you are asleep. Then if they start to mess about you can quietly remind them it is time to sleep. Hopefully if you do that for a few days you can head them off at the pass and they won't think about creating mayhem once they are on their own.

Caveat - this isn't quite how it worked at our house - more how I wish we had done it :)

I would also be tempted to say don't try it first time when they are overtired (tired yes, but not climbing the walls tired) because things usually go pearshaped when you have overtired twins.

Prepare for bedlam. Once the novelty wear off they will settle down a bit but the first week will be tricky.

We had a stairgate on their bedroom door so although they could get up and mess about they couldn't get to the stairs.

And a bunny alarm clock for early waking - you can't get up till bunny is awake.

Now we do stories, lights out and door closed. Sometimes they go straight to sleep, other times they mess about. I just let them get on with it mostly!

Thanks for the advice, feel i will need to be really strict, the supernanny technique will defintely be coming into force, i go to bed most nights at 9.00, as am completely exhausted by 6.00, so feel i need time to destress !

Great idea for the bunny alarm, that is a must, thanks !!

Is it Supernnay that does the pick up, put back in bed and only say 'its bedtime'. We did that as well. (I found that I got fed up of it before they did though!)

We stil have a fair bit of 'Teddy wants a kiss', 'Floppy wants a drink' nonsense now. All depends how tired they are though.

Put the bunny alarm on a high shelf where they can see it but not touch. 'Bunny' always wakes up early when he's thrown against the wall!

Haha, thanks for that, yes is the supernanny that does that, will try but dony know how will get on, will let you know !!

We had to move our twins in to bed just before their 2nd birthday, as they'd discovered that they could clambour in to eachothers cots and where basically sumarsaulting in to them each night at bed time.
I was hugely nervous about it - and yes, for a while it was a case of sitting there reading a book until they went to sleep, or when they didn't (which was mostly the case) and came running out to see us, we'd do the supernanny thing too. It worked fairly well - some upsets along the way, as one of my twins is a spirited little thing!

But worth doing.

And on the bright side: now when they wake up, they get themselves out of bed and go and play with their toys in the morning by themselves: so we have a little bit more time in bed!

Good luck!