Moses baskets

[Amberc]

Hello multiple Mums!

Is there such a thing as a double moses basket so the babies can sleep together? I got advised by a maternity nanny that they will both fit in a single one but I have pics of my little boy from when he was a few weeks old almost filling the whole thing! Confused - please help!!!

Hi Amber. To be honest I wouldn't get a moses basket, I didn't find that my dd1 slept well in it for too long so with my dts I got 2 travel cots with bassinets and extra mattress instead. Had one in our room and one in the lounge to keep the babies up out of dd1's way!
My dts had much more room and stayed in our room longer than if I'd used 2 moses baskets and the bassinet meant that after my c-section I didn't have to bend too far.

Also, twins are expensive and you will get a lot more use out of a travel cot over a couple of years than you will with a basket for the first few months!

What an excellent idea! We have a travel cot but it's a big one and would involve a lot of bending - I know you can get the smaller sized ones - is that what you mean?

something like this

This is similar to ours -it's a normal sized travel cot but theres a bit that clips onto the sides of the cot and the mattress sits in that, so the babies are a lot higher than in the bottom of the cot. Works like the different levels in a standard cot and you just take it off when the babies can sit/pull themselves up and you have a regular travel cot!

Thanks Amber & StickChildrenThree - good post.

I am planning on buying 2 cots and putting one in the nursery for day naps and 1 in our room for over night. Then moving it back into the nursery after a few months.

Do you think I should also buy a travel cot for my my living room, which is downstairs? or do I just need 2 bouncy chair thingies?

Twins are so confusing & expensive!

I had the cot downstairs as my dd1 was only 17 months so wasn't fair to have her play area invaded by the babies so kept them out of her way! Plus it made it easier for me, not having to run up and down the stairs all day during the first few weeks!

We did have the bouncy chairs too but didn't use them straight away or let them nap in them too much but couldn't have managed without them! Lost count of the times I had my foot bouncing one dt while feeding the other!
I don't think travel cots are a waste of money if you will be going away/see family in the first few years and mine has doubled up as a playpen! Not a lot but in the garden/if I need to do something that I wouldn't normally do if they are awake (eg ironing)/if dd1 has a playdate as not all toddlers are used to babies crawling around!

We had both babies in one cot in our room till just over 5 months, when they kept waking each other up with flinging arms about etc.

We also had 2 good quality bouncy chairs in the living room and they had daytime naps in those for a good few months, until I was ready to get a proper routine going. Once I started on a proper routine I moved their naps upstairs into the cot in our room, and then into their own room once they were each in their own cot.

The bouncy chairs were great, I also used them to tandem bottle feed, and to soothe them (they had music and vibrate settings).