silly question about practicalities of sleeping twins together

[DreamingOfPeace]

This is probably one of the silliest posts you'll read, but I am 34+ 4 weeks with twins and wondering what to do about sleeping our twins together. I do want to try this, at least initially. We have bought 2 cotbeds as our daughter is just 18 months and no way is she going into a bed any time soon (but our issues with her sleep are another story!). I had thought we'd just put one cotbed up in our room and move it through to their awkward small room (still bigger than my daughters though) when I wanted rid of them! however we realised we'd have to entirely dismantle the cotbed again to get it round into their room, and if I didn't last long with them in with me its a lot of effort for that (our daughter was in her room by 9 weeks as I couldn't get any sleep with her there, she just woke up and fed all night, every night! Things were much better immediately from when she went in her own room). I thought a travel cot with basinette would be the answer, but the Graco one we'd looked at has a 6.5kg weight limit on the basinette!! I've not seen weight limits on the others I've looked at online, but I presume they must have them, and if they're similar, twins couldn't use it together for long at all, especially as mine so far, touch wood, are good sizes and I'm still going strong at 34+4! Has anyone else done this and ignored weight limits, or have a better suggestion?

I liked the thought of the travel cot as no new bedding needed and not a huge outlay for something we'll use for a couple of years, rather than a crib... But I'm a little worried about the weight limit

and do I just put them in together, side by side? top to tail (at opposite ends of cot)?

Will look forward to any advice!

Hi there
We use a travel cot from mothercarelike this for daytime naps downstairs. My two fit into it just fine, at first they were side by side at the narrow end, now they are side by side on the long end if that makes sense. They were quite small at birth (combined weight 10lb) but are now 17 weeks and combined weight 27lb (12kg). I'm not aware of a weight limit but will check the instructioms if I can find them......

Upstairs we bought 2 x urban cribs by bloom, they are a halfway house between a cot and a moses basket (we couldn't fit 2 cotbeds in the nursery). They shared side by side at first, now they sleep seperately. They are expensive though as I think they will only last until maybe 12 months old.

Hi Dreaming :)

No idea about weight limits for travel cots etc.. But here's what we do!

The girls sleep in a huge cot that we were given by friends. They were tiny when they came home from ICU (only 4lbs at 3weeks) so were lost in it at first! they started sleeping in one quarter of the cot length ways and side by side, then they moved to half of the cot length ways and side by side. Once a little bigger they slept in half the cot width ways side by side, then at a slight diagonal angel. Now at 23 weeks they are foot to foot..... so we're getting great milage out of this cot so far! Hope that all makes sense.

The girls seem to be very happy sleeping together and don't seem to disturb each other so far. There have been occasions when one is crying and the other doesn't even flinch! I think they are so used to each other it doesn't bother them. My girls are ID and syncronise sleeping positions when in a deep sleep, it's amazing to see! :)

Meant to say that initially they also slept downstairs (and for the first few nights)in the double carrycot from our mountain buggy. They napped downstairs in it for weeks and were very content.

dtds slept in a cotbed (across ways) in our room for 5 months but then dtd2 kept rolling onto dtd1 and waking each other crying etc, so we kept one in our room with me and dh slept on a futon in the nursery with the other in a cot bed in there (history of cot death in family so I needed to have them in a room with me or dh - almost certainly wasn't necessary), at 6 months we moved other cotbed into nursery and they sleep in their own cots in the same room which is working really well.

tbh by 6 months I felt they were in need of some of their own stuff - own cot with their own special toys (rest is shared)

We also had a travel cot in the livingroom for naps with a change table on it as I knew I was having a cs.