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When do you start showing with twins? What is life with twins like? Join the conversation on our Multiple Births forum.

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Sleeping arrangements for newborn twins

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Nancy54 · 30/06/2012 09:32

Hi everyone,

I'm 25 weeks pregnant with twins, my first babies so totally clueless (arg!) and have been wondering about sleeping arrangements when they are first born. I'vle been told that twins often sleep together in a cot, but won't they be in a moses basket first? And is one moses basket too small for both so did you have them in separate ones? Would be great to hear about some of your experiences!

thanks

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Handsfullandinamuckingfuddle · 30/06/2012 09:47

Congratulations - my two are my first too.
They could fit in 1 moses basket because they were very small but didnt like sharing so had one each.

Most people I know who's twins shared had a travel cot downstairs and a crib upstairs as moses baskets were a bit of a squeeze, but you can buy twin moses baskets.
Good Luck x

IceCubes · 30/06/2012 09:50

Mine share a cot at night and I have a travel cot for the day time. I bought two Moses baskets but I have barely used them as mine HATE them. I dont know why! My DTs are 4.5 months. Having twins is the best - congratulations!

CoffeeDog · 30/06/2012 14:17

mine shared a big cot for the first couple of months and we had a travel cot up in the living room we did start putting them down in their cot when they were napping after a couple of months - but we live in a flat so all on one level anyway.

I think that they started sleeping through at 3 months as they napped mainly in their beds ;)

Dont bother with the moses baskets

PrincessScrumpy · 30/06/2012 16:41

We had a cotbed in our room which they shared for 5 1/2 months until dtd2 kept rolling onto dtd1, then they went in own cots sharing a room. They're 10 months now and it still works. We had a travel cot in the livingroom that they shared for a few months for daytime naps (with a bassinet and changer as I knew I was having cs), now it's back up as dtd2 is crawling so it's a playpen.

ceeveebee · 30/06/2012 22:31

Yep, another one here that had a travel cot downstairs and crib upstairs.

tryingtonotfeckup · 30/06/2012 22:44

Congratulations, its a roller coaster but it is lovely, and when the shit hits the fan, remember, its only a phase and they will grow out of it.

I started mine off in moses baskets and then swapped them into travel cots. I kept them upstairs and they had their naps and sleep time in them. I did have one basket left from DS1 and just bought another cheap one. I don't know if I'd do that from scratch IYKWIM.

I never put them in together, not sure why really, but it worked for us. They are now nearly 2 years and sleep in separate cots in the same room.

RedBlanket · 30/06/2012 22:48

We had a cot upstairs and one downstairs and they would Sleep together. They moved into their own cots 4/5 months when they started to
Disturb each other.
Moses basket seemed to £££ or the amount of time they would Use them so we didn't bother.

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Nancy54 · 01/07/2012 08:10

thanks everyone!! so great to have advice from people who actually have twins!! I'm really excited about having them but slightly daunted! I think mumsnet talk will be a big support!

Do they sleep side by side in the cot or top and tail?

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IceCubes · 01/07/2012 10:30

I top and tail mine but they always end up next to each other, often holding on to each other, bless them!

silverangel · 01/07/2012 17:52

Mine slept in the carry cots from the buggy downstairs and shared a cot until about 20 weeks. We have quite small cots and they were starting to disturb each other but they would have shared longer if we had big cot beds.

beyoglu · 01/07/2012 20:57

Mine have slept separately for almost all of their 10 weeks - at first we had them in their carricots, downstairs during the day (so they learned the difference between night and day) and upstairs in their cots, we would put them the carricots into the cots because they looked really small and lost in the cots! We tried putting them at either end of a cot but it was easier to just leave them in the carricot. Then when they got bigger - 6 or 7 weeks I think - we started putting them down in the cots in the night, wearing grobags. (Now we've sort of "regressed" to swaddling in the night, which makes them sleep better).

Whatever you do for the early days bear in mind they're going to need their own cots eventually... might be worth just getting two now, however you decide to use them at the start. In fact get everything now! You won't have much organised time when they arrive. Check out all the awkward stuff like cots and car seats and slings now. We got Sniglar cots at Ikea, £35 each.

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