Will twins sleep separately if used to sharing?

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My twin boys are almost two and currently sleep in separate cots with the sides right next to each other. They really seem to look to each other for comfort and used to share a cot when they were babies so we’re thinking of removing the middle sides of the cot to make a giant one they can share.

My concern is that we go away a few times a year, (nothing glamorous, just to see family etc) but they would need to sleep in separate travel cots on these occasions.

Would this work, or would we be creating a problem if we put them back together again now? If your twins share a sleep space at home, do they cope ok with having a separate sleep space when away from home? Interested to hear others’ experience on this (the good and the bad please - don’t hold back!),

I’m sure they’ll be fine if still in same room together, although you won’t know until you try. We did exactly the same with our twins - shared Moses basket, then side by side, shared cot then side by side.

More often then not, we’d find them back in same cot by morning

There still in cots at age 2? Both our sets of twins were long out of cots by then, the girls have a room, the boys have a room our girls are 2 boys are 3 plus have older kids up to 16 in other bedrooms to but ye our twins are fine they chat away with each other till they fall asleep then they all wake between 7-9 and will trot thru when there ready to get up..usually the boys are the latest wakers

You could just get them a double floorbed. That's what we have. Presumably, they'll probably be ready to move out of their cots soon anyway so I'd probably skip converting them now.

You’ll be moving them to beds soon and they’ll be separated then anyway. As long as they are in the same room and can hear and see each other they will be fine.

I put mine into single beds (aged 22 months) at rightangles in an L shape when they started climbing on each other in the cot. I inevitably found them both in one bed by the morning. I just accepted it and eventually they seemed to stay in their own beds. When we went on holiday sometimes one would sleep in with dc1 and one with me and never an issue. If one was ill and in bed with me the other would be fine (although as soon as they'd wake they'd check on each other).

Our twins slept together from when they went into beds, around two up to age nine. They had twin single beds in a shared bedroom until about seven. I was then told DD1 was going to need to go to a specialist residential school eventually and I should get them used to sleeping separately. We gave them their own bedroom each, but they continued to sleep together in one single for another two years. DD1 went to the specialist school, aged ten. There were no problems about sleeping on their own, by then.

Holidays weren’t a problem, as they still slept together in a single bed, despite us making sure each DC had their own bed.

The boys are only small (only just moving into 12-18 month trousers). Their beds are cotbeds so you can take the sides off and turn them into toddler beds, but we’re not ready for that yet.

@Idontspeakgermansorrydo you find that yours settle ok if you’re away from home if they’re in separate beds, given that they’re used to sharing?

When we're travelling, we DIY a bed on the floor for them and they sleep together still so I'm not sure!

My two are grown up now. They shared a bed till they were 10 (they did have their own beds just chose to share) They were fine sleeping separately on holiday or beaver/cub camps. They slept terribly when they were newborn in separate moses baskets, until i figured they wanted to be next to each other. I guess spending 8 months squished together means they got used it! 😁

This is all really helpful, thank you!

Mine had cots close together and then went into beds at about 20 months (one was vaulting out of her cot, so dangerous to keep her there). They shared a room until they were four. We then moved house and they had a room each and I thought they wouldn't settle. I was so wrong. They loved it instantly.

My twins have shared a small double bed at home since 18 months old. They never liked a cot. And from around that age they wouldn't fit in a travel cot (they were not big either) but would just be too small.

Since 18 months old on holidays they either top to tail on a single mattress on the floor. Or share a double bed or 2 single beds pushed together.

Prior to this they would go in a travel cot but their sleep was awful... however their sleep was awful in a cot at home too.

I’d be buying 2 single beds and getting rid of the cots now. That will make it a lot easier when you go anywhere as no need for travel cots and they then won’t injur themselves trying to climb over the top.

My twins are 2.5 and still have cots - who says you have to move them to a bed just because they’re 2. I feel a hint of judgement in some of these posts about them being in cots! So silly. You do what works for you and your twins. I think they’d be fine when you travel to separate x

Well obviously you don’t have to move them because of their age but it’s pretty common to move them around that age.

We moved ours for safety, they kept climbing out of their cots so it was dangerous.