One Cot or Two?

[KRH]

So I'm wondering how your twins have slept in the early days - together in 1 cot or separate in 2?

My initial thought was to separate them immediately and have 2 cots because I was concerned that if we kept them together initially we could get to a really good place sleep/routine-wise and then muck it all up and stress the babies out when we separate them later. However, 2 mothers of twins have since said to me it really was better to keep them together initially because they comforted each other just by being close and it made her life so much easier.

Thoughts?

We put ours in one cot together in our bedroom (side by side first, then each feet to foot when they got a bit bigger), with separate sheets/covers. We did have a cot divider but didn't really use it.

Once they started to kick one another in the head/whack each other in the face, it was time to move on to separate cots in their own room, though

Hi,
I have 12wk old twins which we decided to seperate at night into their own cribs which works well for us,they tend to sleep from 9pm till 7am but our son is grumpier than our daughter and if together (I sometimes put them together in a pram) he starts crying/whinging when she is sleeping and it wakes her and makes her grouchy.
We did consider putting them together but they have never been small babies they now weigh nearly 15lb each and are long, and the cots we have are only small so we would of had to seperated them sooner rather than later.
Good luck and do what suits you best.

Ours shared a cot til 5 months - we put them in diagonally at the end to stretch it out for as long as possible!

I think they really liked being together.

Then when we put them in separate cots - the cots were right next to each other - so they didn't seem to mind.

together to strt with, separated once they started rolling on top of each other!

agree with duckyfuzz...I think ours made it until a few months old and then they started to wake each other up so we went shopping (again)

we had ours in cotbed until 6 months (only because we didn't have another cotbed!) - No stress when we separated them, they started disturbing each other at 4ish months I think. They were adorable in together, I must admit. I did have to be v.strict about which side they went on as I got confused in the night otherwise if in identical sleeping bags!

I've got 9 week old twins and they are still sharing a moses basket! They were born at 30 weeks so they are still tiny but I have definitely found that they are more settled when next to each other even though they were in separate cots for about a month in the neo natal unit. Even when one is having a good fidget the other seems to sleep through it.

Mine both shared a cot until they were perhaps 4-5 months, they were 6 weeks prem and spent 3 weeks in hospital under sun lamps...they were in our bedroom for the first few months after they came home it was easier for me due to breast feeding, we had our first born who was only 16 months old when they were born, we tried not to disrupt his sleeping, we then put them in seperate cots but side by side when they got bigger, do what ever you feel is right for you x

My 2 are still in the same cot at almost 5 months. We are going to have to move them into individual cots in the very near future as they are getting too big. It'll break my heart! (Hopefully they will not be too traumatised!) But we plan to put their cots side by side.

On a practical level, my boys don't usually disturb each other if they are unsettled. In fact, it amazes me just how much racket they each can sleep through! I was worried that they might hit each other in their sleep as well, but that only happened once.

They keep in very close contact when they are sleeping, usually holding hands, or at least with hands touching. Any time they have been in the cot individually they seem to look for each other.

And it's so lovely to see two gummy smiles in the same cot in the morning!

Sorry, long post!

Oh LL, that's so reassuring to hear. I have a feeling that the boys will cope better than I will!

Realistically it's at least a week or two off as the room that will be theirs is a dumping ground at the minute & needs cleared. It'll give me time to psychologically prepare myself!