moving from cots to beds - any advice?

[LaLoose]

Hello,

Sorry this is going to be a bit boring and logistical... bear with me. My twins are coming up to 18 months (well, in three months time, but it'll be here very soon) and I need to think about moving them to beds. I would like to keep them in the same room - and they would like it, too (they will eventually be in adjoining rooms, but are using only one of them at present). Unfortunately, both adjoining rooms have fitted double beds in them. I mean REALLY fitted, like within all the rest of the bedroom furniture. So there will be no room for bunk beds, and no hope of ripping out the fitted beds without also ripping out all the bedroom furniture. So my question is: does anyone know of bed safety rails that you could put in a double bed and will be wide enough to accommodate twins, so they can both sleep in the same bed for a year or so? I've looked and looked, with no luck, and I was hoping (and expecting, from you brilliant lot) that someone else may have been in the same position and come up with a brilliant answer!

Thanks!

Lucy

Is there any reason for moving them into beds? I kept my twins in their cots till they were nearly 3. Moved into beds with no hassle, by that stage they seemed to 'get' the whole idea of staying in their own bed.

My experience of twins in a double bed = disaster! The odd times mine have slept together (sleep-overs, hotels, etc) they have rolled all over each other and woken each other up all night. There's also the issue of keeping the covers on two wrigglers - even if you could divide the bed somehow I can't see how you could keep the covers on.

All you can do is try it out and see - they might surprise you! If it was me I would put one in the double and one on a single mattress on the floor or similar. Best of luck with it

I think I've just found some. Not sure though. Says will "accommodate up to queen size mattress".

www.mothercare.com/Summer-Infant-Double-Bed-Rail/dp/B001J79QTO/sr=1-15/qid=1276880053/ref=sr_1_15/27 5-2022095-5867431?_encoding=UTF8&m=A2LBKNDJ2KZUGQ&n=42764041&mcb=core#productInfo

keep them in a cot for as long as humanly possible. Tie them up if needs be.

A bit left field but does the mattress section come off the double bed?

If so could you get two basic child width matresses and put them on the double base. Then you could put an under mattress divider in the middle as well as either side.

Why would you want to move them into beds already? Can they climb out of their cots?

Personally, I would wait 6-12 months, and in the meantime rip out the furniture in one of the rooms and furnish is properly for them.

No experience of multiples, but DS has just moved into his bed at 2.5 and it went SO well. He understood that he was getting a new special bed, he was old enough to pick his bedding, and he could talk about it and understand it. At 18mo he would have been out of the bed in a second, but at 30mo he asks to get out of bed!!

Just thinking it will be easier if you wait a little while

Why can't you just put two normal bed guards on. Do they sleep in sleeping bags? If they do keep them in them when they move into a bed.

DS moved into a bed at 20 months and didn't get out all of the time.

I discovered (the hard way- and so had to take it all the way back to Mothercare!) that most bed guards often seem to only fit a single width mattress.

Lock the door!

Mine are 20 months and I just moved them out of their cots this week. They were starting to climb otherwise I was going to keep them caged for a while longer.

I got starter beds from the Kiddicare sale, the Baby Weavers ones. They didn't fall out, unlike their older sister who spent the first week mostly sleeping on the floor. here

They were resistant to the change but now they are both sleeping peacfully (for the time being). It has been a week of fraught bedtimes but we are getting there.

I do have a gate across their bedroom door to stop them wandering.

Oh thank you. All incredibly helpful. Will ponder. And it's good to know that sharing a double bed can be a nightmare - thank you glamourbadger.

Mt twins are 3 in september and they are still in there cots, although moving to beds next week, why would you want to put them in beds already, i have had a lovely 3 years, of them going to bed hassell free, althougth am sure this is where the fun will begin, also glamourbadger was wondering if you had any tips on them moving from cots to beds !!