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Twins, Good sleeper and a bad sleeper, who to move into own room first?

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ChrimboTwins2019 · 14/10/2020 05:16

Hi everyone, just looking for advice really, we are exhausted with sleep deprivation. We have 2 10 month old twins, a boy and a girl. Our little girl sleep right through from 7pm till 5am. But our little boy isn’t shal we say as constant. He goes down at 7pm, but can wake up several times a night. He can wake at 9:30, 10:30, 12:00, 1:30, 2:30 or 3:30. When we get to around the 3am mark we make him a bottle just to try and settle him, which works, but when we put him back in the cot we are lucky if we get another hour.

We are wanting to move them into their own room but not sure if we should move the good sleeper then we can concentrate more with the bad sleeper. Or move the bad sleeper so we could possibly try sleep training where we keep leaving the room. Or do we move them both together. We just need some help deciding as we are so sleep deprived we can’t decide what’s best. Any advice is welcome... please

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ulanbatorismynextstop · 14/10/2020 05:20

Not sure as I haven't had twins, it sounds as though your good sleeper doesn't get woken by the bad sleeper so you could try putting them both there together.

WINDOLENE · 14/10/2020 15:24

They might be sad if they're separated... In 30 years time they'll blame their parents for any cheeky behaviour because you moved the girl I to her own room and left the boy ( vice versa) Wink

mammmamia · 15/10/2020 22:51

I have twins and had exactly the same situation. My boy would sleep 7pm-6am ish, girl would wake frequently throughout the night and end up sleeping in our bed.

We moved the good sleeper into his own room (right next door) and kept our girl in a cot in our room. It was just easier to try and settle her without worrying about waking him. Eventually we moved her too, but into another room so they’ve actually always had their own bedrooms since then.

Unfortunately we never really tried to sleep train her so she slept with us most of the time Blush
Until she was about 6! She was the smaller twin at birth, had terrible reflux and needed a lot of comfort so she always wanted to be close to me.
We didn’t really mind. She’s 10 now, very independent, sleeps fine and never wakes in the night. She seems to need less sleep than her brother and always goes to bed a bit later.

I know it’s hard though so keep posting if you want to chat more.

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