Sleeping arrangements for newborn twins…

My twins are almost 9months and have only spent one night in the same crib. It was a disaster. They kept waking each other up so from the day we came home from hospital they’ve had their own separate Moses baskets/cribs/cots

In the early days we also had one each side of the bed and I would wake up with one of them and hubby would wake with the other for feeds etc. it made life so much easier as they didn’t have the same sleep/feed schedule no matter how hard we tried and it meant that we both got some sleep between feeds

My twins are 13 now. When they were little, they slept together in the same cot until they learnt to roll over and I stopped swaddling them for sleeping. They then moved into their own cots - I got compact size cots so we could fit both cots in our bedroom. A couple of months before they turned 2, we moved their cots into their older sister’s room and they moved into there.

My twins were used to sleeping together in the same cot when they came home from hospital, as they were premature and stayed in hospital for 3.5 weeks before coming home, and they spent some of that time sleeping in the same bassinet/humidicrib

My twins shared a large moses basket for the first few weeks and then we had them sharing a cot that was sidecar attached to our bed. (We bought the IKEA Gulliver cot, took a side off, drilled new holes so the mattress was level with ours, strapped the frame securely to our bed frame and then had a piece of firm foam cut to size to slot in the narrow gap between the mattresses.) This worked really well until they were 6 months when we put the side back on, bought a second cot to match and moved the twins to their nursery. Now they have their own cots side by side which gives them their own undisturbed sleep space as they became quite wiggly sleepers. They are still next to each other though and often hold hands through the bars during their lullaby at bedtime!

Thank you all so much for your advice, I really appreciate it. 🙂

My twins slept in a twin bassinet, each in their dock-a-tot* up to 3 months then they slept in their own crib in the same room up to 6 months, they I separated their rooms. They sleep better now.

*Dock-a-tot says they’re not for sleeping but all three of my babies (first born and twins) loooved it. Worked for us.