Separate rooms?

[trafficgirl]

The boys are a month shy of being 1 and I'm starting to think we might need to switch them to separate rooms.

They wake each other up at night all the time and while I don't love the idea of having to get a second video monitor, I do love the idea of potentially have one or both of them actually sleep through the night.

Are your twins in the same or separate rooms? If they're separate, when did you make the switch and what was the reason?

[floridakat]

My girls turned four in September, and we just moved them to separate rooms two nights ago. I wish we had done it a long time ago! One of them is an early riser, and she was waking up her sister, and eventually us with their noise. New rule is she has to stay in her room, quiet, until 7am. So far, so good!

When they were younger it was definitely easier to do bedtime routine, etc. all in one room. For now we're keeping all of their clothes in one room, because they share almost everything. As they start to have their "own" stuff, I imagine we'll move some clothes to the other room.

[loremipsum]

My boys shared a room until they were about 2.75yo. At that point they started fighting like crazy - I could see that at least some of the fighting was because they needed space from each other (they're not the kind of twins that want to be together 24/7), so we moved to separate rooms.

We're careful to treat them as individuals, but at the end of the day multiples have to share a LOT by default, so they love having a space that is just theirs.

[Deleted]

They have the same room. They are happy and do not want separate rooms. They don't fight and their sleep patterns are similar. They are 7. Most of the time they end up in bed with us!

[cinnamoncox]

Mine are a little over 4 and still share a room. Half the time when I go into their room in the morning, they've pushed their beds together
They will remain in the same room for the foreseeable future. We don't have an extra room to put one in even if we wanted to, so we are lucky it's working out so well.

[macchiatto]

We lived in a 2BR house until they were 4.5, so they shared till then. When we moved into this house, we put them in their own rooms. In a way I might have liked to keep them together longer (they resisted the idea at first) and make the other bedroom a play room, but one definitely needs more sleep than the other. Oh and the crib to toddler bed transition would have gone a lot more smoothly in separate rooms!

[Deleted]

Mine are 7 mos and are in the same room (same crib actually). We have a 3 bedroom house so they have to share right now, but they also like it. We have 2 cribs but they have always slept together. At night they start in the same crib then we bedshare when they wake up for the first time. Since they like to be in the same crib I cant imagine them being in separate rooms. But I'm sure all kids are different!

[origami]

Mine are still together at 4 but I separated them for maybe a week a few years ago to see if they would sleep better. It failed because when 1 woke up he would call out to his brother so loudly it woke everyone else up. So back together they went. It's not perfect, esp on the weekends, when I just freaking want them to sleep in DAMMIT, but it's liveable. If there ever became a point that they slept like crap together then I would separate them again. I don't play with sleep. I know some people had success separating them so maybe it's worth giving it a shot. I didn't get a 2nd monitor when I test trialed it. I only would have if it became a long term thing.

[dcrunnergirl52]

We actually went the opposite way. Mine were in separate rooms until 3+ years old. We then moved them in to one room b/c we needed the other bedroom for DS2. We'll keep them together for as long as they'll stand it, and then DS1 and DS2 will have to share.

[bluemonster]

Late, but replying anyway. All 3 of mine (7,5,5) shared a room by choice until about 6 weeks ago. We split them up and now they have their own space and are doing fine, but they never seemed to bother each other in a shared room either. I think they get used to the noises.

[floridakat]

It's been a month since I replied, and our girls are doing GREAT in separate rooms. At first they told us they missed each other, but we've been letting them have "sleepovers" in each others rooms on Saturday nights, and that's been fine. This morning one of them slept till 7:30, which is absolutely unheard of in our house. (They're usually awake by 6am or so.) I'm going to call that a win!