My brother and SIL are giving us their gorgeous cot. It however is that gorgeous that I don't think I can afford a second one to match it ;p if you get my hint.
Anyway it has a newborn height. I am looking at getting a cheaper (possibly 2nd hand) cot for the second cot and it may not have this newborn height.

While the babies are tiny I assume it is OK for them to share a cot? That way they can share the newborn height. We may be borrowing bassinettes but I am not 100% sure and we certainly won't be buying them.

Did your babies share a cot? How long for and what do you do about bedding?

Thankyou. I said I'd have heaps of silly questions!


Cat & Nath
Finally BFP on ICSI attempt#1. TWINS due end December.

Hi Cat,

I think there is a sticky at the top of this forum about twins sharing cots etc
FWIW I had no probs with my two sharing a cot up until 5 months. It was tricky at times but only coz Scarlett was a reflux baby..so sometimes Joe got chucked on
We did have a cradle also which we left in the nursery but it all honesty it never got used!

Unless the babies actually disturb each other and wake each other I don't think there is anything wrong with them sharing!

Hope this helps,

Jo

Hi Cat, our girls shared a cot until about 4 months of age, at first lying next to each other at one end of the bed (very cute), and then at each end. I didn't think they were disturbing each other, but they did start sleeping better once we put them into separate cots, so maybe they were.

When they were sleeping at the same end, we wrapped them, and we placed the blankets over them both (no sheets). If I was to have that time again, I would probably go for grobags, as I was forever checking how warm/cool they were. We've just bought grobags for our 8 month olds, and they are great!

Sharing is fine, I think, in fact, in many hospital NICUs/SCBUs they deliberatly sleep twins in the same cot because research suggests that the babies are more settled and relaxed with their twin nearby!

Narelle




Narelle 30
DH Craig 31
Identical twins Kelsey & Jenna ,born 19 Sept 2004

Argh! That serves me right for not fully reading stickies at the top. I thought 'sleeping twins' meant getting them to sleep through or something and hadn't read it yet assuming that was a LONG way off! Now I feel like a dill asking again.

Thanks for your replies though. Good to know I am on the right track.

Hi Cat- Hayden and Brooklen are in a cot our bedroom at the moment. It is fine although they are getting too long to fit in it vertically IYKWIM, so I will have to top and tail them soon. I am sure they will sleep together for as long as possible.

The other cot is looking lonley in the nursery! Waiting for a baby to be in it and the other cot!!! LOL, we got the two cots from my parents so they match...they are so lovely.

Dont worry about the question asking - We all did it!! You need to know...

Haylie & Phillip
DSD ~ Ebony
Hayden Phillip ~ 21.3.2005
Brooklen Lily ~ 21.3.2005

Matthew and Erin shared a cot until about 9 months of age. Initially they were side by side. Then they were at each end.

The SIDS recommendation is to make up each end of the cot - so putting them both with feet to a cot end and heads to the middle.

It can work - particularly for the first couple of months, and in my babies' case, for many months after!

Jo2+2<BR>Angel Baby - Rachel - born still 21/11/00 (23 weeks)<BR>Matthew & Erin 7/11/01<P><BR>

I had my boys in the same cot (in our room) until they were around seven months old. I put them side by side, but sideways in the cot. They were quite far apart but sometimes they would reach out and hold hands while they were sleeping (awwww). I moved them to seperate cots when they were too long to sleep like this.

I had Summer babies (like you will have), so I just wrapped them and let them sleep like that. During early Autumn I put a blanket over them as well, and by 3.5 months they were sleeping in Winter Grobags. The Grobags were fantastic, as I did not worry about them overheating, and there was no extra bedding for them to get tangled up in. Another bonus was that the cot was so easy to make up.

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This message was edited by Binna on Wednesday, 1 June 2005 @ 11:30 PM

Hi there: We have two cots. each costing us $500 We have one in our room and in the nursery. A friend of ours brought us a travel cot which has the bassinette part at the top. Now the boys prefer to sleep in the travel cot. Arghhhhh
I have the travel cot set up in the lounge/dining/kitchen area (open plan) area so whislt im in the part of the house they are there with me so i can keep an eye on them and the noise doesn't seem to bother them. Mind you i also have a baby moniter but it seems to pick up some weird & wonderful noises. *LOL*
I think i'll sleep them together until they start hassling each other out.
I also brought two of those SAFETY SLEEPS WRAPS,($70ea) Which are really good but the boys don't like them....

Hi Cat

Our 2 slept side by side in a portacot (basinette height) in the lounge room for the first couple of weeks as it was the easiest way for me to get them up for feeding on the couch when they were still little 'bobbleheads'. Then they moved to either end of one cot in their room for a few more weeks until they started banging their heads together and/or swapping ends during the night. Like Jen, we put their cots in an L shaped arrangement so they were still close. They're now on opposite sides of the room so if one wakes first they can't chuck things at their sister to wake her up!

Nicolie
DDs Piage & Hannah (23/09/03)

hi well i seem to be the odd one out. My two only shared a cot for a week or two(cant quite remember)
amber used to throw up quite a bit and found it a hassle to have to move Olivia to change all the bedding espec. during the night.

We too were given a lovely cot and then spent a fortune on a second matching one, the older one didn't have the newborn level but we just kept the side down for the first few months.

The girls really didn't notice if they were in the cot together and after 3 months or so I moved them into seperate rooms.(this was a litle hard to do) but they disturbed each other continually during the night.
I used to bring Olivia into the real nursery to twin feed during the night as I had a lounge in there.

in hindsight i'm glad as they never had to get used to changing from our room, or from bassinets to cots etc etc...

Good luck. rebecca mum to fraternal twin girls Amber & Olivia 08/05/03

My boys shared a cot till about 6 months then when they went into beds at 2yrs they started to share again they wont sleep now unless they are together.

Cheers

Kate
Mum to Bayley & Lachlan (20/4/01)


This message was edited by TwinMumKate on Monday, 6 June 2005 @ 10:29 PM

Ours shared a cot for 7mths. They were both reflux kids but the hospital taught us before taking them home how to make life w/ a reflux baby much easier then having to do the whole change the linen etc..

At about 5 mths we had them head to head then it was time to head out by themselves. We had 2 cots that didn't match which was no big deal -one was new, the other had already been used for 7 babies prior to mine adn we used it as a change table til one moved into it.

my gf's twins ( hope you dont mind me saying that but she doesnt have a computer and I often give her ideas from here as I go and help her a fair bit) slept in the same cot till 13 months of age when they were then put in a double bed together... THey dont seem to wake each other up and they sleep really well...


Kaysie

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