Twins in separate bedrooms?

[chocolatedrops31]

My twins are 18 weeks old and not great sleepers at the moment-they've recently started waking each other up at night and as one is being resettled the other will wake, making things difficult. I windered if any of you had this issue and what you did about it. They're already in separate cots but that hasn't improved things so I'm thinking of separate rooms but we don't really have the space-one would have to be in with my toddler or our room..any suggestions much appreciated!

[neversleepagain]

They will eventually get used to each others noise and learn to settle if woken by their twin.

Mine are almost 2 and if disturbed by each other they have a look to see what the fuss is about then they go straight back to sleep.

I would personally leave them together.

[2014TwinMummy]

Our twins are just coming up for 20 weeks and we separated them around five weeks ago for similar reasons. One of them settles to sleep really easily but the other doesn't. Each of them only tends to wake once in the night for a feed but at different times. My husband takes one in the spare room and I take the other, which is enabling all of us to get a reasonable amount of sleep (have 23 month old too!). I'm hoping that we'll be able to put them back in the same room once they're both sleeping through the night fairly consistently. They have lots of daytime naps in the pushchair/car at present and are fairly used to the other screaming so hopeful it won't be too difficult to bring them back together...I would be reluctant to put a baby in with toddler but presumably you're being disturbed anyway. Could you take the better sleeper in your room? Might encourage the other to self settle a bit more.

[chocolatedrops31]

Have you found their sleeping improve since you separated them? I'm not keen to put one in our room because I'm a bit concerned that she will be disturbed by us in the evening. Also it means my husband will be woken. Also our room doesn't have black outs etc and we'd have to use a travel cot. I'm not keen on putting her in with my toddler either..might have to be the lounge!

[BearFeet]

We separated ours from day 1. I had ds in our room and did his night feeds and dh had dd with a mattress on the floor for her feeds (dd was the better sleeper). It worked very well for us.

[2014TwinMummy]

We separated for same reason; so we could have one each. Both now only wake once generally but at different times. I don't think they are any better or worse than they would be had we kept them together...the major benefit is that we are each only disturbed once. Prior to this I had both babies in our room with DH in spare room. He would do a late feed and bring them up once settled between 11and 12, enabling me to get a good stretch before one of them woke around 2. However, any sleep after this time was a bonus so we switched to separate rooms and cut out the late feed (one was losing interest in this anyway).