Posted by Kirsten Patel, Elementary Mommie-on-the-Run | Posted in The Elementary Mommy-on-the-Run | Posted on 18-08-2011
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My twin girls shared a bassinet, next to our bed until they were five months old. Then they shared a crib in their own room for a couple more months. One little baby in a big crib just seemed… lonely. They have never slept with their heads more than five feet apart. I have never even considered separating them. There were many times over the years when one had an accident, or needed some Tylenol and I would turn the lights on, change the sheets, pour the medicine, get a glass of water all while the other slept without even stirring. It’s rare that one will sleep in longer than the other. They usually come into my room in the morning one right after the other.
We have a spare room in our house that we use as a playroom. It’s connected to their current room by a Jack and Jill bathroom. I figure one day, when we no longer need a playroom, one of them will move into that room. Maybe not. I’ll let them decide.
For now, it makes me smile when I walk past their room after they are supposed to be asleep and I hear their little sisterly whispers. I tell them to hush and go to sleep, with no conviction in my voice at all.
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I have twins, too (twin boys) and one of my favorite times of the day is listening to them chatter away at each other after they have gone to bed. Actually, I had trouble getting rid of the monitor when they were old enough just because I so loved to hear them talking to each other. I will be really sad when the boys decide that they want their own rooms…
My two oldest children, my daughter and son, were a year and a half apart. They shared a room when they were babies and continued to share a room, two mattresses on the floor, heads nearest to each other at a corner of the room, until they were about 6 1/2 and 8 years old.
I let them decide when they wanted to ‘try’ their own rooms. It took them time to do that. Occasionally, I would walk down the hallway in the mornings to find them sleeping head to feet with each other or my son would sleep on the floor next to her bed. It took them a few months before they stopped doing that.
Your blog reminded me. Thanks