2 moses baskets or one cot ??
Hi, I am 20+4 with twin girls and am not sure if anyone can help me make my mind up. I have heard that twins settle better together as they have spent 9 months up close to each other. Not sure whether to spend the money on two moses baskets or get one std cot for them to share whilst they are in our room. ( not much room really ) Have cotbeds sorted side by side for nursery for when they are older but wondered what any new twin mums thought or if they could lend advice ?? Thanks!!
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K 14+1 xx
Re moses baskets the benefit is that you can take the basket downstairs with you in the morning, in the begining they will sleep loads and you dont want them upstairs all the time whilst you are down.
I also think it depends on how you are planning to do the night feeds. if you want to feed them together (which i personally recommend) then if they wake each other up thats not a prob, but if you plan to feed them seperatly then you might want them in their own basket.
Re money have you thought about buying a second hand basket, whilst the new ones with all the frills etc look lovely they are too much hassel when you have twins, I just used a bare moses basket and bought a new mattress and used sheet and blanket, all much easier to clean when they were sick.
This disadvantage of a moses basket is if they are good size they wont be in it for long, but i did find it useful
Sorry its long
xxDBxx
Mum to Id boys 23 months, lo 23 weeks and ttc 4th and final
I bought two moses baskets AND have just SOLD 2 moses baskets!!
So i think you can guess what im going to say... my two settle and sleep better together, side by side, and there was not enough room in a single moses basket, and did not like sleeping in one each!
So on our 2nd day home... we bought this...
http://reviews.argos.co.uk/1493-en_gb/3761542/reviews.htm
And its FAB!!!! (we didn't buy it from argos tho)
Girls love sleeping on the bassinet (great level, saves your back).
Em x
They now sleep in seperate cots side by side - and do wake each other.
Together in one cot they kick each other - pull each others hair and generally make each other scream now - they are 7 months....
like aprevious poster i found the moses basket essential - as i could carry it down stairs in those 1st mad weeks!
good luck
x
My girls went into the same cot when we bought them home, in our room. We moved them into their own room when they were 41/2 months and they still shared until last week when we had to separate them because they keep pulling eachother eyes and ears, basically fighting lol and also they compete to see who can puch the covers off first so they then wake up cold and scream the house down!!
My girls will be 7months this week (or just over 5months corrected)
Max and Milo 20 weeks Luke 17 1/2 mth
new to this site. Daft really as my twins are now 6 months. Got over the worst bit.
I put my babies in separate moses baskets when they came home. However, my little boy would not settle without his sister and so for the first 4 weeks they slept together (much to her disgust!!) After that he got too big and had to go on his own, I used to give him one of her babygros to smell. It worked. I was amazed that he felt this way as they were non identical and lived separately for nine months but GP did say they would still have had that closeness, growing together
They are now 6 months in separate cots but in the same room.
Good Luck
Jenny
boys must be more clingy!
mine are 7 months!
sarah