Transitioning from the Crib... for Twins!

I don't have twins but two of our children parent twin boys, identicals. The oldest ones are now 14 years old, but the 3 year old boys just were moved not long ago into the crib converted to toddler bed. It was a bit of a change and not staying in bed, etc. but is getting better I think. At my house they only nap ( so far since the cribs are down ) and they sleep in separate rooms on air mattresses for nap time. It works well when they are not in the same room. BUT child proof EVERYTHING when they are out of the cribs. They are sleeping better if they are very tired but at first it was not good getting them to go to sleep. My first two were 12 months apart and that was the worst time for me with them, getting them to go to sleep and not bother each other getting in and out of bed, etc. I had to discipline them consistently.

My sister in law put her twins into 2 toddler beds. With her older son, she did this at 2 years, and she moved the twins in right before 2 years, but she is having more difficulty with the twins then she did earlier with her son. The girls get out of bed and get in with each other, talk to each other, and tickle each other. They watch them on the video monitor and have to keep going in to get the back into their own beds.

Put them in the same full or larger bed. They are nearly too old for toddler beds. It will save another transition in the next 6 months to a year.

I put both my (twin) girls in the same twin bed, because they have always slept in the same bed and they still like sleeping in the same bed. They sleep just fine and I assume it's because they are still together. I will move them to separate rooms when they ask for it. Right now they are two years old (they'll be 3 years old at the end of May) so it will probably be a while before that happens if even it happens. Best wishes to you and your babies.

We transitioned my twin boys to toddler beds in the same room when they outgrew the cribs and they still have plenty of space at 4 1/2 years (hopefully will last another year or so until they are in a bunk bed). They really like sharing a room; of course, it takes them 1/2 hour to an hour to fall asleep, but that may be due to the fact that they still take a nap. I imagine they might fall asleep a little faster in separate rooms, but that wasn't an option for us due to space. I think it might be hard for them to get used to being in a room alone initially. Good luck! It was a real challenge for one of our boys when he transitioned from crib to bed (kept coming into our room in the middle of the night for a couple months just to say hi), but I think that would have happened regardless of where he was sleeping outside a crib.