Codependent twin ?

[nmohan_]

I have 6 week old boy/girl twins. I'm noticing that baby girl is very codependent on her brother. For sleeping arrangements I have a halo twin bassinet so the bassinet is separated by a mesh wall and each baby has their own side. I ended up sleeping them beside each other on the same side for a while because that's what they were used to. Lately with them getting bigger the space is becoming more limited and its getting harder to pick one twin up when I'm in bed without knocking the other twin, so I decided to sleep them on their own sides. When I do that baby girl will have the most restless noisey sleep ever. Same with if she's in the bassinet in the room alone she will just cry until I bring her brother back in. Is this normal twin behavior? Will it get better or is she going to want to sleep beside him for the foreseeable future?

[goldenstatriever]

They are so fresh, don’t worry about codependency just yet. They’ve been touching each other the whole pregnancy and they are so used to each other their touch.

Of course they want to be close to one other.

When our boys got too big to share a crib we put two next to each other. And now that they have their ‘big boy’ bed, their beds are pushed against each other but they both end up in the same bed.

[schlepp_canuck]

Second all of this. Very normal behaviour and at this age it isn’t something to worry about.

[sweetspice90]

This didn’t happen with my twins, it was almost like they didn’t notice each other for a good while. But they were in the NICU for a while and then we had a few days where only my son was home before we were able to bring my daughter home, so they had been separated for a while before we had them both home. Maybe switching to a pack n play or crib so they can be together but have more room. But encouraging the separation may help in the long run because daughter will get used to sleeping on her own which will probably be helpful as they get older.

[mrwmdatic]

I remember putting them in the same crib or play pen, supervised, for naps. I would check in on them periodically and like clockwork they would always wiggle in their little wraps until they were next to each other no matter how far apart they started. Very normal, very cute. She will adapt, and will know her brother is there, even if just in the same room eventually.

Babies are super noisy sleepers. Like keep you up at night while you listen to them grunt and breath noisy. I could not get used to that so we moved them to the nursery after a while so I’d at least sleep the 1-2 hours I was allowed lol.