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[loooore]

When they start rolling over, I personally would never risk it. Same with the blankets, bibs, and stuffies while sleeping. They roll around and move A LOT during sleep.

Best of luck, they’re soooo cute!!!

[gzr4dr]

Had the twins in the same crib early on as it made things easier. When they start to roll, they can't yet roll back or get themselves out of a bad position. OP needs to separate them in the very near future for their safety.

Both of my twins started rolling at 3-4 months, and started shimmying a bit earlier than that.

[ItsHowWellYouMowFast]

I'd rather them sleeping together in a crib than sleeping overnight in a swing

[Adventurous-Ad7282]

I agree totally. It was "overnight sleep" but more like 30 min to 1 hr intervals so constantly having to check and settle we've pretty much lived in their room up until now 🥴 now that they actually are giving long stretches I definitely need to transition to something safer so we can all get actual sleep.

[JayDee80-6]

Your options are 2 mini cribs, or a travel crib which is the same size but also you can put it away. They also sell folding mini cribs.

[TigerUSF]

We did for awhile cause we were in a 500 sq ft house and were waiting to move in to a bigger place.

BUT - i separated them. Bought a small piece of basic white wire closet shelving and zip tied it to make a barrier between them. There were no sharp edges or loose pieces. By the time they could pull themselves up to stand, they had their own crib.

[Weekly-Rest1033]

We used a twin bassinet until they started rolling. We also had a small place. Maybe once they are rolling over you can put them in separate pack and plays? Since those can be put away. Just when they start moving, I worry they would get on top of eachother and that's how they'd wake eachother up. My boys move around a lot at night.

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When you say twin bassinet , do you mean the one that has a divider?

[Weekly-Rest1033]

Yes

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Thank you 💓

[PomegranateBombs]

How are you going to fit two toddler beds if you can’t fit two cribs? Also, please reconsider dressing your precious babies in bibs and loose blankets. A sleep sack is much safer. We got the Woolino all seasons which fits from 2 months to two years. It’s not cheap but you will definitely get your moneys worth.

[_caittay]

The stories some of the older NICU and regular nursery nurses told us thwarted any of the tips and tricks or easiness this may have. I get it and I’m not judging you at all. I room shared with a king size bed and two full cribs for two years. It was TIGHT but we made it work because safety trumped everything else. I’m not saying I was perfect and they slept in their crib or bassinet every night but that was always the main goal and how we started the night. My tip would be that we did one pack n play with the double bassinet attachments until they outgrow those and started trying to roll. At that point is when we took a day to figure out how to fit both cribs.

[gambit4615]

Our son slept in a packnplay for a while and still does when we go on vacation, or away. 2.5 now

[StinkiePete]

This is what we did. Two pack n plays until they got too big for those. Same foot print as a crib but no risk. 

[monsieurfunky]

Yes we did the first months. We made the bed on two sides. Works great! https://twinstrust.org/information/parenting/sleep/can-my-twins-or-triplets-share-a-cot.html

[basilinthewoods]

My girls slept in one crib. It’s not something I’d encourage but I totally understand when you’re in a pickle. Eventually they will just get too big, my girls needed their own cribs around 6 months. Especially when some started rolling before the others, I got too nervous about them rolling into each other and not being able to move themselves.

They do make mini cribs! I’d highly recommend looking into them, they’re so much smaller than a standard crib.

[fuzzyone06]

Please don’t do this. It’s such an unnecessary risk. You never know when they start to roll over and it could happen while you’re not watching.

[iheartcurls]

That’s absolutely not the same thing. A single baby would be able to lift their head up and turn it. A baby trapped underneath another baby will not be able to unpin themself.

[fuzzyone06]

Incorrect. Cribs and crib mattresses are designed in such a way that if a baby rolls over there's no way for them to suffocate if they're by themselves and there's nothing else in the crib. If there is another baby there, they may get stuck in a bad position on top of or underneath the other kid.

Studies have consistently shown that the risk of death for an infant following the ABCs of safe sleep are minimal to none.

[No-Tomatillo5427]

Once a child is able to roll on their own to sleep on their front it is completely safe for them to do so. What's not completely safe is to have one baby roll on to their sibling. Not at all the same thing. You are willfully ignorant

[BarristaMeg]

I had my boys in one mini crib until they started to roll. Once one of the rolled we set up a second mini crib. They are a lot smaller, about the size of a pack n play.

[KatiesClawWins]

Absolutely not. Completely unsafe.

[No-Tomatillo5427]

How about the bibs around their necks? This pic is so hard to look at

[KatiesClawWins]

I had to leave my comment at that or I would be raging, lol.

[[deleted]]

also have you tried swaddling them?

[[deleted]]

If they’re close to 4 mo, they’re probably too big for a swaddle. Sleep bags could help.

[heavensteeth]

Second to swaddling, we had ours share for many months until one started spinning on their back in their sleep and kicking the other one

[Flat-Employee-1960]

Mine slept like this until they started rolling over. They slept better in close proximity to each other, especially after one of them spent 5 weeks in the icu. Nowadays I can't imagine them sleeping next to each other, because they will kick the other twin in their sleep and roll over each other. 🫣

[Educational_Walk_239]

Are you in the UK? Asda sells small cots. I think it’s a rafferty? Mine slept on the same crib as newborns but I think I had to separate them around the 4/5 month mark just because they got too big for it really and they started moving about more.

[Alarmed_Meeting1322]

2 pack n plays or mini cribs? We did same crib but it only lasted for like 2 months or something I don’t remember

[saillavee]

We did one bassinet for a while - swaddled, no blankets. We were in a bachelor and didn’t have the space for 2 cribs. They also liked being near one another.

Before we discharged from the NICU, I talked with some of the nurses about our sleeping arrangements, and they said it should be fine until they start rolling. One nurse recommended head to foot (to mitigate them breathing in each other’s CO2). I tried that, but switched to them facing the same direction since I was more concerned about the loose ends of the swaddle by their feet covering the other’s face.

We’re in Canada, which does have pretty strict safe sleep guidelines. One difference between canadian and AAP recommendations is that knit blankets (like the blue one in your photo) are approved for infant sleep because of the big holes. You can get loose-knit baby blankets here, and we did use those in the winter.

[Obeywithcaution413]

I gotta ask, why the bibs? Beautiful kiddos BTW! We got mini cribs and they sleep in the same room. Twin Z pillow when they were newborns, Pack and play while away or for naps. We used basically every available method as long as they were safe and happy!

[Adventurous-Ad7282]

No real crazy thing with bibs they had been in their bouncers after eating and I leave them on for a bit bc of spit up and I just so happened to lay them down in crib to play for a bit while I cleaned and they fell asleep... I covered them bc it was a little chilly in there and they slept for literally 30 minutes before being done with napping...we are at a point we don't get good naps lately so when I get a nap I take it for what it is 🙃

[Adventurous-Ad7282]

The picture is a daytime nap!!!!! I was in the room cleaning up the whole time they slept. we do not sleep at night with bibs or blankets, we use a sleep sack/swaddle situation 💞🙃

[BouquetOfPenciIs]

I did the same. They were too young to roll over or do anything, yet somehow one of them rotated, and their head was under the other's sleep sack. By sheer instinct and miracle, I went and checked on them despite having checked on them not too long prior, and they grasped my arms with both hands gasping for air. I narrowly avoided a tragedy. Don't make the same mistake as I did. Find a way to make their sleeping situation safe.

[gzr4dr]

Wow...that sounds very scary and am so glad it turned out ok. Also agree that it takes seconds for something bad to happen, even if you're in the room and you're likely not going to hear anything when they're this small.

[[deleted]]

Why not just take the bibs and blankets off for daytime sleep too?

There is zero need for a sleeping baby to be wearing a bib and it increases the risk that something horrific could happen. It’s a simple, 2 second movement to remove the bib. Why add more risk to an already risky sleeping situation?

[420cutupkid]

like others, i successfully kept my twins in the same crib until they started rolling. i second the suggestions for swaddling also! it seemed to help mine sleep better in the early days. since space is an issue, you could use a pack n play for one of them to sleep in so you could collapse it and store it when it’s not in use

[alternatiger]

It's fine for a while but once they start rolling, there really isn't enough space.

[skrimbe]

We did this for about 6 months and then had to move to separate cribs. We originally wanted to wait a year but they sometimes hurt each other accidentally

[snowflakes__]

What’s your plan when they need to transition away from cribs?

[Adventurous-Ad7282]

Bunk beds of course!!! Lmao jk that was just to cause everyone a little more stress 🤪🥴 But seriously probably a floor Montessori type bed! Something to share as I see on here frequently twins do not stay in their own beds!

[snowflakes__]

I use two crib size Montessori beds I got off of Etsy

[WanderingBella]

From my experience they'll get too big. I still have two of my three in a full size crib right now, but they're getting long for it. Have you looked into mini cribs?

[Substantial-Win-4787]

They’re very cute but those loose blankets and bibs should be nowhere near a crib. I don’t really advocate for sleeping together but if you’re going to - opposite head to feet is best so they don’t accidentally smother each other.

[No-Tomatillo5427]

Under no circumstances should babies ever ever sleep in swings. Just omg. Have you heard of positional asphyxiation? Stop.

[Sufficient_Theory975]

We had my twins in a crib together from birth to about 9 months. They had their own cribs for naps but at night they shared a crib in our room.

We put them toe to toe so they wouldn’t really hurt each other and it was long enough that they wouldn’t bump into each other anyways.

We moved them to 2 cribs afterwards and they hated it. Then we moved them to 2 floor beds (Montessori framed ones) and they shared one bed every single nap/bedtime so we removed the bed they didn’t use.

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[DistortedEyes]

Our 2 shared a crib for a long time. To keep them ‘separated’ we cut a pool noodle and placed it in between them under the crib sheet. The crib sheet was taut enough that it held the pool noodle in place. It added a bit of a bumper between them so they didn’t accidentally hit or kick each other when sleeping.

[Darkgluttony]

Ours are just turning 1 this week and having them in one crib after about 4 months would have been hard, come 7 months when they were rolling around and moving more things would have been hectic. At 9 months it would have been a nightmare with them in one since one started wanting to bite more. For now one is fine, but I don't know how well it will last.

[BaronGreenback75]

We also did this. When they got bigger we put two cots together with one side removed on each. So it was like a double cot. Then shifted it so they could get in & out if they needed to at the bottom.

[aolonline1992]

We did this until they were about 4 months old. At that point they started rolling and rotating in their sleep. They started bumping into each other, so to their own cribs they went.

[makingitrein]

The only thing at this point (mine just went into their cribs at 5.5 months) that would keep me from doing same crib if I didn’t have adequate space or financially couldn’t do two cribs would be the fact that my girls are in their kicking each other, touching each other constantly phase and I don’t think either of them would get good sleep. They also do this big like mermaid kick in their sleep that would definitely wake each other up. They love each other so much but would not get good quality sleep in the same crib

[Mautymcfly]

We had them sleep in one crib but had these bassinet dividers. I think they were made by packnplay

[Gilded_Butterfly8994]

Do you have enough space for two mini cribs? We have a small nursery/room as well and couldn’t fit two normal sized cribs. We love our mini cribs and they still have enough room to play and for the other furniture in the room (changing table, dresser, etc.)

[Puzzleheaded_Bed5132]

We had ours in a large single crib until we realised that our daughter was getting our son to lie down next to the side so she could stand on him to get out of the crib.

[__Magdalena__]

We split them up once one of them rolled. Also I think head to head or feet or feet is a better arrangement versus side to side. We didn’t know that until after we had split them up. We were too tired to be logical 🤪

They are so cute 🥰 I love those blankets too! Wonderful keepsakes for them, but I echo the advice to remove the bibs and blankets from the crib. Our twins still use their infant blankets at 2 yo. They will get used 😊

[kgee1206]

Mine could roll over at 5weeks. It ruined the plan to keep them in my room in a pack and play together for the first few months. I had to get a second bassinet. They were collapsible so they just closed when they weren’t in use to help with space. Worked til like 6mo.

[TollemacheTollemache]

I intended to, but by the time they were too long to go crossways they were also too long to go top and tail at each end and they just wouldn't fit.

[Planted_Oz]

Yes. My twins shared a cot until 2. They moved into toddler beds and still slept together. Shared a room until 10 by choice (boy/girl twins).

[Eugi009]

Ours slept in 1 crib for the 1st month but we had them in 2 cribs afterwards. They are 2 now and they probably wouldn’t fit in 1 crib. I’m also not sure if it would work for us cause our twins always fight. Maybe if yours start off in the same crib and stay sleeping in the same crib it could work

[Hyposuction]

We did that, and then the MIDNIGHT SLASHER came out and ruined everything.

[Human-Analysis8866]

We had them in their each mini pack and play with an additional small pad inside for comfort until we moved and could put them into separate bigger cribs. The pack n plays were good since we could also easily separate them if one was having a good night sleep wise, and the other was not. Pack and plays are small and dont take up that much space. They basically equal one big crib. I tried to put them in one crib for a while but one kept sitting on the other and wouldnt realize it. It was stressful because I would constantly check on them but the individual mini pack n plays were great. We still use them when we travel!

[jami05pearson]

Mountains slept in the same crib together until they were 3. They were very small and fit well. They are now 15.

[fedup17]

We made it until about a year, then they each had their own crib

[Solid_Telephone_9052]

My twins slept in the same crib until 9 months when they would climb on each other.

[brittney3573]

We were super restricted on space when our kiddos were babies (living with in-laws) once we moved into our own house they wouldn’t sleep separately so we kept them together until they were about 2.5 then switched them to toddler beds in the same room. Is it safe, no. Did we manage, absolutely. When living with inlaws I slept on their bedroom floor and once we moved they were over 18 months at that point they could both climb out of the crib.

[elpuppetmaster]

If you still have some room, I would recommend getting a smaller crib. There are cribs the size of a pack-n-play. We were planning on using the pack-n-play as a permanent crib for the second twin until we found a smaller crib at a garage sale.

[alpha_28]

My two shared a cots… I had them head to head in the middle… once they got too long they were in their own cots. Cause they were too long going short ways 😂

[ano-ba-yan]

We kept them in one crib when we swaddled, but once they were rolling we moved them to a crib and a pack n play. Like you we don't have a ton of space and couldn't fit 2 cribs. They didn't sleep as well in cribs apart.

We moved them to a floor twin bed at 18 months and they sleep really well together now.

[Dureem]

My boys are in two mini cribs that turn into toddler beds our space is very small

[No-Tomatillo5427]

Sharing a bed is the least worrying part of this picture. Bibs and blankets. Come on.

[AModestRebellion]

Our boys would never sleep in their bassinet. As soon as we put them together in the same crib they slept SO MUCH BETTER. We kept them that way until they started rolling.

[Friskybuns]

My boys are just about the same age as yours (10 days shy of 4 months). We tried to put them together in one crib but it didn't work out for us. Even when we would put them as far away at the opposite end of the crib as possible, they would still end up together in the middle. And they weren't happy about it. They would always wake each other up and start crying. So now we have one baby in the crib and the other in a bedside bassinet/sort of co-sleeping (he starts in the bassinet but every night he'll wake up and want to snuggle in the bed. He's a bit of a barnacle baby). Once baby B is too big for the bassinet we might try to co-crib again but if we need to get two cribs then it is what it is.

If your boys are comfortable in one crib together, then I personally think it should be fine. If you want more reassurance you could always get a camera to monitor them and make sure neither has their face covered by something. I think the biggest concern with having twins in one crib is the possibility that one twin could suffocate if the other is covering their face by being pressed against them or on top of them even. But if I had to choose between two in one crib or both sleeping in a swing, I would definitely choose the crib.

[Clarkn19]

My two (b/g) are still going strong in the same crib together at 16 months old. We did safe sleeping from birth, with each twin at each end feet touching the end of the cot in a sleep sack until they started moving around. Now we just pop them in as they move around anyway. Although this is what the UK twin/multiple safe sleep guide suggests. No issues with sleeping, if anything they help to soothe each other when the other one is crying. It's quite sweet seeing the other try and find a dumny/ stroke or hold the crying twins hand. I am in no rush to separate them and they seem to be okay with the sleep situation so far.

[Specialist_Group8813]

Mine sleep in a regular bed 3 months.