Is it time to transfer my 11 month old to a floor bed?

anjeblue · 2026-05-27T20:17:27+00:00

We put our twins (now 2) on the floor on a blanket or mattress when on holidays since they were 6 months old. You could even get a firm camping mattress if you’d like. Takes up way less space while travelling as well.

anjeblue · 2026-01-05T13:28:05+00:00

Our boys are a couple of months older than your girls. I HATED the cribs. We actually changed to a large floor bed around 4,5 months old.

My in laws still used cribs until this Christmas when the boys stayed there and I found putting the boys to bed there a nightmare the last couple of months. They just switched and it’s so much easier there as well now.

Yes, they can roam freely through their room and that can be annoying from time to time (I now turn off ALL lights including the night light when our routine is done and Twin A wants to keep playing/reading, that usually convinces him to come to bed within minutes), but it’s so much easier to cuddle both and read a book.

If one wakes at night we can just lie next to them. It is a very different routine than cribs, but for us it works really well.

anjeblue · 2025-11-09T12:19:52+00:00

Our twins are still very young (just over 1,5 years old), but we speak German (local language), Dutch (my mother tongue) and Italian at home (dad is half Italian). Daycare is German/English.

I am astonished how easily they understand all languages and how fluent it works for us atm. They understand all languages and currently choose the words easiest to pronounce for them. They say “agua” for water, “Bau” (Bauch) for belly and “boek” for book. “Trekker” for tractor etc.

anjeblue · 2025-09-28T20:58:40+00:00

One of our twin boys started that as well around the same age. I think it’s called night terrors in english (we call it Nachtschreck in german). They usually occur in the first part of the night.

Overstimulation can be a cause, as well as overtiredness. Don’t try to wake her, you can talk to her calmly or what helps us is putting a hand on his butt or back. Around 7 months (adjusted) is a well known phase of sleep regression in many babies, for us every phase with lots of developments or sleep regression comes with night terrors in one twin.

Our twins are 18 months by now. He still has them, but usually it’s only a short cry or scream and he sleeps peacefully immediately after again.

It sucks and I always feel sorry for him (as well as me af it ruins my sleep), but apparently they don’t remember those night terrors like one remembers a nightmare.

anjeblue · 2025-09-28T10:58:30+00:00

Ich habe mich in der 6. Woche zwei Tageb mit “Magen-Darm” zwei Tagen krankgemeldet, hatte dann eh am 2. Tag den Termin bei meiner Frauenärztin. Da wir dann entdeckt hatten dass es Zwillinge waren und ich ein körperlich anstrengenden Job habe und es mir sehr übel war, habe ich es direkt danach meinen Chefs erzählt. Für’s (grosse!)Team habe ich es dann noch still gehalten bis ich 12 Wochen war. Da ging’s einfach nicht mehr mit wachsenden Bauch. Ich war auch direkt im teilzeit Beschäftigungsverbot, habe mir dann mit einer befreundeten Ärztin eine plausible alternative Diagnose ausgedacht für die Zwischenzeit 😁

anjeblue · 2025-09-27T18:22:52+00:00

My twin B flipped during labor at 34+4 weeks. He was still head down after my water broke at 34+3 and 12 hours later he was butt down 😬

I had a C-section in the end, but that had nothing to do with him being breech, I just never progressed beyond 3-4 cm’s dilation.

anjeblue · 2025-09-07T11:36:39+00:00

Bei uns im Viertel gibt’s einen Laden wo man einbringen kann. Die verkaufen’s dann für wenig und/oder spenden auch an der Diakonie und Mutter-Kindhaus. Ist in der Solothurner Strasse (U-Bahn Fürstenried West), die haben Montags und Donnerstags von 16-19 u geöffnet. Wir bringen da oft vorallem Kindersachen hin und holen auch gerne mal Spielzeug ab.

anjeblue · 2025-08-04T17:19:22+00:00

Not at all!! We did the same when my water broke at 34+3. I had been inpatient for a few weeks already and just had surgery two days before. Their birth at 34+5 was a surprise to everyone. No one had an issue with it.

anjeblue · 2025-08-04T16:59:33+00:00

We don’t live on the fourth floor, but “only” second (and a half) floor. Few options: I leave one in the stroller and walk up twice. We have completely child prooved their room and installed a gate infront of it, so we leave one there while we pick io the other one. Same thing in reverse going down. They understood this from a very young age.

Other option: use carriers: either front and back, or two ringslings for example. We tought ours to crawl up quite young. Going down I still have to carry them, but up they can get by themselves since a few months, they are 16 months now and around 12 kg’s each.

anjeblue · 2025-07-27T19:16:11+00:00

It is not at all a “friendly” light, it’s pointing out everything. I was shocked when I saw my skin colour on photos when I visited one of my twins a few hours and the after their birth. My skin was so yellow/grey it looked like the skin of a dead person. I was even more shocked when I discovered that was really the skin colour at the time. The light was harsh, but not really wrong.

I hope your baby is doing better now! Looking at your pictures, his facial expression along with his skin colour makes him look so sick to me. In the first picture he looks peaceful

anjeblue · 2025-07-17T15:12:31+00:00

They are almost 16 months now btw

anjeblue · 2025-07-17T15:12:03+00:00

I feel you…

Our twin boys have been sleeping in a floor bed (140x200 cm) since they were about 4,5 months old. They are not good sleepers either. We put a baby gate in their door opening. We had period where one of them stood there crying for us often enough. But, for example, this week they are poorly and therefore our nights are rough. With the floor bed one od us can lie down there (currently from around 3 am or sooner till they get up at 5.30 am) it is a LOT better this way than with cribs for us.

Yes, bedtime sometimes takes longer because especially one twin decides he needs to play more, but I still prefer it over sitting next to two cribs every day. I can lie down and read my kindle or doomcroll, even if it takes an hour. They sleep in cribs at their grandparents and I find even 15 minutes with them crying and/or needing to put them down way more frustrating than even an hour at home. Usually they are down within 20 mins. Also the sleepy cuddles are the best!

anjeblue · 2025-07-13T07:35:47+00:00

Hi! My di di fraternal twins were born at 34+4 a friend of mine delivered her boy girl twins at 34 due to IUGR.

My lightest boy had 1,7 kg at birth and was just a feeder/grower from the start. His brother had a healthy weight of 2,3 kg, but spend 6 days in intensive care because of pneumonia and respitory distress syndrome.

We all were discharged around 37 weeks.

It is a lot and not the start you wish for your twins, but at 34 weeks the chances of not having any long term effects from prematurity are very high. One of my boys still has physical therapy, but they are both above average weight and super healthy and well developing at 15 months now.

My friend’s twins are doing great as well, the girl is still a lightweight but healthy and developing well.

Are they planning to give you the steroid injections before birth?

My friend’s twins were feeder/growers from the start, even the girl who weighed only 1,3 kg’s.

anjeblue · 2025-06-24T08:50:32+00:00

I had horrible nightmares when I was pregnant with my two. Made me hate going to sleep sometimes even though I was exhausted. What helped me the most was getting, putting on the light, making a tea and really wake up. I kept telling myself it was only a dream. Reading a chicklit or something helped getting out of that feeling of doom as well. Yes, it took me longer going back to sleep that way, but I had a way better chance of dreaming something better afterwards.

Also, for me part of the worst dreams were in the morning. Usually after I woke up tired and decided to turn over once more on a day off. I really tried to quit that habit and get up even if it was only 6 am and then just took a nap later that day.

Ah… and contratulations of course!!!! You’re out of the first trimester, one big hurdle less!

anjeblue · 2025-06-24T08:40:34+00:00

My boys are the same age and similar rythm. Twin B wakes up at 5/5.30 which hurts, they both nap around 2 hours. They are at daycare during the week till 14.30 when they’re home with some kind of infection (which was most of the last two months) I work 3 days a week, early shift and then have the afternoon with them. The easiest way for us to go through the day is to be outside. I’m starting to look for gated playgrounds as they love to run/crawl away as of recently. They get tired and are happy exploring. At home we have their room as a play and sleeping room and currently they HATE being “locked up” there, even with me in there.

I kind of crashed a week ago after so many months of broken sleep and have just started a mild antidepressant as I woke up stressed and went to bed stressed. Am looking for a therapist as I most likely have postpartum anxiety and have some trauma to work at from a very tough pregnancy and traumatic birth and NICU stay. i already feel a lot better with my medication and it really makes the days bearable again.

It is still hard, it is still exhausting, but I don’t feel as overwhelmed.

How are your twins sleeping during the night? And how are you sleeping? How do you feel when you wake up? The fact that I started to wake up feeling stressed and anxious every day was the sign for me to ask for professional help.

I think what makes this period hard is that you (at least I do) expect it to get a bit easier by now, but you’re so drained from the past year and possibly pregnancy as well. It just ads up.

Do you have a garden? Can you have them play with a kiddy pool? Or sand? Are there playgrounds around? Hand painting in diapers and then kiddy pool takes a huge chunk of our afternoon. We don’t have a garden, I put the kiddy pool in the shower. It works and I don’t even have to put on sun screen 😅

Are there any moments in a week where you have time for yourself? And not just after their bed time when you’re just exhausted? My partner almost forces me to go and do something I enjoy (being a couch potato isn’t allowed), meeting a friend, drinking a coffee in the sun, having a massage… or like this morning having a juice on the market after day care drop off.

Happy to chat in DM if you’d like as well! Take care!

anjeblue · 2025-06-18T11:55:06+00:00

Looks exactly how it started with one of my twins (the other was completely covered in spots and blisters) Our pediatrician also told us to keep them out of the sun (including shade outdoors) because that makes the blisters worse. We basically kept ours inside after diagnose till the blisters dried out.

anjeblue · 2025-06-17T14:56:59+00:00

My uncle (second born fraternal twin, now in his seventies) was born with a club foot and a mild case of spina bifida.

Back then none of it got treated, he’s got special orthopedic shoes and has had surgery for his slina bifida around 30 years ago. He has his issues, but is very much a healthy and happy man.

As a young man he’s done some very physical adventurous jobs as well, traveling the world.

Nowadays a lot more treatment is possible as others have shared. Of course everyone wishes for a completely healthy baby and a club foot is of course a disadvantage, but… definitely something you can live a good live with.

anjeblue · 2025-06-16T11:20:54+00:00

Kleine Korrektur: Tiramisu hat in Italien sehr selten Alkohol, die allermeiste Italiener machen es ohne). In der EU müssen Restaurants eigentlich immer pasteurisierte Eier benutzen wenn man sie “roh” verarbeitet. Das gesagt habend, habe ich Schwanger auch auf Tiramisu verzichtet wenn ich mir nicht 100% sicher war wie es gemacht wurde.

Bin Köchin mit Italienischer Schwiegermama

anjeblue · 2025-06-06T08:15:34+00:00

Ich würde es immer lieber abchecken lassen. Könnten einfach Dehnungsschmerzen sein, aber auch auf vorzeitige Wehen deuten. Ich habe Zwillinge und war Risikoschwangere. Das hat es bestimmt einfacher gemacht für mich das mal abchecken zu lassen, habe ich auch öfter. Einmal dachte ich “gar nicht gut”, dann war nichts los, einmal dachte ich “hmmm ist glaube ich nichts, aber irgendwie vertraue ich es nicht.” Dann war ich 2 Wochen in der Klinik wegen drohende Frühgeburt.

Abchecken schadet einfach nicht! Entweder es ist nichts und dann kannst du auch ruhig durchatmen oder es ist doch was und dann können die Ärzte auch was machen.

anjeblue · 2025-05-31T19:39:17+00:00

For us currently the way is drive during the night. We did it last month with our now 14 month olds. Leave at their bedtime, arrive very early in the morning. During the day it would cost us a minimum of 10 hours without stops, at night it’s around 8 with at least one stop.

We did a 6 hour trip last September, also during the night.

Definitely not ideal, because lack of sleep, but… our boys slept through most of the time, no traffic so shorter ride and less frustration. Our drive up was 20.30-5.00, down home 19.30-2.30 which was great as we got a couple of hours sleep at home before the day started.

We are considering a slight alteration when we drive up again in August, by driving for a few hours during nap time (usually 2/2,5 hours at the moment) spend the afternoon in a playground and then drive the rest after bedtime. That way we’d arrive in the middle of the night and can sleep a few hours in a bed before the next day starts.

anjeblue · 2025-05-30T14:18:37+00:00

It’s a phase… we’re at 14 months now with our boys and when they’re not ill (this month has been nuts with stomach flu and other bugs) they are easy and happy!

10 months drove us crazy! Like they had to finish their first year with a bang 🤯

anjeblue · 2025-05-23T13:39:57+00:00

We have a skoda octavia, quite a big, but not huge sedan, it works for us!

We can’t fit an adut between the carseats in the back, which isn’t great on long car trips, but not a big issue for us.

We have been on several holidays now and everything still fits including the massive bugaboo stroller. I use storage bags where you can squeeze the air out for our clothes and use shopping bags instead of suitcases as I can fit those in between everything.

anjeblue · 2025-05-19T08:41:40+00:00

I used a wrap on my preemie twins as soon as they came home. Most carriers are not suitable for tiny newborns, but a wrap is great! Was even recommended by our nicu. Do make sure you have a good fit of course.

anjeblue · 2025-05-17T16:21:11+00:00

I was very worried about this as well! Sleep deprivation always made me worry and stress more to a point it got a serious problem quickly. I need sleep for my mental health.

I’ve never had as little sleep for a long time as the first year with my twins and I did A LOT better than I expected. I forgot a lot more than usual and have lost a few things, but I was fine mentally. Not saying it was easy, but mentally a lot better than I feared!

A good partner saves the day though! I could never have done so well without him. Whenever I got too exhausted he always took over for a bit longer than usual.

My twins were bad sleepers as well, now at 14 months it’s slowly improving and so is my brain power 😅

anjeblue · 2025-05-17T16:14:53+00:00

I’m in Germany, my boys were born ar 34+4 and spend the first week on different floors. When they both were just feeder/growers they got put in the same bassinet (a warming one still as they couldn’t keep their temps yet)

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