Toddler beds and sharing a room

Tell me about your transition. I am on the fence on what to do. We have the room to split them but I really wanted to keep them together.

DS has climbed out once and has tried a few other times. I watch the monitor like a hawk right now when he is awake.

What was nap time like? They are in cribs and it is like a circus in there at nap time. Right now they have been in there for 2 hours and they are playing, jumping, yelling etc. Did you loose your nap all together? They eventually fall asleep but together it takes a long time. I NEED naptime right now otherwise I'd get nothing done.

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I don't think Im much help because mine had already dropped their nap before they were in their toddler beds. But the transition for night time went fine. We are in the same situation as you, we have the rooms to separate them but I want to keep them together as long as they want to be. How are they at night? Do they take awhile to fall asleep then too?

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I don't think Im much help because mine had already dropped their nap before they were in their toddler beds. But the transition for night time went fine. We are in the same situation as you, we have the rooms to separate them but I want to keep them together as long as they want to be. How are they at night? Do they take awhile to fall asleep then too?

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My twins started climbing out of their cribs at 21mo...the exact day I came home from the hospital w/ DS#3. We transitioned to toddler beds. It was horrible bc they would run around like lunatics all night long and stopped napping so we put them back in cribs and got crib tents.

Last week, just before they turned 3, one of the tents broke. 1 twin has a tent; the other doesn't. The tent is not zipped shut. We told them that if they get out, we'll treat them like babies and not the big boys that they are now.

Surprisingly, they've been doing pretty good. They are napping for 2 hours in the afternoon. When I put them in, I tell them that we will only go play outside if they go right to sleep and they usually listen.

Some days I thought about putting them in separate rooms bc it was such insanity. But....they love each other so much and almost cant function w/out the other one in the same room. and

I am considering switching them into regular beds this summer. Not looking forward to it.

Toddler beds and sharing a room

I always had to seperate for naps. When one of my girls started to jump out I got the tent. I was against it at first but it really worked for them. The girls were in toddler beds at 3 years old. I wish we would have just gotten them twins because a year later we bought them twins. I

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Posted by cds58019

I don't think Im much help because mine had already dropped their nap before they were in their toddler beds. But the transition for night time went fine. We are in the same situation as you, we have the rooms to separate them but I want to keep them together as long as they want to be. How are they at night? Do they take awhile to fall asleep then too?

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I've always separated for naps. DD sleeps in my room, DS in the kids' room. Now they are 4.5 and don't take naps anymore, but they still do quiet time in separate rooms. They went into the toddler beds at 2.5 and were in them until their 4th birthday.
When I first switched them to the toddler beds they would take every piece of clothing out of the dresser and closet every day. I eventually just piled everything on top of the dresser because I got tired of folding and hanging everything every day.

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naps were a disaster when they went to toddler beds.....they would destroy their room every day.

we dropped naps and they go to bed easily by 7:30

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We actually changed my 3yo twins into toddler beds since I posted above a few weeks ago. They stay in their beds at night and are good for naps too. The only issue----now they are getting up at 5am. They just asked me for lunch.

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We actually changed my 3yo twins into toddler beds since I posted above a few weeks ago. They stay in their beds at night and are good for naps too. The only issue----now they are getting up at 5am. They just asked me for lunch.

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This post is making me dread switching them to toddler beds! Mine are 22 months, and one twin has climbed out once last month but hasn't tried it again. Hopefully I still have awhile to worry about this.

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I just saw this post!

J and N were climbing out of their cribs earlier this year and we were so nervous that they were going to hurt themselves. My little acrobats also had sleep sacks on!

Getting them into their toddler beds at night isn't bad. J loves books so he wants to hold one (and his bunny) and he falls asleep right away. He knows the routine...milk, brush teeth, put PJs on, then off to bed. N is more difficult. He won't fall asleep in his bed on his own. I usually lay with him on the couch in the den and he'll fall asleep. Then I'll carry him to his bed and he'll sleep there for several hours (he's usually looking for me at 2 am!).

As for naps, J will tell me "nap" and I'll bring him to his bed. N usually falls asleep on his "stuffed turtle" on the couch in the den. They usually sleep for 2 hours and they're on the same schedule.

My boys run around their room a lot, too. It definitely wears them out. We bought the clips for their dresser drawers so they can't pull out their clothes or hurt their fingers.

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