Babies

[SeaNana]

We are traveling soon with my daughter, her husband, and their 18 mo twins. What would you recommend for their sleeping (bed with side rails, each with a parent, pack n' play)?

 

[Gillyweed]

We went when my son was barely a year old. They offered a pack n play, but we ended up using the couch bed in the room with two sets of bed rails to cover the entire open side. Sleeping with us was not an option, despite there being plenty of room, because he kicks faces when he shares the bed.

I'd go with whatever they're used to. You can put one in the pack n play, the other in the couch bed.

 

[TestingH2O]

How do they sleep at home? DD was in her crib until 18 months, so I would have chosen pack n play for her. 2 of those will take a lot of floor space though. How many people to a room?

 

[SeaNana]

How do they sleep at home? DD was in her crib until 18 months, so I would have chosen pack n play for her. 2 of those will take a lot of floor space though. How many people to a room?

They sleep in separate cribs at home. It will be just the parents and the twins. Of course, at times one may end up in the parents' king size bed. I do know the pack n plays would take up half of the room, and also when traveling, the babies do not like them.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

How do they sleep at home? DD was in her crib until 18 months, so I would have chosen pack n play for her. 2 of those will take a lot of floor space though. How many people to a room?

They sleep in separate cribs at home. It will be just the parents and the twins. Of course, at times one may end up in the parents' king size bed. I do know the pack n plays would take up half of the room, and also when traveling, the babies do not like them.

Even if they both sleep in a pack N play (separate ones), you need to have a room that sleeps at least 4. Even though you will not be using the beds for the two in the pack n plays. So, the sofa bed seems the best idea - with the double rails added. The "other" bed is a bunk bed, and I'd think that would be out of play for this scenario.

 

[TestingH2O]

Even if they both sleep in a pack N play (separate ones), you need to have a room that sleeps at least 4. Even though you will not be using the beds for the two in the pack n plays. So, the sofa bed seems the best idea - with the double rails added. The "other" bed is a bunk bed, and I'd think that would be out of play for this scenario.

In my head I was thinking if they had 3 adults plus 2 pack n plays in a family stateroom would be very uncomfortable. Two and two allows more options.

 

[ndavis]

We went when our son was not much older than that, he refuses to sleep in anything but a crib at home-but there-he wanted nothing to do with a pack n play (although honestly he was getting a bit big). The state room host was glad to take the pack n play back and get us the side rail. I laid with him on the fold out bed with a side rail-and most nights was able to sneak back into my bed when he fell asleep. Honestly, they will probably crash so hard, as long as they are in a safe sleeping environment, they will be just fine and probably sleep. Would they be willing to sleep together in the fold out bed with side rail? That would make the most space sense. That being said-you can plan for them all day long, but it's going to be whatever works at that time Good luck!

 

[SeaNana]

We went when our son was not much older than that, he refuses to sleep in anything but a crib at home-but there-he wanted nothing to do with a pack n play (although honestly he was getting a bit big). The state room host was glad to take the pack n play back and get us the side rail. I laid with him on the fold out bed with a side rail-and most nights was able to sneak back into my bed when he fell asleep. Honestly, they will probably crash so hard, as long as they are in a safe sleeping environment, they will be just fine and probably sleep. Would they be willing to sleep together in the fold out bed with side rail? That would make the most space sense. That being said-you can plan for them all day long, but it's going to be whatever works at that time Good luck!

I think that is the best solution, too. They can't let the babies cry like they can at home. The fun will be both sleeping together as they like to play together! They may end up with one parent/one baby.

 

[ndavis]

I'm normally really big on a sleep routine, and we had none, one day on our cruise he even put himself down for a nap....so hopefully they just crash from all the fun