Problem with sleeping twins - 2 years old in beds

by Kerry Neale
(Adelaide, South Australia)

Hi, I have 2 year old twin girls that share a bedroom. Two months ago we moved them into toddler beds as they had started to climb out of their cots.

For the first few nights, they were fantastic. However since then, it's an absolute nightmare to get them to sleep at night, and for their day nap.

They play, empty the clothes out of their chest of drawers, take their clothes and nappies off, strip their beds (including the mattress sometimes) ..........

I've tried all of the standard sleep tips for toddlers however these don't seem to work for me when there's 2 of them.

I've resorted to separating them at each sleep time - putting one in their bedroom and the other in a portacot in our bedroom. Again, this worked for a while but now the one in the portacot also climbs out of there and plays in the room.

I don't want to separate them if there's another option. However I'm doing this on my own most nights as my husband works away for 2 weeks at a time so I'm finding it really difficult.

PLEASE HELP ME!