Sleep training help!

seekup

DD is 6 months and was STTN until she got her first 2 teeth about 2 weeks ago...and now...she's not! My biggest issue is that she shares a room with DS so whenever she wakes up, I can't let her fuss for long or I have two awake instead of one.
Right now when I go in her room she gets excited to see me like its party time...even if I try not to make eye contact and just give her a pacifier. Then she will scream. When I pick her up she goes back to sleep. Because I can't let her CIO with brother in the room and I need to get some sleep for work, occasionally I will put her in the RnP in our room and she will fall asleep instantly. I guess it's just cozier than a flat, hard crib.
So any advice on how to deal with this? I don't know how I could do any sort of sleep training without disturbing my other child. TIA!

kelly321

Is there another room where you could put her to do sleep training if that's what you want to do? We had a similar situation - our bedroom shares a wall with DD1's room, and if we let DD2 fuss at night, then she would wake up DD1. We moved DD2's bed to the office, and now we can let her fuss a bit to see if she'll fall back to sleep on her own.

seekup

Thanks! If SO goes in, it's no better. I suppose I could move her to another room and try it but i was hesitant that this would require yet another transition.

musicalmama5

Why not just let her sleep in the RnP in your room?

wifeofadam

seekup said:

Thanks! If SO goes in, it's no better. I suppose I could move her to another room and try it but i was hesitant that this would require yet another transition.

For me, the transition to sharing a room with a sibling has been a piece of cake when the child is older.  They get excited about having a roommate and with my boys it made them both sleep better.  I have a feeling it's going to be the case for me when I move DD2 in with DD1 next year too.

I would do a different room for now. 

Or, if you don't want to, just do the sleep training with the older child in the room.  You'd be amazed at what a tired child can sleep through.  They may wake when the sound first starts, but then fall back asleep.  My DS2 has night terrors sometimes and his older brother often sleeps through them, even when DS2 is standing on his bed and screaming at the top of his lungs for five minutes at a time.