XP - Parents of 2+, please come in.

vanillacourage

Did you have a problem when you brought #2 home, with the new baby waking up #1 with crying or feedings at night?  In either case, how close together were their rooms?

DS's room and the room for #2 are connected by a bathroom.  I'm wondering if this will be a problem when #2 comes.  Although, the other bedroom option is right across the hall, so I'm not sure that's much better, hmph.

kylara111

My DDs rooms are right next to each other.  For a while, #2 used to wake up #1, so I'd go get #2 while DH got #1 back to sleep.  Eventually, #1 learned not to bother getting up anymore.  It didn't last long.

Bellisimo

Not at all...even when we had both of them in our room at night.  DS got into a habit of sleeping in our bed and when we brought DD home she slept in a bassinet on my side of the bed.  He has never woken up from her waking in the night.  Now he's in his bed upstairs and she's in her crib downstairs in the nursery so it's even less of an issue. 

soontobemomma

Not so far!  Hoping it holds.

josie402

DD's room is right next to DS and he's never woke up because of her in the middle of the night.  She occasionally wakes him up in the morning but he's usually ready to get up at that point.  I've found that he wakes her up more than she wakes him up.

CleoKitty

Nope. When #2 was a newborn #1 went through a phase where he was terrified to sleep in his room so he slept on a cot in our room for several months. The new baby was co-sleeping and even with all of us in the same room #2 never was bothered or woken up.

AnnapolisLari

DS can be in the same bed with a wailing sister and not wake up. And he's usually a lousy sleeper, so this amazes me.

LittleMamaB

Nope, no issues at all, but my oldest sleeps like a rock.

snickerdoodle27

I don't think so. Their rooms will be next to each other, but Jacob is such a sound sleeper at night. We've already had our smoke detectors go off b/c of something burning and he didnt' make a sound. When he does wake up, it's not difficult to get him back to sleep.