Two questions...

ldbryan · April 2012

Our girls will be thirteen or fourteen months apart. I wasn't planning on having a separate changing station for the new baby, but I walked into DD1's room the other night to put something up and thought, "We'll wake her up if DD2 is crying in the middle of the night when I'm changing her." Any thoughts on having a changing station in DD2's room also?

When did you wean your first LO off a pacifier? DD1 only uses one to go to sleep, but she loses it pretty soon after falling asleep? Is it a bad idea to try to take it away now if DD2 will have one in just a few months?

memali26 · April 2012

DD1 was still in the nursery when DD2 was born, so I put diapers and wipes for both girls in the nursery and changed DD2 in there when DD1 wasn't sleeping. At night or if DD1 was napping, I changed DD2 in the living room on a blanket on the couch or floor. I used a pretty basket to hold changing supplies for her out there. Now that DD1 is in her big girl room and DD2 in the nursery, I keep DD1's stuff in her room and change her on her bed, and DD2 in the nursery.

We restricted DD1's pacifier to the crib and car at 10 months and took it away completely at 15 months, cold turkey. That gave her about 4 months to adjust before DD2 was born. Once in a while she wants to play with DD2's nuk and pretend she's a baby, but she's never regressed back to needing one.

MammaBear81 · April 2012

1) Congratulations!

2) We only had one changing station, but we had diapers and wipes in our room. When we had to change the baby at night we just changes him/her on our bed.

3) I let DS1 keep his pacifier until he was 2 1/2, after 6 months he used it strictly for sleep (it never left the crib) so I didn't mind that he used it.

kagl08 · April 2012

Congrats! My 2 are 13.5 months apart and I love it!

1. We do have 2 changing stations but my kids don't share a room. If they did share a room I would definitely be keeping diapers and wipes in my room too.

2. We weaned DD at 9 months because it was severely affecting her sleep. She obviously don't remember it and doesn't think twice about DS's pacifier. She will often give it to her baby to play or she will give it to DS when he is crying. She's a very big helper when it comes to the pacifier.

Cilley · April 2012

We just have a changing station on the floor downstairs that both babies use.

We weaned DC#1 at about 6 mos. We accidentally were using a binkie for a younger baby and he didn't care for it any more. With DC#2, she just stopped using hers at about 4 mos.

If you want to get rid of the binkie, the more time before the #2 comes probably the better. LO#1 may pick it up again b/c #2 will remind her about it.

cari12 · April 2012

1) DD2 slept in our room for awhile but I just kept her out in the living room with me at night (she went to bed after DD1 for a long time) and changed her on a pad on the couch. I kept a small basket of diapers & wipes out there and it worked fine. I also kept a few diapers and wipes in our room and changed her in the PnP or on our bed in the middle of the night.

2) DD1 still had the paci when DD2 was born. DD2 actually didn't love it as much and weaned off of it before DD1 did. They both don't use one anymore and they've seen the ones I have for DD3 and have no interest in them.

howleyshell · April 2012

My kids don't share a room and yes, we had 2 changing areas - one in each room.

Nothing fancy or expensive - just another changing pad tossed on top of a dresser.

Can't speak to the paci as neither of mine took it past about 4 months.

celiabwatson · April 2012

My kids share a room and I really wish I had a second changing station either in our bedroom or in the living room. Their naps rarely align, nor do their bedtimes and I find that more often than not I'm changing them outside of the bedroom. We cloth diaper so it's a little more complicated (in that you can't just throw the used diaper away) and it's taken me almost 4 months to come up with a working system (now I have a basket with diapers, changes of clothes, wipes etc under our coffee table and a trash can with a lid and a liner for the diapers so I can wash them later and they aren't sitting out. The only thing I haven't figured out is what to do with the dirty clothes when I change them in the living room and the other is sleeping.

No idea about pacifiers, we never used them.

littledream313 · April 2012

ldbryan:
Our girls will be thirteen or fourteen months apart. I wasn't planning on having a separate changing station for the new baby, but I walked into DD1's room the other night to put something up and thought, "We'll wake her up if DD2 is crying in the middle of the night when I'm changing her." Any thoughts on having a changing station in DD2's room also?
When did you wean your first LO off a pacifier? DD1 only uses one to go to sleep, but she loses it pretty soon after falling asleep? Is it a bad idea to try to take it away now if DD2 will have one in just a few months?

I have a changing table in both kids rooms (and a pack n play for a changing table in our play room) and I'm really glad we have both for the same reason you mentioned. I don't use it as much now that he's a little older, but while both kids were babies they went through the whole shooting poop and peeing everywhere phase so I wasn't about to change him on our bed or in his crib.

We weaned my daughter from the paci at about 14 months. We thought maybe her baby brother would take one too and we didn't want to wean her then have her trying to steal his. He never ended up taking one so we just went cold turkey with her when he was almost 2 months old.