5-Month Old wakes every two hours, disturbs 22 month old

melissapilgreen

Our 5-month old wakes every two hours still. We have tried letting him cry it out but it wakes up our 22-month old. Any ideas?

2u2wow

no advice but i'll have a newborn with a 22 month old so i'm curious to see what others say!

good luck...

 

do your babes share a room?  

InfinityDreamer

I believe that 5 months is a bit early to begin CIO.  What is your sleeping arrangement like?   Is there any way you can put them into separate rooms?  If not, you try putting a white noise machine right up near where your 22 month old sleeps so they'd become accustomed to the background noise.  I don't know how it would work exactly if you are bottle-feeding but perhaps try cluster feeding in the evening in the few hours prior to bed time so that if LO is actually waking up to eat out of hunger instead of just needing comfort they'll have a fuller tummy before bed.  

NCMichelle

I would definitely get a sound machine if you do not have one.  Each of our kids (separate rooms) have one that play white noise.

SuperThat1006

NCMichelle:

I would definitely get a sound machine if you do not have one.  Each of our kids (separate rooms) have one that play white noise.

We just got the travel Sleep Sheep for DS - it's awesome.