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LOs share room..Tips and how do you do it???
Hi, Ladies...warning...this turned out to be a long post.
I want to see if moms can help me out with some advice. We only have a 2 bedroom place. LO#2 is 6 months old baby girl is currently in our room. She is "waking up" every night (just once), no feed but just wakes up. I suspect that she will fall back to sleep if I don't jump up when I hear a noise. One, I dont want her to distrub DH's sleep and I also don't want her to be fully awake. She is usually back down in 10 minutes after I pick her up and just hold her for 10 min.
So that's why I am thinking of moving LO#2 to sleep with LO#1 (who is 2 years old exactly). Now, LO#1 is a great kid, fun and loves to play. However, he puts a fight (almost every time) when its nap time or sleep time.
My question is...how do I have them share a room when LO#1 puts up a fight to sleep, which would wake up LO#2? Especially I am thinking nap times when they are not in sync, when I bring #1 in, #2, maybe sleeping, so when #1 fights about napping, I think it will wake up #2. Similarly with night time when #1 and #2 bathe at same time but #2 sleep sooner because once we give her a bottle, she is down. #1, on the other hand, after bath, he reads books, plays puzzle, etc (by the way, all this happens in his room). So, if they share, #2 would already be down in her bed (in his room), while #1 plays and reads books?
Anyway, sorry this gotten to be a long post.. but just want to get a few mom's advice out there on how you guys handle sharing a room especially around bed time and when one child fights to go to bed... TIA
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Re: LOs share room..Tips and how do you do it???
We are in a two bedroom and my little one's share a room. #1 is 3yo and #2 is 6 months. First let me say, I'm jealous that your 6 month old is sleeping so well. Mine, not so much.
We do a bedtime routine in their room, pj's, milk for both and books. #2 goes in the crib sometimes asleep, sometimes drowsy. #1 goes to bed and I'll lay with her for 5 min. After that we tell her it's bedtime and to whisper because baby brother is sleeping. And she's really good about not waking him up. If we have to go in for her for any reason we gave the rule that we take an animal away. She sleeps with a million stuffed animals. That's enough to keep her good. There have been a couple of times where she's gotten up and played with stuff in her room after we've closed the door and we've put a stop to that.
There has been a couple of occasions that she didn't want to go to bed and threw a fit, and we've taken #2 out of the room till she goes to bed. But that has been really rare. For the most part she'll just play quietly in her bed if she's not tired yet.
As for naps, we have not done them in the same room. Their schedule is not fully in sync. She's getting to the point where she's phasing out naps so we have one sleep in their room and one in ours. It varies, we usually put #2 in the crib and #1 in our bed.
Hope that helps you, good luck!
We didn't start them sharring a room till more recently, but I always put them to sleep at the same time since DH was often working. I always just turn them loose in the room, I read a book while feeding the other if I need to (worked out a schedule with trial and error). I never really worried too much about one being too loud and not letting the other sleep (for their own sake...usually just my sanity) because I figure they are siblings and they need to figure that stuff out on their own and it seems like they take turns being too loud or feed off of each other anyway. Long story short...I was just patient and winged it.