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Sleep training and sharing YOUR room...

cs1007cs1007 member
in Babies: 9 - 12 Months

Has anyone done this? DH and I have camped out on the couch for the last 2 nights, and DS seems to be doing well with less nightwaking. We planned on giving it one more night on the couch and then returning to our bedroom with LO there. (He does have his own room, but it is on another floor, and I don't feel comfortable putting him there...house is going on the market to find better set up...)

I am wondering if this is going to work at all once we return to our room or if he will sense our presence and cry at night/wake all over again...Thoughts?

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Re: Sleep training and sharing YOUR room...

  • hay1122hay1122 member
    Haven't shared a room with DD since she was a newborn, we moved her to her own room when she was 3 months old and it's right above us on the second floor.  I would imagine your LO will sense your presence when you return to your room.  Why not consider moving him to his room and using a monitor.  We hear DD just fine when she wakes without a monitor since we have both doors open but sound travels well in our house.  It might actually help with teaching DS how to put himself back to sleep... just a thought.
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  • Cheerio BCheerio B
    We didn't sleep train but we decided to let DS fuss a little bit when he woke during the night. since he's still in our room, that meant we moved to the couches. It worked and he started putting himself back to sleep. Until we moved back to our room. Partially because he could hear us and probably in part because it's hard to laythere and do nothing while he fusses 2 feet away.
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  • singerchick2813singerchick2813 member

    We just moved our ds out of our bed (we were cosleeping). We tried putting him in a pack n play next to our bed a few times but it never seemed to take. Partially because I would fall back into old habits and partially because he was up every few hours. Finally I talked to the pediatrician about it and she said she thought that a lot of his sleep issues were due to the fact that he could smell me (ds is bf). She said she thought he would sleep better in his own bed, in his own room and she was right. Since he is so mobile we changed his crib into a daybed so we could get close to comfort him if need be. He does still wake up a couple of times a night but its nothing close to the 5 or 6 times it was when he was in bed with us. The first night was the hardest for me. He did better than I did. lol. I barely slept because I was worried about him but after a while we both got used to it. The baby monitor is my best friend.

    So I guess what im trying to say is we only succeeded when we were completely separate. Its hard and takes getting used to but you will. If dont want to be running around the house all night it might be good to wait until he can have a room cl8ser to yours or camp out on the couch til u get the new room set up. Good luck!

     

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