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Sleep training and shared room (with parents)?? Advice?

cs1007cs1007 member
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DS is 9 months, and has been a TERRIBLE sleeper-waking every 1.5 hours for MONTHS now. He had acid reflux and was on meds, recently weaned. It has been a long process, but we just got him OUT of the swing-the only place he would sleep. He is sleeping in a pack n play in our room, which is huge progress to me:). He has his own bedroom set up on the first floor, but we are on the second floor...I really don't feel comfortable having him on a different floor than us, so we are in fact looking for a new home/putting ours on the market...

Anyways, I have finally reached a point where I can no longer wake this often, so we have started a gentle sleep traning. He falls asleep easily for naps and bedtime, but seems to wake up often at night and can't fall asleep without assistance.

DH and I have 'camped out' on our couch for the last two nights so that DS could fuss without keeping us awake. We did go in and soothe every few minutes on the first night, when he did wake up and cry. On the second night he only fussed for a few minutes and fell back without needing ANY help all night (YAY!) We are going to give it another go tonight, but were planning on going back into our room tomorrow night.

I am wondering if anyone has done this, and if  sleep training can actually be successful when sharing a room, or if he is going to hear/smell me and it is going to be a big old 'fail'...

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  • hdine22hdine22 member
    We basically have the same issue - house and baby wise.

    We have a one bedroom home - we're all upstairs. It's an a-frame and it's a large, open upstairs - but we're on one side and our son on the other. We didn't have issues sleep training.. but I do think he periodically hears us and that is what wakes him up (my hubby snores, or we move and I swear he can hear the sheets move! crazy baby ears!) but it's not a bad situation, just not entirely ideal to me. We're planning on adding on and having our son upstairs and our new master bedroom downstairs.. but that won't be for awhile yet. Sadly, I do think it would be easier to sell and purchase a home with more rooms (we don't want any more children though..) but my husband loves this house and worked so hard on it, and he loves that it's on a lake (scares me!). I love it too, but it's not the best for children is what I mean. 

    Anyway - it was successful for us, it's just a tad more difficult. 
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  • Suzanne68Suzanne68 member
    My baby has same issues. We recently have her in her own room and she now wakes only every 3 hrs but sleeps 7 hrs total a day!  I found her in our room did not work cause she did not sleep as soundly and when she woke saw us. My sis in law had same issue with her reflux baby sharing a room. Her son sleeps better now in his own room since they moved. She had same issue cause he would wake and see her. I don't have much advice and totally wouldn't want by baby sleeping on a different floor either. Maybe you can get a partition to block the baby from seeing you and hubby while still sleeping in the same room? Other than that good luck. I know how never sleeping is. I still can't believe we don't sleep at 10 months here. 

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  • jw87jw87 member
    Although you might not be able to block out all noises, could you put some sort of barrier so he can't see you if he was to wake up? 
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  • unaveragejaneunaveragejane member
    When we stay at my parents' house, we have to roomshare with DS. Naps were awful (I think b/c the room was so bright), but bedtime wasn't bad. We put the PNP at the foot of the bed (b/c that was the only place for it) and he couldn't see us. I'm sure he knew we were right there, but it didn't seem like too big a deal. He generally STTN at home. At Mom and Dad's, he woke once during the first night and STTN the second night. We kept a fan running for white noise, and even us whispering and moving around the room didn't wake him up. Hopefully once your little one is used to putting himself back to sleep on his own, it won't be a big deal to him when you move back into your bed.
                 

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  • chocolatechippychocolatechippy member
    This is us! We actually moved DD to our walk-in closet ( it fits a full size crib).  Granted, it didn't help with all the wakings, but I do feel like I don't have to tip toe.
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  • catapult32catapult32 member
    I've found that sticking to routine really helps. Sounds simple, but it's not. We have bed time routine and she goes to bed (recently without fussing). If she does wake during the night, I pretend I'm not there and she goes back to sleep, eventually. It is pretty rough sometimes, but I've learned to be more ok with CIO than I thought I would be.
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  • crlaceycrlacey

    imagechocolatechippy:
    This is us! We actually moved DD to our walk-in closet ( it fits a full size crib).  Granted, it didn't help with all the wakings, but I do feel like I don't have to tip toe.

     

    I've considered doing this, so it's nice to hear I'm not crazy. We have a 3 bedroom house, but DS is 7 and DD is 9 so they definitely need their own space. Eventually we will move, but I've hinted to DH about doing this until we do move.

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