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Sibling co-sleeping advice?

Pelusa214Pelusa214 member
in Toddlers: 12 - 24 Months

What age do you think it's "safe"?  Neither of my girls ever co-slept with US (both of them just jumped & crawled around the bed & refused to sleep so we gave up!), and they have never slept in the same bed together either.  But we are going away overnight & staying in a 1-bedroom suite, and we are trying to figure out sleeping arrangements.  The baby is too big for the PNP now (plus we don't want to schlepp it), so we were thinking about having them sleep in the sofa bed together at the hotel, putting those pool "noodles" underneath the fitted sheet on either side of the bed and in between the two of them.

My husband thinks it's fine, but I'm worried that my older daughter might roll over on the baby & that the baby won't wake up.  My older daughter moves like crazy when she sleeps.  Sometimes we even find her with her feet on her pillow & her head at the foot of the bed!

 We have a toddler blow-up mattress with a zip-on blanket, which is what my older daughter would sleep in when we were at hotels before we had a 2nd child.  We are going to Disney in August, so we kind of wanted to figure out a sleeping solution that would work ahead of time.  This is our "test".  I also thought about putting bed rails on either side of the king bed & having them sleep in that bed together, but there's no way me & my 250-pound husband are going to be able to sleep on a pull-out couch!!

 Any suggestions?  Advice?  I'm just concerned the older one will smother the  younger one, and I tend to always be the one that thinks "it only takes once", and you lose your baby :(  The older one will be 5 in July, and the younger one is 19 months old.

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Re: Sibling co-sleeping advice?

  • Netty_3Netty_3 member
    We just got back from vacation and lo slept with us in a king size bed...plenty of room for him to move all over like he does. Maybe have the younger one on the pullout with noodles.
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  • cast920cast920 member
    I would put the younger one on the toddler air mattress and the older one on the sofa bed.
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  • amri24amri24 member

    imagecast920:
    I would put the younger one on the toddler air mattress and the older one on the sofa bed.

    I would try this first as well and then go from there.

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  • MomtoHMomtoH member

    We are heading on two trips coming up.  We plan on each sleeping with one kid (we bedshared with both from birth), but in reality, I will probably end up with both kids in my bed and DH will get his own. LOL  I personally wouldn't put my kids together because they'd wake each other up.

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