Mom's of 2 kids who share a room question/opinion.

knittygrl

A is sleeping 8 hours a night now but she goes to bed early so she wakes up at like 3 or 4 to eat.  Last night I decided that it was time for her to sleep in her crib in her room with L.  I figured when she was going to wake up I would just get her and bring her in with us till the morning since she goes back to sleep till like 7 after eating.  I wanted to try it because I want my room back, and I want L to get used to having her in there and I feel like it is just time for her to get to sleep in her crib instead of a pack n play.

So this is how it went- they both went to bed around 8 with no problem.  A woke up at 3:30 and she was not crying loud at all but I jumped up and got her to feed her.  L immediately woke up and started hysterical crying saying she wants to sleep in our bed.  I say no, DH goes in and says no.  An hour later L is in my room asking to come into my bed.  I take her to the potty and say no.  She goes back to her bed.  5am she comes into our bed and I hardly notice and we all sleep till 7.

I don't want this to become a habit.  Should I just not put A in the room and go back to the way things were or should we be consistent, continue to put A in the room and hope that L gets used to her waking and doesn't wake up.

It was so nice watching tv in bed last night and being able to put on my pj's with the lights on but I really don't feel like having L fall into bad habits now.  

 

Kristen81603

L will get used to it- and start to sleep through- but I would just put both back in the room to adjust better- Kieran was like that and wanted to be in our bed because Mikey was-

penguingrrl

Give it a few nights. The first 2-3 nights the girls were sharing a room was rough, then they got used to each others sleep noises and no longer woke each other up. It'll get better quickly!

UsedToBeGoldie

my guys are obviously different b/c they are twins and have been on the same schedule since they were infants - but occasionally one does wake up crying in the middle of the night- and it never wakes the other.... they are so used to it.  I also keep a white noise machine on so it doesn't seem like such a big noise when one cries.

i'd work on getting the baby to STTN and not need to wake and eat - and it will solve 2 problems in one

knittygrl

UsedToBeGoldie:

my guys are obviously different b/c they are twins and have been on the same schedule since they were infants - but occasionally one does wake up crying in the middle of the night- and it never wakes the other.... they are so used to it.  I also keep a white noise machine on so it doesn't seem like such a big noise when one cries.

i'd work on getting the baby to STTN and not need to wake and eat - and it will solve 2 problems in one

 If you have any secrets to stop her from waking at 4am let me know  My first was STTN from 7-7 when she was this age but this time it's a different ball game and I'm not doing anything different.  I even let her cry for at least 10  minutes when she is in our room but she is definitely hungry.  She is a good baby and really only cries when hungry or tired and she is good with sleeping other than not being able to go 12 hours.  I wonder if she will stop waking once we start cereal but I don't want to rush that.