https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:24:18 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-training-with-an-older-sibling#post-2318169 Tue, 13 Oct 2015 16:44:56 +0000 blackbird 2318169@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Pickles: well, I think my pep talk scared him because he has fallen asleep on his own without crying! He woke up that first night about an hour and a half after bed and fussed and half cried for about 20 minutes. Fell back asleep. A few more times since Thursday, he would wake up and do that for about 10 minutes or less! It's been totally no big deal </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-training-with-an-older-sibling#post-2318052 Tue, 13 Oct 2015 15:17:45 +0000 Mrs. Pickles 2318052@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@blackbird: have you continued? how have the next nights gone? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-training-with-an-older-sibling#post-2314935 Fri, 09 Oct 2015 12:24:06 +0000 T.H.O.U. 2314935@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We play a lullaby soundtrack in the older one's room through the night. She has never woken up to his cries, even if we have to bring him out in the living room for something. </p> <p>Similarly, he has never woken up if she's screaming for us! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-training-with-an-older-sibling#post-2314521 Fri, 09 Oct 2015 06:49:17 +0000 blackbird 2314521@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>E ended up asking to go to bed early, while T was crying in the living room (should've gotten him ready first, whoops, he was tired) and between the white noise machines, the music on her clock, and me rolling a towel under his door, she heard nothing, because we could barely hear him in the living room! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-training-with-an-older-sibling#post-2313754 Thu, 08 Oct 2015 14:06:48 +0000 blackbird 2313754@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Pickles: I decided to let E stay up late tonight until T falls asleep! They go down at the same time so this way she isn't listening to him the whole time. I'm off tomorrow so we can all sleep in and have a lazy morning </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-training-with-an-older-sibling#post-2313648 Thu, 08 Oct 2015 12:18:18 +0000 Mrs. Pickles 2313648@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@blackbird: I just don't know! We've never used white noise for LO#1 so that might throw him off if we started after 4 years of nothing..</p> <p>I may wait until he has his 4 month well care and talk with the pediatrician as he still gets up at least 4 times to eat per night and hasn't ever slept in his crib </p> <p>All I know is I'm losing my sanity and we need to make a change</p> <p>Good luck!!!! Let me know how it goes </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-training-with-an-older-sibling#post-2313628 Thu, 08 Oct 2015 12:06:28 +0000 BeachMama 2313628@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We recently sleep trained our 6 month old while our 3 year old sleeps in her room next door, and she didn't wake at all. He would fall asleep okay but was still waking 2-3 times at night. It took about 3 nights of letting him CIO at midnight and now he sleeps from 7pm-4am, then back down again til 6am after a bottle </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-training-with-an-older-sibling#post-2313534 Thu, 08 Oct 2015 10:46:32 +0000 Bluebonnet 2313534@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was so scared to sleep train LO2 because I didn't want LO1 waking up too (their rooms connect through a jack and jill bathroom).</p> <p>Once we started sleep training, LO1 mostly slept through LO2's crying. She stirred, but didn't actually wake up. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-training-with-an-older-sibling#post-2313529 Thu, 08 Oct 2015 10:44:14 +0000 blackbird 2313529@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Pickles: what are you planning on doing? I'm sleep training T tonight and he shares a wall with E. I have a white noise machine in each room. They have the same bedtime, give or take 15 min. I don't know if I am better off putting T down and putting E down like normal or letting her stay up with me downstairs and watch tv or something equally distracting and loud </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-training-with-an-older-sibling#post-2313153 Wed, 07 Oct 2015 22:13:43 +0000 MamaG 2313153@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This was my fear too, and we let LO2 sleep in the RNP in our room far too long because of it. We have white noise in both rooms with doors closed. I will often see LO1 move around on the monitor when LO2 cries, but she doesn't fully wake or need us. I'm not sure if she's actually hearing LO2 or if it's just coincidence. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-training-with-an-older-sibling#post-2313131 Wed, 07 Oct 2015 21:29:19 +0000 twoofeverything 2313131@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So I have twins--not the same, I know. But fwiw we did CIO while they were sharing a room. White noise was huge, but honestly, (and this may soundhorrible), they both kinda got used to it... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-training-with-an-older-sibling#post-2312851 Wed, 07 Oct 2015 15:42:28 +0000 Mrs Panda 2312851@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We ran the house fan so there was some white noise, but sometimes big sister would still wake up hearing little sister cry. We just sort of warned her about it, told her little sister just needed to learn to go to sleep, and to try to ignore it. In the mornings sometimes she would tell us she heard little sister crying last night, but it didn't seem too disruptive for her. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-training-with-an-older-sibling#post-2312785 Wed, 07 Oct 2015 14:27:13 +0000 gingerbebe 2312785@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Marpac Dohms inside the room and if you've got a hallway bathroom, turn the fan on in there. Otherwise, get another Dohm or a box fan in the hallway. Usually my son sleeps like the dead until somewhere in the early AM, like 5am. I've vacuumed, slammed doors, done all sorts of stuff after he goes to bed and he hasn't woken up. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-training-with-an-older-sibling#post-2312778 Wed, 07 Oct 2015 14:19:38 +0000 MrsSRS 2312778@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Any chance LO1 could spend a long weekend at grandma's or similar? Then white noise machines in each room and one in the hall. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-training-with-an-older-sibling#post-2312774 Wed, 07 Oct 2015 14:16:04 +0000 Mrs. Pickles 2312774@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>With LO#1 we used CIO to get him to sleep, but he was already having longer stretches, sleeping in a bassinet</p> <p>LO#2 will be 4months in a few weeks and he's still hardly sleeping, he goes to sleep ok and sleeps in the RNP then wakes up and wants to nurse every hour and will only sleep on me</p> <p>Their rooms are across from each other.</p> <p>I want to transition him to his crib and I'm ok with CIO with checks or modifying it dependent on LO, but I'm really concerned with disrupting LO#1's sleep. Once he's asleep he sleeps through everything but I can't handle two non sleeping children.</p> <p>Did you CIO with two children? What did you use to help? </p>