Help!
How do you sleep train the younger one if the old one lives in the same bedroom?
I'm at my wits end! It takes the baby 90+ minutes to get to sleep and the kids only go to bed 60 minutes apart. One is 13 months, the other is 5 years.
How did you deal with kids who share a room when one doesn't sleep through the night or fall asleep well at bedtime?
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Following. Mine don't have to share at home but we are about to spend 3 weeks at my mom's where they share. 2yo has been a sleep wreck for a while and it's really hard on 5yo if they share (we do it sometimes at home for guests etc)
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My LOs don't share a room but they share a common wall so we were worried about sleep training the baby. We actually sleep trained on a weekend that the bigger one was invited to stay over at the grandparents and after the second night we were past the worst of it. We're fortunate to have family in town that invites the kids to come sleep over but I know lots of people don't have that luxury.
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@pastemoo: can you let your older sleep in your room for a few night? We used to love "sleepovers" and would camp on the floor in our parents room. And then past the first few days I would tell the 5yo baby is learning to go back to sleep in the middle of the night. If he wakes up and it's bothering come sleep on our floor/the couch/etc
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@gotkimchi: I second this!
Our boys don't share a room, but their rooms share a wall and when we sleep trained the baby I'm not even sure DS1 (almost 3) even woke up. If we woke up, he didn't stay awake long. We made sure to explain to him that DS2 was learning to sleep and he would probably cry, but that I was right outside his door to make sure he was ok. And that if he (DS1) woke up he could come into our room. (He never did)
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Ours share a room. We sleep train for falling asleep, but never for overnight. (Mine give up overnight on their own very early.)
The first time we did it, DS was staying at a hotel with his grandmother. The second time, I just let him stay up a little longer than I otherwise would. DD didn't cry that long and DS has never seemed upset that she was crying. DS was 28 months and 30 months when we did CIO.
DS never woke to DD crying and they have room shared from the beginning. Occasionally, she cries in the middle of the night now, and he never wakes.
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@bhbee: Eeeek! Good luck!
@Shantuck: Was one weekend enough? I have been battling this for some time now. How did you do it so fast? I do have the option of sending my 5 year old to grandma's house.
@gotkimchi: I can absolutely do that. Bedtime is more difficult so far, but I will let him know for tonight that is an option and see where that goes. Thank you!
@bees_knees: Cool. Thank you!
@Mrs. Toad: As of now, I'm only trying to get the 1 year old to sleep through till 2am.
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@pastemoo: I started very early teaching my second to fall asleep on his own and lucked out on that front. He woke once a night til close to 1.5, with a month or two of sttn thrown in. We never trained for that. But as far as falling asleep f your baby is still falling asleep unassisted I might just move bedtime back (if that's possible.) I noticed when I put mine to bed too early it'll take them longer than it would have taken even if I put them down later for them to fall asleep.
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