Do you rush to get them so the other doesn't wake up? We're going through a regression with LO2 and we can't let her cry! Their rooms are right next to eachother and even with two sound machines she'll still wake him up sometimes. So now I've been sleeping on her floor for motn wakeups until morning and I HATE it. What do you do when you can't give them the chance to settle back down on their own?
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Following! We're in this same hell with my 2.5 year old waking up our 15 month old
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I think this issue is at the root of a lot of my kids' sleep issues. They are twins (20 months now) and have always shared the same space. They actually do not always wake each other up when crying, but I've always been (unnecessarily?) paranoid that they will wake each other up. And two babies crying/wanting to nurse in the MOTN is so much harder than dealing with one at a time! So I have always rushed in to get the first baby at the first hint of noise. There have been times when I've gotten to their room and the crying baby was asleep and I still picked him/her up and nursed because I wanted to make sure he/she wouldn't start crying again in a few minutes. Who does that?? As a result, they really need me to nurse them to get back to sleep, because I've done it every time they've ever woken up since they were born!
On the flip side, we have done sleep training with them (in the same room) where one or the other has cried for a while and the other has fallen asleep and/or slept through it. I guess that's an advantage of them always being together, because they CAN sleep through it even though they don't always do. We recently went through with night weaning which was torture for all three of us (ok, and a bit of torture for DH too), but after a month we are doing much better with MOTN wake ups. At least now one of them will go to DH if they wake MOTN instead just demanding to tandem nurse (which I do all the time, but it's hard to get them in the right position in our nursery chairs now that they are so big).
I guess for us we've always known that their waking each other was going to be inevitable (especially when they are sleeping badly for other reasons like illness or teething), and the best thing we can hope for is that they will just get used to each other, which they mostly have.
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My two share a room. I did do that, but after 15 months of not sleeping, I'm tired. I let him cry and hope it doesn't bother the other one.
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We have sound machines in both of their rooms. When H was an infant and still had a lot of MOTN wake ups, I would blast C's sound machine do she could sleep through it, and he could CIO.
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We moved our girls into the same room about 6 months ago. They are currently 3.5 yrs, and 22 months old, and every night, at least one of them wakes at least once. They used to wake each other up, even in separate rooms next to each other, but lately, within the last month or so, they seem to be getting used to it because they're sleeping through each other!
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Our kids will be room sharing once #2 sttn (or something like it) but what we did with #1 and will probably do with #2 is just put lo in the pnp next to our bed after a certain hour. Beats sleeping on the floor if it works. Lo1 went through a stage where she'd be happy, albeit not sleeping, in the pnp right next to us, and eventually fall back asleep.
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Their rooms are right next to each other (share a wall), but we position their cribs away from each other and they each have sound machines. LO #2 HAS woken up LO #1 before, but it's rare, so we usually just let them cry (after the initial check to see what's wrong) it out.
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My 3 year old and 22 month old share a room. The younger one sttn about 1/2 the time, but I never go in and get her unless she's just hysterical.
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when i slept in the same room as LO2, i noticed that when we had our humidifier on, it was much more effective than the white noise machine alone. it isn't a mist humidifier, it has a strong fan:
maybe putting something like that in or right outside LO1's room would be helpful?
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