Sharing Rooms & Sleeping Through the Night

Can't really help her more than you already are. If you are still nursing on demand and/or at night, she's going to keep waking up. Do you use a binky? If so, try that when/if she fusses. My kids were 2.5 and 6 months when I moved my son into the room with my daughter and for the most part, she didn't wake up when he cried. I'd put a fan in there or sound machine to block out noise if you do not already have one. Also, to get more sleep yourself, I recommend either nuring in a rocking chair in their room (so you can quickly put the baby back to bed) or laying down in your room (so you can close your eyes!).

Good luck!

That sounds just like our house! We stuck my 8 month old daughter in with my two and half year old son 4 months ago. She also got up twice a night to nurse and was sleeping @ 6 hours at a time at 8 months.

I think your question is, will my baby fussing/crying at night bother my toddler? For us, the answer was no. Every once in a while my son would wake up when the baby cried, but he always went back to sleep. Once, when we slept through her crying, he came in and woke us up - saying that she was "too noisy."

I think your older daughter will just get used to her noisy little sister and sleep through it.

My one year old is now down to waking once a night - @ 4 , to nurse. I didnt really do anything different. Sometimes, she does not get up at all, so I think we are on track to sleeping all night.

Good luck!

We went through this too. My youngest two are 18 months apart and the older two already share one of the 3 bedrooms in our home. I tried to put the baby in his "shared" room with his sister around 8 months too. I admit, I gave up fairly quickly simply for the benefit of the rest of my family. He was waking up every 4 hours, which in turn woke up big sister. My 2 y/o is one who when she wakes up, its time to get up and start the day, even if its 3 am, lol. Given her "up and at 'em" attitude, the older two (10 & 7) would wake up, and have a hard time going back to sleep, leading to rough mornings (to say the least), and long days at school for them. Throw in there the fact that my husband gets up at 5 am and works 10-12 hours. It just wasn't beneficial to any of us to let him sleep in his room and try to force him to sleep longer than his body would let him. We ended up moving his regular crib into our room (which is super cramped, but he sleeps better in there than in the PnP). He is 14 months now and is still not consistantly sleeping through the night, but at least everyone else is back on track. I figure, eventually, his body will get the idea of how sleep patterns need to be and in the mean time, I just keep trying and enjoy my last baby still being a baby :)

We went through the same thing as my boys are 18 months apart. Our boys were 2 yrs old & 6 months when we moved them into the same room. I had been worried that the baby would wake up my toddler but to my surprise, my toddler was a sound sleeper! My toddler started out his life as a very fussy, colicky baby so we had gotten used to tip toeing around him as to not "wake the baby." Occasionally he would wake when the baby woke up but it wasn't the big problem I had been anticipating. AND, I LOVE the sound machine. Truely helps drown out house noise. Good luck!

With my two I just kept at it. Just keep putting them down in the same room, and when one wakes up, put them back down in their room again. I have a 1 y/o and 2 y/o. I started putting them down to nap together at 3 months, and would put them together for the beginning of the night about that same time. When the little one would wake up, I'd take her out, feed her and put her back in her bed. It took a few weeks, and they weren't always easy nights those weeks, but now they'll barely sleep without each other.

She is adjusting to sharing a room with her sister. Both kids will adjust. Create some "white noise" in the room to muffle the cries. If you are stil nursing you will probably need to keep doing that if that was your pattern in your room. Otherwise try a pacifier.

i had the same situation - I have two that are 2 yrs apart - and it's tough, especially when I was working on getting the younger one to cry it out (not full blown, just letting her fuss in the middle of the night before going in to get her.) Sometimes my older daughter would wake up and say that her sister woke her up, and we'd have to put her to sleep on our floor or on the couch. But it just took a little bit of time. Keep at it - you'll get there!!