Here's a question for all the mothers out there: When do you move the new baby into the same room as the older kid? Assuming your kids have to share a room like ours do. I've heard that you should do it right from the get go so the older child gets used to all the noise. I've also heard when they are only eating once a night. Then I've heard when they are sleeping the whole night, which makes sense. But what if your new baby doesn't sleep through the night until they are like 1 or older? Do you really keep them in the room with you?
I'm about ready to move Benjamin into Rachel's room because I'm tired of having the crib in our uper-super tiny bedroom. He usually wakes up only 1 time a night to eat now and then both Rachel and Benjamin get up at 6:30 when Marc leaves. My only concern is that he would wake up Rachel and then we would have to deal with her waking up in the middle of the night again (BTW: she is just now sleeping through the night with the occasional sleep walking). I'm also worried that maybe I wouldn't hear him when he did wake up then we would all be up. Am I just being selfish in wanting the crib out of our room and I should just deal with it longer? Any thoughts on the subject would be great as I'm the first time mom of two and really don't know what I"m doing.
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I say go for it. It might be rough for the first few nights, but they'll both get used to it and you'll sleep better. Especially since he's only waking once a night. WE had Emma and the twins in a tiny two bedroom apartment for the first 10 months, and I put the twins in with her when they were about four months old. They very rarely woke her up--I think she'd been hearing them in the night for so long, even though they weren't in the same room, that she was already used to it--and they woke up five or six times a night still between the two of them. You'll probably hear him just fine, especially if you leave the doors into the bathroom open. Is there maybe a way you can separate them by putting one of them on the other side of the french doors in that little alcove?
I absolutely agree with Mandy. The first indication of what to do was when you said you wanted to move him. Mom matters. And they will get used to each other being in the same room though it may be tough for a few nights as Mandy says. Good luck! (Sorry I'm not talking from experience like Mandy, but she knows.)
I don't have experience either...but I've thought about it because Toby isn't that deep of a sleeper even if he does sleep through the night. I would say to leave Rachels bed where it's at, and then put Benjins in the other part of the room (like where her old crib used to be...or even on the other wall so Rachel can't see his crib from her bed). And then get a baby monitor. We still use a baby monitor because we sleep with a fan on when it's so hot and when I try to sleep I swear I can hear him screaming his head off, and then when I get up to go check on him, he's sound asleep. So for me to sleep better, I have the monitor just so my mind can't play tricks.
"People" say they will get used to it, but I suppose you'll lose a bit of sleep for the first few nights.
I'm still trying to figure out how to get Tobes out of his crib. I'm not sure I'm ready to lose my sleep yet.
I say go for it too. I always slept better when I didn't hear every move, sigh, and grunts my babies would make in thier sleep. As for moving him in with Rachel, I'm not sure how deep of a sleeper Rachel is but my kids really didn't seem to wake up when the babies did. They probably are already used to hearing the baby at night. I only had problems when I let the older babies cry it out to try and get them to sleep through the night. Barrett and Jarum used to share a room and he would wake up and start screaming at Jarum to be quiet. So . . .they don't share a room anymore problem solved.
Sounds like a deal.
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