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Xshoequeen
14 yrs ago
Does it work? A 9 months old infant and a 2.5 year old sleeping in the same room.
THe 9 months old is a light sleeper, he CAN sleep through the night except he will have dream feed at 10:30, then wakes up at 2:30 ish couple nights a week.
Nap time is the same except same again, 9 months old will wake up and make noise and go back.
We will move flats in a couple of weeks and wanted to make one room the play room and the other the sleeping room as
1. the parents want adult space in the living room which is currently engineered as sofa and coffee table is a part of the play area,
2. the toys are meant to be shared by mommy rule so we want it easier access for both of them.
Thank you for your advise in advance.
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DC2HK
14 yrs ago
Can your 2.5 year old sleep through the baby waking? If so, then it can work. I have my 3 & 5 year olds in the same room. The 3 year old sometimes wakes up crying in the middle of the night, but my 5 year old sleeps right through it. The last thing you want is 2 kids crying in the middle of the night.
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i have a 1 yr old and a 2.5 yr old in the same room - have been for 6 months. they are both good sleepers and rarely wake each other up.
the older one sometimes wakes up but generally leaves the room when she does. we tell her not to wake her sister... seems fine.
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Thank you so much for the advises. It gave me courage to go ahead with this plan!! The 2.5 YO sister is a good sleeper and she seems to understand that if she wakes up in the middle of the night, she should be quietly play in her bed until mom comes to say good morning at 7:30, little brother on the other hand demands to be picked up but, he is so fond of his sister that as long as she is there, he entertains himself with her!!!
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Should not be a problem. This whole "every kid has his/her own room" is a very modern/wealthy idea. Look back even a hundred years and most families slept all in the same room.
There will be issues, of course, but in the long run sleeping in the same room should not be an issue. They will wake each other up (or make pacts to do so!) but this is normal. They (and you) will get through it.
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I never thought about it but, you're right about this each kid has his own room business.
I am getting more confident that it's going to work and even starting to think that it's good for the children, they can talk to each other and learn to enjoy each other!!
They both love each other so hope this will get them even more closer!
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I think my kids get annoyed with each other often (normal of course), but they do love sleeping in the same room. They like the company. And even with one grinding her teeth and the other one snoring and rolling around, they don't wake each other up. They're just used to each other.
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Z
14 yrs ago
What we found when we put our two in the same room [at very near the ages of yours] was that it took 3 very long nights and then everything worked out great. I'd actually move them in together before the big move -- this way they will be able to comfort each other when they find themselves in a strange room in a couple of weeks
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Z raises a good point. There is an adjustment period. Don't be afraid to make your kids "suffer" a bit in order to get somewhere. They'll survive and be the better for it.
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I just noticed something today.
Older one is on the process of potty training, in a few months, we will have to ask her at night time if she wants to use the big girl toilet.
Baby is still on dream feed, we cannot drop it yet as he is a hungry one.
Should the kids get used to this as well?
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Sure. They'll learn to sleep through all that. My kids did. Teach them to speak in low tones so as to try not to wake the other one but it is not a problem.
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Z
14 yrs ago
Our not-yet-3yo will occasionally wake up with screaming nightmares [last night's was "I don't want to eat bread, Papa!"], and generally one of us will get up to calm him if it doesn't end on its own within a minute or so. The one thing that we have found to be deadly useful in the middle of the night is "if you keep screaming and wake up your sister, then I will take her away to sleep in my bed." I've only had to follow through once, and then once he calmed down, she went back to her bed under her own power. The time you actually follow through is a horrorshow, but my kids know that I don't make empty threats....
re toileting -- we kept ours in night diapers until they were dry most nights and then put a night light in the bathroom closest to their bedroom. Used pull-ups with the second one and he just started to get up and go on his own, no prompting from us whatsoever. Mostly seems to depend on the kid's temperament: our elder is a real extrovert and she has just recently [4.5] occasionally wanted to close the door to the toilet; our younger started locking me out of public restroom stalls pretty much as soon as he got the mechanics down pat and could reach the lock on the stall door [2 and a bit].
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