Hey girls,

We have been co-sleeping with my daughter who is now 22 1/2 months old. I am due in 5 weeks and will be putting the baby in the crib in our room. (no more co-sleeping for us. Unfortunately we started a bad habit with DD1) We live in a small 2 bedroom so for the first 2 months after the baby gets here we will have family sleeping in the other room so we can't move DD1 yet. My ? is doesn't the new baby waking up every 2-3 hours at night wake up the toddler in the bed from the crying? Have any of you that co-sleep with more than 1 in your room had a prob with this?

TIA,

Happy sleeping,

Heather

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I've done co-sleeping with a newborn and toddler, and we all slept fine (probably because if baby woke up I nursed, lol.) You will all probably be doing lots of napping those first couple weeks. The only problem I could see is if you get up every time baby cries, the toddler might get a bit jelous and try to get you to come back to your bed.

I am in the same exact situation as you are...except we're moving to a 2 bedroom place right before I have our second baby. We've co-slept with DS since he was born and he is so attached to sleeping with me that he still wakes up in the night and if I'm not there he will cry for me to come into the bed. We're planning on moving him into his own bed in his own room when we move, but I have serious doubts about it working. I don't know what else to do, though. I plan to BF the new baby and have it sleep next to our bed in a bassinet and definetly do not plan to co-sleep with this one...but I'm wondering what do I do when my toddler wakes up and I have to go to him while I'm nursing/changing the baby and vice versa. I'm already a wreck about it.

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We moved our DD1 into her own bed in her own room before the baby was born. When she wakes up, she gets out of bed and comes into our room.

That said, the new baby won't make much noise during the night as long as you take care of his needs quickly. We put the newborn between me and a bedrail and my older daughter between me and my husband. When my third one comes, someone will have to sleep next to my husband to make room for the new baby.

The only real problem is if you ever have to turn on a light for a messy diaper. I kept a flashlight nearby and that helped a little.

Good luck!!!
Meliss

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Melissa

Due with #4, 8/20/08!


Mommy to two beautiful daughters.
DD #1, 5/2003
DD #2, 3/2005

And one handsome son.
DS, 12/2006

In our case co-sleeping helped to NOT wake up our 3 year old. I am able to wake as soon as the baby needs to nurse so he never cries at night.

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Elaine~

ds#1 sleeps in a pack'n'play in my room and ds#2 sleeps in bed with me. ds#1 sometimes wakes up but he just lays back down and goes back to sleep. he really likes to sleep. he was sleeping through the night (12am-7am) at 4wks old.

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I'm in the same boat!! I have a 4wk old and live in a 2 bedroom home and ds 1has been sleeping with us in our bed....and now we have the crib in our room...and ds#1 is getting woke up from the crying here and there! This is soooo hard! I love co-sleeping with my ds....So we have to brain storm and find another way to get through this!

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I didn't have a problem cosleeping with my older two, who are two years and nine months apart, but I'm afraid cooper1414 hit the nail on the head about the reason why. I would not recommend having the newborn sleep separately. ds2 was a modified lotus birth and would wake and cry IMMEDIATELY if I got out of bed to pee and left him alone while the placenta was still attached.

Between cosleeping and babywearing, he really doesn't cry very much and I honestly haven't slept this well in months, if not years! I lose more sleep worrying about his teenaged brother, lol.

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