Sleeping together

November 25, 2007 · 8 comments

(Ack! Get your mind out of the gutter!)  😀

Matt said tonight that he thinks Preston should sleep in his room so that he doesn’t get so lonely in the middle of the night.

And it got me thinking…would that work?  If we moved P’s bed into M’s room…would it help with P’s night waking?  Would it help with M’s nightmares?  Would it end up making things worse because they would be waking each other up all night?  And would it be possible to get them to go to sleep or would they be continually goofing off (like they are in my bed right now??).

Anyone have any thoughts or theories on this??

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christine November 26, 2007 at 2:02 am

this is a really hard one. i have no idea what is righ. my advice: go with your gut.

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Michelle November 26, 2007 at 4:49 am

Well, you never know unless you try. If you can move P\'s bed without too much effort/taking it apart, I say give it a shot. Give the boys the big shpeal, about staying in own beds, having to sleep, or they\'ll be back in their own rooms again, etc. And who knows!! Maybe if P wakes in the middle of the night M can actually help him out, before you need arrive? Or perhaps they\'ll be up all night playing, but without trying, one will never know. Not a bad idea to try it, I say.

I recently tried Rose and Grace in the same room at my mom\'s and they both actually went to sleep no problem, only problem was Grace didn\'t sleep long, and when she woke up she woke Rose up….sigh… But with baby #3 on the way, it\'s inevitable that my two girls are going to have to share a room. So I wish us both luck!! xo

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christine November 26, 2007 at 9:02 am

this is a really hard one. i have no idea what is righ. my advice: go with your gut.

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Michelle November 26, 2007 at 11:49 am

Well, you never know unless you try. If you can move P’s bed without too much effort/taking it apart, I say give it a shot. Give the boys the big shpeal, about staying in own beds, having to sleep, or they’ll be back in their own rooms again, etc. And who knows!! Maybe if P wakes in the middle of the night M can actually help him out, before you need arrive? Or perhaps they’ll be up all night playing, but without trying, one will never know. Not a bad idea to try it, I say.

I recently tried Rose and Grace in the same room at my mom’s and they both actually went to sleep no problem, only problem was Grace didn’t sleep long, and when she woke up she woke Rose up….sigh… But with baby #3 on the way, it’s inevitable that my two girls are going to have to share a room. So I wish us both luck!! xo

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liv November 26, 2007 at 9:17 am

my kids have done beautifully sharing a room for the past few days at the beach. d has helped peep stay in her big girl bed–a new concept. peep has not been waking in the night the way she does at home. better.

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liv November 26, 2007 at 4:17 pm

my kids have done beautifully sharing a room for the past few days at the beach. d has helped peep stay in her big girl bed–a new concept. peep has not been waking in the night the way she does at home. better.

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Shine November 26, 2007 at 3:49 pm

Interesting, very interesting…not sure, I would say why not give it a try? You could always go back to the way it was, right?

On a similar note, I was reading somewhere how some parents used a kitchen timer to limit the time spent on bedtime ritual and the time spent with them when they wake up. It helps you set the boundary and them understand that once the timer goes off, it\'s bed time. Anyway, it helped them get their bedtime ritual down to a realistic 30 min from the hours they were spending going up and down stairs putting back to bed. Maybe you could use it in some way too?

Good luck!

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Shine November 26, 2007 at 10:49 pm

Interesting, very interesting…not sure, I would say why not give it a try? You could always go back to the way it was, right?

On a similar note, I was reading somewhere how some parents used a kitchen timer to limit the time spent on bedtime ritual and the time spent with them when they wake up. It helps you set the boundary and them understand that once the timer goes off, it’s bed time. Anyway, it helped them get their bedtime ritual down to a realistic 30 min from the hours they were spending going up and down stairs putting back to bed. Maybe you could use it in some way too?

Good luck!

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