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Formally Untitled. Room sharing good or bad?

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peachespaige · 24/05/2007 10:59

Hello.
I have 2 boys, one will be three in July and the other will be one in July. Currently they share a room but the baby has started waking in the night so we have been moving him into the bed in the spare room when that happens so as not to disturb our toddler. Also one wakes earlier than the other etc.
Last night I decided that it was silly to keep moving the baby in the night so I put his cot in the spare room.
Well it took from 7pm until 11pm to settle him and then he was up at 4am and unsettled till 5am and then woke around 6.45am.
Would you persevere with the seperate bedrooms or move baby back in with toddler and hope that he doesnt wake toddler in the night, (he tends to only really wake the once, but can take a while to settle).
I am shattered and really cant take many more broken nights.

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elsieanjoanne · 24/05/2007 12:48

it will just get a bit of taking used to! for your baby in the spare room have you tried the same routine.
try get some rest sleep in day i know it hard to but even just a lie down with your eyes shut

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Peachy · 24/05/2007 12:51

If the spare room is genuinely spare (or alternatively used for storage of shitea s ours was) then i think as they get older (and I mean 5 - c6 here, not just teens) its good for them to have space but i think also they learn a lot about cooperation from sharing so its really waht suits you best.

baby will get used to anything though give time.

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PinkTulips · 24/05/2007 12:54

i was purposefully keeping my younger cild seperate from my older as i thought he would wake her but it turns out he sleeps far better in the room with her, and even when he cries she doesn't wake.

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peachespaige · 24/05/2007 17:51

Well we've cleared the bed out of the spare room and made it a baby room. It was nice to have the option of having guests stay over but Im sure a blow up bed will be fine.
I cant help thinking that perhaps I should have left them in together but if ds1 wakes really early he will go back to sleep with some coaxing but the baby wont and or the baby wakes ds1 up and hes grumpy all day. Its probably the best idea for those reasons its just a shame to lose the spare room.