What you do when your co-sleeping babies won't go to bed without you.....

[Babieseverywhere]

Look here and here

Awww....my sleeping babies abandoned on the sofa. Just a one off for tonight but it did mean having a nice easy evening. Toddler DD has been transfered nicely upstairs and baby DS is crawling around the living room chewing on an empty lemonade bottle.

[ShowOfHands]

I have a 22 month old dd curled up on the sofa next to me, fast asleep waiting for me to carry her up.

[Babieseverywhere]

Glad to hear of other 'sofa' babies They are so sweet, when they sleep.

[Umlellala]

Aw... my dc look v similar in our bed upstairs! About to join them

[Babieseverywhere]

Umlellala, At what stage can you leave two children in the same bed ? I haven't dared leave DD and DS in the bed unless I'm there to ?

[Umlellala]

Er... dd does usually go to bed in her bed, but as soon as ds was old enough to protest loudly and grab her hair and poke her violently if she rolled on him we thought it would be ok really.

(so last couple of months? - as I said, only occasionally. I still wouldn't leave them overnight next to each other - I will be in middle of them tonight, and I am checking periodically while awake. they were holding hands last time. too cute.)

[Babieseverywhere]

Wow, You are brave or more likely have better behaved children than we do

I won't trust DD not to damage DS via her loving affection. She REALLY loves him and I need to be there to redirect the affection in a more gentle way. But he is her size and not backwards about poking her, so we'll see how things go. I like the idea of them sleeping together, might enable us to have our evening back again.

[Pannacotta]

We struggle with this at the mo, but have tried putting DS2 (22 months) in with DS1 (4).
DS4 (who is still quite jealous of his brother) loves sharing his (double) bed with him but DS2 isn't so convinced and will wake at 11 or so and scream the house down....

Sorry that prob wasnt much help but just wanted to say the sharing a bed thing might work for you.

[Babieseverywhere]

Pannacotta, I am thinking of eventually putting both DC in the spare room in a double bed and hope the removal from parents will be offset by the familar siblings presence...sounds easy in principle...LOL

[Umlellala]

Hi, I would love to put them in a double bed eventually but not sure I am brave enough (though I guess all my friends know us as hippies already ). Think we will get ds a bed soon but accept (hope?) that they might sleep next to each other anyway.

My kids are asleep again in our bed tonight as dh is out gallivanting tonight, and ds wasn't having any of it when I tried to put him to bed first, dd was playing computer games but asked to go to bed - bless. so just sat with both of them, told dd (and ds obv) a story and fed ds, and they are both fast asleep. have done this (once!) in dd's room but much easier in our bed where I can fall asleep too feed comfortably.

Dd really loves ds too. She is sort of careful, and I think aware of why she shouldn't squeeze too hard (though ds is a proper bruiser so not particularly fragile anyway). Though she did used to try and ride him 'like a horsey' when he was c4months