To think BIL and SIL have taken PFB to a whole new level?

[Humphreythehamster]

we are all staying at PILs for Easter for a long weekend. They have a 4 bed house, we will be in DHs old room with DS in a travel cot. We assumed our 3 DDs would be in the spare room as usual with B & SIL and their 4mo DD in their room.

Nope.

Apparently DN can't possibly share a room with her parents as it will disrupt her routine and she also snuffles at night. So, the 3 DDs will be sleeping in the dining room (wooden floor) whilst DN has the spare room (the one with a set of bunkbeds and a single bed). PIL are flummoxed as to how to change back to normal as BIL and SIL both seem tO be struggling a bit with the new baby.

So do they win a special prize? :o

Earplugs didn't work for me when my DCs were in the same room. I had to wear them and have a wall (and closed door) between us. Then I could sleep. And while SIDs guidelines suggest it is a good idea to have

It sounds like your dc will have the room with the 3 beds now which is a breakthrough. Iwas worried that if this happened once then a precedent would have been set and been harder to change in the future.

As an aside, it does sound as if your SIL is having difficulties adjusting to life as a Mum. I hope your DH can support his brother to get things back on track.

Why don't they put their dd in their room, your dd's can have their usual room, and your bil and sil can sleep on blow ip beds in the dining room?

Well bugger me backwards, MIL called SIL and said that she had 2 options, either DN goes in their room or in the dining room MIL had a change of heart about having her in with them as she will be cooking and hostessing all weekend and needs her sleep. SIl has agreed that DN will go in the dining room.

Well done your MIL

She sounds like an absolute saint.

"Well bugger me backwards"-haven´t heard that for a long time.

Well, all that angst, & all it needed was for someone to say to SIL-no, it doesn´t work like that, it has to be this or this-who would´ve thought?

(That & a weekend of being looked after/baby fussed after was too goo to miss)

Horray for a sensible and fair outcome.

When DS was a baby we had a fold out carrycot thing which opened out in seconds and poppered up - its was brilliant and he slept in all sorts of places before it became unsafe for him. He even slept on 2 bedside tables pushed together between two single beds in a caravan. He slept like a log. I on the other hand........

Result but poor 4month old baby in a dining room because her own mother wont share with her!

I wouldn't share with my DD if I didn't absolutely have to. She talked in her sleep from 4mths old (so loud babbling at that point, now she is two it is choo choo THOMAS over and over) and I have insomnia. It was a really bad mix.

I don't think it's fair to have a go at possibly PND having SIL for not wanting to share, although it was fair enough to moan at her insisting on where the baby slept.

Sounds like a good outcome to me!

"Result but poor 4month old baby in a dining room because her own mother wont share with her!"

A 4 month old baby isn't going to know the difference between a dining room and a spare bedroom. It would be much worse off if it had to have a mother who hadn't slept because a bunch of other people think there is only acceptable sleeping arrangement.

Hurrah for sane response from MIL!

I do wonder whether they could just put the travel cot out in the hall though, rather than right down in the dining room? Or would that inconvenience the baby/others who might need to use the bathroom in the night?

Oh well done your MIL!

DN will survive the dining room. I slept in a bathroom aged 6 months old when my parents were staying with friends and couldn't stand the noise I was making in my sleep, and I have lived to tell the tale

Dubs, I would guess that the baby sleeps in her own room at home too, nothing changed for this weekend IYSWIM :)

OP, Hope your SIL gets the support she needs very soon, poor love. Your family sounds very nice mind, enjoy the weekend and the wedding.

I know, i know, Babies, it just sounds a bit, well...sad i suppose. Didnt mean to offend anyone, just a gut reaction.