Putting baby into toddlers room...

[yeovalleyrocks]

Dd2 turned 1 today and is still in our room! I have no problem with this and love her being close to me (our last baby). But, when other people hear of it they seem shocked!

Dd1 is 2.5yo and is a nightmare to get to sleep. We have to read to her until she falls asleep and she will try anything to get out of it. Dd2 is a dream and will go happily lie in her cot until she drifts off.

My worry is that dd2 will get out of her nice night time routine because of how dd1 is.

Any ideas? Should we just do it and stop worrying?!

I think you'll have to "fix" DD1 before you move DD2.

Reading till' she sleeps should go...hard I know...but I think that if you do a story, explain that tonoight it is ONE story and then bedtime....then put the lights out and sit there for a while...if she kicks off, then leave the room...gradually over severl nights, move futher away from her bed...until you're reading her story, then putting put the light and leaving.

DD1 was about to turn 1 when DD2 was born, they shared a room from day 1. When putting them to bed there were never any problems. I had been worried about DD2 waking up DD1, as obviously as a newborn was going to need attending in the night. But do you know what DD1 slept through it all every single night! I should just do it, especially if this is something you are going to have to do at some point. My girls still share a room although no longer have to, but they like to, and actually at 3.5 and 4.5 there are sometimes issues at bedtime that there never were when they were younger.

Well, last night I told her that her sister will be sleeping in room soon. She loves her sister and I think part of the problem may be because she thinks she is missing something from not sharing our room.

Tonight we will try to read one story and leave her....!