Baby disrupting 4yo sleep....tactics?

[FergusSingsTheBlues]

My baby (11 months) is disrupting my older sons sleep quite severely.

They have separate bedrooms, go to bed at roughly the same time, a d that's fine. But the baby keeps waking up my son in the middle of the night .... He's nearly four and he's exhausted. And we just can sleep train the baby as it just wakes him up within ten mins.

Can I give him ear plugs? Any other suggestios ?

white noise?

I don't think anything really drowns out a crying baby. Can he sleep downstairs until the baby quietens down?

We have a loud waking toddler but thankfully, she doesn't wake our son. If she did, there'd be nothing I could do about her, but I'd set him up sleeping in the living room until she stopped doing it. Sleep deprivation sends me mental, I can't imagine being 4 and trying to cope with it.

Unfortunately we live in a flat...and although its a big one, the noise really carries. Ear plugs?

loud fan / white noise will help drown out the worst noise. We all have one in this household.....works a treat.

earplugs may help if you can get him to wear them.

I have the same worry, almost 4 year old and a baby and i now want to let baby cry it out as the last night feed is tiny and pointless and I feel it's just become a habit as it's at the exact same time every night! Worried she'll wake my ds though so just keep feeding her to shut her up! What about having the older child stay over at a family members for a few nights? I remember with ds it only took 2 nights of crying out and job done, might give it a try myself unless someone comes up with better suggestions! x

The thing is babies wake up, they might stop for a bit, then do so again.

How long has it been going on? My dd and 4 year old ds share a room. Dd wakes up ds but he goes back to sleep very quickly once I go in and resettle. This works better (them sharing).

We currently have the same problem as my 3 yo dd would hear a worm fart so I literally have to put dd2 on the boob several times a night just so dd1 isn't disturbed - it's a bloody nightmare!!

Same issue here so I have dd2 sleeping in my bed to keep her quiet. Dd1 is feral if she doesn't get a good sleep. I need to do sleep training but know it will be an ordeal.

I should add - ds got used to dd waking and most of the time he doesn't stir at all.

Thanks everybody. It's really becoming an issue for us, big purple circles under his eyes etc :(

I have slept in his bed with him the last couple of night, it seemed to help keep him drowsy when the baby kicked off. And I wore ear plugs so the baby didnt disturb me much either. Last night was a horrendous night sleep bc he's now sick, but the night before that I got eight hours with barely any interruption....so That's my tip!