9.5m old and seven year old sharing room. Help!

[MummyIsMagic79]

Please help!

We have recently put our 9.5 month old in the same room as our 7 year old, both boys. Done (successful ish) CC with baby. However, as its school hols, while we've done CC, 7 year old has been sleeping in his sisters room, she's 4. All going well.
As school is coming up fast though, we've decided tonight that we need to take the bull by the horns. Baby went to bed at 7.30, all was well. 7 year old went in, really quietly bless him, but in tucking in/quiet tv and headphones on, baby wakes up. Now baby crying big time, keep going up every 10 mins or so, but he's not settling, because he can see his brother and its working him up. 7 year old very cross that he's stuck with baby crying.

At wits end, please help! Other bedroom a no-go and so is our room. I've no idea what to do!

TIA

Bump :(

Anyone?

I'd have thought that having the 4 year old and the 7 year old share a room would be much easier all round. It doesn't matter that they are boy and girl at that age, surely?

Why can't the baby go in your room?

Not surprised your 7 yo is unhappy at having a crying baby in his room! I would also suggest 4 & 7 yo share, regardless of gender so that baby gets a room of his own until he sleeps properly.

Even then, it would make more sense for the baby and the 4 yo to share so that the older child gets a bit of space to stay up later reading etc. while the little ones will both probably need a longer nights sleep.

I would put 4 year old and 7 year old together for a year or two, then try again.

Our 9 year old boy, 6 year old boy and 4 year old girl share, we are just looking at moving the boys out as 9 year old is getting older, but it's not a problem at all, she has her half of the room the boys have bunk beds on the other side.

But if you want to keeping trying with the boys in the same room, we did stick spare curtain/duvet cover to the ceiling with drawing pins next to the bunk beds as we found if they couldn't actually see each other they would all settle much better. We did replace the scruffy drawing pinned duvet cover with a bookcase turned sideways and screwed to the bed eventually when we found it worked, it gives them all some privacy.