Did your crying newborn wake your toddler up during the night?

[Itsadogone]

My first is such a good sleeper it’s almost unreal. We literally don’t EVER see or hear from him in the night/early morning and basically never have. I’m due very soon and we don’t live in a huge house so I’m now slightly worrying that this baby will come along and ruin our toddlers sleep! I can cope with being up with a newborn but not sure I can handle also having to try and get a toddler back to bed! 🙈 A newborn cry is so high pitched that I can’t really see how he won’t hear it! Do most wake up?

We have white noise on to drown cries out. Worked so far :)

Mine never did. She sleeps like a log though and DD2 didn't cry that much overnight. Her worst crying was the kind of 7pm-10pm period but we were downstairs mostly then and DD1 has white noise on when she's in bed.

Another vote for white noise, works a treat

Nope - Big DD is 3, and the little one is 7 weeks.

The 3yo is NOT a good sleeper, but has slept through everything So far. God knows how.

I have a soon to be 1 year old.and a toddler, in a 2 bed flat and very rarely has my.eldest been woken up by my youngest. It was also a worry of mine, naturally the first few weeks had some unsettled nights just due to the massive change but it settled down and no issues in the night I think you'll be absolutely fine. Only struggle I have now is toddler coming in to wake up the little one for play time haha! Good luck

White noise for the toddler! the baby crying did startle and panic my toddler for the first few weeks so she did wake up quite frantic but she soon got used to it x

Dd (3) I thought would be woken by the baby as she was a terrible sleeper. Really terrible. In fact she only really improved when I fell pregnant.

But since her sister was born she's slept through and in her own bed.

Miracle.

Yes, every time. In our house if one is up we are all up. Unfortunately. One child waking has always meant getting them all back to bed. And my worst sleeper kept the whole household up for hours a night for a very long time (years).

I can’t go to sleep unless everyone else is asleep either so they prob get it from me.

No, and no white noise needed.

The toddler crying wakes the baby though. As does the toddler shouting during the day, running up to the baby and screaming 'are you awake or asleep?'.

My dc shared a room from when youngest was 9 months, one could literally be howling full pelt a metre away from the other and they don't usually wake, or if they do they just go straight back to sleep.

Oh wow, it seems most don’t hear it! I really expected that would be it over for me 😂 He has white noise already so will just set it to come on if it hears baby awake and hope the noise doesn’t travel under the door too much. Thanks everyone