anyone have a baby who sleeps in their room in cot/crib and a toddler who crawls into bed with them too in the early hours?

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if so, how does it work out?

I'm 34 wks pg with DC2 and DS - 2.2yo - rarely sleeps past 5-530am. However, if we give him warm milk, and bring him into our bed, he'll usually fall back to sleep for another 1/1.5 hrs. SOMETIMES we fall back to sleep too, but mostly we don't - but at least we're lying down, and he's quiet, which is better than getting up with him, especially now that it's getting dark again in the mornings.

What I'd really prefer, is for DS to go back to sleep IN HIS COT at this time. I know there are various ways of training/convincing him to do this, but the truth is, I'm too tired and fat and pregnant to face it right now.

So my question is - if he comes into our room in the mornings, is this a realistic scenario/solution, considering that I'll be bfing DC2 and who knows what he/she'll be doing at 5am??

I guess I just need to wait and see what DC is like don't I...??

Could your DH give him the warm milk in his cot sling with a couple of books to look at and tell him to go back to sleep and you'll see him at 7 o'clock?

We are in exactly this situation. DS1 age 3 comes into our bed each early morning and we have a DS2, 3 months, in bed side crib. TO be honest, we are going with it for now, but it is not great. DS1 and DS2 are waking each other up and it has resulted in me feeling anxious from about 5am every morning :(

Snap to the above, 3 year old ds comes into our bed most early mornings at the moment, and 5 month old dd rarely lasts the night in her cot. Luckily we bought a super king size bed as soon as we could! If it's really early, like before 4, ds gets taken back to bed but not repeatedly as the most important thing is we all get some sleep.

As for waking each other up, ds (who is a ridiculously light sleeper) mostly sleeps through the baby making noise but she will wake if he's noisy. I think they're trying to break me. .. and succeeding