Sharing a Room - Olathe,KS

I dont have rock solid advice. I have been a co-sleeper. I can appreciate where you are coming from though. You may just have to stay ahead of the game. Instead of feeding on demand, you may need to get up half hour before baby will wake. this going to take some trial and error. sadly your older one may be screwed up, schedule wise for a bit. Once you have a pattern down with new baby though it will become easier!!

Good luck and congrats to you and the family!!

my daughter is 13 months old now and still sleeps in the pack and play in our room. she just started really sleeping through the night recently with the exception of getting up and rocking herself back to sleep. My son who is almost 4 is very noisy going to bed yet, so i am holding off now untill she is closer to 2 and they get bunk beds. then i will work on the transition into the same room. this works for us now so i am fine with it. you do what you have to do. you dont know what type of a sleeper your second will be so if you have to wait a bit thats ok to. the baby wont be in your room forever.

We had our 2nd boy right outside our bedroom door in a bassinet until we knew his sleeping patterns. Then he went into the crib in a room with his big brother. It has worked out great for us. 4 years later, they still love sharing a room.

gee whiz, there's no good answer to this one!

You don't want the boys together if it's going to disturb your older son's sleep.

You don't want the baby in with you.

So where the heck are you going to stick that baby??!! LOL! Put the boys together....it's your only solution! & just as a heads-up, that 2nd nap for your older son will probably disappear very soon. Between the changes in the house & his own maturing.....he'll probably drop down to one good afternoon nap very soon. !!

i was terrified to have my boys share for the same reason. it has been seamless - they never wake each other up - and they love being together.

My first two were 12 months apart and they shared a room from the time the second one was about a month old or less. The older one would cry and wake because he did that as I'd spoiled him about going to bed and in the process of breaking that habit he did cry some and the baby slept through it and in a week or so the older one slept all night and no crying and never woke when the baby cried to eat. They adjust very quickly. If the older one does wake just say go back to sleep and he'll adjust to it very soon. They'll be close sharing a room too. All of our kids shared a room.

My son was 22 months when my daughter was born. We had her in our room for the first 6 months so she wouldnt wake him up all the time. Once she was only getting up 1 time, we moved her into his room. They do very well at night even if one of them wakes up. Mostly she sleeps through the night since about 9 months. We are still working on the weekend napping schedule. They both nap about the same time but when one cries the other wakes up, so we have been napping her in her swing, which I know is short lived. Good luck!!! It might be a few nights but it will all work out. We started on a Friday so by Monday when we went back to work we already worked out some kinks!