My daughter is 3 months today and my son is 26mths old. Anyone with two bubs close in age, I would love your tips to help bubs sleep?
Inevitably the toddler wakes bubs!!! I believe she is a catnapper, but she is even more so due to the toddler's noise. He can be good - like bubs was just asleep for 30mins and he woke her. He was playing quietly with his animals. Then I said "let's go make your bed" and he ran screaming up the hall way towards his room and sure enough - bubs is up!!
He has one day a week at child care, and bubs sleeps nearly all day with the peace!!
Are you able to move bub into another room for daysleeps maybe? When DD2 was a baby, I used to put her in the portacot in my room for some day sleeps as DD1 was always waking her up! Apart from that, is bub's bedroom door closed? Depending on the size/layout of your house, can you play with DS away from bub while sleeping?
Hi there, I have a 22 month old and a 6 month old and I feel your anxiety. What I usually do is schedule the time that baby is due to come out of the sleep cycle (ie in your case @ 30 min) and play with the toddler outside away from the bedroom window of where the baby is sleeping. In my case its out the front of our unit in the 'common driveway'. I know that this isn't always convenient, but I use the time to pull weeds, write shopping lists (if toddler lets me) or simply play with him and give him some exercise. It takes dedication as I know you want to use that time more effectively by doing chores or cooking blah, but its the only way. Turns out though, that my baby still only sleeps for 45min regardless of inside or outside activity. Ive somehow managed to train my toddler to stay quiet when putting the baby to sleep, and now he sees it as 'helping me' and I try to involve him by letting him shut the door or put on the baby's sleeping bag or a kiss for a nap. Then he stays away until baby is asleep and he knows that it becomes 'his time' and makes a run for his shoes and the door.
Hope it helps.
i found this reallllllllllllly hard. i had a newborn and 19 month old...and a toddler too to try and keep quiet whilst baby slept. I still find it hard......
Whilst baby slept i always stayed with the girls...played with them, engaged them in a puzzle, colouring in etc - an activity that would last a while. Always, always did morning tea outside, let them have a run, scream around on the swings etc...... IT was also our TV time.....it was the one time in the day i would put the tele on and that way the girls would be reasonably quiet whilst baby slept.
Since having my #4, my #3 was 20 months old at the time. I found her the loudest and the most difficult to quieten down.....it just takes time...and tolerance unfortuantly from baby...
my girls are 15mths apart and from day 1 DD2 slept in the lounge with DD2 running around making noise, if we weren't in the room i left the radio on so there was constant noise.
Now she is in her own room i find she does wake a little more if DD2 is being noisy outside, am thinking of getting a radio to put her in room so there is constant background noise and she is less likely to wake.
My other issue i think is DD2 is now nearly 6mths and very curious of things so is more likely to wake to investigate.
I hope someone has the perfect answer for you, DD2 pretty much does 1 sleep cycle aswell.. damn kids.
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