Wow it has been one long couple of weeks and it is mine and my husbands fault.
When we moved into this new rental over the summer the two kids have to share a room upstairs next to ours as we cannot feel OK with anyone being in the downstairs room. My daughter is 4 and my son is 1 so that just won’t happen for a few years.
We were so worried that any little peep or cry from our son would wake up our 4 year old that we would go in for everyone and give him his pacifier, move him to the center of the bed, or stroke his head. It even go to the point over the last couple weeks that we were bringing him in our bed about 4-5 in the morning. We did not give our daughter enough credit as she can sleep through it.
Last night I had enough, I am so so tired! I left him in his room crying for an hour at a time and my daughter just snored away. I stayed awake because I was waiting for her to wake up. I ended up staying up from 4am til 8 and at 6:30 I gave in and brought him into bed with me.
He would not be doing this if we would have just left well enough alone and left him to sleep and make his few noises because they were few and now they are plenty!
My new plan is to set up his play pen as it is a very large one and put it somewhere else on the top floor. We are going to have to let him be mad for a couple nights but this only took 2-3 nights before to break him of the habit of us coming in to sooth him. Hopefully by the end of the weekend he will be back in his crib and we can all get some sleep!
Anyone else having trouble with this my advice is, they will be OK and can move themselves if they need to. He is over a year, he will be OK and can find his own pacifier. It is hard to hear them cry and I won’t sleep for a couple of nights but at least I will get this habit broke again!
