Cry-it-out... Same room or different?

So, we started out sleep training our daughter. She's our "bad" sleeper, up several times at night, ect. Her brother was our "good" sleeper. While we were sleep training her, she kept waking him up, so we'd get him up because we figured he's our good sleeper, so we'd all weather the CIO with sissy and have two good sleepers.

Unfortunately he's gotten into the habit of waking up and having us pick him up, and now needs some sleep training too. Right now they both are crying in their cribs, but I'm debating setting up the pack and play and having one sleep in there.

One one hand, I think it will help them initially. On the other hand, it will make it hard for them to ever share a room if they are constantly waking each other up.

What did you do for CIO? If you separated them, were you able to put them back in the same room?

This is so hard... I hate listening to them cry.

 

:hug: It is hard! I did CIO with Jake, and Emma was in the crib next to him. She woke up the first night, but not after that. Even now, if one is sick or wakes for whatever reason, the other usually sleeps through the cries. If you plan to leave them together for awhile, I would keep them in the same room while sleep training.

 

We did CIO in the same room but if the baby who wasn't crying didn't wake up then I didn't wake her up. Most of the time they sleep through each others cries. I think I'd try leaving them in the same room but not waking the other baby on purpose.

 

I'll try leaving him in. I'm not waking him up, he's waking up because Emaline is a very persistent screamer. But I'll stop getting him up when he cries and see if I can get him to go back to sleep on his own while she's crying.

 

That's what I would do! :good:

 

Good luck!

 

Ours sleep in the same room at night, different rooms for naps. They often sleep through each other's cries in the middle of the night. In the early morning hours they tend to wake each other up if they crying lasts very long. I'd probably try keeping them together first and see if that works. GL!

 

Lia needed some sleep training big time. Colin, not a problem. He usually slept through it all! I use to JK that he was just like daddy and had already learned to tune out the female voice! I think they get use to what you ask them too.

 

We did CIO in the same room & had no real problems. Even now, when one is up in the night, the other rarely wakes up.