Would you separate them?

Separating them is my last resort but I need opinions. Ever since mine both got double ear infections, Jacob is waking every 4 hours at night. Henry who is the nicest and easiest baby in the world is still sleeping through. However, Jacob wakes Henry up now. I am going to work with Jacob to try and get him to go back to sleep at night without eating but Jacob is a little stubborn. Would you separate them to let Henry get the sleep he wants and so Jacob doesn't wake him up? We have another bedroom (right now it is a storage room for all the baby stuff we will be using in the future) so space isn't a problem. Any advice? My plan is to try and resettle Jacob without a bottle and if he needs to eat, only give him 1 oz and cut it down from there.

 

If I'd had the space, I absolutely would have separated them. As it was, their cribs were set up in our bedroom until we moved just after thier first birthday! I say do what you are able to help everyone get the sleep they need.

 

I'm going thru the same thing..... we are now seperating our twins. Just 2 days now and it seems to be helping a tad! Mine our 7 months old. They need their sleep and it's helping them both by seperating them. We feel that when they are older and if they want to sleep in the same room then they can!!! Good Luck!

 

I separated mine at 2 months because they would wake each other up and it worked out great for us.

 

I just separated my girls this week. I wasn't sure it was going to help so one is in the crib and the other is in the pack n play. It has helped wonders. I was REALLY hoping they would sleep together, but they started beating the crap out of each other. Now, they rarely wake up at the same time at night. Its a lot less frequent wakings too. They are still in the same room so they can hear each others cries, but I guess its not as bothersome when its not coming from 4 inches away from their ears!

 

I think it just depends on what your plans are for the next few years, really. For me, I knew that mine would stay together....indefinitely, so I kept them together even through CIO. Now, they rarely wake each other if one happens to wake at night. If you are planning to separate them anyway, I would go for it now! My Jake is stubborn, too. :lol: GL with whatever you decide!

 

I agree with Becky. I knew my 2 were staying together, so I just left them together through sickness, CIO, etc. Rarely do they wake each other now, unless it's on purpose!

 

I separated mine at 6 months. We have a 3 bedroom house but our two bedrooms were not big enough to hold two cribs...so once they got too big to share a crib, we had to move DS to his own room. Good luck with your decision!

 

Dh is leaning towards it but it won't happen any time soon since he has to clean out all the junk from that room. That should take a while (DH cleaning speed = slow) so hopefully in that time, they will learn to sleep through each other.

 

Yep what Becky said, mine are sharing a room, we just separated them into their cribs a week ago, but they had to learn to sleep through each other's cries because they have to share a room indefinitely.

 

We separate ours for naps only, and it works best for us. However, we only have 2 bedrooms, so we don't separate them at night. They usually sleep through each other's cries. They do tend to wake each other if they are crying in the morning hours when it's close to wake-up time. If I had the choice, I would consider separating them permanently.