If you did CIO...did you have them in the same room?

We started CIO out of sheer desperation. We began two weeks ago with my boy and 1 week ago with my girl. We live in a 2 bedroom condo so we have had one in the nursery (2nd bedroom), one in a PNP in the master bedroom and we have been sleeping on an air mattress in the living room. Things have been going well with CIO they hardly cry at all anymore and if they do only for a few minutes. My dilemma is this...

We want to get back to sleeping in our bed, so do we put them in the nursery together or do we keep one in our room in a PNP and sleep in there with her.

If they are in the same room won't they wake each other up all night?
And, just so you know we cannot put one in the living room there is no way to get it dark enough in there considering they go to bed between 6 - 6:30PM and then we would be stuck in the bedroom for the rest of the evening.

Any and all advice welcome. We are using HSHHC as a guide and as I said things are going well, we just can't sleep in our living room forever!

THANKS!

 

We did CIO with them in the same room. To this day, I am amazed that when one wakes the other sleeps right through. There have been times when one wakes and is crying, I cant sleep and I am in the next room but the sleeping baby sleeps right through it.

Of course there aahve been a few times when they both woke up but it is so rare.

 

We did CIO at 5 months, and we only split them up for the first week. Once they were both falling asleep in some reasonable amount of time (like 1/2 hour) we started putting them down in the same room. They got used to it surprisingly quickly. I still do think they'd probably fall asleep faster if they were separated, but it doesn't take forever. And they do sleep through each other's nighttime wakeups (although there aren't/weren't very many). Amy woke for a bottle for several months after Sarah was already sleeping through, and then we'd put her back down awake and she'd fuss for a while, and none of that bothered Sarah at all. Don't let yourself be trapped in the bedroom! They can get used to it.

 

My boys have been together since they were born in the same room they have been in there own cribs since 6months & they cry & rarely wake each other up...they just sleep right through each other cries..

 

We did CIO in the same room when our boys were almost 6 months old. We never found it to be a problem as far as them waking each other up. They seemed to be able to sleep through their brother's crying.

Good luck!!

 

I did CIO with my DS. I did not put him in the same room with his sister until he had learned to sleep all night. DD would never have been able to sleep through the two nights of crying.

 

We always kept them in the same room. On the occasions when they woke each other up, it was because they were with 1/2 an hour of time to wake up anyway.

 

I can't offer any advice as we're doing CIO right now and have split them up. They're doing GREAT but of course, they need to go back to sleeping together in the same room! Good luck!! I hope it goes well for you!

 

we had ours in the same room the whole time. However, we only needed to do CIO with my ds...so we would move our dd to our room in a PNP when we started CIO. It only took 3 nights... after that she was back with him and both of them slept great....never woke each other up... I'd encourage you to start putting them together soon though..the longer you wait the more likely they will bother each other.

 

Mine have always been in the same room (different cribs) but surprisingly they can sleep right through the screams with a few exceptions here and there. I wake at the first wimper on the monitor, but the other non-crying baby (along with the husband) always sleeps right through the blood hurdling cries of hunger/dirty diaper. I wanted them to share a crib but one kicks all the time to settle herself and the other babbles himself to sleep so they would never have gotten any sleep, I am glad they have their own sleeping space now anyway!

 

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Mine have always been in the same room (different cribs) but surprisingly they can sleep right through the screams with a few exceptions here and there. I wake at the first wimper on the monitor, but the other non-crying baby (along with the husband) always sleeps right through the blood hurdling cries of hunger/dirty diaper.


Ditto, it is amazing what they can sleep through if they are fast asleep!

 

We did CIO with our girls and kept them in the same room (and across the hall from our oldest DD). The crying never disturbed the other. It is amazing that they can sleep thru someone else crying, but if one starts laughing or talking it immediately wakes the other. Good Luck! It does get easier.

 

Thanks for all these replies. This really helps. We are going to start putting them down in the same room ASAP.

Seriously, thank you so much for all this help.

 

We're on night 3 of CIO. They're in the same room and it's fine so far. Our plan is to have things go well as they are in seperate p-n-plays in our room. Then I'll move the pnp's to the nursery; then move the babies from teh pnps to the cribs.
We'll see how it goes and good luck to you, too!