We live with my parents. Over the next few weeks, we will be transitioning to the basement which will be set up much like a studio apt. It is lacking a stove so we will go upstairs for most meals. I'd like input on how to arrange our beds.
It is a 200 (?) sq ft space. The bedroom area is about 16 x 16. DC are 2.5. Ds usually starts the night in his bed, and joins me sometime in the night. Dd requires a lot of settling down time before she sleeps. She wants to give up her nap but turns into a cranky mess at 5 pm if she skips it. Ds still needs his nap. They each have their own crib which converts into a toddler bed. I have a full size bed. Ds got out of his crib last week, so we took the rails off. That led to total insanity for bedtime. (they share a room currenty) In addition to a gigantic mess, they were also leaping from one bed to the next. So the rails went back on with lots of discussion about not climbing out. Since they share a room, they feed off of each other and sometimes get very excited for an hour or so after I put them to bed. I remind them to be quiet maybe 1000 times before they go to sleep.
I have never been able to rock them to sleep. We are no longer nursing. We have the same ritual every night they are with me.
Some ideas I had-
-sidecar their cribs on either side of my bed. Hang a curtain separating bedroom space from living area. At their bedtime, I will read or knit in bed while encouraging them to be quiet and stay in their own space.
-keep the sides on their cribs and put them near each other, but hang the curtain separating my bed from theirs. Have nothing in their bed area besides their beds.
-drop their nap, deal with cranky toddlers for a few hours and hope they have an earlier bedtime.
I do look forward to bedtime
as it is my personal time. So I can't say I"m keen on laying down with them every night, esp since dd gets wound up when I cosleep with her. (She does all these hilarious things like I pretend to be sleeping and she puts her face an inch from mine and then her feet on my stomach and asks me, "is this comfy, mama?" it's so cute and I always end up cracking up and not being the stern bedtime mother I had intended to be)
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It is a 200 (?) sq ft space. The bedroom area is about 16 x 16. DC are 2.5. Ds usually starts the night in his bed, and joins me sometime in the night. Dd requires a lot of settling down time before she sleeps. She wants to give up her nap but turns into a cranky mess at 5 pm if she skips it. Ds still needs his nap. They each have their own crib which converts into a toddler bed. I have a full size bed. Ds got out of his crib last week, so we took the rails off. That led to total insanity for bedtime. (they share a room currenty) In addition to a gigantic mess, they were also leaping from one bed to the next. So the rails went back on with lots of discussion about not climbing out. Since they share a room, they feed off of each other and sometimes get very excited for an hour or so after I put them to bed. I remind them to be quiet maybe 1000 times before they go to sleep.
I have never been able to rock them to sleep. We are no longer nursing. We have the same ritual every night they are with me.
Some ideas I had-
-sidecar their cribs on either side of my bed. Hang a curtain separating bedroom space from living area. At their bedtime, I will read or knit in bed while encouraging them to be quiet and stay in their own space.
-keep the sides on their cribs and put them near each other, but hang the curtain separating my bed from theirs. Have nothing in their bed area besides their beds.
-drop their nap, deal with cranky toddlers for a few hours and hope they have an earlier bedtime.
I do look forward to bedtime
as it is my personal time. So I can't say I"m keen on laying down with them every night, esp since dd gets wound up when I cosleep with her. (She does all these hilarious things like I pretend to be sleeping and she puts her face an inch from mine and then her feet on my stomach and asks me, "is this comfy, mama?" it's so cute and I always end up cracking up and not being the stern bedtime mother I had intended to be)x-posted in parenting multiples
but maybe not. maybe there is a way to make them sleepier, so that they won't be so silly at bedtime.
