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We have two family bedrooms. Currently I have 2y DS and DH has 4.5y old DD2, 8y DD1 JUST this month moved into her own room. joy.gif DH has had DD2 at night since DS was born, we were all in one room then, DS has always snorted/snored at night, it woke DD2 up, they just feed off of each other in the same bed, still do. DH travels once a month and no one ever sleeps while he is gone, separate they do fine, together is bad news. They also keep opposite sleep schedules despite me trying everything. DD2 goes to bed around 7 is up by 6:30am, DS likes to go to bed around 10 and then sleeps in. 

 

Big problem is that another baby is coming this summer, neither child is ready not to co-sleep. DD2 has no interest in sleeping with her sister either. DS is an *ok* sleeper but he does like to stir in the middle of night and if all things are not perfectly correct, like a parent snuggling with him, quiet, no noise or light, then he will get up and stay up for hours. He isn't going to sleep through me feeding or changing a newborn, he can barely sleep through me getting up to pee. DD2 however is a deeper sleeper now that she is older and even if she gets woken up which DS does do when we have to sleep all together, she goes back to sleep.

 

I'm thinking of taking DD2 back in my bed and giving DS to DH to deal with at night. DS easily would sleep with dad. The issue would be DD2, she is very attached to going to bed with daddy. DH does work a lot so this is their time together, he often puts her to bed and then goes back into the office once she is asleep. She is one stubborn girl and will not give that up easy. I've been struggling to find a way to present it to her. Suggestions?

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My only advice is to wait and see what happens. Try something and if it doesn't work, reconfigure. We stress about sleeping arrangements before each new babe and honestly what we end up doing after trial and error is almost never something we would've even considered beforehand. 

 

I've also found that my kids have started to sttn around 2.5 years (more or less) and wake much less easily at that point - maybe there are positive sleep changes on the horizon for your ds?

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