Comments on: aye, there’s the rub

By: Lady M

Lady M — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:24:57 +0000

We’ve been lucky that Q sleeps fairly well at night. However, he’s losing the afternoon nap, sigh. And it’s making his night sleep shorter, not longer, sadly. Fingers crossed that it improves.

By: Veronica

Veronica — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:49:58 +0000

I am with you on defending a sleeping child and bolting awake with ears poised. My gaze alone could kill any noisemaker within several blocks of our house when my baby was sleeping. I realized–too late–that I had trained him to fall asleep nursing and it took at least a year to get out of that habit. At almost 4, he still asks for me to sit with him for a little bit after we turn the light off. If we have another–two miscarriages recently–I’ll be more careful about how he/she falls asleep.

By: Georgia

Georgia — Fri, 30 May 2008 11:29:18 +0000

Hey Bon,
7 eh? Loving 7. Would LOVE 7. We have somewhere between 5 and, if we’re really lucky, 6:30. That’s Aoife usually, Euey sometimes makes it to nearly 7:30. They sleep in little rooms right next to each other (with the doors open) and don’t wake each other unless one is screaming blue murder. We’re thinking if baby 3 comes along we’ll put them in the same room. Have heard good things about it.
As for what time kids get up generally, from talking to others I’m pretty sure it depends a lot on bed time. Everyone I know who gets their kids off at a decent hour (ours are between 7:30 and 8pm) pays in the morning. Everyone who has a good sleep in pays for it with no time to themselves at night. It’s a trade off, can’t have it both ways.
Anyway, I’ glad for you that you have sleep-ins. Hope they last.

By: Emily R

Emily R — Fri, 30 May 2008 03:41:32 +0000

Here’s the post I wrote on room sharing. http://wheelsonthebus.wordpress.com/2007/11/27/together-at-last/

Honestly, it has been fantastic for them. They don’t chat before bed anymore, although tonight for the first time Ben said “Goodnight, Zach!” across their beds. It leads to some issues when one is in an early waking phase, but we have a white noise machine that helps over that hump. (I have found that early/late risings go in cycles.) And, since the older one can read a clock and knows he’s not allowed out of bed till 7, the last week or two the younger one waits till his brother tells him it is time.

By: nomotherearth

nomotherearth — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:19:38 +0000

I’m in a little bit of hell right now with the sleeping thing. The Boy used to sleep till 7 or 7:30am. Since the Little Guy came along, he’s up at about 6am. The Little Guy wakes up around 5am. He MIGHT go back to sleep sometimes, but as soon as the Boy wakes up, so does he. Or so do I. Regardless, my day starts at 5am, and I NEED it to be a minimum of 6:30am. Preferably 7am. Please send help. Sorry no advice here.

By: niobe

niobe — Wed, 28 May 2008 14:07:33 +0000

I’m confused. Why would anyone want to sleep past 7:00 am?

By: Julie Pippert

Julie Pippert — Tue, 27 May 2008 15:45:25 +0000

The PURE UNADULTERATED JOY of older kids is this rule:

DO NOT wake the parents or we will all be very, very sorry.

They know how to play in their playroom, and even get the cereal box to snack out of (we store cereal in airtight plastic containers due to where we live).

We regularly get 7 a.m. :)

My kids are free from out-of-crib age on. But the sleeping in happens from 3+.

I do have two early risers, who do not and never have shared a room.

We have the babies sleep in our room, so that didn’t seem to disturb my older daughter.

She tends to sleep like a rock, though. And was very good about being fairly quiet while baby was sleeping—although I never set a quiet precedent for baby sleeping, and as it happens/b/c of that my younger one sleeps through most things.

GL! Get well!

By: allysha

allysha — Tue, 27 May 2008 03:38:20 +0000

My second babe slept in our room until she was about 3 months old. Her older sister was about 2 when we moved them in together and while the crying in the night may have bothered her at first, she got over it quickly and slept through the sleep training of the second rather nicely.

Also, my kids hardly ever sleep in, and when they do, I only sort of enjoy it because I am always worried something is wrong…the sighs of motherhood.

By: lisa b

lisa b — Tue, 27 May 2008 02:22:49 +0000

Katie woke every hour or two until she was six months old. One night when I had given up on ferber, weissbluth, and the no-cry people and I had no hope left, she slept. Ten blissfull hours from 8pm – 6pm. That lasted about a year and just before she turned two she gave up napping. That was fine until her sister came along and she started waking up at night again.
Oh sorry, did you ask for advice? I’m working on bribery now with mixed results.
I’ll just be praying for you ok?
Kids sleep is like this magical thing for me as you describe – I would do anything if could just figure out what it is.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Tue, 27 May 2008 00:36:58 +0000

Bon,

My Isaac (3 1/2) has also been sleeping until 7ish lately (miracles of miracles), after we struggled for years to have him sleep until 6:00… just happened and we are not sure why. We also limit his daytime nap to 2 hours, bedtime 7:30.

Angus (1 1/2)is still very unpredictable. His rumblings do not wake his big brother though. We just put a digital display clock in his room and we are hoping he’ll become familiar with the number 7:00 displayed on the ceiling above his crib.

7:00 would be very sweet indeed.