You'd think that having a baby and a toddler in the house would require some work, you would also imagine that the baby is the one keeping you up and the toddler would be used to the concept of sleep by now... But no!!! You would be wrong.
I blame this on the wretched baby books I read while pregnant with my first, how babies need routines and suchlike, how you should put them in a cot to sleep preferably in their own room. Well, this is my experience: number one was in his own room at 6 months (although we had co-slept for a couple of months, then he was in a crib next to us) and effectively "trained" to sleep at certain times (the hardest work you can imagine, especially if you don't want them to cry) and the result? He still has trouble sleeping and wakes up often, he comes into our bed and is uncomfortable, fidgets, cries out and ends up in his own room after an hour or so. Poor thing is in no man's land.
And baby? Baby is as close to the continuum as I can manage, sleeps with us and is carried around in a sling. Sleeps a treat!!!
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