Napping Together?!

[apples and bananas]

For all of you brave soles that have kids in the same room I commend you! I have 2 in the same room. One on a cot and one in a playpen. The are both amazingly good sleepers. My fear of having them all in the same room is that if one wakes early doesn't that screw up the remainder of the nap for everyone else?

How do you handle it if one wakes up early?

[Momof4]

For all of you brave soles that have kids in the same room I commend you! I have 2 in the same room. One on a cot and one in a playpen. The are both amazingly good sleepers. My fear of having them all in the same room is that if one wakes early doesn't that screw up the remainder of the nap for everyone else?

How do you handle it if one wakes up early?

That's why my new baby is out in the dining room and the other 4 have been in the living room. All the established kids sleep 2-3 hours and the new baby sleeps 1 1/2-2 hours. I put a fan in the door between the two rooms for white noise so the 4 children don't hear him babbling away to himself now that he has finally stopped screaming and it's working great. The fan is pointed away from the children by the way.

[Other Mummy]

My crew sleeps in 3 separate rooms. The nap room, the media/den area, and our main bedroom upstairs. I have my 23 DCG sleep in a playpen in our bedroom, my 2 DCB's 2.5 and 3 sleep in the media/den area and my part time DCG who's 3.5 sleeps in the actual nap room along with a new DCB that started today. He's 21 mo.

My DCK's all sleep. Even the newbies. But as you know, DCK's days are filled with a lot of activity both mentally and physically. I sometimes have to remind someone not to disturb their friends sleep. Then I give the stink eye. that usually works. Usually someone is asking for a nap by 12:30, after lunch

[angelina]

I only have 3 toddlers in my care (2 my own, 1 dck) and my living room is the sleep area, i just put the curtains down. 2 of them - my own kids ages 3 and 2, and my dck is 3.

I put Treehouse TV, they seem to have shows about sleeping bear at noon, perfect ! and they all fall sleeping, and i turned off the TV after, i put my feet up, and have my quite time. I use to turn off TV, but then they start talking. So, i figure that putting the TV on get their attention and they fall sleep fast.

my living room has no couch, so that gives me space for playpens. Now, the 2 - 3 year old's are in their cots, so I have one playpen. I have one big chair to sit for my quite time.

At some point, these toddlers were talking, even with TV on so, I send one of them in the basement as it is also a playroom. Which one? I toss a coin, or whoever is the loudest sleeps or have quite time in the basement.

At some point, I was in your situation, and I get so exhausted at the end of the day, because i did not have down time.

Hope it gets better.
Angie