all sharing one room!

[snoopy5512]

We will be going with our 1 and 3.5 yos. Any tips to keep the baby from waking everyone up?

 

[Mrs D]

We will be going with our 1 and 3.5 yos. Any tips to keep the baby from waking everyone up?

What hotel and room category are you staying in?

 

[happymommy]

How do you do it on other trips?

For us, if it's the four of of us, we didn't do quite as well in just one room (but since my kids were 4 and 6, most trips I've taken them without DH so it's okay for the 3 of us). We have done the AKL in bunkbed rooms a couple of times - it's okay but not ideal at all. A one bedroom villa was nice (BWV). Two rooms many many times (and now they're teens, so if we go anywhere we have connecting rooms, even on our Disney cruise it was actually cheaper to do 2 connecting interior rooms than one shared balcony room years ago).

Honestly, I'd do 2 rooms if you can. Or, a DVC villa. If I don't sleep, it's no vacation.

 

[maxiesmom]

We will be going with our 1 and 3.5 yos. Any tips to keep the baby from waking everyone up?

Nope. It was pretty much when the baby woke up everyone else did too. Unless you have some hard sleepers, it is unavoidable.

 

[J.C.&ALI'SMOM]

When mine were that age they were sooooo tired in the evening that they didn't wake up til morning. I also slept with them

 

[QueenQueso]

That is how we normally travel, we take weekend trips frequently (probably 6-10 a year) and every other year or so, we take a big trip. Maybe if you have money to burn you can afford to book two rooms, but we're not rich. Lol. I was the oldest of 3 kids and I don't remember ever waking up in the middle of the night on vacation when my brother and sister woke (I was 7 & 9 when they were born, so definitely old enough to remember), and in my own family, my oldest was 5 when the little one was born. We've never had a problem with the little one waking the entire family.

One parent waking up to tend to the baby is enough, the other can fall back asleep. And unless both parents are heavy sleepers, they will probably wake before the other child. Unless you have the two kids sharing a bed. Either co-sleep with the baby or put the pack n play as far from the older childs bed as possible. What does the 1 year old wake for? Are they still waking for a bottle? If your trip is far away, I'd try to wean them off before you go and just be done with bottles. If it's really close, then get the bottle as close to ready as possible before you go to bed (like prefill it with water and premeasure the powder, so all you need to do is dump and shake).

 

[brymolmom]

Do you mean the 1 year old just wakes up earlier than the rest or does he/she wake overnight?

If it is just early - I would plan it into your trip. Plan to go to bed earlier than usual and get up and hit the early entry park or go to Chef Mickey's before the park opens! You can get a jump start on all the families sleeping in! In a small value sized room - there isn't too much chance of keeping everyone sleeping for long after a 1 year old wakes.....Another thought- bring a tablet with favorite movies/shows on it - and very quietly show it to him/her for awhile to try to let the older child sleep a bit longer.

If it is overnight waking, depending how much time before your trip, I would try to train him out of it.

As for going to sleep...When my kids were those ages. DH would go get coffee in the food court and we would put older child 'to bed' (our usual routine - jammies, teeth, story) in the bed and the little one in the pack n play. We would turn off all lights and I would lay on the other bed with a small book light and read my book. The first time or two the little one would stand up or 'ask' to be picked up I would say 'Time for sleep now' or something like that...After 2 times I would just ignore. I think on one trip at a particularly difficult age - I had to go into the bathroom to read for 15 minutes or so. Then after everyone was asleep - I would turn the TV on low for awhile. At WDW I'm always exhausted so I would want to go to bed early anyway.

 

[MandiC]

You might be surprised. We've always shared a hotel room and when we've had babies none of the older kids have woken up during the night from the baby. We do have a small house with all the bedrooms next to each other so they might just be used to it from that.

As someone pointed out, the morning is different, once one wakes in the morning they all do, though this is starting to change for my older two, they finally appreciate sleep enough to not care why everyone else is awake