sleeping in a studio with 2.5 year old in sofa sleeper

[emmababy]

Last trip, our daughter was still in pack and play. We put her by the bathroom area to kinda separate ourselves. This year our ds will be in the pnp and our daughter will be in the sofa sleeper. This will be our first attempt at having her sleep in the same room as us and the tv. How have your experiences been with this?

Any tips greatly appreciated.

 

[MommaSnowwhite]

Our DDs are so tired by the end of the day that they could sleep through a plane landing in our room! I would try to get her used to noise while she is sleeping - maybe that would help if she is a light sleeper.

 

[emmababy]

She is def. not a light sleeper once she is asleep. I was concerned on the getting her to sleep part. Especially if she can see us.

 

[*Seanaci*]

That was the hardest part for us last week with our son...getting him to go to sleep. We had been putting him in our room at home in the play pen to get him used to sleeping in the same room as us. However, we should have all gone to bed at the same time to remedy the getting him to sleep with us in the room.

With our son, he wouldn't sleep more than a couple hours at a time in the pack and play last week, so, he slept with my parents a few nights. Then we ended up moving the ottoman into their room (we had a suite at the ASMu) and setting that up for my sister. My husband slept on the pull out arm chair, and my son and I slept on the pull out sofa sleeper. Our son got a good nights sleep this way, but none of us really got a good nights sleep.

You may just have to see what happens the first night or two and adjust your plans accordingly. Next time we all go as a family again (there were 5 adults and our son), we'll get adjoining rooms so we all have a somewhat comfy bed (those sleepers were horrible), and just know that our son will have to sleep with either myself or my husband.

 

[bumbershoot]

Well, we don't have problems sleeping in small rooms since we have a family bed.

But I will say, the sofa sleepers we've dealt with (not at WDW, so this isn't an absolute, just something to think about and note once you're there) have all sorts of weird spaces where small ones can get stuck. My brother, for instance, has a very fancy couch that turns into possibly the scariest, most uncomfortable, sleeper ever. I've almost gotten caught in the crevices, and that's despite the fact that we put the big couch pillows over the worst of them. So really be aware of any cracks/crevices in the sleeper, before everyone goes to sleep. If i were putting DS to sleep on my brother's sofa sleeper alone, I would surround him with pillows, and if there weren't enough big couch pillows around, I would have DS sleep on the bed with one of us, and another adult would sleep on the sofa sleeper. Or if DS weren't used to being with us, DS would sleep on the bed (surrounded by extra bed pillows to block rollover-falls) while both adults slept on a scary sofa sleeper.

But I don't know if WDW's sleepers are full of places to fall into, but I can't imagine they cost as much as brother's couch did...people should really put more thought into the sleeper couches they buy for guests!

 

[trasor]

Just back from a trip in December with a 4 and 2 year old. We stayed in a studio at BCV. I slept with my 2yo on the sofa bed with no problems. It was very comfortable. BCV does have the new sofa beds, though. You can request bed rails which do fit and stay on the sofa bed. Actually, my DD fell out of the regular bed, taking her bed rail with her. We're still not sure how that happened. We found they were so tired they would fall asleep watching TV. My DD is a heavy sleeper, my DS is not. The couple of nights that they wouldn't fall asleep, we'd just turn the TV off for 15-20 min. and they were out. We turned it back on and they stayed asleep; of course, that was only when we did not fall asleep with them.