A New Roost For Bird

Big happenings around Raleigh House, Fans. Clara and Joe are now sleeping together in the same room. Straight to the burning questions: "How did it all go down?" Clara is nursed and story-ed while Joe is bathed and pajama-ed, and then Clara is put down while Joe is story-ed. Clara makes not a peep while going down, and then drifts off after a time. Joe blabbles about for anywhere from five minutes to over half an hour before conking out. So there Clara was, quiet and looking about. There Joe was, looking over at her and quiet. And then, he began. Clara started to cry after a while. We weren't sure what to do. We have discovered there isn't much out there in the way of advice on children sleeping in the same room. It's like we live in a nation where everyone is co-sleeping or sleeping in the same room as their child, and everyone else lives in a seven-room palace. Maybe the people like us whose children share a room come at from where we've landed--i.e. this ends with Our Hero and The Bird in the same room so we'll just have to figure it out together. So, we knew no one was hungry and no one's ear was being ripped off even though that's how it sounded, so we let the babbling and crying flow. After 45 minutes or so, all was quiet on the western front. Bird woke up shortly after 4am. No diaper change was attempted downstairs, she was nursed and put back down with nary a sound. Joe slept through it all. Last night, there was babbling from Our Hero but no tears from The Bird. She woke up at 5am and a diaper change was attempted in the room. Joe woke up toward the end and drowsily said, "It's o-kay Clara," and Julie raced from the room. But he was up and babbling and then crying by 5:45am. We won't sleep train Clara for another few weeks so early morning diaper changes will be done upstairs until then. All in all, not too bad.