Has Anyone Had to Share a Room with Their Toddler?? HELP GOING CRAZY!

I share a room with twin toddlers and usually in the middle of the night I escape to my couch which is like a big pillow to me and I actually have come to prefer it to the bed! It's helpful not to wake up in the same room since I would be getting up earlier. This way they can wait till I'm ready to get them which is usually a 1/2 hr after they have awakened and they've been playing around in their cribs and talking to each other.

get her up in the morning. by 7 or so. then proceed to WEAR HER OUT. go to the park, walk around the mall, something active. then get her home for lunch and a nap RIGHT after that. 4 pm is awful late for a 1 year old to take a nap. she's probably not sleeping well because she's not that tired. if you can get her going to bed around 8 you will actually have some down time for yourself at night, and if SHE is sleeping better, YOU will sleep better. also, 1 is a great time to wean off the bottle...but she will still wake up hungry in the morning, so make sure she has a good dinner before bed. she probably just needs her routine adjusted. good luck!

I might try changing her nap time. You might thing that her laying down earlier would make her wake up earlier, but it might not be the case. A 4 pm nap seems awfully late to me. Just my opinion. I think if kids nap too late, they actually stay more wound up.
I know that when I don't get enough rest, I'm not more tired, I'm more wound.
It's my bodies way of trying to keep me going.
I think it's the same with little kids.
That said, I would keep her crib where it is for now and maybe try sleeping on the couch. That will get her used to not being right next to you. If the couch is too small, they make some pretty awesome inflatable beds that you can have set up in less than three minutes and deflated even quicker than that to toss in a closet during the day. You need to be able to sleep.
When my son was this age, I had to have a hysterectomy and I was in the hospital for about a week. My son was cold turkeyed off the breast. Long story short, when I was in the hospital, my husband was worried that milk or formula in a bottle would spoil so he put ice cubes in it and put it in the crib after the baby fell asleep. It was actually a genious idea. My son rooted around and found his bottle and put himself back to sleep. From that time forward, he wanted ice in his bottle, in his sippy. If he couldn't shake it and hear the rattle, he wanted nothing to do with it. Even after I got home from the hospital, that was the new routine. Baby down. Sleeping. Bottle or sippy with ice cubes in the crib. We could hear the rattle of the ice cubes, to be sure, but after rattling a moment, there was silence. Baby back to nigh nigh.
Get yourself a feather bed or make a bed on the couch. Once your child is fine with you being in a different room, you can move the baby and have your room back.
It's worth a try.
She needs to learn to sleep on her own. If you can accomplish that, the kids could actually share a room when she's in the habit of a more regular sleep schedule and self soothing.

Best wishes.

With our first child, we had a 1 bedroom apartment. We had a portable crib and in the daytime, I put the crib in the bedroom so he could take a nap in there. At night, I put the crib in the living room and he'd sleep there. We moved to a house when he was 18 months old, but no, I would absolutely NOT recommend sleeping with a toddler. That could affect your relationship, and if she's anything like my flip flopping fish-child, there is no sleep to be had!
Another suggestion, while it's still hot out: swimming always wears kids out real good. Swim in the evening!

I would agree with the other mom who suggested if you can sleep in the living room. Just curious you state your a stay at home mom what does their father think about her sharing the bedroom? I do hope you can move into something bigger soon

If your bedroom is big enough for a bed and a crib, why not put the kids in the bigger room and your take the smaller room.

We lived in a one bedroom apartment until mine was seven. I slept in the living room but had all the clothes etc in dresser in bedroom.

Finances are tight for everyone now days.

Sometimes you have to be creative.

You've got a lot of good answers here. I'm in your exact boat except my daughter is almost 4 and we still have gotten into a new house:( We have finally switched to her brothers' room. (yes I have two boys also...so that makes 5 people living in a very small house.) Here's few tips that I can think of right now.

Definitely try moving you baby's nap time up. When my kids were one, they were still on two naps a day. One in the morning around 9 or 10 depending when they got up and one in the afternoon around 2pm. And then they would go down by 8 or 9pm for the night. Once they only needed one nap (which is anywhere from 1 year to 18 months, they went down for a nap at least by 1pm. They just couldn't last any longer. The latest I ever put them down in the afternoon in 2pm. I would try your hardest to move up nap time cause I'm sure that's what is affecting her sleep. The better a baby naps during the day, the better she'll sleep at night but she needs to be tired enough by night time to sleep a full night.

We used a white-noise maker every night. It sounds like a fan and it's great especially since in a small house you hear every noise but this blocks a lot out. I would definitely recommend this!

Not sure when you go to bed and if you go at the same time as her but I would definitely recommend putting her to bed earlier than you, then you go to bed after she's fallen sound asleep. Then she's not use to being in there for her to fall asleep.

But is there any change you could use a pack and play instead and move her in the other room? Although you may need to wait till her sleeping routine is a bit better at night.

Hope this helps. Just remember everything is a phase but a good routine and earlier bedtime will make this phase a lot more enjoyable!

Since the house is small have you tried moving her crib to a hallway, a large closet or another area of the house not in one of the bedrooms? A schedule isn't going to happen since she knows you're there, yet since she is waking up, tossing, crying, etc., which is hindering your sleep I would try to figure out another space in your home for her.

OR

Do what friends of mine did when they were in the same boat. They put their toddler in the bedroom and took to sleeping in the living room until they moved. Mom was a SAHM at the time and Dad works for UPS and has to get his sleep to be up at 3:30am and it worked beautifully.

I would also try putting her down earlier for a nap. Our son (26mo) goes down between 12:30 and 1:30 usually. He is up around 7am, and asleep around 8:45-9pm. That means he is up for about 6hrs in the morning and about 4.5-5hrs in the evening. Seems to work well for him. By that time we were done with night feedings. I think you should try skipping it and she might just fall back asleep.

Good luck:)

No advice, put I feel your pain since we're in a small two bedroom apartment, with one bedroom as the closet and the other bedroom barely fits our queen bed (touching both sides of the wall) and our son's toddler bed. Luckily my boy has been a great sleeper this whole time. It could be that we coslept for the first 2 years and then transitioned him to the big boy bed. Earplugs help too. :)

Is there any way you could fit the crib in the living room? We had to do that for a little while when renting, you just have to be a little creative in moving the furniture around.

The crib for my kids always stays in my room. I have to have my kids in my room or I can't sleep cause I'm constantly worrying about them. Could you get a fan or something for white noise? Maybe that would drown out the other noises. If I didn't have our fan, I would probably go nuts too! A sleep consultant told me that instead of giving my daughter a bottle (and I would assume playing too) to just go in the room or get up and rub her back and say It's bed time. Then lay back down. My daugher is the worst sleeper and she is now 13 months old. I have to ignore her to get her to go back to sleep. I talk to her about every 10 minutes if she is still crying, and reassure her. Then the next night she sleeps the whole night. It drives me crazy. Good luck.