He's 8 months and sleeps in our room. I'm on call one week in four and the phone has to be loud enough for me to hear it. Last night it went off at 1.40 and again at 4. I handled both. He was awake for an hour after the second one. Anyone on rotating on-call found a setup that works? Different room for that week, a vibrating band, something else?
Not on call myself but my partner is a physician and did years of night calls when our daughter was small. What we did: whoever was on call slept in the other room that week with the phone on loud. The other one took the night wakings. Not perfect. The baby slept though.
The other room works if the other parent isn't also working the next morning. We tried it when our son was a baby and by Thursday the 'off' parent was more tired than the one on call. Decide who covers which nights before the week starts, not at 2 am.
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