Children Sharing Room

I had my daughters share a room right from the start they are 14 months apart. my youngest staied in my room still she only woke up once a night. I never had a problem with them. My thoughts are if they are tired they will sleep though anything... lol

Hi,
I have now a 6yr,a almost 4yr, and a almost 1yr. My two older ones are boys and have been sharing a room for most of my 4yr olds life. I think it works out great. It all depends on how hard the oldest child sleeps. If your oldest is a light sleeper then you might want to wait to put them together until the baby starts sleeping thru the night, but if the oldest sleeps real hard and doesn't give you any problems going back to sleep after being woke up then I would put them together. My boys are best friends, they are a year and 3mon apart. Hope I helped out.
S. O

have the first child transition out of his or her crib if you plan to give it to the infant at least a few months before your second is due. Make a big deal over the "big girl/boy bed". Ask the child if he or she can share her room with her new baby. We did the same with our kids but the little one stayed in our room for the first couple of months so the big one could sleep. Once we did put them together, the big one was able to sleep through the night, through the crying baby. It worked out just fine! Now we just have too many toys. Also, I painted it "wisteria" (periwinkle) on the lower half and ivory (Martha Stewart colors) on the top with white trim. It matches lots of their toys and stuff and is pretty gender neutral. Now they (ages 2 and 4) both have toddler beds. One is white and one is red from Ikea with a dog and a cat on the head board. Everything matches the paint! I am quite happy with it.

My daughter shared a room with her baby brother when she was 26 months and he was fresh born. Being that we only had a 2 br apt that was all we could do. They did just fine. I did split them up when she was 4 being that I felt it was inappropriate that they were together. It was more out of necessity. Now my daughter is 5 and she has a 1 yr old sister which they share a room together. And its just fine for them. My oldest daughter actually has slept harder because of it. She can now sleep through absolutely anything. There is nothing wrong with it. It was very easy on us also. The one thing I suggest is making sure your older daughter has toys outside the room for when the baby is napping. That way she is not running in and out during nap time.

We have two girls exactly 2 years apart. I had every intention of them sharing a room from the start. My second however had other ideas. She had lots of troubles with her tummy so was up several times throughout the night. Well, my two year old slept with me for about a year. They have been sharing a room now for two years. They do quite well with the exception of a few times each week they decide to throw a party. LOL. It has worked very well.

My girls have shared a room from the time my youngest was 4 months. Night time sleep is usually ok, nap time is another story. My oldest would climb into the crib and play with the youngest. She is now 3 and doesn't usually sleep...so we solved this problem by getting a child size sleeping bag and she get "quiet time" on the couch. It is crazy, but she usually ends up falling asleep this way.
Good Luck!!

My children are 20 months apart - we started Hank out in a co-sleeper and when he was about 6 months old we started transitioning him to a crib - at that point I put the crib up in my daughter's room and I told her that she needed to sleep in her bed (she still ends up in our bed every night!) so baby Hank wasn't alone - it has worked out pretty good so far. I have been pretty lucky with them not waking each other up - I can normally get to the child that is awake and calm them before the other baby wakes up. The biggest problem we have at this point is that sometimes Keely really wants to be in her room playing after Hank has gone to bed. That truly isn't even too much of a problem because she loves to be read to and we have LOTS of books!

Hi E.,

Our son, 2-1/2 and daughter, 5 months share a room. We put the second crib in my son's room when I was still pregnant and talked about how the new baby was going to sleep in there with him. Once she arrived, she slept in a bassinet in our room for about 3 months and then we moved her into my son's room. The first few nights my son woke up every time I went in to feed the baby, but it didn't take long for him to adjust. Not too long after, we had a rough few weeks with some feeding problems and even though the baby was waking up every couple of hours, my son managed to sleep through most of it. Now, it is working out great because when they wake up in the morning, my son sings and talks to his baby sister and she's entertained enough to stay quiet until we are ready to get them up. I like having them in there together and I think over time, they will like having each other there too.

Best wishes,
M.

My girls are 21 months apart. They are now 4 and 5 1/2 yrs old. When my youngest was born, she slept in a small crib in our room until she was too big for it. It was when she started rolling over, so probably about 4 months (can't remember for sure). It has worked out well for the most part. The hardest part really was having my older dd give up her crib for the baby. We should have done that sooner, but she slept so well in it, I hated to move her. Once she adjusted to that, things went well. They love sharing a room now (I am sure that will change as they get older) and have a hard time going to sleep if one of them isn't there. We have thought about having them in seperate rooms, but I think they would end up sleeping with each other anyways. So for now it works out great and they are VERY close.
S.

Hi, E.--I am just interested in your viewpoint, because mine is the opposite! :-) My two kids--27 months apart--have always had their own rooms. Granted, they are boy and girl, which makes it more 'logical' than if I'd had two same-sex kids.

But I have always felt it is important for kids to have their own 'space', a place they can go to destress from, yes, their siblings and even their parents. I grew up with 4 siblings, and we always had our own rooms. We are all adults with kids of our own now, and we are much closer than most other people are to their siblings. I don't know if sharing (or not sharing) rooms has anything to do with that....but it certainly didn't hurt in our case!!!

Best of luck with whatever decision you make!!! :-D

T.

Our first 2 are 22 months apart and we waited until she was sleeping the whole night before moving her. Mostly for our sack. That wasn't until she was about 20 months. We had some rocky nights where they were more interested in playing than sleeping, but we dealt with that and we rarely have that issue now. We're planning on moving our 3rd into the room shortly, but not sure how that's going to go. They want to play with him all the time. We're thinking about putting him down before the other 2 to avoid him keeping them up and them keeping him up.

My daughters are 13 months apart and when Belle grew too big for the bassinet, we were going to move her into her sister's room. We started putting them together at nap time for a few days, and neither one of them really cared for it.

Instead, Kaia would go and sleep in my son's room, who's six. We asked him if he'd mind sharing a room with her, and he said he'd give it a shot. We went out and bought them bunk beds and they LOVE it. Having Kaia in Caleb's room has really helped solidify her sleeping habits. She used to go to bed at all different hours, but now she's on his schedule and we have NO fuss from her (which is great from an 18 month old!) :P It also gives Belle a chance to make her own bedtime routine and get used to us not being in the room with her.

I'd just see how they do together, and if it doesn't go well after a few weeks, give them some space till they're a bit older. I think it really just depends on your children's personalities. Congrats on #2!

My boys are 19 months apart, and started sharing a room when my youngest first began sleeping through the night (3 months). We had no issues, even when he started waking once a night again to nurse at 6 months. Now they are 3 and 19 months and love sharing a room, however they now want to play and talk at bedtime, and my 3 y/o will go fill the crib with toys occasionally, so we're working on that. I'm 26 wks pregnant now and all 3 will most likely be sharing a room for a short period, until I'm ready to move the boys downstairs (I'm not comfortable having any of them on another floor of the house quite yet), so I'm hoping everything will work out again.

I think it depends on the kids. We have a 16 month old in with a 3 year old and they wake each other up all the time. When the 3 year old gets up to go pee during the night and when then 16 month old wakes up early in the morning.
My thoughts would be that when the baby wakes up the older one will too and you'll have 2 crying babies to deal with.
We always keep our babies in our room in a pack and play until they are 6 months old. Then we get them trained to sleep through the night and then put them in the crib in their room. Maybe that would work for you.
Best Wishes,
J.

My girls are 2 1/2 years apart and have shared a room since Shelby outgrew her cradle. We have our moments, but all in all they love being together. Especially now that Savannah's on school, they enjoy their time together.