To move 2yo into own room or not

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DS is 2.5 and hasn’t napped for a few months.
He absolutely won’t nap at home but will fall asleep if out in the buggy for more than 30min in the afternoon.

He presently shares a bedroom with his 2 sisters (4 and nearly 1) and his bedtime antics of up and out of bed averaging 30x a night atm is wrecking their sleep.

I’ve had to convert what was previously baby DD’s room into an office but am considering moving DS in there now instead.

WWYD? Am interested to hear from parents who’ve had a 2 year old sharing with a sibling. I just don’t want to be seen to be punishing him but n the same breath his sisters have to get quality sleep.

I haven't got siblings to deal with, but I'd absolutely move him into his own room. You must be all exhausted having to deal with that level of waking in the night.

I would definitely move him into his own room. Depending on the size it could still be an office in the day but he really needs to sleep alone right now.

Seems to make sense; I think I’m just being over sensitive seeing as they’ve all had their lives turned upside down (who hasn’t) I’m worried about making things worse.

But for now whilst it will be a squeeze we will just need to suck up farting around with blackout blinds every night and as soon as the restrictions life go to town on making it his “big boy room”

Maybe try and think of ways you can make it exciting for him e.g. drawing some pictures to put up, having some shelf space for some special toys/books. Obviously much more challenging right now but might help make it exciting.

I don't understand why you haven't already moved him when you have an option?

Because it’s a very very small room @starutopia as it’s my office whilst I’m WFH.

So there’s already a big table doubling as a desk and a dining room... to put a cot in there would make it very cramped and perhaps a bit shit for him.

He's only going to be sleeping in there. Don't sweat what he thinks of it.

He's nearly 3. He's going to need a bed not a cot surely?

It's difficult to say without knowing the scale of your house, but can't you work from downstairs in the dining room/kitchen?

I just can't imagine having 3 kids and choosing to have them all in the same room. How many bedrooms have you got?

Thanks @TerrorWig

@StarUtopia you try WFH full time with a house full of three under 5 and my DH milling around too.

Ps his cot has one side off so it’s a cot bed... should have made that clear.

I’d move him out and do some pretty serious sleep training. How on Earth are you coping with him up that much at night?

I don’t think I came across clearly in my OP I’m afraid, mainly because I was mentally banged out.

Between bedtime lights out (7) and when he actually usually falls asleep (8.30) he’s up at worst 30 times.

I’m moving him into his room today, thanks for the concurrence from posters. Just needed to see if anyone thought it risked compounding the behaviour if he felt he was being “exiled”.

If he doesn't fall asleep until 8.30 then why persist in putting him to bed at 7?

Because he’s overtired and wired.

Plus I absolutely revel in the prospect of having three kids with three seperate sleep times, honestly, until recently he had a routine that worked. It’s fallen apart this past fortnight. Hence the thought of a solution and the request to see if it came across as a sensible idea.

That sounds hard, OP

Good luck with the room move - just coming on here to recommend noise cancelling headphones for when you’re working.

I'm guessing he'd climb out if you put the cot side back on?

Can you put the cot or the desk in your room?

If not try to get the cot & the desk in the spare room - boring is fine for sleeping!! It just means the arse if having to remove all your work stuff every night

Thank you @Scythrop

And yep @amelietaylor it’s the blackout blind that would be a pain in the bum... it’s really hard to get stuck to a bay window properly and it would have to be on and off every day. Daft I know but I can see that making me go postal never mind him getting out of bed 30x

I understand the frustration about the blackout blinds! I'd recommend putting them up when you finish work then you don't have to do it at bed time when you are even more tired.