siblings sharing a bedroom

[Jo15]

My husband and I are very keen to have a third child and the only thing that is holding me back is space. We live in a 3 bed house and currently dd1 (age 5) and dd2 (age 2)have their own rooms and all works well. If we had another baby dd1 and dd2 would have to share a bedroom - and all rooms are on the small side. We have the potential to build an extension to give us a fourth bedroom but unfortunately I cannot imagine a time when we will have the funds available to actually build it. I would be grateful for any advice on siblings sharing and whether it would be okay as they get older if we cannot build the extension. Would I be too selfish to go ahead and try for a third and not put the needs of the two children I already have first?

I shared a room with my sister until I moved out aged 18. We always shared even when we lived in a 3 bed house and when we moved my mum got a 2 bed in a better area. We did divide the room up the middle though when we were teenagers.

i thankfully never had to share a room. i was 6 1/2 when sister was born but we had moved to a three bedroom by then. then the second sister was born just less than a year later. they shared. i've always been grateful that i had my own room because the age difference would have made things difficult. i think if they are close in age it's fine. as the baby sleeps with mom and dad for the first little while, it's a great time for the adjustment period for the sibling that will need to share. maybe get their input as well if they are old enough to understand the change of their circumstances.

DS 7 and DD1 4 share a room, when DD2 s a bit bigger we plan to put her in with DD1 but at the moment think it would be a problem as DS and DD1 love sharing. Just waiting till DS wants his own space and hope it pans out nicely, otherwise will probsably end up with all 3i n the same room with the other as as roome for all their stuff!

I have 4 dc in a small 3 bed house,

we "split" the largest room into two with some creative use of Ikea shelving ( floor to ceiling) and by boxing in a pair of bunk beds so in one "room" it looks like a cabin bed (DD) and in the other room DS sleeps in the bottom bunk but the top bunk is boxed off.

A bit tricky to describe but saved a load of space and they eldest two each have their own "space" but are stil in the same room as they don't wnat to be split up (DS 9, DD 7)

The younger two just share (DS 5, ds3)

works great for us and has saved moving

My parents was the same, when my little sister was born she later moved in with my other younger sister. As adults now (they did fight alot when growing up) are really close, closer than to me as I had my own room. No problems really and we all have a 3 year gap between our ages.

our dd(5) has shared with ds(nearly 3) since he was 12weeks old. They love it tbh and get on well.

I would put your DDs in together & see how it goes. Even if you get pg right now, No. 1 (let's say) might go to uni at 18 and No. 3 will still be only 12. No. 3 will have all teenage yrs in own room.

My two boys share who are 8 and nearly 10. Recently we went to look at a flat to buy and they asked why. We said so you can have separate bedrooms and they were very against that idea. So that saved us quite a few thousand!

They have shared since ds2 was about 6 months and I think it helped him to settle and sleep through as this happened around the time he started sharing with big brother.