moving baby to cot to share room with nearly 4 yr old ds

[voyagerfan]

am just about to move 6 mo dd to her cot in the same room ds has had to himself since he was 3 mo old.
he is worried she will wake him up in the night. I am worried she will wake him up in the night, he is a nightmare to get back to sleep again. Plus is starting school in sept. Also he is a fairly light sleeper, dd fairly heavy sleeper it seems.
any suggestions/comments on how to make it work. Unfortnately moving not an option for a while...

keep her in with you for a while?

shes growing out of crib though I think. might be waking herself up by bumping on crib as not much room either side of her (she likes to sleep on her side).

shes growing out of crib though I think. might be waking herself up by bumping on crib as not much room either side of her (she likes to sleep on her side).

oops!

Can you try it when you haven't got a busy few days/lots of commitments etc so it won't be such a problem if one disturbs the other. You may well find they get used to it very quickly.

We put dd2 (worst sleeper) in with dd1 when they were roughly 4.5 and 1 year respectively. Didn't make any difference to either of them. Actually if anything dd2 wakes up slightly less.

Even now, almost a year on, the only "problem" we have is overexcitment at bedtime but at least they are contained in one room and it is very sweet on the whole when they are laughing with each other.

Could she have a little bed in your room until your ds is old enough to go on a top bunk?

TBH I wouldn'y have left a baby in my ds's room until he was old enough to be sensible!

would be very nice but only way to get cot in our room would be to throw out nearly all my clothes as require wardrobe.
Ds marginally sensible but would hear non-sensibleness down the intercom!
thanks onepiece will give it a go - off to bed now myself!