3rd on the way, advice on getting 1 & 2 to share a room!

[Hannahj123]

Hi!
Expecting baby number 3, and although we are lucky to have a 4 bed house, the 4th room is a loft conversion, and my eldest is only 3 which I feel is too young to put on his own upstairs. DC2 is 19 months and a girl, DC3 due in May and also a girl. We are very lucky as 1&2 love each other but worried about having to move them into the same bedroom when baby arrives. Has anyone had experience of this, and have any advice on how to mkake the transition as easy as possible?
Thanks!

I'm reading this with interest as our number 4 is due in a few months and my daughter has just told me she doesn't want to share with her sister- she wants to keep her own room

As yours are so young, it should hopefully be easier to make them a really exciting new "big boy/girl room"- get them to choose wall art or new bedding to make it special. I'm not sure how you'd get them both to sleep in there but maybe put the younger one down and bribe persuade the older one to go to bed quietly so as not to wake her!

Or could the baby sleep in your room for a year and then move into her sister's room? You could just say from the word go that baby will be with sister, so she's got all that time to get used to the idea!

Is the loft room big enough for you to have?

When would you feel comfortable moving your eldest into the loft room? 5/6?

I have an almost 3 yr old and a 18 month old sharing a room. I would pick a quiet time. Do it well before baby is born.

My two are pretty good, certainly no worse alone.

A friend gave me a tip of having a travel cot made up so if one is ill or whatever then it’s really easy to separate them if needed.