Moving toddler into room share with older kids

[emmafield82]

Hi would love anyones advice here.

My 2.5yr old is currently still in his own room in a sleeping bag and cot. Hes 27months and quite a baby still, still nursing all through the damn cursed night. Im working on this (see another thread..).

I think i will probably try him in a bed in his own room but i wonder about moving him into the room with his siblings.

So I have a 9yr old and 5.5yr old sharing a bunk and their 7.5 yr old sister in a bed on the other wall in the room.
They are all bonkers and take a while to settle in the evenings although my 5yr old is the best of all them.

Ideally I wanted to swap the 9yr old with the 2yr old so he could have his own room. But i feel that putting the little one in with two kids who are almost 6&8 is a bad idea.

At the moment I put him to sleep around 7.30/8pm and the others go to bed closer to 9pm.

Its different for every family I get that and i dont think my kids are all that sensible or mature tbh.

What have all you done?

We have only 3 rooms at the mo, two kids rooms and parent room.
Our dream is loft conversion but thats a long way off.

Tia!

I would go with your plan, if that's what you think works best with the personality dynamics in your family. Or, if both rooms are large enough, I might put 2 in each room - an older one with a younger one, or 2 youngest in one room, older ones in the other, to make staggering bedtimes easier and hopefully a bit calmer. And save up for the loft conversion for when the oldest is approaching his teens...

We have 3 in one room but they are all a bit closer in age (nearly 7, nearly 5 and just turned 2). The youngest's cot went in with the older ones when he was 10 months because I'd done the same thing with them and it worked OK. We're currently renovating their room to build an upstairs room/platform for the 2 older ones (their room, conveniently, has an extremely high ceiling) because our 4th one is due in January.

I would put the oldest and youngest together. In theory oldest could quietly read and behave, not waking the toddler, when he goes to bed. The other two will likely wake him.

So do you currently have a spare room? It would make sense to haev 2 kids in one room and 3 in the other. So bunk beds in both rooms?
I reckon a toddler can go in a toddler size bed though & take up less space.

I think it probably depends more on the dynamics rather than the age. Could you put up some sort of room divider - or something like Ikea Kallax as a divider so they get some privacy? A bit like a dorm room.