Need some advice on room sharing

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Hi I'm new to this so hope I'm posting in the right place etc.

I am a mum to two beautiful daughters, a 3 year old and a nearly 6 month old.

Currently baby is in her cot in our room, she sometimes feeds loads through the night and other times can sleep through. I want to cut back bf'ing to just one feed a day as I'm returning to work and she is doing well on solids and formula.

Anyhoo to get to my Point.. I'm keen to move her and her sister in together, however I'm worried;

are they too young to go into together are there any dangers I should have thought about?

They both self settle, both in bed at 7, baby goes straight to sleep usually, 3y/o can chatter for up to half an hour before dropping off so how will this work ? How is the best way to tackle it?

Lastly should I stop worrying and go for it lol?

Thank you to anyone who has actually read all of this waffle!! And double thanks if you can offer me any advice : )

Xxxx

I moved my two in together when DS was about 5 months.... DD (3) sounds similar to yours.

Basically initially I made sure baby was asleep before I put DD to bed - they both sleep like a log so wasn't worried other than that!

I am hoping that DC2 is another boy so I can do the same! Our house is not that big.

Bikerunski why would dc2 being a girl make any difference?

DS1(5) and DD(2) share a room, mostly it is fine, but they are both heavy sleepers so if one wakes in the night (often one or other does), they rarely wake the other. They are more easily disturbed by each other waking early though, which is a pain. Getting them to bed at the same time is sometimes tricky if they are full of beans and winding each other up. Sometimes easier to get DD to sleep first as said by someone else.

Tonight we have gone for broke (we are on holiday in a 2 bed place) and put DS2 (15m) in with them too-could be an interesting night!

I have 3 boys(5,4 &3) who share a room. We more or less co-slept until the babies were 6 months and then they were moved into their own room with a cot. Only when they started climbing out of the cot and required a bed, did we move them on to the 'big boys' room. It has now been a year since the little one joined his brothers and he loves it. We've had no issues of them waking each other in the night even though we've had to make beds etc when they've been ill. I don't think they'd settle if they were parted! If anything, we find that the first up tends to wake the others which isn't a bad thing during the week but at the weekend we leave the TV tuned into a kiddies channel and they can turn it on which gives us an extra hour (hopefully) in bed.

Mine moved into the same room (DS from our room) when DD was 28 months and DS 9 months. They love it. Both are good sleepers, they wake and chat to themselves but then drift off again. In the morning DS wakes up and chats to DD which she sometimes sleeps through, but it seems to keep them both content.

We hope to be moving soon and will have a bedroom each available but I plan to have them sharing for the foreseeable future.

Besides, it's the only secure communication time they have - both in cotbeds able to chat and see each other but not able to take toys, pull hair or push each other about! I'm hoping it'll develop the sibling bond

Thank you everyone for replies, we're gonna bite the bullet and go for it tonight. Think we're going to stick to same routine and both go down at same time and see what happens, wish me luck xx