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Babies room sharing - when to move in DS2???

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Belgianchox · 14/08/2006 12:30

Hi, Just was wondering if anyone has any advice on when to put two babies togerther in the same room? DD1 is 18mths, and DS1 is 7wks, and i would like to move him out of our room so that all can get a decent nights sleep!

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wondermummy · 16/08/2006 09:41

Hi - I've exactly the same question - my first is 16 months, and my next is coming along in 2 weeks or so. Does anyone have any experience of baby and toddler room sharing? will the new baby wake up ds? (he's a brilliant sleeper - I'd hate to disrupt that) - or will he just get used to the extra noise?
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youknowwhat · 17/08/2006 09:18

bump as I was wnadering the same !!!
Atm, my experience is that DS1 who is sleeping well, doesn't seem to be bothered by DS2 crying next door. But it doesn't mean it would be the case if I had to go in if/when they will be in the same bedroom.
Any experience from parents whose children share a bedroom??

Frizbe · 17/08/2006 09:21

I'll keep bumping this until LL finds it, as she's got two in the same room!
I'm aiming to do this when we move house next year.....hoping dd2 will be out of eating dd1's toys by then.....

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hunkermunker · 17/08/2006 09:22

I wouldn't do it that young, but I'm sure people have.

Partly because I don't want DS2 out of our room just yet - he's 7mo tomorrow - and partly because I'd be worried DS1 would "help" by dropping books on him or something. Plus DS2 doesn't sleep well enough yet. Nor does DS1 for that matter! DS1 is 2.4.

JunkInMyTrunk · 17/08/2006 09:24

i have a 3 half yr old and 9 month old dd's in the same room.
dd1 very rarely wakes when dd2 starts crying and even on the odd occasion when she has, she's gone straight back off to sleep. but she's a very good sleeper. imo it really does depend on your child and how well they sleep.
I moved dd2 in when she was about 12 weeks old

wheresmyfroggy · 17/08/2006 09:27

We moved dd2 into thesame room as dd1 at about 10 weeks as we moved house and our room was then too small for her cot.
dd2 used to sleep in with dd2 until about 2am and then co-sleep with us. She never once woke dd1 up crying and still now if dd2 wakes [which is rare] dd1 sleeps through it.
It is very funny listening to them giggling together at bedtime, they are now 2.9years and 16 months.

Amelya · 17/08/2006 09:31

We've recently moved DD (13 months) in with DS (3 yrs) while our extension is being done (we are knocking through DDs room to make it bigger).
It's been going so well that we're considering keeping them in the same room even when the work is finished!
DD wakes occasionally but this doesn't wake up DS somehow - mind you it doesn't wake up DH either so perhaps it's just because they are men!

youknowwhat · 17/08/2006 13:51

Thanks you all.
I was wondering if it would be worth trying to put both ds1 & ds2 in the same room so that I can use he small bedroom as an office (I work from home).
Seen what you have said so far, I might try!

pointydog · 17/08/2006 14:31

I moved dd2 out of our bedroom when she was 6 months and dd1 was 2.7. Absolutely fine. DD1 never woke up if there were any disturbances - I suppose she just knew it wasn't her job to do anything about it!

Uwila · 17/08/2006 14:54

DS moved into his sisters room when she was 6 months and she was 2 yrs 8 months old. I was nervous about it because I was afraid he would wake up and she would go tend to him by suffocating him something (not intentionally but she was only 2). But, he had outgrown the moses basket. And his cot didn't fit in our room or in the office (where the moses basket was). So we gave it a go. And it worked out fine. They are both very good sleepers.

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Belgianchox · 17/08/2006 16:23

Thanks for the input! i think i'll wait until ds1 is sleeping through a bit better, he's still waking at 3am atm..... don't want to disturb dd1 too much particularly as she's quite sensitive to his crying - often joins in actually.

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calebsmummy · 17/08/2006 17:04

DS's 2 and 3 (3 1/2 and 20 months)share a room with no bother at all. We put them in together when DS3 was 9 months as we moved from a 4 bed house to a 3 bed rented house. We are now back in a 4 and they still share as it went so well and DH needs office space so uses the smallest room. They rarely wake each other up and if they do settle down again quickly. I would do it soon and if it doesn't work, then at 7 weeks it wouldn't be too much of a disruption if you had to move the baby back until later.

laundrylover · 17/08/2006 22:53

We put DD2 in with her sis (2.6) when she was about 10 weeks old. This was firstly out of necessity 'cos we can't fit a cot in our bedroom and also because I was sleeping really badly with her in the room. DD1 was in with us for 6 months BTW in our previous house.
Anyway it's all gone swimmingly! They both sleep thru each others tantrums and crying episodes and with the doors open I can hear if one wakes up for a feed/wee. It has also calmed DD1s behaviour down loads and the sleep problems we were having are now very rare.
One word of warning - put the cot side up as on first night DD1 climbed in to give her sis a hug!

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