Toddler and baby sharing a room - when's the right time?

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Toddler is almost 2.5 and baby is 7.5 months.

Toddler sleeps 7.30pm-6.30am all the way through, baby sleeps 7pm-6/7am but ATM, is waking 1-3 times a night.

Is it best to wait til baby is STTN?

Some children continue to wake 1-3 times a night until well into toddlerhood and beyond. My 5 year old dd often still wakes in the early hours and comes and gets into bed with us. If I were you, I'd consider what kind of a sleeper toddler is. Would noise disturb him/her? What do you do when the baby wakes? Will the kids room be set up for dealing with night feedings etc? How will it effect you if you're having to go into the kids' bedroom 2-3 times a night? What about bedtime? If you've got toddler in a good bedtime routine, is having baby sibling in the same room going to disturb that? My kids started sharing when ds was 4 and dd was 18 months and it was a smooth transition.

I bf the baby upon waking. Hmm maybe it'll be better to wait until baby's sleeping longer stretches I'm sure it would disturb the toddler.

My children started sharing a room when DD was 11 months and DS was 3.4yrs. DD was still waking up a lot in the night, but DS managed to sleep through the disturbance.

When DD woke early (5am ish) I would bring her into bed with me to bf rather than trying to settle her down in her cot again.

We put our sons together when DS2 turned 1 year (DS1 was 2.6). Neither was sleeping through the night but as soon as we put them in the same room it all changed and now they both STTN fine. I think the comfort of having each other close has helped enormously. Give it a go for a month and see what happens. One tip - take all hard objects out of the bedroom as the older one may throw things into the baby's cot.

Dd's started sharing when dd2 was around 7 months, and dd1 2.8. Not really had many problems at all ocasionally ds2 has woken dd1 but that is a handfull of times it is usually the other way round, (as soon as dd2 hears dd1 she thinks its playtime) but olny in the morning and that would have happened had dd2 still been in with us anyway.

Dd2 still wakes between 1 and 3 times throughout the night I bf her in bed then take her back to the cot and she is 13 months. DD1 van actually fall asleep whilst dd2 is crying (teething at the moment) so she has just got used to it.

We put ours in together before dd was sleeping through. She would wake I'd feed her and ds got used to it very quickly.