When do I put 3yr old and 6mth old in together?

[Poppety]

Hi everyone
I just wondered if anyone had any experience of children sharing a bedroom and any tips?
We have a teeny 2 bed house so my two girls will need to share a room.
Peggy is 3.5 years and Dolly is 5.5 months. Neither sleep amazingly well and I'm very fearful about the older one waking the younger one as she's a nightmare to get back to sleep unless I feed her!
The baby is in with me currently but such a light sleep
That even the rustle of my duvet disturbs her.
The older one thrashes about in her sleep and moans, 4 or 5 nights a week she cries out (VERY loudly) and needs tending to and there's no way the baby would sleep through this.
My poor husband has been sleeping on the sofa for 4 months as his snoring disturbs the baby and I'd like him to come back to bed!
Any thoughts please?

I put my two in when the youngest was 7 months and the older was just past 3. What I found was that the younger wakes because she wants you. The noise of the older one tends not to wake them oddly enough. Give it a go and see what happens. Cute names for your girls btw

Thanks!! I'm just dreading it as it means a complete house reshuffle and once it's done I really don't want to go back! Is your older one noisy too?

She is now - but she's 16! This is a few years ago.
Yes actually I would say that they have all been fairly noisy sleepers. Dd1 was still in a big cot at this point and we got another Ikea cot for dd2 and put her at the opposite end of the room. My experience is that it's not noise that wakes them. I actually think it's smelling mum - especially if you are breastfeeding.

Also sleep improves all the time and it's very likely your older dd will start to settle better soon. I would try and get them both out in the fresh air for part of the day right though the winter. That's an old fashioned tactic but it does help. Then by Spring you'll have a 4 year old and a 1 year old and it is a totally different ballgame.

It's so weird you just said about smelling me!! My husband and I were just discussing that as she doesn't flinch when he goes in the room but be ones restless when I do!

We had dd3 in with us for a year (whilst we tried to move house from a two bed). She definitely smelt me! As soon as we moved and put her in her own room she slept through.

I haven't got any advice really but my mum said my older brother (3 at the time) slept badly until she put my other brother in with him at about 6 months, they both slept well then

I will be facing this fairly soon myself.

All of you putting under 1s in with the 3yo, are your babies sleeping through? Or you just react to the first stir so as to not wake up the older one?

My baby wakes once for a feed but my older one isn't affected by her crying and would sleep through a bomb blast! I'm more concerned about the older one waking the younger one!