Help with room sharing

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Due our second baby when our first girl will be 18 months old. We live in a three bed and moved our girl into her own room at about 5 months (we all slept so much better!)

My issue this time around is that DH currently uses the third bedroom as his WFH office.

Would you put the two kids in a room together or make DH share the office with either the toddler or the baby?

I'm inclined towards putting the kids in together and keeping DH in his own space but worry about the toddler being woken up by the baby and managing both of them having naps in the same room.

Any advice? Baby will be in our room to begin with but I'll still need to figure rooms out so we can figure out where to do nappy changes/store clothes etc.

Thanks!

Bump

Depends where you want dc to nap during the day I think

My dc shared a bedroom until last year when they were 15 and 13. Its perfectly normal for Children to share.

Sorry I've misread the end bit, you already said that but yeah my concern would be they would wake each other so would keep them in separate rooms unless you can double one of the rooms up as an office by day and room by night?

My eldest two are 18 months apart and they shared from a young age - they never seemed to wake each other up! I’d defo keep the office as an office as naps would be an issue possibly! The only issue I did have was getting them to go to sleep sometimes at the start as they used to mess around and play but once I got that sussed it was all ok!

Could the master bedroom double as an office, and each child have their own room for naps etc?

This is what we have recently had to do (temporary, hopefully) as the baby was waking the older child and sharing didn't work well, though we hope they will share once on a more similar sleep schedule.

Sorry should have said naps will be an issue in the office! I’d perhaps keep the baby in with you a bit longer than 5 months - possibly until the older one didn’t have daytime naps (mine stopped just after 2!!) but that’s up to you really!

Mine are 21 months apart. The baby was in with us for a bit, but then they shared a room. Third baby - same pattern. All three shared one room all their childhood and teenage years.

My ds and DD shared like this, it wasn't a problem as the eldest never woke for anything that was of no interest to him, so he wasn't during by his baby sister one iota, I did have a set up elsewhere so I could change a nappy in the night without having to put a light on in their room as that would probably have woken him.
Actually it was an advantage as eldest was in a good routine at bedtime so as the younger guy older age just copied him and neither felt alone so bedtime was easy, stories together, tucked up, job done.

My two are 17 months apart and have shared since the youngest was about 6 months. We've never had any issues. They are currently 3 and 5 and still enjoy sharing, I'm not in a hurry to seperate them yet.

@BettyAndVeronica

Could the master bedroom double as an office, and each child have their own room for naps etc?

This is what we have recently had to do (temporary, hopefully) as the baby was waking the older child and sharing didn't work well, though we hope they will share once on a more similar sleep schedule.

I would do this too if you could I think it’s the best idea

Sadly not enough room in our bedroom to have the office in there otherwise that would be perfect.

Looks like trying them sharing seems to be the most common option! Would be a lot easier in terms of storing all their clothes/nappy changing bits in the same room as well.

Can I ask how you all made the shared bedroom safe? Would be worried about older one dumping toys etc in with little while they slept etc