If your DCs (successfully) share a room can you please tell me....

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what age gap they have, what age they started sharing, how long the arrangement continued or is planned to continue and so on?

There is a 3.6 year gap between DDs1 and 2. DD2 currently has her cot in our teeny tiny "third bedroom" but it's not big enough to fit a signle bed. If they were to share a room when (say) DD2 reaches 3 and DD1 is 6.6, could this work or is the age gap too much? I'm wondering whether DD1 will want "baby" things in her room and whether they will disturb each other all night. Would it make any difference if we put them together earlier?

Any views welcome (will feed into our ongoing decision process about whether we need to move house soon or not!)

2y3m between ds1 and dd. They have shared since they were 3 and 1. There were never any problems - except sometimes ds1 trying to get dd to wake and play in the mornings. I assigned a drawer in the wardrobe that was ds1's "Special Drawer", where he kept anything that was precious to him. Later on dd had one too.

They are now 8 and nearly 6, we had intended to get them into their own rooms ages ago, having moved into a bigger house over two years ago, but haven't got around to it. They do look forward to having their own rooms now, especially ds1. I'm not rushing, though, because I think dd sleeps better for not being alone.

They're not particularly bothered by having each other's things in the room. Ds once had some glow-in-the-dark things that spooked dd, so we had to remvoe them, but that's all.

I think it's probably easier to get them sharing early, when they have less sense of privacy.

Dd screamed hersefl to sleep (with me standing next to her and stroking her) many times, and ds never stired. When this happened at bedtime he even fell asleep himself during the screaming.

I also never had any problems with one waking the other in the middle of the night.

oh one thing to bear in mind w/bunk beds is the ladder. dd1 has a bed with drawers/desk etc underneath, not quite as high a bunk bed, but still with a ladder. dd2 (18mo) can and does climb the ladder, but isn't sensible enough to come down it backwards, despite many attempts to teach her, and i'm not happy to leave her up on the bed alone except very very briefly when i can see she's absorbed in a toy. since the very first thing she does when she gets upstairs is to shimmy up the ladder and roll around going "bed, sister" and looking very pleased with herself it effectively means i have to be stood right next to her all the time we're upstairs, not so great for getting anything done so i'd strongly recommend holding off on bunks (unless you can get some kind of rectractable ladder??) for a while yet.

ds (3.11) and dd (2.4) have been sharing for about 3 months. They are in toddler beds but we plan to get them into bunkbeds at some point. They really love it (occasional fighting aside) and it works really well (and also gives us ds' old room to use as a study). Not exactly sure how long this arrangement can/will continue but I'm thinking it'll be okay for a good while yet.

dd's share.

they are 5 and 2.10.