Do your very young DC's share a room?

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I am currently PG with baby #2 and when s/he arrives our DS will be 21 months old. Baby will be in with us for the first 5/6 months but then may have to share with DS. We have 3 bedrooms but my DH uses the 3rd room as a music studio (which he needs as he is a musician and owns a million guitars etc). We can't afford an extension just now but that might be further down the line. An alternative is to covert the garage into a useable, secure workspace and I can then chuck DH in there.

I seem to be worried about the kids sharing a room when DS is in such a good sleep routine and the new baby will probably be waking him up all the time! So just wondering how many folks' babies share when they are really young? Does it affect the older baby? Pros and cons of this? Ta!

mine share and ds1 never wakes up when ds2 cries, even when he gets very loud lol
but we kept ds2 in with us for ages anyway because he wanted fereding so frequently at night

dd1 and dd2 shared from when dd2 was about 9 months old until she was 4. dd2 and dd3 share now

kids share rooms all the time and works for lots of families. you'll just have to see what works best for you.

mine are 2.5 and 14mths and have shared for a while now. There are times when one is going through a difficult phase and stirs the other, but on the whole it's fine. You'll be surprised how the older one will adapt and not wake if the younger is having a general cry- DS1 sleeps through it unless DS2 is really hysterical due to illness or something.

dd1 was 2 yrs 3 mo and dd2 was 8 mo when we first put them in together, and they still share now, aged 4 and 6.
It was hard some nights, if one disturbed the other, but overall they have been fine.
Now they just fight over the space though !

My 2 share. Not a chance of them both going to bed at the same time, but as long as one is quiet when the other goes up we have few problems.

My two have shared since DD2 was four months old. They are five and one now. No problems, and DD1 loved the thought that she was 'looking after' DD2 at night. (This was her idea, not ours, I hasten to add!) They are very sweet together and giggle in the mornings.

my 2 are exactly the same age apart as your 2 will be and they share. it works v v well. it will be fine. we have enough rooms for everyone but chose to put them in together and they love it and we love it. there is a bit more disruption than when they had their own rooms but the upsides are they are closer adn they talk in the mornings so we dont have to get up as early!!

ds1 and ds2 shared a room from ds2 being 6 weeks old! When we moved house and had more space, they still continued to share. They stopped sharing a couple of years ago when ds1 was about 9!

If we have friends or relatives staying, then they still share now: Tis not a problem!

dd2 was 6mths or so when she went in with dd1. She was a relatively good sleeper, and they never seemed to disturb each other. Now, aged 5 and 3.5, they would be really unhappy if they were seperated at night, although I'm sure the day will come when they will want their own rooms! But for now, they seem to enjoy sharing, and will natter for a while before going to sleep and play together in their room in the morning until "official" getting up time (as denoted by their fairy lights on timer!)

DS1 & DS2 share mainly as we have no other room as third bedroom is for DSS who is 12.

They have a similar age gap to yours (19 months). bedtime was hardish anyway as I was mainly on my own...but now they are 3 and 20 months and they LOVE sharing, they go to bed at the sameish time, now and again. DS1 'reads' in bed after stories and DS2 quite happily goes to sleep.

They tend not to wake each other up that much in the morning.

They would be sad to have separate rooms now.

ps we started calling it there room from pretty early on to get DS1 used to it and made it a fun event when he was in there for the first time.

i think it makes them closer

Dd2, DD3 and Ds share a room. We swapped Ds with Dd1, and thought it would be difficult, but it's not been nearly the challenge we thought it would be. We tried putting them to bed at different times, but they actually settle better when they're all together - I think they feel safer. [mushy mum emoticon]

Dd & ds share (3.10 & 21 months) and have done for nearly a year. I think they both get a lot out of it, dd especially wouldn't be happy sleeping on her own. Ds can be unsettled at night but dd manages to sleep through it. On the whole it works really well for us. - I reckon if they didn't share then DH & I would have a visitor in bed most nights .

My eldest are 19 mths apart, and started sharing when middle child was 6 mths. I was really nervous about it to begin with, but it was fine. They were both good sleepers, but if one or the other did wake up, they slept through it. Things did get a bit more problematic by the time they were 6&7, as they were chatting so much they kept each other up. When we had the loft conversion we decided to put them in separate rooms. Surprisingly, they were both quite upset about it for a while, saying that they missed each other, and didn't like sleeping alone. In retrospect, I can see that they got a lot out of sharing together and was really glad we did it.

I have a 19 month gaop between DD's adn they ahve shared since DD2 was 5 months old.
DD2 is now 15 months and still BF's at night sometimes, DD1 just rolls over, sleepily announces
'You give DD2 beboo (BM) now'
and goes back to sleep!
They go to bed at teh same time and when they wake they keep each other company for awhile before I have to go and referee. I am sure it is why they are so close TBH as DD1 passes DD2 her toys if she chucks them and DD2 plays peekaboo to amuse DD1 when they wake.

DD1 8 years, DD2 6, DD3 4 and DD 4 15 months share a room, DD4 screams still alot through the night and the rest never wake up...don't know why, but it can work!
They amuse eachother too with is a bonus!