Siblings sharing room: too young?

[bessmum]

Apologies if this is a regular topic. DD is 21 months and a good sleeper, still in cotbed. DS is 3 months, in a cot in our room, still waking lots (BF). At some point we plan for them to share a room and we were hoping to try this when DS got to 6 months-ish. So a little while off but trying to think ahead. Obviously there is the potential to upset DDs sleep which we want to avoid but we're going to have to do it at some point. Anyone have any experiences or tips they can share ? Do people think they would they be too young at 6 months and 2 years? Thanks.

Hi bessmum, DS1 and 2 share a room and have done snce 2.5 and 5 months. I put it off as I was worried they wouldn't settle together, wake each other up etc. However it is the best thing we ever did, they both sleep through (unles poorly, teething etc!) and if one does wake up in the night it has never woken the other up. In fact we have decided that if we ever move to a 3 bedroom house we would keep the boys in the same room together. HTH

I don't think they'd be too young to share. How deep a sleeper is your DD (nothing ever wakes my DS )

I think if you have two children sleeping together they tend to sleep better and longer......maybe they can hear the other breathing and it's comforting or somehting.

We moved ds2 into ds1 room ( it is semi-split but only by a through door) when ds2 was 6mths and ds1 had just turned 3. It has worked really well. ds2 is 16mths now and has had several disturbed nights and has never woken ds1, they settle well together aswell. Both are heavy sleepers, which helps, but we've had no problems

Thanks all, very encouraging. Hopefully then this is something that will just fit into place like many other things I've worried about before the event! I think DD sleeps soundly but DS does cry very loudly and doesn't settle quickly after feeds in the middle of the night. Early days yet though, I'd like to get him into more of a routine to try to get him to sleep longer but finding this impossible with looking after his older sister too. Sometimes wonder how the millions of mums before me have coped with more than one!