Following on from babies and toddlers in same room...

[jimmychoos]

Advise needed. I want dd(21months) and ds (4) to share a room - we wnat our spare room back! Dd currently sleeps in a room on her own in a cot. ds on his own in a bed. They both settle and sleep very well. DS's room is too small to fit both cot and bed in. So I'll have to get dd into a bed before performing this task!

Option 1.
Put ds's bed into dd's room and replace ds's bed with bunkbeds. Keep them seperate until dd used to bed and then move dd to bottom bunk.

Option 2
Put dd straight into the bottom bunk.

What do you think? Should I even be contemplating bunkbeds for them? Are they too little?

Thank you if you managed to get to the end of this!

We put ours into bunkbeds at pretty much the same ages as yours are now, although dd was already in a bed (she broke her arm climbing out of her cot aged 2 ) . As long as your ds is unlikely to get up in the night and the top bunk has a side rail I wouldn't have thought it would be a problem. Mine loved them!

Mine are in bunk beds. They went into them about six months ago when ds2 wsa 18months and ds1 3.5. Ds2 went straight into bottom bunk from a cot and we have had no trouble. THe rule is that he's not allowed to climb up the ladder and after trying a couple of times and being told not to he's now given up. This is surprising because he's very intrepid and not renowned for doing what he's told.

I reckon you should go for bunks straight away - they'll think it's fun and it'll be less disruptive in longterm.

sari - did you have one with a fixed ladder or did you take the ladder off at night? TBH I'm afraid of DD climbing up when we're not around - she's totally fearless and is a real climber in the playground.

Fixed ladder, it's there all the time. Ds2 is a real climber as well and if I take my eye off him for a second in a playground I'll find he's got to the top of a climbing frame that ds1 can only just manage. But for some reason he knows that the ladder on the bed is out of bounds and he doesn't try. Also ds1 is a great policeman and is instructed to yell if he ever sees ds2 trying to climb up. Maybe if your dd is a good climber you wouldn't need to worry that much anyway. Do you think she could get back down the ladder? Or could you teach her to? Ds2 is nearly two now and if he got up I know he could get back down safely. It's whether he'd tip off the top bunk pretending to be Spiderman or something that I'm more worried about now.

I should probably put this on products then - anyone recommend a bunkbed?