Same room - am I crazy?

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I have a two year old and a ten month old. Two year old in own room but lately complaining of being lonely in bed. Plan was always to put baby in with older one, but is still in with us and bedtime is taking up to an hour for each of them. I speak to others about putting them in together and the consensus is that I'm off my head to attempt it.

In case it's important: kids are still in cots so not so worried about the older getting into the younger ones cot.

Any advice here? Surely this is pretty common. I shared a room until about 7, but there was a 3y age gap.

Thanks all

Worth a try. What is your bedtime routine that takes an hour each?

Thanks for reply. Oldest used to just go straight down and listen to the lullaby mobile and fall asleep. Now it's 45 stories and 25 wee wees before finally accepting bed.

Youngest was fed to sleep but have been patting and shushing for a few days and it's going very well. Just wondering if I would bite the bullet and try to do them together.

I definitely wouldn't think you nuts to try. How is your 2 year olds understanding? Would they understand if you said that they can have their baby sibling in the room but they both have to go to sleep together and they can't be keeping the baby awake? If the ultimate plan is for them to share a room in the end anyway then you might be able to get them into a nice routine of going to bed and having stories together??

We did it with that age gap. It worked like a dream and still does. We now have dc3 who is all on his own and I am sad for him as everyone else gets to share.

Well I have twins who share a room as babies as do many people so it's totally doable . Not crazy at all . Go for it.

Yeah, do it. Mine have a two year age gap and were together from when the youngest was about ten months too. They have a bath together, then two stories and into bed. There's always a lot of giggling and squawking after I close the door but they're happy as larry and eventually go to sleep, even if they're upside down in the bed after all the monkeying around...

Thanks all for the moral support. Went for it tonight and it took about 45' to get them both down. This may have been a fluke as the youngest was so tired and fell asleep on my shoulder, and the oldest promised not to wake the youngest but insisted on a million wee wees still. Full of hope - thanks all !

We did it at a similar age (10 months and 2.5). It worked wonders for us. Both immediately started sleeping better (DD2 basically slept through from then onwards). We split them up when we bought a new house but they asked to be together again (they’re 4 and 2 now)

Quick update - it's working really well. Don't want to jinx it but as SoyDora says, they both seem to be sleeping better (and longer) in the same room, and while it takes them a while to go down it's manageable. Thanks all !

My two slept in same room
By choice - it's lovely when they wake up in mornings and they are chatting to each other. We staggered bed times though younger one went about half an hour before to avoid them mucking around and not going sleep.

My youngest went in with his 3 year old brother at 10months (once he was reliably sleeping through) and they still share a room and go to bed at the same time nearly 4 years later!

We originally got them separate beds, but after a couple of months it became clear that they'd be happier sharing so we moved their beds together to make a double.

It's worked well for us - no one felt lonely, and the only slight issue is that if one wakes up they can't resist waking the other - so we've had to train them not to get up before 6, and to turn the tv on themselves until 7