Is a baby and a toddler sharing a room a good idea? Any experiences?

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DD1 is 2+8months, DD2 is 4 months and is soon going to grow out of the moses basket. Cot is in her sister's room. She is feeding at least once a night still, and can take a long time to settle after feeds, so I'm worried this will disturb DD1. Is it a stupid idea to get them to share when the nights are still quite broken? Any sharing experiences out there of what did or didn't work for you?

Thanks

Before we moved my 2 shared, and would be happy to have them sharing again, they're girl and boy though so figured we'd have to seperate them eventually so when we moved we put them in different rooms.

There's 18 mths between them. Moved ds into dd's room at 8 mths, waited until he had stopped night feeds as we were also worried about disturbing dd, we had him in a travel cot in our ensuite for 3 mnths as he'd outgrown moses basket!

Needn't have worried, dd and ds slept through anything! Think they get used to sharing and even if one was awake crying in the night due to being poorly, teething whatever the other slept through. As a child I always shared with my sis, no problem and My sis's 3 children argue over which 2 are going to share, think they like the company.

What I did find was to begin with it helped to settle ds to sleep 1st, leave him 10 minutes so he really was asleep before going in to read dd stories and put to bed. They seemed to excite each other too much before bed if both in there at same time. Would be OK now though I think.

Good luck!

in a similar situation, ds2 (8 months) is still feedind at least once in night, sometimes more + WE WAKE HIM AT 10.15 AND HAVE HIM UP TILL 11(oops caps on!) as we've found that if we let him sleep he wakes up more and soesnt settle as quickly. He's in a arms reach cosleeper but is nearly too big for it and the cot is in ds1 (3) room. Ds 1 is going through a phase where he doesn't like the dark and will only sleep with a nightlight on. Haved been trying to decide when to move then in together and had hoped that ds2 would be sleeping through by now as ds1 was! so no advice really but am interested in the advice that might be given by others who've done it.
I think we are going to wait till night feeds have stopped and poss put travel cot in our room.

DD1 and DD2 shared since they were 23 and 4-5 months.
We used ot take DD2 out and cosleep afetr she woke up the first time but once she was about 6 months we realised she wasn't disturbing DD1 so she satyed in ehr own cot.
I love it and even if we had the room I don't think I would change it, I did it originally as it makes bedtime easier but they chatter before going to sleep and when they wake up, it's very cute!

DD1 has wet the bed a few times and not woken DD2 and DD2 regularly weake sup for yelling sessions at 5ama nd doiesn't disturb DD1.

My DD2 shard a room with DD1,when she came out of the Moses Basket,and our room,about aged 5 months.

I was still feeding 1-2 times at night,and my DD1 was never awake or disturbed.They seem to learn to sleep through each others cry.Once or twice I would hear my DD1 whisper "shush shush its alright" and dd2 would settle at this too.

The problem came when DD1 was 3,liked to put things in DD2's cot to play with sometimes about 8 soft toys!

We split them up, until 1 month ago,when we put DD2 into a bed (2.4),which was a bottom bunk,and DD1(4.8) on the top.Apart from having to put DD2 to bed an hour before DD1,its working well.

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