Young children sharing a bedroom

[NZMummy]

Well, I now have about 9 weeks before baby arrives. We have a 2 year old and only 2 bedrooms in our house. Initially I plan to have baby in our room in a bassinet (it will be a bit crowded, but we will cope). However, when baby gets too big for the bassinet we will probably have to move him/her into the cot in our toddlers room. Does anyone else have experience with having a baby sharing a room with a 2-3 year old? Does it work well?

[irishmum2boys]

Hi NZMUMMY,
I shared a little about this on your other post in regards to moving to a big boy bed, my boys are 3 and 3 months and 7 months right now, so when Micah was born Ethan was just over 2 1/2 yrs old. We kept Micah in our room for the first 3/4 months until he outgrew his bassinet and then moved him into the same room as his brother as we have a 2 bedroom house too! For the first few days or so we would make sure one was asleep before the other so they wouldn't wake each other up, but they both transitioned really well. I was concerned at first about big brother maybe trying to crawl into the crib with his brother but this hasn't happened yet :)

[luvmy4sons]

Yes. My fourth was born 17 months after my 3rd. I already had the 4 and 6 year old in together. I only had 3 bedrooms, so the baby had to go in with the toddler. The issue I had was that the crying baby would wake the toddler. I had two cribs though. I switched and put the baby in with the 4 and 6 year old but found that they woke even easier. Eventually the toddler quit waking to the baby's cries. I never had any other issues.

[Agnt43]

I have a 6, 4,and 3 year old. At one time they were all in the same bedroom....as we had very limited space. It made bedtime harder at times but they are all very close.

[PianoMama]

I have a friend at church that intentionally put her ds (4 in Oct.) and dd (13mo.) in the same room. Her philosophy is when they share a room, there is no "You can't come in! This is MY room!!" So, now everything is 'ours' not 'mine'. I like the concept, but I can see potential for issues. As long as you have a separate place/room for toys, you should be ok!

[justmeNmine]

My son was almost three when my daughter was born and they shared a room from the get go... Last week, he told me he had a good idea, that he could have his own room (wif racecars all around) It was a rare moment of being thankful for being a single mom and I moved myself into the baby's room (we can goo all out girly now:D ) When they were sleeping in the same room, though, he ocassionally woke her on purpose to get me to go in there :roll: but other than that they could both sleep through each others crying...

We are in the same boat... we only have 2 bedrooms also. Abby has her own and baby will sleep in the portacot in our room until she manages to figure out how to escape :lol:
Do you have a baby monitor? Can your DS get out of his crib?
Could you possibly purchase a portacot? They aren't as big as wooden cribs... maybe you could fit one in your room?

HTH