Sharing rooms

Ooo I'll be watching this one carefully! I really don't want to clean out my study, so want both kids to share (when #2 comes of course, still yet to convince DH!!) I don't know from experience, but we are planning on keeping #2 in our room (in a borrowed bassinett or our portacot) for as long as possible until s/he sleeps mostly through the night so Jack won't be woken up by a screaming baby. And if we go nuts with #2 in our room, s/he can sleep in the study for a while, I'm sure it won't do any harm!

My aunty had her 2nd child sleeping out in the lounge, near the hallway, under a giant clock for the first couple of months... each to their own I guess.

Would the room be big enough that you could walk in and get bubs up without Tom even noticing?

I wouldn't want to put a bubba in with Daniel. I can just imagine it screaming to be fed or whatever and wake Daniel up and then have 2 kids to get back to sleep..

I guess it would depend on the older child though. It wouldn't work for Daniel because he prefers quiet and doesn't appreciate loud noise.

yep us too.. will have to move but its a big deal for me.. but each to their own.. most people i know with two haven't had them share for a year or more.

My 12year old and 16mth old share a room. She asked for him to be in her room and it has worked out great. i wouldnt have put him in there as a newborn tho as Im sure the wakefulness of him as a little one would have keep her up. Once your new one is sleeping thru the night I dont see any reason why they couldnt room share

My plan was for my 2 to share but they are both terrible, light sleepers who still wake at night. They wake each other up enough from seperate rooms.

You could alway have new baby in your room until old enough to share.

I wouldnt have Greer in with Hannah at the moment, but will see how we go when she is sleeping through the night.

my boys chose to share a room. when toby was about 12 mths old gabriel decided he was going to sleep in the bed that was in tobys room instead of his own room and they never wanted to go back to separate rooms. which was good cause it worked out well for us.

toby still wakes in the night sometimes and has hysterical screaming fits but it doesnt seem to bother gabriel too much. He just lies there with his hands over his ears and doesnt stir.

i know some people who didnt even have twins share a room so as to make the kids sleep...
we will def do sep rooms - no sharing

Edited by Bombshell

We are planning to have the twins a different room than our toddler until they no longer need middle of the night feeds and then all 3 are going to be in the same room. Or thats the plan. We need our office/spare room for our business and have no other way to fit the 3 kids in!

Bumped for Emz.