Room sharing etc

So all going to plan we will have about 18 months between kids. We have 3 bedrooms but the smallest room is the study with all my teaching stuff and DH's army stuff in it. No way to fit a kid in there whatsoever. We will have #2 in our room until we get sick of the hedgehog-like noises again (was 6 weeks with Jack) but then what do you do? Do you pu #2 in with #1 and hope that it doesn't wake up the older child? Do you put #2 in the study just in a cot and transfer to the shared bedroom later on?

What have you done for your kids who share? Has it worked well or been a complete disaster?

I'm sure this will be helpful to other ladies on here who are planning on having kids close together too.

And sorry if this has already been done, the search function never works for me for some reason so I couldn't look for it. TIA

I put Charlotte in her basinette in our teeny tiny office, along with all the other crap (washing, work stuff etc) till she was almost one and we could swap SS room with hers (he was hardly coing by then anyhow, can fit a small bed in office) . It was a squash, but we worked round it, she was in with us for about a month? I ws going to share my 2, but they both still wake at night, so decided not to. Will probably in the near future though, they like doing everything together, she gets into bed with him when its his bed time etc.

We moved Anastasia out of our room at about 5-6mths, have a large old style crib & she went into the 3rd b/room by herself for about a year while in cot and when we moved her to a bed we moved her in with Ashlyn and found that Ashlyn actually slept better with her in there.  Anastasia did for a while but she still sometimes wakes at night but unless something is wrong or they are sick one almost never wakes the other during the night.......different story in the morning tho!!

I'd give it a go and see what happens. In my experience it depends how many sleeps the kids have during the day and their waking-up temperament hehe. Toddlers seem to sleep through baby wakes at nights, mostly.

I've been wondering about this too, we're in a 3 bedroom and the 3rd room is tiny and has windows all along three of the walls so is freezing in winter - not suitable for anyone to sleep in. DD2 is still in a bassinette in our room and it's fine, but the way she's growing she won't fit in the bassinette for much longer and we can't fit a cot in there. I'm just hoping DD1 grows out of her 'hit the baby' phase before we have to move them in together - I'd be worried about DD2 getting attacked in the middle of the night!

ah aimeejoy, that sounds like a plan! The only thing I worry about is Jack is a really bad teether, and is only now waking at 6.30 (from 5am the last two months - although before that slept through 7-7 from 9 weeks). I guess you just have to play it by ear though.