I co slept as a preteen with my two younger (2 & 4 yrs younger than me) sisters, sideways in a double bed (it may have been a queen bed) Can't remember how old I was (i know i was older than 7) or how old the youngest sister was. I have a vague idea it was done as my parents couldn't afford single beds for us at the time and my brothers. We just accepted that it was bedtime & went to sleep. I have vague memories if the occasional disagreement as to who was sleep in the middle and who had which end but nothing else stands out as unusual from that time.
Our two sleep in the same room, separate beds. DS2 goes to bed at 7pm and DS1 goes to bed at 8pm. When DS1 goes to bed DS2 is asleep. Only time we have problems is if DS1 is playing up, then he goes into the spare bed until he's asleep.
My sister and I shared a double bed up until my parents bought their first home which had 3 bedrooms so we got our own rooms. I was 9 and she was 12.5 when we shared there were no issues as they staggard our bedtimes by 30mins so I was always asleep by the time she came to bed.
We have a family bedroom, but my two older kids sleep in a double bed together. I put them all to bed at the same time, and I stay in the room with them until they're asleep, so there are no shenanigans!
They don't really wake each other or bother each other. DS1 was sick and vomiting over the weekend, and even that didn't wake DD. I think they just get used to being together. DD has woken a few times, accusing DS1 of sleeping on her side of the bed and snuggling with her, but it's usually her encroaching on him and sleeping on him, lol! That has only happened a few times when they first starter co sleeping though, now they're used to being together.
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when we shared there were no issues as they staggard our bedtimes by 30mins so I was always asleep by the time she came to bed.
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