Siblings sharing room?

[Soph]

Lucie is 25 months and Ned 12 months old. Just wanting to hear from others whose children do/have shared a room and if it helps them to sleep or not?

[Astrolady]

My 2 oldest have shared a room since Lachlan was 2 years old. So approx 18mths. We have never had any trouble with them being in together. To begin with they used to talk till all hours but soon realised sleep was more important LOL. At the moment Lachlan is wanting the light on even though he has the night light, so Kameron is allowed to read in bed till Lachlan falls asleep then he gets up and turns the light off and goes to sleep himself.

If Kameron snores too loudly or throws himself into the wall it will wake Lachlan up, who then comes into our room but I just put him back to bed and he goes straight back to sleep again.

Love

[Lucy]

I attempted it with Charlie and Olivia (Olivia would have been 2, Charlie around 7 months) and it was an unmitigated disaster! I persevered for a week, then gave up! They took much much longer to drop off to sleep at night, and woke each other through the night (and I was pg with Lexie, so that was tough).

In the end, I put them back in their own rooms and when Lexie was born she roomed in with us for about 3 months, then I moved Lexie into Charlie's room. (He would have been 17 months, Lexie 3 months) and this worked really well.

Then we moved house & they got a room each.

That said, we have just been on holidays to a beach shack and all 3 of them shared a room together. It took a while for them to drop off in the evenings, but all 3 of them slept tight through in each others complany no problem..........

[Hoody]

My sister has 4yo twin girls and she has tried both ways several times....the girls are very close and would love to share a room now but they do keep eachother up and wake eachother for silly things...ie if one needs the toilet or loses a pillow she will wake the other and then my sister has to put 2 back to bed. One of them is not a brilliant sleeper and constantly would disturb the other and the result would be be 2 grumpy bums in the day from lack of sleep. However when they were younger and in cots etc it did work alot better. She hopes to put them back in one room in a year or 2 when hopefully they both sleep through alot better but for now it doesnt work for her. It wont hurt to try they might have no problems with it and suprise you. Goodluck.

[Tanya]

Emily and Violet have shared a room since Violet was less than 12 mo (can't remember exactly). They do wake each other up sometimes, but mostly they are fine They don't have too much trouble going to sleep either.
Tanya

[jaspen]

i'm looking to put my two in together in the near future so am watching this with interest

[Meluchja]

Me too. Mine are 13 months apart too. I would love for them to share a room, but just don't know if it is possible. I'm hoping if they share a room from a young age, there will be a better chance of them getting along better, later. Has anyone found this happens?

[Lucy]

I shared a room with my younger brother until I was 12......we are like two peas in a pod still.........

[Meluchja]

Great to hear Lucy.

[christy]

We put Jovie into Matilda's room when she was 9 months and Matilda 3 and a bit. Its worked really well. Jovie goes to bed before Matilda most nights & then Matilda goes to bed either out in the lounge room on a fold up bed (which we then carry Matilda to her bed) or goes into her room on her bed. We do the quiet book reading in the lounge room now instead of in Matilda's bed & when Jovie is older & they go to bed at the same time we will just read their books together.

Sometimes they wake each other up, sometimes they don't... they don't ever keep each other up though so thats good.

[katnap]

my nephews quite often spends night at my huse, and they have their own room here, with a bunk bed. Most nights i put deakon who's 2 to bed before Xavier, who's 4.5, and that works, but when they both go to bed together i find they just play... when they wont settle, i let them take a book each to bed, and they're allowed to read. I find this works better than forcing them to sleep (eg no light ) i just leave a lamp with a low wattage globe in, and i find within about 30 wins, they're alseep. And i dont have to get up every 2 mins!

Good luck, its a tedious task...

[aussienic]

My 4 yr old and 2 yr old have shared a room for over 12 months now. they are fine. We did have our other son in there for a while but he would keep them awake playing so he went back to his own room

Sometimes they muck up together but mostly they are really good. and when our 2 yr old wakes up he doesn't wake Isaac

[widdly]

i only have one child so dont have any advice there, but i can tell you that my sister and i shared a room for 15 years and loved it the whole time and are still very close, however our two younger sisters shared a room for 10 years and hated it and each other and constantly fought, so i think it just depends on the individual children.

GL i hope they enjoy sharing and sleep well together.

[Krisvee]

Hi!

I've got my 2 boys sharing a room! They are 2 and nearly 6 months! They've been sharing for the last 2-3 months!
It's been hard at times but mostly they sleep really well. Louis doesn't even wake up to Dylan crying all through the night. I used to stagger they're sleeping but I've actually found lately they go to bed much better when I put them in together!
Ideally they'd have a room each but we only have a 2 br unit so don't have a choice! I'm certain they're going to be good buddies though - they already love each other sooo much!

[New Dawn]

I am one of 7 children and grew up sharing a room with one of my sisters and out of all my siblings I am still closer to her than the others, I love kids sharing my DS and DD shared for 2yrs and now both DD's are sharing and doing great. DS sometimes cries at night now because he said he is lonly in his room by himself and want to have his baby sister in his room, but as his room isn't big enough he will have to wait untill we move again by which time he will be 8 or 9 so I dont think he will want to share then.

[Mum0809]

I think it depends on the individual children. With some its a nightmare and others its great. My DSD's share a room. We put Little Miss 4 to bed first and then we put her sister to bed when she is asleep, otherwise they play up and don't sleep. I shared with my sisters and it was great.

[Antheia]

This is interesting because i want Lily and Charlie to start sharing a room just before #3 comes along. Lily will be 3.5 and Charlie 1.5, so hopfully it will work out!