kids sharing a room

[Olive]

just wondering how parents and kids cope with siblings sharing a room??
if we have a third child, our DD's will have to share, they would be around 2.5 yrs and 4, just wondering how sleep goes say if one is sick etc
do they keep each other up
what happens with bed times etc...

[bearymum]

My ds1 and ds2 share a room and there is 2 yrs between them, they have shared a room for most of their life. I have never had a problem with either one waking up the other.
hope that helps

[Visitor8]

after having Jaidan and Chase sharing a room, now they are in seperate rooms and Chase is in with Ashton and OMG I wouldn't go back. They had just started to muck around, keep eachother up, etc and now they go straight to sleep, Ash doesn't wake Chase up, and they have their own space to escape from one and other.

[lauren22]

I grew up sharing a room with my sister who was 4 years older from birth to 12 years
and it was great
she was a heavy sleeper but yeah no issues here

[Liz]

My 2 share a room. Kayla is in with us still a lot at night, but her waking etc in their room doesn't disturb DS. Perhaps us all co-sleeping in the beginning sorted that for us LOL. For the first few nights DS woke when the baby woke, but he soon learnt to sleep through it.. he was between us while the baby was in an adjoining bassinet.

If we have a 3rd, and don't move to a 4 br house, then we'll be having 3 in a room LOL. Interesting times ahead! Either that or we don't have an office anymore.. we'll work it out when the time comes.. but for close to 2 years the baby would be primarily in with us anyway.. so we've got a few years up our sleeve yet

[Phteven]

Our 2 share a room. They both go to bed at the same time so no dramas there. They don't usually wake each other in the night but as soon as one realises that the other is awake in the morning it's all on. On the mornings they are in seperate rooms they let us sleep in for longer.
My only concern is that Imran doesn't seem to feel much ownership of the room - he always calls it Yasin's room. I would feel more comfortable if I thought that he felt it was more *his* space.

[~Saram~]

My 6yo DS and 2yr old DD share a room (as we only have one aircon in summer) and they love it. Never had a problme with one keeping the other up when they are sick - sometimes if DS has a bad cough, DD might stir a bit in her sleep but otherwise it is fine. We have a night light so I can deal with one without waking the other if there is a problem at night and generally they keep each other company. It probably does take longer to get them to sleep at first as they talk to each other etc but as I sit in with them until they go to sleep I feel it is fairer this way as otherwise I would be patting DD and DS would be alone IYKWIM.

[Bumperstump Cummerbund]

I grew up with 3 sisters, so we were always sharing with at least one. Eventually we all ended up sleeping in one room, and having the next room as a kind of huge walkin robe!

I don't remember having any trouble with sickness - we definitely got sick, I just don't remember there being a problem. In fact it turned out to be really good, as one of my sisters has juvenile diabetes, and we would all wake up when she had a low BSL, which meant we could go get Mum and Dad straight away. If she hadn't said anything about feeling sick or lo before we went to bed, then by the time she woke us she would be having a seizure, and Mum and Dad just wouldn't have known if we didn't share rooms.

At one time I had a seizure as well - due to accidental Benadryl overdose! - and it woke my sisters up. I didn't even know about it til I woke up and my whole family was standing around my bunk bed!