Two siblings sharing a room...advice?

Hey there,
My hubby and I have just put in an application on a wonderful house with a fantastic yard for kids including a cubby house and plenty of room to run around. The only drawback is that it is 3 bedroom. I am pregnant with my 3rd little man and he will probably need his own room by about 6 months. So....we are considering getting the boys a bunk bed and having them in the same room. I was just wondering what everyone elses experiences are on having two kids in the same room. I am stressed if one wakes, the other will wake and we will be having a party at 2am! :wall: Bailey will be 4 and Sam will be 2.5yrs, so assume it should be ok?? Lots of kids share rooms dont they?? :rolleyes:

Kameron and Lachlan were sharing a room from when Lachlan turned 2. Kameron was 4.5yrs as well. Both of them are pretty solid sleepers and if 1 does wake, 90 percent of the time the other usually remains sound asleep.

The only major issue is when we have had one sick in bed or something, so then the other wakes up with all the commotion of changing bed sheets and what not.

Kameron had bunk beds, but they were the sort that you can split into two. So we have 2 single beds in there at the moment. When they are older we will make them bunks again.

love

Paul and Cassie have shared rooms on and off since she was 3 and he was 5 and they love it it's a constant fight between Barbie and Transformers but you won't have that problem!

The only time they don't like it is when they go to bed - Cassie is a chatterbox!

I'm sure your boys will have a great time :)

all 3 of my kids share a room at the moment.. We only have 3 bedrooms and one room is the toy room.. none of the boys have ever been woken in the middle of the night by each other.

The only thing we have found is them waking each other up in the morning but thankfully soem very firm words with our eldest have stopped it for now.
we are moving our eldest in to his own room soon and just having the 2 youngest sharing like it was previously

I shared a room with my brother when we were very little... Only because i was scared of the dark when i was small, so mum and dad moved us into one room and we both had racing car beds! My brother and i are only 10 months apart... i remember i used to keep talking to him when it was bed time until he would tell me a story or give me a hair massage! ROFL

I don't remember there being any problems, my parents just moved us back into seperate rooms after a few years.. My brother and I are really close and always have been so maybe sharing rooms contributed?

Isobel is nearly 5 and William is 3 & they have shared for a year now. Absolutely no trouble, & when the twins are older we will put the 2 girls in one room, and the boys in the other.

Bunk beds are not recommended until the oldest child is 6 or 8 (can't remember), but we had no trouble fitting in 2 single beds into their room.

This will be us in a few months.....DD#1 (3.5) and DD#2 (16 months) will be moving into a shared room when bubs #3 arrives.
We are going for toddler beds. I have read bunk beds are not safe, i dont trust DD#1 either....
I think we will put DD#2 to bed around 630pm....and then DD#1 around 715pm......
i think the morning will be a different story though - once one wakes up, they will wake the other, but not much i can do bout that.

I recommend buying bunk beds now though. We had ours as single beds for the first few years and it was great to use the top one (on the floor) as Cassies first bed as it had the railing bit up so she couldn't fall out.