https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:13:35 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-have-two-kids-in-the-same-bedroom#post-2079835 Sat, 21 Feb 2015 16:02:18 +0000 blackbird 2079835@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Interesting, I was definitely thinking we would wait a year! Let the kids share a room in the start of a spring season so we didn't add winter sicknesses to the list </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-have-two-kids-in-the-same-bedroom#post-2079734 Sat, 21 Feb 2015 13:28:31 +0000 beachbee 2079734@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@shortcake: @lemong: thanks for replying! We decided to just go for it and are moving DD2's crib in DD1's room today. I'm sure it will be a rough couple of weeks, but I'm hoping for the best!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-have-two-kids-in-the-same-bedroom#post-2079379 Sat, 21 Feb 2015 01:01:48 +0000 lemong 2079379@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@beachbee - I agree with @shortcake - you've just got to do it. LO2 isn't sleeping through the night and we moved him in with LO1. I'd prefer if they had their own rooms until LO2 started STTN, but we're in a 2BR. LO2 was sleeping with us, but then we couldn't do any work after he went to bed because the computer is in our bedroom. And it was clear that our coming in and going was bothering him. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-have-two-kids-in-the-same-bedroom#post-2079319 Fri, 20 Feb 2015 23:10:58 +0000 2littlepumpkins 2079319@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I just appreciate this thread so much. We are debating whether to stretch for a 3 bedroom or stick with a 2 bedroom. (Expensive area, single income basically.) I've been feeling like we "need" the 3rd bedroom but this gives me hope. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-have-two-kids-in-the-same-bedroom#post-2079306 Fri, 20 Feb 2015 22:54:07 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 2079306@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mine are 21 months apart and share a room. I put #2 down first at 7:30 pm. Then when she's passed out I put #1 to bed at 8:30 pm. #1 wakes up every night around 2 and crawls into our bed. #2 sleeps through it and I close the door. They both sleep until 7 am. Ever so occasionally one will wake the other, but that's the exception rather than the rule. They love sharing a room and feel less lonely because they have each other :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-have-two-kids-in-the-same-bedroom#post-2079240 Fri, 20 Feb 2015 21:39:34 +0000 shortcake 2079240@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@beachbee: they will never be ready. You just have to do it. They need to get used to each other and the noise at night. Everyone I know with twins or with kids already sharing says to do it as early as possible. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-have-two-kids-in-the-same-bedroom#post-2078636 Fri, 20 Feb 2015 14:08:22 +0000 beachbee 2078636@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Did anyone's LO's not STTN prior to room sharing? DD1 is 28 months and DD2 is 8 months. Neither are STTN and DH and I are at our wits end, running back and forth between rooms all night trying to keep them from waking each other. We want them to room share, but at this rate it's not looking like they will ever be ready. :( did anyone encounter this? Would it be crazy to just bite the bullet and move DD2 in now? Not sure it could get any worse... :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-have-two-kids-in-the-same-bedroom#post-2078579 Fri, 20 Feb 2015 13:23:26 +0000 swurlygurl 2078579@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would really love to hear more stories!!</p> <p>When we have baby #3, K will likely be somewhere around 16-20 months. L is 19 months older than K, and I will have them share a room - preferably share a bed even. Kind of nervous about that though... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-have-two-kids-in-the-same-bedroom#post-2078540 Fri, 20 Feb 2015 12:47:33 +0000 lemong 2078540@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We're going through this now, and it's worked out fairly well. We moved LO2 into the same room as LO1 when he was about 2.5 months and transitioned LO1 into a toddler bed. They've adjusted pretty well - turns out, LO2 can sleep through a toddler's 10 minute tantrum pretty well. :-) LO1 does wake up a bit sometimes when I come in to feed LO2, but she goes back to sleep pretty quickly. </p> <p>They're not on the same schedule though since LO2 goes to bed earlier, so we do LO1's bedtime routine in our room and then put her to bed in their room. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-have-two-kids-in-the-same-bedroom#post-2078442 Fri, 20 Feb 2015 11:51:36 +0000 tysonja 2078442@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>our boys are 16 months apart and they share a room now, too :). we made the transition when LO#2 began sleeping consistently 11 hrs with no wake ups. for us that was around 5 months. we just moved them in together (2 cribs at the time) and hoped for the best! it took about 1 week to get things to go smoothly, but it's been good since. they usually don't wake each other up, and it makes me happy to know they are together :) LO#1 is now in a toddler bed. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-have-two-kids-in-the-same-bedroom#post-2078380 Fri, 20 Feb 2015 11:30:31 +0000 shortcake 2078380@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Just lived through this. We live in a small 2 bedroom apartment but we have 2 floors. My girls are 26 months apart. My little one slept in our room in a RNP for 6 months. Right around 6 months, we put them in the same room and took the rail off my older daughter's crib at the same time. We made it like she was a big girl now and there was only crib in the room for the baby and she was ready for her big girl bed. It's worked out great. They just totally adjusted to each other. They occasionally wake each other up but it is short lived. The older one goes back to sleep pretty quickly if the baby wakes her up. It can take a little while longer for the baby to go back to sleep if the older one wakes her up but sometimes we bring her downstairs and put her in the travel crib. And they are now sort of on the same schedule. If the baby goes to sleep earlier, we change and read books with the older one in the other room. </p> <p>You will be surprised how easily they sort this out for themselves. I agonized over the logistics of it and it was such an easy transition in the end. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-have-two-kids-in-the-same-bedroom#post-2078292 Fri, 20 Feb 2015 10:51:34 +0000 Weagle 2078292@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Following. We have the same age gap. My 5 month old is still sleeping in our closet in a PnP. Which is actually working well. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-have-two-kids-in-the-same-bedroom#post-2078288 Fri, 20 Feb 2015 10:44:51 +0000 vinomama 2078288@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My second child is due when my first is 2.5 years old. Based on my experiences with my first, I'm assuming my second will be in a pack &amp; play for the first few weeks. After that, I'm wondering how to go about having them share a room. My 2 year old sleeps from 7:30pm to 7am, although he will sometimes wake up and quietly talk to himself between 6:30 and 7 when I go in to get him. </p> <p>Any advice? I mostly want to know if it's even possible to have them both sleep well in the same room, so that I can make alternate arrangements before the second baby arrives... </p>