https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 06 May 2026 15:43:55 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talk-to-me-about-los-sharing-a-room#post-2463122 Tue, 16 Feb 2016 12:40:20 +0000 Mrs. Yoyo 2463122@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@daniellemybelle: LO2 had a little nursery that we had originally intended to be an office for DH. So DH shared his office with the guest room with LO2 in there. We are fortunate to have 4 bedrooms (one is a playroom) + office space, so they could still be in two separate rooms. But we do so much work from home that reclaiming some dedicated office space was a priority, and we think sharing a room helps with bonding. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talk-to-me-about-los-sharing-a-room#post-2462914 Tue, 16 Feb 2016 10:30:53 +0000 daniellemybelle 2462914@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lawbee11: Yep! I think the long term plan will be eventually put LO2 in LO1's twin and to get LO1 a bigger bed that can be given to guests. So we will just have to make due for a couple years - really not even 2 full years because we can leave the guest room as is while LO2 is a newborn and in our room. So like from 6-24 months, haha.</p> <p>You think an air mattress in the baby's room is better than a pull-out couch in the playroom? What's more important - comfort or privacy?</p> <p>@T.H.O.U.: I guess we will have to see when the bed is in the room and assembled but the mattress just seems so small! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talk-to-me-about-los-sharing-a-room#post-2462886 Tue, 16 Feb 2016 10:18:50 +0000 T.H.O.U. 2462886@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@daniellemybelle: Yea thats what I was just going to suggest! Or is there a reason the guest (if its just grandma) wont sleep on a twin? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talk-to-me-about-los-sharing-a-room#post-2462869 Tue, 16 Feb 2016 10:11:01 +0000 lawbee11 2462869@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@daniellemybelle: Would the grandparents be opposed to sleeping on an air mattress while the younger LO is still in a crib? What I would do is while LO2 is still in a crib put an air mattress in that room and have the baby in a PNP in your older LO's room when you have visitors. Once your LO2 is out of a crib I'd get a bigger bed for one room and a trundle for the other. The two kids can sleep on the bed/trundle when you have visitors. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talk-to-me-about-los-sharing-a-room#post-2462864 Tue, 16 Feb 2016 10:08:51 +0000 daniellemybelle 2462864@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Y'all, it's dawning on me that what we should have done is just gotten LO a full or queen bed so we could give it to guests and just have her sleep in our room when they are visiting. :bummed: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talk-to-me-about-los-sharing-a-room#post-2462855 Tue, 16 Feb 2016 10:07:13 +0000 daniellemybelle 2462855@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Yoyo: Sounds like it is working well! Where was LO2 before he was STTN?</p> <p>@Charm54: So DD1 has a queen bed you give to a guest? The problem is that we just got a twin bed for LO so that would not be ideal for one guest and impossible for two guests.</p> <p>@lawbee11: Well, we do have guests pretty frequently. I would say 10 months out of the year we can expect a grandma to visit. And I just don't know how to work that? There is not enough room in either rooms to keep a queen size bed (that's what we have in the guest room now) plus a crib or a twin bed. I guess we could give one grandparent LO's twin bed but not a set of grandparents.</p> <p>@Modern Daisy: That's a good plan and one we are considering but I just don't like having to store the guest room furniture temporarily and do all the changing around from a guest room to a nursery, then back to a guest room, then possibly back to a kid's room again. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talk-to-me-about-los-sharing-a-room#post-2462836 Tue, 16 Feb 2016 10:00:14 +0000 Modern Daisy 2462836@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have a 3 bedroom house so our plan is to convert the guest room to a nursery and keep it that way until lo#2 is sleeping through the night. At that point we will move lo#2's crib into DS's room (there is a 3 year age gap). Hopefully this goes well, but if it doesn't, or down the line once they start asking for separate rooms we are going to move one back into the guest room on a queen bed with the understanding that they have to move out when guests come </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talk-to-me-about-los-sharing-a-room#post-2462816 Tue, 16 Feb 2016 09:46:29 +0000 lawbee11 2462816@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Why wouldn't you just have them share a room when you have guests in town but otherwise let them have their own rooms? Seems like it would be easier in the long run. Unless you have guests very frequently? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talk-to-me-about-los-sharing-a-room#post-2462813 Tue, 16 Feb 2016 09:45:23 +0000 Charm54 2462813@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Could you put them in separate rooms, and if you need the guest room have them share for that short period of time? That's our current plan...we have 4 bedrooms (currently master, dd1's room, dd2's room and a guest) But our MIL/FIl/SIL often come to visit together so we need 2 guest bedrooms for them. </p> <p>So when my ILs are here, my girls share a room for the weekend or whatever, but other than that they have their own space. Currently I put the pack n play for dd2 in dd1's room, but eventually my girls will just share dd1's queen bed when we have guests. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talk-to-me-about-los-sharing-a-room#post-2462808 Tue, 16 Feb 2016 09:43:10 +0000 Mrs. Yoyo 2462808@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We just transitioned our boys into the same room but we waited until LO2 reliably slept through the night (unfortunately not until almost age 2)! LO1 is a heavy sleeper and probably would have been OK, but the nice thing now is that we put them to bed at the same time (8) and only LO2 naps, so we don't have a conflicting sleep schedule. The only trouble we occasionally have is that LO2 will wake up earlier, 6ish, since he still naps, and wake up LO1 in the process, who could really use that extra hour of sleep in the morning.</p> <p>As for storage, we have a big MALM dresser from Ikea and it's more than enough storage for in-season clothing. But we are fortunate to have a nice big closet to stash other stuff and it's easy to access. The only other things we have in there are the two twin beds (we got low profile platform ones that don't take up too much space) and a small toy storage unit. We don't have to store too many toys in there, though, because we have a playroom. Makes it much easier. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talk-to-me-about-los-sharing-a-room#post-2462795 Tue, 16 Feb 2016 09:37:42 +0000 daniellemybelle 2462795@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So I'm thinking the biggest issue is just that the room is not that big. </p> <p>We would probably have to do LO's bed on one wall (where her crib is now), the baby's crib on the wall where her books &amp; toys are (and move those into the already packed playroom), and try to find the largest dresser we can fit in the space before the window on the third wall so they can share. (ETA: A tall armoire type piece would actually work well there. We'd just have to figure out what to do about a changing table.) The glider is in front of the window so that would still work though more squished. The fourth wall is all closet and a door to the attic. The nice thing about the attic is that we could use that more for off-season clothes and so forth and it's still very accessible. Right now we aren't really using it.</p> <p>But it seems like it would be a TIGHT fit just to keep the guest room. So the real question is how important is the guest room?!</p> <p>And I didn't even think about naps. I know it is probably a long shot to hope that LO still naps at 3.5+ but what if she does? And even if she doesn't, I know moms talk about doing daily quiet time with preschoolers (I SAH). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talk-to-me-about-los-sharing-a-room#post-2462779 Tue, 16 Feb 2016 09:30:30 +0000 daniellemybelle 2462779@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@matador84: Sounds like a good set-up! With our bedroom downstairs we would have to keep everything in one place. I'm trying to think of how we could configure the room to have one big dresser two LOs could share, plus a crib AND a twin bed.</p> <p>@ktdid23: That is so sweet how your LOs love to share a room! I definitely have visions of that myself :) And the layout and decoration sounds perfect! Our anticipated age gap if we are fortunate enough to get pregnant when we are planning is about 3.5 years. </p> <p>LO is a pretty heavy sleeper but she's never had her sleep disturbed at night, really, so I don't know how it would "hold up"!</p> <p>@T.H.O.U.: Sounds like a good set up! I think our biggest issue is the room size in our current house.</p> <p>@Rainbow Sprinkles: Glad it finally worked out! I think we would hopefully avoid some of the shenanigans with a bigger age gap and putting them to sleep one at a time.</p> <p>The twin bed with drawers underneath is so smart! We JUST bought LO's twin bed - wish I had thought about that! I think we would have to get a big dresser that they could share. Right now LO's dresser is small and pretty full.</p> <p>@Foodnerd81: I hate to pay for storage! I would rather just commit to saying we are no longer going to have a guest room and donating that bedroom furniture to make room for a nursery. It is all hand me downs anyway, so if we ever end up in a 4 bedroom, we would want to get new guest room furniture (or more likely get ourselves new bedroom furniture and move our stuff to the guest room). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talk-to-me-about-los-sharing-a-room#post-2462531 Mon, 15 Feb 2016 21:47:01 +0000 ktdid23 2462531@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My DD (5yrs) and my DS (10 months) share a room. It has worked perfectly for us. My daughter sleeps like a rock, so even when the baby gets up (usually 1x a night, but sometimes more) she rarely wakes. DS slept in our room for the first few months.. maybe 4 or so? But the bedroom they share is huge. There's room for a twin bed (DD), a crib (DS), a Hemnes 6 drawer dresser, a bookcase, and space to play. </p> <p>The kids share the Hemnes dresser - each kid gets a side. I just keep current season clothes in it. I use the top of the dresser with a changing pad for diapers. The crib and the twin bed are actually right next to each other. I keep out of season clothes and toys in the closet. The bookshelf has room for books and cube bins, which we keep small toys, etc in. </p> <p>We put up the crib in DD's room in January and DS was born in April. That left lots of time to get used to the new room layout and talk about how the baby would share the room. We changed out the pink curtains for yellow ones, hung up multi-colored star garland, and switched out some of the framed photos/artwork on the walls to make it a more "rainbow colored" space. We left my daughter's pink/purple bedding and just put a blue dust ruffle on the crib. Is it Pottery Barn Kids perfect? No. But it works for us &amp; my daughter loves it. The baby is thrilled to wake up and see his sister. My daughter loves to talk to her brother from her bed. </p> <p>We are moving in a few months and each kid will have their own room. But room sharing has worked perfectly for us and my kids are 4.5 years apart :-) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talk-to-me-about-los-sharing-a-room#post-2462457 Mon, 15 Feb 2016 19:45:49 +0000 T.H.O.U. 2462457@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We are in a 3 bed house with our third child on the way. Our bedrooms are huge. </p> <p>Ages will be 5,2,and newborn. So newborn in our room for the first six months or so and eventually transition DS to the bottom twin bunk in DDs room. Then the baby can have the nursery. </p> <p>We also have a huge patio that will be the playroom. </p> <p>Clothes we will look at a big dresser and then we have the IKEA bin storage in the closet with will be books and bins for socks undies and PJs. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talk-to-me-about-los-sharing-a-room#post-2462438 Mon, 15 Feb 2016 19:20:37 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 2462438@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My 3-year old (will be 4 in May) and 2-year old share a room. Things were really, really rough at first. Not that they would wake each other up at night, but just getting them to go to sleep. They would stay awake and talk and goof around for HOURS. For the first month, neither of them was asleep before 10:30. Sometimes even later.</p> <p>Now that it's been a while, we are in a good routine. My older daughter doesn't nap anymore, so she goes to bed first. Then once she's asleep, I put DD2 in there, and she just lays there quietly until she drifts off (she's quiet since older sister is asleep, there's no one to bug).</p> <p>They are pretty great about not waking each other up. I always thought they were such light sleepers, but they've slept through a lot (the other one coughing all night long, throwing up, having a tantrum, crying for mom, etc.).</p> <p>One is in a twin bed that has drawers underneath (which acts as her dresser), and the other one is in a crib. There is one dresser in there. I think we moved them in together when DD1 was 2 1/2 and DD2 was 22 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talk-to-me-about-los-sharing-a-room#post-2462434 Mon, 15 Feb 2016 19:18:10 +0000 Foodnerd81 2462434@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@daniellemybelle: what if you just store the bed for those few months and keep the rest the same? C's room was a guest room and we pretty much just squeezed the crib in so the bed has always been in there with her. But it's tight and definitely no room to play or for a glider or anything. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talk-to-me-about-los-sharing-a-room#post-2462431 Mon, 15 Feb 2016 19:16:06 +0000 daniellemybelle 2462431@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: DH offered the same suggestion: have the baby in our room until s/he is sleeping longer, then in the guest room turned nursery probably the first year, and then eventually sharing a room long term (possibly going straight to bunk beds). But it seems inefficient to change the guest room for a short period. It is not big enough to keep all the bedroom furniture in there plus a crib. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talk-to-me-about-los-sharing-a-room#post-2462425 Mon, 15 Feb 2016 19:08:33 +0000 Foodnerd81 2462425@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mine probably will share a room for a short time- we are in a two bedroom right now and will move at some point, but not sure when. </p> <p>Right now the baby is still in our room at 8 weeks. If I was in your situation I think I would be inclined to keep the baby in my room for the first few months, then transition to the guest room temporarily until she was sleeping through the night consistently. Then maybe put them together once they both sleep through. </p> <p>As for where we keep the baby's things- they are everywhere. Not a great solution! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talk-to-me-about-los-sharing-a-room#post-2462423 Mon, 15 Feb 2016 19:06:23 +0000 matador84 2462423@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mine share a room (ages 3 and 2). It's mostly not bad. Dd threw up the other night and didn't even wake ds up! They sleep with white noise and ds is in a twin and dd is in a crib. Ds has his own dresser and they share a closet. The rest of dd clothing is in an armoire in our room.</p> <p>Some nights dd wake up and ds will come get in our bed but rarely are we up with both or one! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talk-to-me-about-los-sharing-a-room#post-2462415 Mon, 15 Feb 2016 18:52:10 +0000 daniellemybelle 2462415@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We are currently in a 3 bedroom house. The master bedroom is downstairs and the other two bedrooms are upstairs (LO's room and currently a guest room). </p> <p>If &amp; when we have another, DH and I are discussing whether to turn it into a nursery and lose the guest room, or to have LO2 sleep in our room for a while and then have the LOs share a room. I doubt I will want to be going up and down the stairs to feed a newborn and if I have a RCS I will not able to do the stairs for the first weeks anyway.</p> <p>If your LOs share a room, when did the second LO move in? How did you change the room? Do they also share a dresser &amp; a closet? Was sleep disrupted for either child? </p>