Hellobee Boards Topic: Two young toddlers in the same room?

Hellobee Boards Topic: Two young toddlers in the same room? https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 24 May 2026 15:22:30 +0000 Mrs. High Heels on "Two young toddlers in the same room?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/two-young-toddlers-in-the-same-room#post-1626600 Sat, 10 May 2014 15:43:17 +0000 Mrs. High Heels 1626600@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @NaturallyCathy: I think we started room sharing the day after you (bc I remember your IG pic), and it's been going really well for us too! We also turned one of the rooms into a playroom/reading nook for now and we spend our time after dinner and baths in there. I love it and the kids love it! It's not a playroom for long though bc my SIL is moving in in July so we will have to figure out something else out, but the shared room thing has gone amazingly well for us. Mrs. Polish on "Two young toddlers in the same room?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/two-young-toddlers-in-the-same-room#post-1626345 Sat, 10 May 2014 10:54:31 +0000 Mrs. Polish 1626345@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @NaturallyCathy: i wish I had seen this thread sooner, but I just saw it now.I have my los room sharing and they do really well. Naps arw a challenge, but other than that it is great. Feel free to wall me if you want to talk about it. :) I am glad it js going well! Mrs. Grizzly Bear on "Two young toddlers in the same room?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/two-young-toddlers-in-the-same-room#post-1626294 Sat, 10 May 2014 10:13:38 +0000 Mrs. Grizzly Bear 1626294@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Welp, it's been a week and both kids are still in the same room! I didn't mention the move on here before because I was pretty sure that despite how much work it was to move them into the same room together. But from the beginning.... Last Saturday we dropped this kids off at my in-laws so that we could get some work done around the house. While it wasn't on our list for certain I was really pushing for the kids to be in the same room sooner than later. Hubs gave in and I began the move. I took everything out of R's room, put the foam tiles and all the toys from P's room into R's room, then all of R's stuff into P's room. This may not seem like much but I had to take apart her crib, move her chest of drawers, rework P's closet to accommodate everything, and got rid of the changing table. So now we have a play room - which has foam tiles all over the floor, a pack n play for timeouts or for when naps aren't working, a bookshelf that holds almost all of our toys, and my desk. This actually makes things a lot easier because now I can have access to my desk at all times which means more projects are getting done :) Like sewing, painting, the likes. It's nice to be able to spread out again. Now P's room houses his twin sized bed with toddler rails, a bookshelf, R's crib, her chest of drawers, a beanbag for stories, a foam mat for the floor and a play rug. We swapped P's old curtains with some blackout curtains from R's room so that it would be a little darker in there but have kept everything else pretty much the same. I think it's working out really well. We still have a little trouble getting the kids to bed but its a work in progress. The kids and I have been sick all week so we're hoping it'll be easier this next week. We usually put R down first, wait ten or fifteen minutes of quietly playing with P, then put him down. I may have to pick R back up from her crib and sway with her for a minute or two, then put her back down but so far so good. Naps are touch and go. Since the kids have been sick all week, they've been tag teaming. R will go down, then while she's still asleep, P goes down. When she wakes up P is still dead to the world so I pick her up and we go play. Then by the time P wakes up it's almost time for R to go down again. She's been a very sleepy babe this week. I'm hoping they'll get back on their tandem nap schedule again and bedtime gets a little easier but so far so good! Hope this helps others! :) Any questions I'm happy to answer and hope to post pictures soon. Mrs. High Heels on "Two young toddlers in the same room?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/two-young-toddlers-in-the-same-room#post-1577730 Fri, 18 Apr 2014 14:41:06 +0000 Mrs. High Heels 1577730@https://boards.hellobee.com/ you're in my head too! following because we're going to put my two toddlers in the same room in a few months. i wrote a bit about this, and people shared some of their strategies in the comments - <a href="http://www.hellobee.com/2014/03/27/room-sharing-unisex-toddler-room-inspiration/" rel="nofollow">http://www.hellobee.com/2014/03/27/room-sharing-unisex-toddler-room-inspiration/</a> i'm actually pretty excited about this. Baby Boy Mom on "Two young toddlers in the same room?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/two-young-toddlers-in-the-same-room#post-1577602 Fri, 18 Apr 2014 13:49:22 +0000 Baby Boy Mom 1577602@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We are doing this, but not because I want to, just because we only have 2 bedrooms. Our routine goes like this- bathe little one, then DH bathes older one while I nurse little one to sleep (if he's not home I do some screen time), I put baby to bed then start bedtime routine with older one. When he's ready for bed I have two options: sneak into their room and put him to bed hoping baby doesn't wake up, or let him go to sleep in our bedroom and then transfer him in later in the night, again hoping we don't wake the baby. I would say about 50% of the time baby wakes up anyway and then I have to nurse him back to sleep. Basically it's a crapshoot. For naps, my older one naps in our bedroom. Smurfette on "Two young toddlers in the same room?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/two-young-toddlers-in-the-same-room#post-1577558 Fri, 18 Apr 2014 13:33:10 +0000 Smurfette 1577558@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I think you never know till you try it. I would try it now and after a week or two it doesn't seem to be working then move DD back into the office. Then try again once you are all upstairs. Mrs. Grizzly Bear on "Two young toddlers in the same room?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/two-young-toddlers-in-the-same-room#post-1577552 Fri, 18 Apr 2014 13:29:27 +0000 Mrs. Grizzly Bear 1577552@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @blackbird: See, you need to be in my head more often ;) :) I'm the Debbie Downer of most situations. That's a good attitude! blackbird on "Two young toddlers in the same room?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/two-young-toddlers-in-the-same-room#post-1577549 Fri, 18 Apr 2014 13:28:24 +0000 blackbird 1577549@https://boards.hellobee.com/ you know, when one sleeps, the other may sleep! instead of the negative feeding onto them, maybe all the positive stuff will :) Mrs. Grizzly Bear on "Two young toddlers in the same room?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/two-young-toddlers-in-the-same-room#post-1577547 Fri, 18 Apr 2014 13:27:25 +0000 Mrs. Grizzly Bear 1577547@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @blackbird: I hope you're right. It's really sweet to watch the little guy run into her room in the morning once she's woken and they seem to be going down and waking up at nearly the same time. So hopefully everything will be okay? And they've started napping at the same time although DS still fights naps some days... I'm just worried how this might crunch into their sleep. I don't need two cranky toddlers for weeks and weeks while they try and work it out. blackbird on "Two young toddlers in the same room?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/two-young-toddlers-in-the-same-room#post-1577536 Fri, 18 Apr 2014 13:23:57 +0000 blackbird 1577536@https://boards.hellobee.com/ haha, i swear you're in my head. DH and I were just talking about how it seemed "easier" to have E and another baby (once it's STTN) share a room and make the other room a toy room. Then we could all just hang out in one room before bed. I know it's possible. DH and his sister shared a room for many, many years. I'm sure it'll be tough at first and then the novelty will wear off Mrs. Grizzly Bear on "Two young toddlers in the same room?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/two-young-toddlers-in-the-same-room#post-1577523 Fri, 18 Apr 2014 13:17:15 +0000 Mrs. Grizzly Bear 1577523@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I'm sticking this under toddlers since both kids are now officially toddlers but feel free to move it to sleep or nursery or somewhere if you think it fits better :) I apologize in advance for the novel that you're about to read but I feel like we should have a little back story to why we're thinking of doing what we're thinking of doing. We bought our house late last February and have been in it for over a year now. There are two stories and a basement. The upper story has two bedrooms and a 3/4 bath but no air conditioning or heating. For this reason we haven't moved the bedrooms upstairs like we wanted to when we bought the house. We're hoping to remedy this this summer. Currently, we all have our own rooms. Hubs and I, followed by DS, followed by DD. DS is 2, DD is 1. DS has always had his own room. DD only got her own room starting at around 3 or 4 months. DS has been in a 'big boy bed' of some kind since he hit about 20 months because he was trying to climb out of his crib. DD is still very much in her crib and will stay there, standing, waiting for you to retrieve her. No leg lifting here. But she has started to climb into big brother's bed any chance she gets. Both kids are sleeping through the night. DS started sleeping through the night at 11 m and DD just started sleeping through the night a week and a half ago. Hubs and I have been talking about getting them to room together before we move them upstairs in the coming months. I totally agree but it's for selfish reasons. I want my office back and less of a nursery, which is its primary function at the moment. It makes filing, paying bills, etc difficult because I don't have easy access to my desk. I tried moving all of my stuff into various cubby holes so that I can access it if she's sleeping but keeping everything organized in separate places has become a nightmare. I know it's an eventuality at this point and there's no way to gauge how it'll go until we try but I'm nervous. How do you put two children down in the same room? Especially when they're both so young? After all, for the past year and a half (because I was pregnant and putting DS to bed was uncomfortable for me) Hubs has been putting DS to bed. They have a routine. DD and I don't really have a routine. Both kids toss and turn before settling down to sleep. Sometimes they're both out quick, sometimes DD talks in her crib for twenty minutes before falling asleep. What if DS gets up to check on her and they stay up all night? I figure I'll have to put her down first, then him, but I'm quietly dreading this transition. Anyone have any comforting stories about their toddlers rooming together? Or a toddler and a baby? Someone tell me it's possible!