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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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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

@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.

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