Need advice from moms of 2 or more whose children share a room

Specifically, how did you do it? Aidan is going to have to share his room with Julian (that upsets me but is another story). Right now Julian is over 6 months and still in our room. I would like to start the transition but don't know how. I have been prepping Aidan verbally that this is going to happen and he seems ok with it.

How old were your children when you did this? How did they adjust? How long did it take? Any and all advice is greatly appreciated.

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We've done it from the start. No choice. And we have different sexes. Its totally fine my DS sleeps through everything. Don't sweat it

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Thank you for replying! I am really stressing over this. I worry that Julian (the baby) will wake up Aidan (who is 2) when and if he cries. I worry that Aidan will do the same. I also just worry about the reaction.

Your older child didn't have any negative reactions when the baby came into his room?

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I'm in the same boat as you. DD #2 is 6 months and still in my room for the same reasons. I'm scared she'll wake up my older DD. We just did CIO and now she STTN, so I'm going to give it another week or two to make sure the STTN continues then give it a try.

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My girls share a room. We kept Ainsley in our room for about 3 months and then we put them in together. Kaydyn had no problem with it at all. We had transitioned her to a toddler bed about a month before DD#2 was due. It was right before Kaydyn's 2nd birthday.

The only issue we had is that we really could not do CIO fully because Kaydyn is a lighter sleeper. She would wake up if we let Ainsley cry for too long. So this meant about 3 months of running in there 2-3 times a night to get Ainsley before she woke Kaydyn up. But now it's fine. They both sleep.

The cutest thing was yesterday morning I hear them making noise and I look in the monitor and see Ainsley standing up in the PNP. I go in there and they are "talking" to each other. Kaydyn is sitting on her bed cross legged and is talking to Ainsley and she is attempting to talk back. It was the cutest thing and makes me not worry about them sharing a room.

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Our DS (3) and DD (13 months) are sharing a room.

We originally said that DD would move into DS room (she was in our room) as soon as she started sleeping through the night. Let's just say she stayed in our room in her own crib much longer than we expected!

We moved her into DS room at about 11 months. She has always been a WONDERFUL sleeper, so there have not been any issues. DS is in a regular twin bed, so he can get up if he needs to. But he sleeps through the night as well.

Last week I found out that DS knows how to climb INTO DD crib because I found him in the crib with her one morning after they both woke up. They were just playing and laughing so much. It melted my heart!

DS has had no issues with DD moving into "his" room and I look forward to the day when DD is talking and they talk to each other!

The only thing is that it is tough to put them to bed at the same time. So waht we started doing is bringing DD up at 7:30, giving her the bottle and putting her to bed. DS will go up around 8:00 after we read books with him. Then we just quietly go in and whisper about what our dreams are going to be for that night. It's very cute!

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DD#1 is 16 months, DD#2 is 3 months. I've been stressing about this since day 1, but I finally put DD#2 in their room 2 nights ago. It was long after DD#1 went to sleep, and though they both woke up crying in the middle of the night, they woke ME up, but neither one woke the other up. Go figure.

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DS1 was 5 and DS2 was 3 when we started having them share a room, so I'm not sure my experience will be that relevant. It actually went totally smoothly, we got them excited by having them come and pick out bunk beds. They like having each other to talk to at night but they drive me crazy with waking each other up in the morning!

It will be fine, I promise.

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Posted by Jenna

I put Frankie in with Charlie and Jack when he was a day over 6 months. Neither wake one another up. I think the big boys are used to it from being together since day 1, and I guess Frankie is just used to a lot of noise


I wouldn't stress unless you need to, just give it a go and wait and see how it works out!

Re: Need advice from moms of 2 or more whose children share a room

I am having such anxiety about this as well.

We are switching DD to a toddler bed within the month and then we will have the new baby in our room till she STTN.

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Our girls are 13 months apart and have shared a room since day 1.