Sharing a Room - Inver Grove Heights,MN

We put our boys in the same room when the oldest was 2.5 and the youngest was a year old. It went fine and I think that they adjusted really well. We tried to get them excited about it. We did naps first for a bit and then went to full nights. We were lucky though because both slept through the night very well since they were about 4 months old or so. Now, my boys are older (4 and 5) and love sharing a room. They are very close and sometimes it is hard to get them to bed because they are up talking and reading to each other. Good luck!

B.,

I have a 2 year old and a 4 month. We put my second in with my oldest right away. Usually one crying doesn't wake the other up. Maybe at first the oldest might have woken up a couple times, but only for a couple nights.

But other than that they sleep through eachothers fussing/waking/crying just fine. In fact the other night my oldest for some reason though he needed us to stay in the room with him. We finally had to say no more. My oldest threw a very loud screaming crying tantrum for at least 5 or 10 min and our youngest didn't flinch.

As for the light, it just depends on how sensitive your youngest is with it. I can tell you we've turned on the lights before and neigher child has been bothered.

Maybe choose a weekend and try to have them sleeping in the same room. Then you won't be so super tired if you do end up getting up a couple times.

My youngest was about 6 months old when I had them share a romo and she was getting up every few hours to feed. They have to get used to it sometime. My oldest was about 2.5 at the time. They do fine as my oldest seems to sleep though the noise. Your oldest may over time become desensitized to the noise.

I have a 23 month old and an 8 month old and they've been sharing a room since they were 20 months and 5 months. The only problem I have is at naptime. I can't put them down together because the older one just wants to play and keep his brother up to keep him company. Once one is sleeping I can put the other one down. My younger one was pretty much sleeping through the night when we moved him into his brother's room but even when he did wake up it was never a problem for his older brother. Even if one is woken up by the other it usually only takes a coule of minutes before they're back to sleep.

We put our kids together as soon as the younger was sleeping mostly through the night. It never seemed to bother the older one, and they never seemed to wake each other up, even during all out tantrums at 2am (until lately, 2 years later, but it is very purposeful now)=)

All three of my kids are in one room--- 5 yr old, 2.5 yr old (boys) and my 8 week old daughter. She is up a couple two or three times a night and they never flinch. They don't hear her cry because they don't have to (kind of like fathers) :-)

We think it's a good idea for kids to share a room. They learn to share better. They each have their own special shelf for their stuff. When my daughter gets out of her crib we'll move her to her own room, but until then they can all share one.