Children Sharing a Room

My kids will have to share a room, too, once my son (now 3 months) sleeps through the night reliably. My sister and I shared a room once I slept through the night (my sister was 10 years older than me, so not always appreciated). Just think about all the years people lived in small houses with lots of kids; everyone had to share. And sharing is good, anyway. It could give them (well, the older one at least) a healthy understanding of how families share. Good luck!!

You can have them share a room anytime you want to do it. I shared a room with my baby brothers and it wasn't temporary when I was that age. My granddaughter has shared a room with her baby brother from the time he was born and still shares a room with him. Sharing a room is a fact of life for many children.

Good that it'll be temporary. I believe that once babies start school they need their own space whenever possible. It's just not always possible.

Absolutely have them share a room for now :)

Sharing is good for kids.

When I was pregnant with #3, we moved our 2 year old daughter in with her sister, who was then 11 months. It worked fine. The only thing was that we ended up having the older daughter stay in a crib a little longer since we tried a toddler bed and she would go over and bother the younger one. They still would chit-chat/wake each other up a bit, but it was fine. Now that we moved, we still have them together and the older one is in a big-girl-bed. We have just trained her to stay on her bed and not bother the younger one. I do nap them separately though, since I know the younger one really needs a longer nap. Good luck!

My almost three year old daughter and 11 month old son share a room. They have since he was six months old. He still gets up throughout the night (the number of times varies) but he does not wake her up. Most of their toys are in the living room so the napping issue does not affect us. He still takes 3 naps a day and she does not nap on weekends so when it's naptime, I take him in there and shut the door while he's asleep. It works well for them. They will continue to share until we add on or move which won't be for at least three years!

First of all, how do the two get along? Some toddlers are jealous of younger siblings, and in that case, it might not be a good idea to pair the two of them up. But if your toddler gets along with the baby, seems to be protective rather than jealous, then I'd say it would be okay for them to pair up. In fact, it would probably be better for the two of them to be in a room than for the baby to bunk with you and your husband.

Glad to see other Mom's are considering this too... I would love to have my boys share a room (almost 1.5 and almost 3 yo) the only problem is nap times are different. As soon as my little guy drops his second nap they will share. My older son feels more secure if someone is in the room with him when he is trying to fall asleep. My H. is that I can create bedtime at the same time for both and put them down at the same time and they will both sleep better. Somehow they manage to nap at preschool in a room with 6 other kids so I don't think sharing at home should cause any problems!
Let us know how it goes!!! I would love to hear any lessons-learned from you.

My kids shared a room when they were about those ages and they still share a room. As the other commenters said, I think it's good for kids to share (my two are both boys, so they share not only a room but all the same toys). The only problem I had was that my younger son would tend to take 2 naps a day while my older son still took one, so they "tag-teamed" me with naps most of the time. Although he wasn't quite ready for it, I more or less had to force my younger son to give up his two shorter naps and move to taking one long nap so that both kids would be napping at the same time. Otherwise, I would spend something like nearly 6 hours of every day trying to keep one child quiet while the other one slept (in their shared room which had most of the toys, naturally), and I got almost nothing done every day and was quite frazzled.

Oh, and my younger son was not sleeping through the night at the time, but he rarely woke up my older son. I guess he just learned to sleep through it, or was so heavy a sleeper that it didn't disturb him.

Absolutely they can share a bdrm. If one child was a teenager I would say maybe not but both babies practically would be fine. They won't care and honestly they may like it. If they both sleep through the night it would be easy for you too. You didn't say if they are male or female but either way there are so many ways to decorate cute for mixed genders. You need to get the baby out of your room before they are used to it and never want their own room. Put the 8 mo down to bed first. If you get them down on the schedule going at the same time one or the other will not be able to go to bed alone. Even if you only put them down 15-30 mins apart. When basement is finished though, will you feel comfortable having a child down there that far away? Whether safety, fire, etc I am not sure I would feel safe but I don't know the layout of your house. Just in case you do feel that way, just be comfortable with having them share a room. Many children do it, I shared with my sister when she was first born for 2 yrs. and I was 8.