Sharing a room

[marscapone]

We have a 2 bedroom house and my youngest son is still in our room (he's 14 months). We always thought he would go in with his older brother (4 and a half) but he's never been a great sleeper. But recently he's started to sleep through the night so we're starting to think about putting them in together - finally!

But there's a few issues. Number 2 wakes up at 6am whereas number 1 wakes up about 7ish.

Also, they have a slightly different bedtime routine. They have a bath together but no2 gets out first and gets dressed first and then has some milk; then no1 gets out and they have a baby story together and then i take no2 to bed which usually invloves sitting in my bed in the dark and breastfeeding him - and he often falls asleep in the process (i know i shouldn't...). then no1 goes to bed and has another story.

How do other people manage having 2 children in the same room? what age did you do it? do they disturb each other? Do they wake each other up? How do you manage the bedtime routine? Perhaps I should wait until no2 is older - i don't mind him being in our room but he'll have to move at some time

[melbourne groover]

I put mine in together at around the same age. No 2 not a great sleeper but No.1 sleeps through most of it. Their morning and evening routine has synced up now and did so quite quickly although there was a period where one woke the other up. My daughter is good at sneaking out though if her little brother is still asleep, sadly this does not work brilliantly the other way as he just shouts, but mostly it is fine. They really like sharing though and both are sleeping better. I give the little one a beaker in the dark sitting on my daughters bed. She quite likes this, we do separate stories though so I can do some reading with my daughter and a more grown up book and then the little one gets to do baby stories in peace also. If it is just me putting them to bed then stories are together but slightly less focused...