9 mo and toddler in one room

[dingading]

I'm planning to move my 9 month old son into my daughter's room and I'd be very grateful for any advice on this matter.

My son's been sleeping in our guest bedroom since he was 5mo, he really likes it there but as summer is coming so are the guests. So I'm being forced to move him. It was always the plan that he will be sharing room with his sister and I'm quite keen to do that just I'm not sure how to make it work. I'm worried that my 2yo daughter will disturb him as she never falls asleep straight away.

Any tips???

Thanks

[kemurf]

I've just moved our 7.5 month daughter E in with our nearly 3 year old eldest daughter P. We took the view we would trial it and it has gone better than expected. We started last week.

I held off as E has never slept through, relies on her dummy to soothe her and I was also worried that she would wake P and then we'd have to deal with 2 crying little ones.

In fact, E seems to be sleeping better, or maybe she's sleeping the same and I'm sleeping better; I don't wake up every time she grizzles, turns over etc as she is in the other room. And I'm surprised how P sleeps through E waking up - I had not expected that.

E still does wake early-ish and gets in with me and her dad, but I don't mind so much as I've had a decent sleep.

And tonight I've put them to bed together and it has worked - again!

Oh - and it's lovely to have my room back, read with the light on (I could go on with more reasons...!)

Good luck.

[oldnewromantic]

I moved a 1yo in with a 3yo and never looked back.

They are now 4 and 6 and love sharing. In fact they are chatting and playing right now, I'm off to get shouty....

[supergolden88]

oldnewromantic you are responsible for baby no2. It was meant to be a girl. Must keep trying... ** kidding!

I have a 6 month old boy and nearly 5 year old girl. I think we may have missed the boat on them sharing... By the time boy is old enough my daughter will probably not want to share her very girly toys and space. But lets wait and see.

In terms of noise etc as long as baby goes down first it should be ok but you could do some trial runs before moving the them in same room.

[Ondine]

And it's so cool when the toddler climbs into the cot to join the baby - got to let that happen!