2u2 and sharing a room?

Califlorida

we're thinking of putting baby in with big sis.  she's still up a couple times a night to eat, but we've all been in one room this week on vacay and big sis is not waking up when baby squeaks.

anyone have success stories or cautionary tales to share?

shelbyluvschachi

My bff does this with hers but waited until the youngest was one and STTN because the older one is a light sleeper.

umsldispatcher

right now all four of us are in one room, long story. so far its working ok, but we get the baby as soon as she makes a little peep.

Ciarrai

My girls have shared a room since we moved DD#2 out of our room about about 2-3 months.  She was still getting up at least once or twice a night to BF.  It's an adjustment, but not too bad.  The older DC learns to sleep through the younger's crying pretty quickly (like within a few nights).  The younger you start them sharing a room, the easier it is.  My girls only wake each other up if it's right after they went to bed or around when they're getting up.  Like if one wakes up at 6ish or something, the other might hear her or is crying going to sleep (though usually the other will fall asleep with the first crying). 

In fact, we even had to do CIO with them in the same room with DD#2.  We moved her out to a pnp in the guest room to let her CIO at 6 months when she wasn't STTN yet.  Every time we moved her back into her room, she'd start waking up again.  Finally, we just did CIO in there.  We told DD#1 what we were doing.  That first night, DD#1 did wake up.  We heard her over the monitor going "XXX, stop crying."  "Mommy, XXX is crying."  "XXX, I'm trying to sleep."  "Daddy, come get XXX."  After that, she didn't wake up at all and DD#2 was STTN in her own bed within another day or two.  Cutest part is they are still best friends.  DD#2's first word was her sister's name.  They adore each other, play great together and yes, still try to kill each other on a daily basis. 

The key to having kids share a room is to let them figure some stuff out on their own.  They had to learn to sleep through each other's "night noises".  They went through the phase where it took them forever to go to sleep because they were talking/playing together.  Really the best thing you can do, is just do it