Two nurseries? Can they share one?

britt1141

Hey there! I just found out last weekend that we are expecting LO #2!!! We have a guest bedroom and a nursery. Our DD will be 15 months when the baby arrives, do you think they can share the nursery or should we convert the guest room? We can always buy a blow up mattress or something like that for our visitors. Also, the nursery isn't huge so it would be a tight squeeze to get two cribs in there!

juliane2004

Personally, if you have the room, I vote for two separate rooms. You can get them to share a room, lots of people do, but if you don't HAVE to yet, I wouldn't. I'd wait until they were both STTN before moving them in together.

12bailey18

We converted our guest room to a second nursery. We have a few air mattresses and roll away beds for when family visits and it works out just fine. I have known babies to share a nursery but if you have the room, separate ones work out much better IMO. 

mcp

I've received a lot of positive feedback from people who have 2u2 sharing a room, so we're going to give it a shot.  The baby will be in our room for the first 2-3 months and then we'll try transitioning him/her into the room with DS, who will be 19 months old when the baby arrives.  If it doesn't work out, then we will consider converting the guest room for one of them.  The room they'll be sharing is a decent size so I'm not worried about that - it's more the waking each other up that has me concerned.

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mayowife

We kept our office and our children share a room. There was a bit of trial and error though.

Before #2 was born we set up her crib in #1's room. When #2 was born we had a pack n play set up in our master bedroom, but we mostly bedshared. She STTN pretty much from the beginning, so at 3.5 months we moved her to their shared room. She started waking at night and so did my son. Things started spiraling out of control and no one was getting enough sleep. When she was 6 months old we moved the crib from their room to our room. Soon after we sleep trained her and when she was consistently STTN we moved her back to their shared room. 

When DD was only 3.5 months old I wasn't willing to sleep train with any amount of CIO, so room sharing didn't work for us then. Now that she's 8+ months old things are going well, because if either child wakes we do not rush to them. They are getting use to each other.

A little tip: we created a room divider with a wardrobe on wheels with a blanket draped over it. I think it helps that they cannot see each other if they wake in the middle of the night.

WhitePicketFence

We only have a 2 bedroom house so, yes, our girls will share a room until we decide to either move to a bigger home or add an addition onto our current home. DD2 sleeps in our room for now, however. We don't plan to move her in with DD1 until she is STTN.