Sharing rooms??

MrsEllis10

My LO's will be pretty much exactly a year apart. DH and I have gone over scenarios and we can't decide what to do. 

Right now this is what we are at...

Share a room, but set up the crib in our room until we can get sleeping patterns down. Of course I know this could last a while.

I really hate to give up our guest bedroom and decorate another room if in a year or so they will be sharing a room anyways. We plan on having more LO's later on. Of course I will give up the guest room if I have to, but I am looking for opinions of moms that have maybe have had this situation.

Did you start off sharing rooms and it didn't work out? Or did it? 

jordanebeaulieu

Ours have been sharing a room for over a month. I love it. The baby was in our room for the first couple of months until she was sleeping through the night. Now, even when one wakes up the other one almost always sleeps through it. I think our oldest likes the company too. We have 2 spare bedrooms and I like having the space because all of our family is from out of town. I would try it out and if it doesn't work you it wouldn't be that hard to move one baby into your guest room.

sosoph

My plan is to have them share a room once the baby sttn. DH cannot sleep in the same room as the baby. So I am either going to put the crib in the guest room temporarily (I'd rather not) or get the arm's reach co-sleeper and keep that in the guest room (even though I'd rather not spend the extra money). We are telling people our guest room is not available until the baby sttn (this really just has to do with my sanity).

kagl08

I wouldn't be able to have my baby sleep in the same room as me! Also, my kids don't share a room, so I have no advice but...

1. Can you just stick a crib in the guest room so it's still a "guest room" but houses your baby when you don't have guests?

2. Can you just do the guest room in a neutral theme since you plan to have more kids anyway. 

I don't see the point of having an extra room if you are only going to use it for guests. You can have your older 2 share a room when you have a 3rd. 

That's just my two cents. 

MrsEllis10

Well, a problem I failed to mention is that the "guest room" is our junk room. lol. It has my bedroom set in it from before DH and I were together, but has all kinds of stuff that we should get rid of but can't part with. We do have an attic, but its for access only, not storage. My parents have offered to take the bedroom set at their house once they finish the remodel, but that won't be done for a while.

A baby in the room doesn't really bother me, at least with DD1 it didn't. Thanks for your advice, ladies. I guess I will just keep driving myself crazy going back and forth.

About decorating, I am one of those people that no matter how hard I try, I can not do anything half way. I've tried. It's the planner/organizer in me.

DustiRoseNY

We kept DD2 in our room in the bassinet until she outgrew it.  Since then they have shared a room.  It can be a little hectic at bed time, but they hardly ever disturb each other during the night.  It has worked out great for us.

celiabwatson

We wanted to keep our guest room for as long as possible because all of our family is from out of town and as our son gets older it seems like they're more interested in coming to visit us. Here's what we did:

-Before baby was born we assembled the toddler bed but left the crib set up in the room. My son slept in the toddler bed for naps at first and then all the time. He has since forgotten that the crib was his. It's been 6+ months now. He loves his bed. We left the crib in there the whole time because it's a pain to disassemble but doesn't fit out the door assembled. 

-When baby came she slept in a moses basket on our bed. We have a king and tend to each sleep on our own side anyway. There was room for the moses basket in the middle. With my son we had used a bassinet but we'd since rearranged our furniture and the bassinet didn't fit on my side of the room and we didn't want to rearrange again.

-Baby #2 was an excellent sleeper from the beginning and STTN early on (2.5 weeks). Once we realized this we transitioned her to the bassinet in the guest room just to be sure that she would continue STTN out of our room. Also, we weren't mentally prepared to put them together so soon.

-Currently both kids share a room at night and do fine. They don't wake each other up hardly at all. I do stagger bedtimes by quite a bit so that baby is sound asleep before I try to put my son to bed.

-The little one still naps in the bassinet pretty regularly. It's easier because my son sometimes forgets she's sleeping and will go in his room to get something and be loud, so it's easier if she's in another room. I figure as they both get older we can transition to all naps in the crib as well.

I didn't decorate the guest room or anything, just stuck the bassinet in there on a whim. It's been working fine since we know it's temporary.

Read the above post about sharing to find out what our long term plans are. 

kcisthebombdotcom

We had no issues with the kids sharing a room. To put our kids in separate bedrooms means moving one of them to a different floor of our house and that was not something I wanted to do with an infant/1 year old (or even now). It's always worked fine. They dont wake each other up.

Daisy22

We gave up hte guest room even through we knew the boys would end up together. I don't like the baby being in our room b/c I can't sleep at all. DS2 has had his own room and we plan on moving the boys together this weekend so we can get the nursery ready for #3.