Just wondering what you do?
I'm like 3 seconds pg w/ #2 but have already started wondering what we'll do. They will be exactly 2 years apart. We have a 2 bedroom TH w/ a lot of space but only 2 bedrooms. We have a loft we could utilize but it's pretty open. We know our neighbors did that for a little while, putting the crib there. Same room? Baby in w/ us for a while? H says we need to move but the market blows and the 25% equity we had 3 years ago is all but gone b/c of how far prices have dropped. I'm not willing to lose all that $$ but do know we'd make it up on the buying end.
What have you ladies done?
Re: Those w/ a 2 bedroom house and 2U2
We have a 3BR house, but like a PP there's only 2BR on the main floor. My kids have been sharing a room for nearly a year now. Works fine.
There's a million different ways to make it work. You can put them together right away, and most likely the older one will adjust within a few weeks. You can do white noise machines in the room. You can have the baby room share with you until he/she is STTN, then move him to big sis's room.
We're in a 2BR condo and expecting #3. Honestly, it's not that bad, You just make it work
Our situation was a bit different this past year or so. DH worked nights since we were married so it's never been a HUGE issue to have a baby in our room since he doesn't sleep at the same time as me or the kids. He also was on military orders to do training out of state for 4 months earlier this year and we lived with my parents during that time (also in another state) so our living situation was kind of funky. DD2 slept in a PNP next to my bed until she was 11.5 months old. We wanted to wait until she was solidly STTN to move her in with DD1 (and she was around 9 months when that happened but then DD1 started cutting a bunch of her eye teeth and had a rough time sleeping for awhile and went through a bit of a regression sleeping of her own). Transitioning them in a room together was super easy though. They love sharing now and it's gone great. DH and I had no problems with having DD2 in our room either but she was a pretty good sleeper after 9 months.
DD3 will be in our room for awhile too. No idea when we'll move her. Ideally after DD2 is in a big girl bed, we'll probably just get bunk beds and stick all 3 of them in there together. I'm a big "just do it and make it work" person so I don't really worry too much about stuff like this and it's ALWAYS worked out great for us. We're hoping to move soon but reality is the market isn't great, prices have dropped and financially it wouldn't be a smart move to sell right now. #3 was a BIG surprise for us so we'll just make it work here and hopefully get a bigger place soon!
My 2 are 15 months apart and have been sharing a room for over a year. We moved DD out of our room when she was 6 months and STTN. They have a sound machine in the room, but honestly when either of them wakes up at night, they rarely wake the other. They talk to each other when falling asleep and entertain each other when they wake up in the morning.
We do keep a pnp in our room, so if someone wakes up overnight and won't go back to sleep, they come in our room and sleep in the pnp. DD also takes her nap in there while DS is in his crib in their room.
We moved when DD was 1 year and they each could have their own room now, but we kept them together. They love sharing a room and would miss each other! However, when we move DS to his big boy bed (soon) I think we will move DD out. I don't want DS roaming around the room bothering poor DD!
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