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Better for kids to share a room or new baby in parent's room?
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Hi all-
I'm due in September w/ #2 and we live in a 2 bedroom rental. I was planning to put the new baby in the master bedroom w/ DH and I (in a crib). DS#1 isn't a great sleeper and I was thinking it would be easier to keep them in separate rooms, especially for the first 6 months until the new baby can sleep longer. What do you think? Pros or cons? Anyone do it either way who could offer some suggestions/ideas? TIA!
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Re: Better for kids to share a room or new baby in parent's room?
We had dS2 in our room for the first month, then he slept in a PNP in our guest room until 4 months when he started sleeping for four or more hours a night. The kids then shared a room up until last week when ds1 started climbing out of his crib, he's now in our guest room. There was a few times that ds1 woke ds2 up, but I don't remember it ever being the other way around. We have a sound machine which I think helped a lot.
I was really worried about them sharing, but it worked out really well. So well in fact that we plan on baby 3 due in June sharing with ds2.
We were in a similar situation, with DD1 being a terrible sleeper when her sister came along.
We kept DD2 in a bassinet in our bedroom until she outgrew it (3 months-ish), then we moved her to her sister's room. Despite DD1 being a crappy sleeper, the girls never woke each other up or anything. I guess they just learned to tune out each other's noises.
We have never had issues with the girls bothering each other. 1 has crawled into 2's bed a few times but they just slept together so it was fine.
Eleanor 9.30.13