sleeping arrangements

[Tuzla]

Bobby is in a crib. He will be about 18 months when the new one comes along.

When you have a baby and a toddler, is it wise to let them share the same room, or do they keep waking each other up?

[Monica]

My kids shared a room.  I kept the babies in our room until they were about 3 months old, and then moved the baby to share a room with their sibling.

[ronin]

We're going to find out how that works next week Tuz.    Our original plan was to keep the baby with us until he started sleeping through the night, but then other things have come up over the last....year and a half or so    so we just never moved them in together.

Sunday or Monday.  I'll let you know how transitioning a 2 year old and 4 year old into the same room goes. 

Should be fun. 

[faemum]

i ended up keeping Trinity in our room in cot until she was nearly a year old . Rohan reacted surprisingly well to having her move into his room , even with him in a big boy bed.
Before i moved her into his room we only really used his room for storage and sleeping . We got a big shared kiddy wardrobe , moved out stored stuff and rearanged room to be safe for kids to play in , self dress in and access toys/ books , then moved cot in at same time.
so he was sort of "reintroduced" to the concept of bedroom from being , "the room full of boxes i sleep in" to being " hey , cool , a room for Me and Trinity" . so it was not too much like an invasion of His space" .
It was also done on a day that we had to go out that night , so the kids got home too tired to notice much that first night .
Surprisingly they do not wake each other much .

[forrest]

whatever you do, let the kiddos figure it out on their own...when we put the boys together, they would both come into our room so I decided to set up an air bed in their room for me.  It only worked for two weeks and backfired after that - just wasted many hours.

[TypeA]

That was my plan with #2 and #3.  They were 18 mo. apart, and I must have been smoking crack.  Turns out, the baby was not a good sleeper for a while, and I was not going to walk to the farthest corner of our house every hour at night.  I never even tried.  He slept with us and we gradually moved him farther away every month.  (Next to our bed, the foot of our bed, the attached office. . and finally his own room at 7 months.)

We put our 2 year old and the 5 year old together and the baby in his own room eventually.  Worked great. One reason it worked well is because the 2 year old was already great at going to bed and sleeping well. The weird thing is that even screaming rarely woke up the other sibling. 

I know I didn't exactly address your question, I just shared our experience.
 
*edited to add- crap.  I just read your other post.  I'm so sorry.

[Tuzla]

No wortries; no need to self-edit.

I think tht next time I'll sleep on the couch with the baby in the table-top sleeper. We can move them in together when the baby is sleeping through the night (almost).

We'll move the baby room to the guest room and have a crib and a twin bed in there.

I really don't want to get a toddler bed (I survived fine without one). When is a good time to move from a crib to a bed?

I'm really hoping not to buy another crib.

[TypeA]

I am a fan of toddler beds only because they are much easier to change wet sheets than a real twin bed.  (I bought used ones for around $30.)  Anyway, my kids were out of their cribs around 13-15 months.  Worked out well. 

[nomorewirehangers]

Lil bit and tid bit have shared a room since tid bit was 2 weeks old...amazingly lil bit sleeps through the cries most nights. (very very rare she wakes up)

We will be moving her to a toddler bed in the next few months as she keeps attempting to climb out of her crib- her short stature (she's pretty miniture for her age) makes this dangerous as all get out and a twin bed is just too high for her to navigate safely. I imagine it's going to be a rough transition to get her to stay in it as it is for all moms, but tid bit is also a heavy sleeper so hopefully she won't mind too much when her sister is roaming the room every night.

[Kapihopela]

My kids didn't share a room till Kaleb was 1 1/2, so I've got nothing to help with on the baby sharing a room bit, but I did want to add that I put both my kids to sleep on a twin bed mattress until they were ready for the higher bed frames and I love that set up.  It gets them used to the bigger bed right off the bat, it lets me lay down with them when I feel the need, (Sarah started off in a toddler bed and I got rid of it after a month cause I loved to lay down and cuddle with her if she woke up in the middle of the night with a bad dream or something, probably about once a week or so, and my back killed me, plus we couldn't cuddle up in her bed and read stories at night in the little bed) they have a very short fall if they roll out of bed, I don't have to buy another mattress later on and they still get the sense of accomplishing a milestone when they get their big kid frame