Two Kids/one Bedroom

Kids will make do with what they have I have 5 and one on the way they all share 2 to a room just like anything else some days are better then others. What works for us is having the basement as a play abd bedrooms are just that a place to sleep. They are comforted by their sibling sleeping in the same room with them. My kids have loft beds I built myself so they can some space under the bed for a small table or desk and each bed has a shelf for a radio and lamp and place for books this works for us. Good luck to you.
J.

I have 3 kids in one bedroom. Unfortunately, like you I have a 2 bedroom apartment. When they were little, my kids loved being in the same room. But now they are 11, time to split them up. With the housing crunch, we are stuck. We will be able to make changes later this year so the girls are not in the room with my son. For now, you should be fine.

We have all our boys in one room and all our girls in one room. I think it causes them to have a closer relationship with each other. We highly encourage close relationships in our family. Yours are so little (well, the one is, the second is only a dream at this point), it shouldn't be a problem at all. Assume that they will love each other, and foster this in them. Oh, we do a lot of apologizing and forgiving here. :)

Kids LOVE sharing a room! (At least when they are younger.... LOL.) Our 5 year old daughter and 3 year old son LOVE sleeping in the same room. They feel safer. They talk a little before bed each night. I think it's a great way for them to bond! I shared a room with my sister for 13 years. It's truly no big deal.

Keep the baby in a bassinet in your room for a few months and then put them together in a room. They will adjust just fine! In some cultures WHOLE FAMILIES live in ONE ROOM! I went on a mission trip to Mexico when I was 16 and the "house" we worked on was a 2 room house (about the size of 2 small bathrooms......) and it housed a family of 5 or 6??? maybe more! They all slept in one room and the "kitchen" was the other room. We are blessed in the US to have so many comforts!

We had 3 in a two bedroom! haha, but only for about a year after number 3 was born. I knew I'd be co-sleeping with baby and we had enough room in our room for a crib and swing so it worked out great. My daughter and son slept in the same room on a bunk bed. Bunk beds are great space savers, I was really interested in the full bottom twin top but there wasn't enough room in the bedroom so we did the twin/twin bunk. Even now in our new house, we kept the bunk beds set up in my daughters room and my son
always goes in there to sleep on the bottom bunk. The PP was right, kids feel safer sharing rooms and sleeping in the same room together.

The two that share the bunk bed now are 8 and 4 but we got the bunk bed when DD was 6 and DS was 2. No one's EVER fallen off, or even come close. Just make sure it has the safety railing across the top, (if you do the bunk bed route). I am one of 4 girls so we grew up sharing rooms, there was no other options. My mom put the two older girls together and me and my lil sis together. Throughout the years we'd switch it around and I'd share with my older sis for awhile, just to keep things fun but always went back to the original routine. I LOVED sharing a room, can't imagine ever not having one of my sisters in the room growing up.....I still miss the late night talks me and sis would have. : )

Good luck, but don't keep yourself from having another for that reason, everything will work out great!

My boys (5 & 2) have always shared a room. It's never been a big issue. I like my boys to be together and not separated. Also for safety, I only want to run to one room. In my opinion, they're too young to need privacy. A bedroom is for sleeping. Playtime is out in the open areas of the house. When they're older they'll figure out what privacy they need. If it's being alone outside, a reading nook, or anything else. So far I don't see why children need their own room just for sleeping. I guess we'll see what they say when they're older.

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I shared a room with my older sister my whole childhood - when I was 10 and more modest we put a room divided up between our beds - the folding type (see IKEA). It gave us a feeling of privacy. Before that, we loved sharing a room, but in the case that your children are different genders, I would add the room divider when the eldest hits age 6.

We built a double queen bed and the boys sleep in there and share a large dresser. We have toys organized in cubbies with fabric boxes from Lowe's in their closet and it keeps our life organized. Our daughter has her own bed in another room, but as #4 may come along here soon, we are going to move ALL of them into one room to sleep and keep the other room as a playroom. You can make it work. Our kids ar so much closer with each other and learn to share much better than many other kids.

I put my children in the same room they did fine whan theyare little they sometimes keep each other up but tthey adjust good luck raised 4 and now have 7 crandchildren A. no hills

We just had our second and also live in a 2 bed. house. I stressed about it SO much when I was pregnant but it has all turned out fine. I kept the baby in the room with me for a little while because at the time my 2.5 year old did NOT want to get out of the crib. Then I actually found a little nook in the hallway where I could put the bassinet. It was weird but it worked for us. Eventually (when baby was about 2 months) we got the 2.5 yr old into a toddler bed and I transitioned baby into the crib. I put a big tower type fan in between the toddler bed and the crib to help with some white noise to drown out each other's sounds. For the first week or two the 2 year old had a little bit of a hard time when the baby woke up, he sometimes woke up, one time yelled at the baby to "BE QUIET!" and once got out of bed. But for the most part he would just stir a little and go back to sleep. Within about 2 weeks he was pretty much immune to the baby's cries. I don't have to rush in like I did at first and the baby doesn't seem to be bothered at all by the toddler. He knows not to turn on the lights or bug the baby just to come out in the morning. We talked a lot about not ever putting anything in the crib w/ baby, etc.

I am glad we transitioned them into one room early because now I think even if we moved to a bigger house they could stay together no problem. Naps are a little trickier but they can usually nap together and if I need to I put the baby in my room. I think by the time the baby is old enough for the toddler to wake him from his nap the toddler will probably not be napping any more anyway.

So far as space, we had a decent sized room but we did build out the closet to have more storage for all the clothes, etc. We did a toddler bed instead of a twin because they take up so much less room. When the baby is old enough for a bed we'll probably get them a small bunk bed.

Its totally doable and don't let it hold you back from adding to your family! Good luck!

We went through this when my daughter was born. I kept her in our room for the first 5 months then moved her in to her brothers room in the crib. We bought a loft bed so my son (3 1/2) sleeps up top and she's underneath in her crib. It takes some adjusting for the kids but they get used to each other. It totally depends how soundly they are sleeping. Most times they don't wake each other up. My daughter is 10 months now and they do pretty well still. My son is very quiet when he comes down in the morning although she does wake up when he does for the most part.

If you need any info on loft beds you can message me directly. The one we have is very solid and sturdy.
A.

My twins share a room and always have, always will. Currently they are 6 and have bunkbeds. I also subscribe to the thought no child NEEDS his or her own room, think about other cultures and how they live. For some reason we (Americans) feel so entitled to all these luxuries.

We have not had privacy issues, when it comes up we will figure something out. But there is always a bathroom to change into if changing is an issue. Or one can wait, while the other changes in the room. They are the same sex, so I don't think it will be a problem.

When they were babies, they shared a crib for a while. That was hard, and they were constantly waking each other up. So in your situation having a baby share with an older, I would suggest keeping the baby in your room in a bassinet/co sleeper. If we had another I would have to do this too. I have a 3 year old and another baby would mean they would have to share a room. But then again, my older kids are such hard sleepers now, that I doubt they'd wake up from a screaming baby! But I have thought it thru and keeping the baby with me for a while--until it became a better sleeper would be the best option. I breastfeed, so I keep my babies in our room for a few months anyway. A little longer would really be no biggie plus my kids are terrible sleepers and addicted to night nursing so it really makes more sense to keep them right next to me to make it easier on me in the middle of the night. Good luck. And the best gift you can give your child is a sibling! I am so thankful my parents gave that gift to me!

hi L., we have 3 2 sons and a daughter, and our sons shared a room, from the time our first one was 3 and the second one was born untill our oldest moved out at 21, they had their arguments but for the most part the best of friends, they are now 26 and 13 and still the best of friends. Theren is no guarentee your second one will be the same sex as your first one.

Just moved our 4 month old daughter into her sisters room (age 3). Big sis was actually quite excited about it. It may have helped that we were watching the movie Peter Pan recently and there is a whole part about how Wendy doesn't want to leave "the nursery" and get her own room. Made it seem kinda fun to have all the siblings in one room :)
It also helps that the bedroom is big because 2 kids sure do have a lot of stuff. We have two dressers and two clothes hampers in there. Also helps that most of their toys are in another room downstairs. Obviously the younger one is in a crib so bunk beds are out for now. A loft bed saves space though because you can put a dresser or whatever under it. I saw a cute one at IKEA the other day that was only halfway up and room for toys and a small dresser underneath.

my sons share a room. they each have a loft bed. and the side that their bed is on is their side. so, it is decorated how ever they would like it on their wall. w/ their books/desk/beanbag/car track etc.... It is weird, they 2 of them have never liked each other much. they are very different. the younger one, he is 6, seems to like sharing much better than the 9 yr old does. No one wants the downstairs bedroom. so they share. the room is too small to divide in 1/2.

I'm not sure if you have 2 kids already but when my kids were old enough I put them in bunk beds. Both beds had railings so neither child fell.

If you only have 1 child and are planning on having another than I would suggest you have the newborn sleep in your room in his/her crib.

Good Luck!