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Posted: 19 September 2006 at 8:10am | IP Logged

The only thing I am really worried wbout when I have this baby is that when the baby is around 6 months she will be sharing a room with Adam. We have only got a 2 bedroom house so I have no other choice.

Im worried about Adam getting into the cot or chucking things in there with her. Have heard some awful horror stories so been getting myself worked up about it!

So any advice or reasurrance(!) would be very much appreciated.

Thanks xx

Posted: 19 September 2006 at 9:41am | IP Logged

My two girls share a room and it was my eldest dd's choice to do that

She has her own room but once Lily moved into a room of her own Ellis decided she would like to be with her sister

They get on great and at first I was worried about Ellis acting up and carrying on but she has been brilliant and both of them sleep well

I am sure once they adjust to the situation it'll be just fine

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Posted: 19 September 2006 at 9:57am | IP Logged

All 4 of mine (2 ds's and 2 dd's) are in one room as we still only have a 2 bedroomed house!!!
The room itself is rather large, but as you can imagine, still isnt enough room for 4 lots of children, clothes, toys etc etc in their.

They all get along suprisingly well tho considering, and they dont seem to mind too much as its rather like a big "sleep over" to them, but im sure all that will change soon as they get older.

They should be fine in their together so i wouldnt worry yourself over it!!  

x-x-x

Posted: 19 September 2006 at 12:52pm | IP Logged

My two dont share except for when we go to mils...im exhausted by the end of those visits...they do nothing but gas bag and burble for hours bless em.  We're very fortunate as the allocation of our houses goes by the amount of children and ages that they are.

you get a 2 bed house if you have no kids or just the one, a three bed if you have two kids or 3 kids and two are under the age of 5 (and same sex), a 4 bed house if you are really lucky and they are empty at the time of your move...

Posted: 19 September 2006 at 2:26pm | IP Logged

My two shared for about 6 mths, until we got round to sorting the spare bedroom out and rearranging etc. Ethan was just over 2 and Ellie was 6 mths, Ethan absolutely loved sharing with his baby sister, he never intentionally threw anything in to the cot to hurt her, some mornings I would go in to find her with half the toy box in with her but they were never left alone playing in there. 

We used to take Ellie to bed then take Ethan about half hour later but if Ellie didn't go to sleep it ment she just got hyped up again when Ethan went in, sometimes he woke her up too being noisy.  Likewise, if Ellie woke in the night crying it would wake Ethan. 

We moved them in to separate rooms as once xmas was over with we got the spare room cleared out. I'm sure that if we had kept them in together they would have soon got used to it.