What would you do?? Three girls under 4

[Gym knickers]

We are about 7 weeks away from having our 3rd little girl and due to move house on Friday. We are moving from a 3 bed to a much bigger house- 4 bedrooms on 2nd floor and two attic bedrooms. My two eldest girls do bicker but mostly get on well and loved sharing a bedroom this summer on holiday, they are now again sharing as we are using dd2's room for storage of boxes. My eldest has begged to share a room with her sister when we move- she says they can keep each other company in the new house.
I'm happy for them to share and have one room as a playroom for now. I don't want them using the attic rooms at all until they are older. So we would now have 2 sharing one room and baby in one room with a playroom. Baby will obviously be with us for 6m at least so that's fine but it feels silly moving to a 6 bed house and two sharing! The plan is to separate them once they are over the move and baby sisters arrival but what if they don't want to? Don't want little sister to be left out but feel that my girls have a rough time ahead with so much change and want to comfort them. Would you just give them a room each straight away or let them share??

 

[AngelUK]

We are moving to a 4 bedroom house next year but my boys will share. I guess it might be different for us as they are twins and have never been apart and get upset at being apart but I also think that sharing a room is good for them. They can have separate rooms when they are older and ask for them.

 

[Rainbow82]

I would let them share until they ask not to.

 

[Gym knickers]

Thanks girls. Do you not think it's unfair on our third little girl though? Or am I being ridiculous! What if they want to share for years and she's on her own? I keep thinking that for at least 2 years she won't be aware but dd2 isn't even 2 and got the speech and understanding to say she wants to share!

 

[AngelUK]

You could always have them all share when your new lil one is old enough and sleeps through?

 

[Eleanor ace]

We have a 5 bed, there is space for each child to have their own room but currently DS and DD1 share because they want to. We'll likely switch to the girls sharing a room and DS moving into a different room once DD2 is in a toddler bed, as DS has expressed interest in having his own room again and DD1 likes sharing and would like to have her little sister in with her. We'll play it by ear though and just go with the flow; as long as it isn't really disruptive to the children then it isn't much bother to move a couple of beds about.
I wouldn't worry about the fact that you're not using all the rooms, it's more important that you're all happy with the rooming arrangements, the extra rooms will come in handy in time

 

[d_b]

We are in a 3 bedroom house now with 3 kids so the two oldest share a room. We're planning to move next year and when I asked the kids who's going to sleep in all the rooms if we move into a 4 bedroom house my oldest said one for baby sister, one for him and brother to share, one for mommy, and one for daddy 😆. Sounds good to me!

 

[hel_5]

We have a three bedroomed house, but when it came to moving DS out of our room he ended up in with the girls cause they wanted him in there as 'he'd be lonely!' It's only been in the last 6 months or so (so they all shared one room for 3 yrs!!!) that my eldest has decided to move into the other room, but they still have lots of 'sleepovers'! Let them decide, then when they want a room on their own you have the space to do that xx

 

[george83]

Very jealous of your massive house btw!!!!

I'd probably let them share to begin with but with the intention of separating them in the future so would maybe be careful with what furniture and bedding I brought so that everything could be changed if it needed to be. We have a 3 bedroom house and ive said to ds1 a few times that when ds3 moves into a bed (and out of his cot) ds1 can choose whether he still shares with ds2 or has his own room and own bedding design etc etc but he always says he just wants to share. I'm sure they'll get to an age when they don't want to share before long - by the middle of primary school I was already jealous of my friends who had their own bedrooms

 

[c1403]

I'd let them share if you think they will sleep well and not wake each other up.
We have a small three bed and my two girls have their own rooms, but DD1 has asked for bunk beds when her sister is older. I am tempted to let them share, that way the third bedroom I can set up for family that stay over regularly so a guest room/playroom.

I would let them share for now and see how it goes when the baby gets older.

 

[SarahBear]

That's a huge house! What are you going to do with all those rooms??? Yes I would let them share. We currently live in a 3 bedroom house and only one of those rooms is used as a bedroom. So not as gigantic of a house, but same idea in that we're not using our sleep space to full capacity. One bedroom is used as a toy room and another is used by my husband. He has his computer (desktop) in there and a few shelves. Lately, I've been thinking that Violet would benefit from having her own room, but she doesn't want it and I'm not pushing the issue. Eventually the kids will each have their own room, but that doesn't mean we need to push for it now. Your kids will likely want their own space in time as well.

 

[Gym knickers]

Thanks everyone. We didn't intend to buy such a big house but got so lucky with this one as due to the nature of the extension they couldn't market it as a 6 bed although it does have 6 perfectly functioning, safe rooms. I don't know what we will do with all the space as it's so much bigger in all respects than this house. Waiting to exchange though so still really nervous it won't happen. We have decided to let them share initially as I feel that emotionally they've got loads going on. They don't seem to wake each other even though neither sleeps straight through very often but we are going to put a pull out sofa bed into one of the rooms so that if one has a cough or cold or is really unsettled our oldest can go in that. I've got them some big toys that will take up lots of space for Christmas so a playroom probably a good idea anyway. I'm so excited but nervous to move!

 

[Bevziibubble]

Wow, what a big house. Sounds amazing!

I would let them share for now