Whaddya say??

[JabbaJawz]

Okay, I need some advice - or at least thoughts/comments on my situation. Especially from those of you who've had Pigs close in age:

Pig #3 arrives in March, and is the same gender as Pigs #1 and #2. Pig #1 is well older, and will be 6 1/2 when Pig #3 arrives - she has her own room and it'll stay that way. Pigs #2 and #3 will be 22 mos. apart, and while we have enough bedrooms for each Pig to have their own room, I'm wondering if it wouldn't make sense to keep #2 and #3 together for a while?? :shrug: The nursery furniture that we have is passed down from Pig #1 and is a nice set - changing table, crib, etc... - plenty of space for the clothes for 2 Pigs. The room is already 'nursery-fied,' so there wouldn't be a whole lot to do. We could, of course, go ahead and move the nursery to Pig #3's seperate room and upgrade Pig #2's room to a more toddler'y theme with a new bed and dresser or something.

Anywayyyyy...I'm not saying they'd need to share rooms forever, but with them being close in age and still both little, is it a bad idea to do it for a year or 2? Or should I just start them seperate from the start? The main concern for me is a wailing Pig #3 waking up a sleeping 2-year old. Pig #3 might sleep like a champ, but you never can tell. I want to make a decision in the next couple of mos. so things will be all set one way or the other. If they share I'll just need to get a bed for Pig #2 and rearrange. If they don't share, I have a bit more work to do with buying more furniture and decorating another room. No big deal either way, I'm just unsure on what would be the best option.

 

[morganj614]

I agree that Piggy #1 should have her own room.
Why not start Piggy #3 in a nursery at least until she sleeps better? Piggy #2 will be older then and I think sharing a room would be fun for them.
Since Piggy #2 will be older by the time Piggy #3 moves in then you could even ask if she'd like to share a room. Then they can gang up on older sister Piggy #1 and torment her..

Awww you'll have the 3 little piggies!

 

[crabcake]

Awww you'll have the 3 little piggies!

Can you image 3 little Jabba's

JJ!

 

[mainman]

Can you image 3 little Jabba's

JJ!

assthevalium:

 

[rack'm]

assthevalium:

KidStoned Vitamins...

 

[kwillia]

I vote for keeping piglet #3 in her own room until she is sleeping through the night. Piglet #2 will have constant disrupted sleep thus leaving a sleep deprived mother with a fussy toddler piglet.

 

[Dougstermd]

I even ask if she'd like to share a room. Then they can gang up on Mommy and torment her..

:Fixed:

 

[JabbaJawz]

Okay a-holes! Zip it unless you have something useful to say (Damn...what a statement coming right from JabbaJawz herself...)!

 

[kwillia]

Okay a-holes! Zip it unless you have something useful to say (Damn...what a statement coming right from JabbaJawz herself...)!

Read my post... I took you serious...

 

[rack'm]

I was being serious.....


I'd put each pup in their own room, why start something when you don't have to? :shrug:

 

[crabcake]

I vote for keeping piglet #3 in her own room until she is sleeping through the night. Piglet #2 will have constant disrupted sleep thus leaving a sleep deprived mother with a fussy toddler piglet.

I'm not juggling 3 piglets, but if I were, I'd go with this option. No sense in having two youngin's up at the same time screaming at 11 p.m., 2 a.m., 4 a.m. ...

Maybe you could set the "shared" room up, leave middle piggie in there and keep piggie 3 in your room in a bassinet or crib until she's sleeping through the night, then move her into her shared room with piggie 2. That lets you get by w/o redoing a 3rd room, piggie 2 doesn't get woken up by piggie 3, yet you can let 'em share when they're both ready.

 

[Dougstermd]

Okay a-holes! Zip it unless you have something useful to say (Damn...what a statement coming right from JabbaJawz herself...)!

Personally I would separate them if you have the room. The Piglet will keep the middle pig awake then the middle pig will need a drink of water, have to use the bathroom etc. Then when they can both talk and play they will stay up playing all night. When I moved I had to make my two share a room and it has worked out better than I expected but they are only there every other weekend. just my thoughts

 

[CMC122]

I vote for keeping piglet #3 in her own room until she is sleeping through the night. Piglet #2 will have constant disrupted sleep thus leaving a sleep deprived mother with a fussy toddler piglet.

My #2 and #3 are 17 months apart and it would have made a world of difference if they didn't have to share a room. #3 did nothing but cry for the first 18 months of his life This made night time impossible for all of us! IMO you have the room seperate them!

 

[Suz]

I'm not juggling 3 piglets, but if I were, I'd go with this option. No sense in having two youngin's up at the same time screaming at 11 p.m., 2 a.m., 4 a.m. ...

Maybe you could set the "shared" room up, leave middle piggie in there and keep piggie 3 in your room in a bassinet or crib until she's sleeping through the night, then move her into her shared room with piggie 2. That lets you get by w/o redoing a 3rd room, piggie 2 doesn't get woken up by piggie 3, yet you can let 'em share when they're both ready.

Yep. That's what I would do also.

 

[mAlice]

If you have the room, give them each their own space. Even when you get past the nightly feedings, there will still be other issues. One has a cold and can't sleep, or they talk all night and don't get enough rest, wake up from a bad dream, fight over space/belongings....you get my drift.

 

[pixiegirl]

I say seperate rooms. Noah and Grady are 2.5 years apart. When I had Grady we kept him in a bassinet in our room. When he outgrew that we had no choice but to put them in the same room because we only had a 2 bedroom house. When we moved Noah insisted on sharing a room with a 6 month old Grady. What a mistake. Not only did Grady wake Noah up but vice versa as well. Grady would go to bed for the night well before Noah and when I'd take Noah up to the bedroom just opening the bedroom door and the light from the hallway would often wake Grady up. If Grady woke in the middle of the night 9 times out of 10 it would wake Noah up as well. If Noah woke in the middle of the night he'd wake Grady.

You also can't forget the "play" factor. I can't tell you how many times I went upstairs to bed myself and no one was crying but Noah had gotten out of his bed, climbed up into Grady's crib and they were playing....

Seperate bedrooms until they're at least 2 and 4.

 

[morganj614]

Okay a-holes! Zip it unless you have something useful to say (Damn...what a statement coming right from JabbaJawz herself...)!

pregnancy hormones are wonderful.

Sharing a room later on will be fun for the little piggies. Of course when I had to do that I hated it but looking back on it, I would have been lonely without my sister to build blanket forts and to whisper with at night.
Give Piggy #1 an air mattress in case she wants to invite a little Piggy to sleep in her room when they are older.

 

[crabcake]

Here's a flip-thought ... while Piggie 1 might say now "I want my own room", if the other two are grouped together, do you think she might begin to feel 'left out of the fun' not having someone else in her room? If she were 12, 14, etc, I could definately see the demand on her part for her own room, but she's still a little piglet herself and given the situation, might feel left out that the other two girls have their own little "party" going on in a year or so, but she doesn't.

What am I saying? You'll have Piggie 4 on the way by then and can move #2 in with #1, and #4 in with #3.

 

[Sharon]

For convenience sake put them in the same room if it's easier for you right now. A crying baby won't necessarily wake up a toddler if she is a sound sleeper. I had to put the twins (born early) in with their sister (she was 2) for a few months until we moved into a bigger place. She slept like a rock anyway, so two crying baby brothers didn't bother her. I would turn on a small night-light when I had to go in for nighttime feedings or changings. All 3 kids could sleep thru WWIII (wish I could). I never believed that "be quiet the baby's sleeping" crap, even during naptime - they learned how to sleep thru it.

If it works out, you can keep the two piglets together until she's ready for a toddler bed or the fighting starts.

 

[josmom]

What am I saying? You'll have Piggie 4 on the way by then and can move #2 in with #1, and #4 in with #3.

OMG, another piglet. You would be crazy to do that