@mrslittlemac your situation is 100% mine as well. Even down to LO currently sleeping in living room and your plans for the new baby.
I am nervous about the transition out of the living room into her upstairs bedroom after the work it needs is done but she's never laid eyes on the room before so hopefully it's a exciting thing. I'm hoping to have in up there in June, she will be 20 months at the time but luckily does STTN.
New baby will be in our room until he/she outgrows the armsreach cosleeper then will move to the crib in the living room.
ETA- eventually once new baby is consistently STTN they will both share the upstairs bedroom and my 3rd bedroom will be the playroom.
We have a 5 bedroom house but will try to get the boys to share and fx it works so we can keep the office and the separate guest room.
The boys will be 4yrs and almost 2 but the time DD comes. And she will be in our room for at least 4 months. And our master is on the main floor which is actually the top floor because we are on a hill. So we may put her in the office for a bit which is on our floor till she starts sleeping through the night. Cause I’m not walking up and down those stairs multiple times a night if I don’t have to!
@brzvice please let me know how it's working for you down the road, lol! I'm a bit nervous about security (always have been--growing up/living in sketchy places will do that to a person) so haven't at all been comfortable with DD in her own room on the other end of the house. I'm probably not going to be comfortable with it ever, but it will be a necessary step some point soon. Her clothes and stash of diapers/wipes/etc are in there, but like yours, she's never even seen it.
We are making a separate nursery. we have 4 bedrooms, but they are very small. It would be difficult to have DS’s twin bed, a crib, and both kids dressers in one room. The other room is an office. Most of the toys are in the main living area, and it does get messy, but we keep some toys out of reach and we make him put his toys away before getting another, so it doesn’t get too out of control. That said, I don’t expect DS2 to be in his own room for a while.
But I’m thinking MOTN diaper changes, interrupted sleep for both kids.... I would think if you want to do this, keep the new baby in your room for a while before having them share a room.
Yes, the plan would be to have DS2 sleep with us for 5-6 months, and then move him to a "temporary" sleeping situation in our current office. When he is consistently STTN, move him in with his brother. At least that would be the plan if we room-share. Still can't decide, though!
Lurking from october: I only have 2 bedrooms and a loft. I am thinking of moving my 5 year old to the loft but am worried that he will feel like he's getting pushed out. I know that I will keep the baby in my room for a few months but I don't want to change everything around after the baby is born. Any tips?
Lurking from october: I only have 2 bedrooms and a loft. I am thinking of moving my 5 year old to the loft but am worried that he will feel like he's getting pushed out. I know that I will keep the baby in my room for a few months but I don't want to change everything around after the baby is born. Any tips?
Make it exciting for him. Let him choose new stuff for the walls or new bedding or a new paint color or something and do it a couple of months at least before new baby is due. I went through the same thing and DS being able to assist in his "new big boy room" made the transition simple.
Lurking from october: I only have 2 bedrooms and a loft. I am thinking of moving my 5 year old to the loft but am worried that he will feel like he's getting pushed out. I know that I will keep the baby in my room for a few months but I don't want to change everything around after the baby is born. Any tips?
Make it exciting for him. Let him choose new stuff for the walls or new bedding or a new paint color or something and do it a couple of months at least before new baby is due. I went through the same thing and DS being able to assist in his "new big boy room" made the transition simple.
That's exactly what I was thinking. Then my mom brought up the fact that she was worried about him falling down the stairs in the middle of the night
We were in a smaller 3 br before, and my two oldest shared. We moved, and now have 4br. Our master suite is great but the actual bedroom isn’t huge to fit much baby stuff (though she’ll likely bedshare - it’s the STUFF the chaggingnthings and clothes etc). Initially we thought the massive bedroom sized wic could be a temporary nursery but out first winter here leaned that was a no - it’s terribly insulated and much too cold.
The 3 bedrooms one is quite small, one is medium - hard to fit 2 twins though, and one is big but a big awkward (window/closet placement). So 2 kids will share that room, and they all are kinda fighting over that - it’s funny bc in a few years they may regret that choice lol. We are disagreeing right now though. Most likely we will have the 2 oldest share, since my youngest isn’t quite old enough to get it and care. My middle would leave his room which is the middle sized room, and dh thinks we should just move him bumk beds into the big room and leave playing room. I think we keep the bed and move the bunk beds too, bc I don’t think either wants to sleep up top and they don’t play up there anyhow.
I think the medium room should be forbthe baby, because I adore how my youngests room is decorated and set up, and the medium room has 2 closets and the small has 1. I think that 2 closets makes sense for the girl. Dh wants to then move my youngest to the medium room and the baby to the small one, but doesn’t want me to paint (no real reason just being a pita), because then the baby would be in the furthest away room. Which... is valid but I think big picture not my preference.
ANYHOW. If we had bedrooms for each person, we would give each person a room becUse I do agree that having ones own space is nice. But, I also think the benefits of a bigger family outweigh kids sharing. And my kids at least are dying to share.
as for toys... our old house they were in our living space and it sucked. Awful. We have a basement playroom and it gets PLAYED IN. That’s the whole point. I don’t want my kids to be too worried about making a mess to play. We do struggle with not being destructive or making a mess jand at for the sake of it (and moved some toys out of reach). It is a mess, and then every couple weeks we work together and clean it. I’m not about to supervise their play down there - that’s just not how I parent. My kids play a ton - not all kids do the independent toy play honestly, mine do. I’ve got other stuff to do. Every family does things differently and that’s fine. It’s a little weird to side eye a messy playroom though..
Re: Separate rooms or sharing?
I am nervous about the transition out of the living room into her upstairs bedroom after the work it needs is done but she's never laid eyes on the room before so hopefully it's a exciting thing. I'm hoping to have in up there in June, she will be 20 months at the time but luckily does STTN.
New baby will be in our room until he/she outgrows the armsreach cosleeper then will move to the crib in the living room.
ETA- eventually once new baby is consistently STTN they will both share the upstairs bedroom and my 3rd bedroom will be the playroom.
The boys will be 4yrs and almost 2 but the time DD comes. And she will be in our room for at least 4 months. And our master is on the main floor which is actually the top floor because we are on a hill. So we may put her in the office for a bit which is on our floor till she starts sleeping through the night. Cause I’m not walking up and down those stairs multiple times a night if I don’t have to!
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The 3 bedrooms one is quite small, one is medium - hard to fit 2 twins though, and one is big but a big awkward (window/closet placement). So 2 kids will share that room, and they all are kinda fighting over that - it’s funny bc in a few years they may regret that choice lol. We are disagreeing right now though. Most likely we will have the 2 oldest share, since my youngest isn’t quite old enough to get it and care. My middle would leave his room which is the middle sized room, and dh thinks we should just move him bumk
beds into the big room and leave playing room. I think we keep the bed and move the bunk beds too, bc I don’t think either wants to sleep up top and they don’t play up there anyhow.
I think the medium room should be forbthe baby, because I adore how my youngests room is decorated and set up, and the medium room has 2 closets and the small has 1. I think that 2 closets makes sense for the girl. Dh wants to then move my youngest to the medium room and the baby to the small one, but doesn’t want me to paint (no real reason just being a pita), because then the baby would be in the furthest away room. Which... is valid but I think big picture not my preference.
ANYHOW. If we had bedrooms for each person, we would give each person a room becUse I do agree that having ones own space is nice. But, I also think the benefits of a bigger family outweigh kids sharing. And my kids at least are dying to share.
as for toys... our old house they were in our living space and it sucked. Awful. We have a basement playroom and it gets PLAYED IN. That’s the whole point. I don’t want my kids to be too worried about making a mess to play. We do struggle with not being destructive or making a mess jand at for the sake of it (and moved some toys out of reach). It is a mess, and then every couple weeks we work together and clean it. I’m not about to supervise their play down there - that’s just not how I parent. My kids play a ton - not all kids do the independent toy play honestly, mine do. I’ve got other stuff to do. Every family does things differently and that’s fine. It’s a little weird to side eye a messy playroom though..
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