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Toddlers: 12 - 24 Months
Anyone with only a 2 bedroom house (and 2 kids)?
We'd ideally like to move before we have another baby, but with the economy a little crazy, I'm not sure if we'd be able to sell our house! Sooooo... this is a silly question, but how would it work with a toddler and baby in the same room? I know my sister and I shared a room from the time she was born (21 months apart) and my mom seems to think there were no issues...I just wonder about a baby waking so often and subsequently waking up the toddler! Any advice or am I being silly for overthinking this? I reeeeeeeeally don't want our kids to be more than 2ish years apart, so waiting much longer isn't feasible.
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Re: Anyone with only a 2 bedroom house (and 2 kids)?
We only have two bedrooms, sort of (there is a third room and it's debatable as to whether you'd actually count that as a bedroom- it has a *tiny* closet, but the window doesn't open and the room is miniscule- seriously smaller than many people's walk in closet.)?
Anyhow, up until recently ds had his room and dd just slept in our room. We recently created a new room for them to share. We put a mattress for them to share on the floor of the tiny pseudo-bedroom and a baby gate on the door. The thought was that the tiny room would be used for nothing other than sleeping, and then that would free up the 2nd real bedroom to use as a playroom.?
It worked well and both kids enjoy sleeping together. That being said, after a couple of weeks somehow or another both kids ended up back in our room- although they do well sleeping together in their room, in all reality they both much prefer to sleep with us (dd in the pack-n-play in our room, ds in bed with us.) Dh and I joke (sort of- sometimes I'm half serious too) that it would be a much better use of our limited space just to have one bedroom for all of us. Why bother setting up a second bedroom at all if it's not going to be used, LOL??
So, as long as we still had plenty of storage space and a ample living space (kitchen, family room, etc.) I think we would actually be fine with one bedroom, at least for now. I imagine that in a couple of years we'd start to feel pretty cramped, but we could make it work now while they're both this young. ?
I have 2 the same age, but we have a 2 bedroom apartment right now. Before my guys were sttn and one would wake up I would bolt into their bedroom so that one wouldn't wake up the other but after a while they started sleeping through it.
Right now are only issue is space for toys
Hello:) My SIL ( the one with the two girls) always had two bedrooms until now. They are moving into a 3 bedroom house now, but the girls are still going to share a room and the other room will be a playroom because they are so used to being together.
When you think back to when Jude was a little baby, he wasn't in his room for a while anyway, he was with you guys. That buys you some time....
So Emma and Ava were together when Ava was a baby?
I'm late in responding to this, but here is my situation...
We live in a two bedroom house as well. We also wanted to move before having baby #2 (which we're trying for as soon as my cycle returns) but are in the same situation is you. We'd get maybe half what our house was bought for right now. We still have Boston in a cradle in our room. We didn't plan on having him in our room past 3 months but things just worked out differently. We're moving him to his crib soon. He'll be in there obviously for awhile. If we are lucky enough to have another one soon, we'll put that one in the cradle and keep Boston in the crib. Now, once the new baby is out of the cradle, we're going to have to look for something else. Boston's room is way too small for a toddler bed AND a crib...it's teeny. But that gives us a few more months before hopefully getting pregnant, then 9 months of pregnancy, then 6 months in the cradle.
Hey, if you see this, please send me a private message about trying again for number 2. I know you took Clomid (me too, pregnant on the second round) and I'm pretty concerned I'll never ovulate without it - I never ovulated before it. Well my doctor is against prescribing Clomid for a second pregnancy because she said her percentage rate with that is 100% for twins. I don't want twins but I also don't want to wait 4 years before seeing if I'll ever ovulate/get pregnant on my own.
What are you doing when you start trying again? How long will you try naturally before maybe seeking the help of Clomid again? Thanks!
We have 2 girls (18.5 months apart) and 2 bedrooms. We kept DD #2 with us for about 12 weeks and now they share a room. DD #2 is still up 1-2 times a night but she doesn't seem to bother #1. I go in and grab the baby when she wakes up and feed her in my room...sometimes she makes it back into the crib, other times I wake up and and she is still on my chest (must have fallen back to sleep while burping...or I was just too lazy to walk across the hall and put her back in the crib).
It is harder at nap time than nigthtime...I cherish my toddler's nap time and I hate when she wakes up early so #2 still naps in the swing or bouncer in the afternoon. Not sure how I will tackle this later on but I probably won't worry about it until #2 has a solid, working schedule.