Rearranging bedroom

rachaelski

We love our house so much, but it's only a 1 bedroom. We decided that for the first year of the baby's life, we were fine with sharing a room. In fact, it will probably be easier! Well, our old house does not have a single closet. My husband built a closet-like thing for us to hang our clothing, which took some significant space in our bedroom. In general our bedroom becomes our space for throwing all the crap we don't know where to put. This weekend, we took the closet out of the bedroom and put it into the room between the kitchen and backdoor (like a mud room), which we have access to via our bedroom. We rearranged the future and anticipated where the baby's stuff would go! So exciting. 

Anyone else sharing a room with the baby???? Anyone shared a room with baby have anything to offer (suggestions, etc.)? 

Augustbride

We will probably share for now. We have 2 bedrooms but one is DS and I don't want him having to wake up in the middle of the night.  I have not even begun to think about how we will move everything. I do know that most likely we will not put the full crib in our room. I am thinking a co sleeper for the first year. Then we will see hopefully we will be ready to move then.

kate1011

We have a pretty big house but I still plan on the baby sleeping in our room for a couple of months.  DS did and it worked out really well, we transitioned him to his room when I had to go back to work and by that point he was only waking once at night (we were lucky!).

My house is also old, I think that 'back in the day' they didn't utilize the space like we do now - all our closest (which have been updated/remodeled - not original) are between what was once the wall and the eves of the house.  I hope that makes since.  And they're huge!  Our master has 2 - mine is the length of the room and DH's is 1/2 the size.  I wonder if you could put them in there; depending on how handy your DH is maybe he could do it.  Tear down some walls and re-dry wall.  But you would have to be careful for electric wiring, etc.

magel050485

kate1011:

We have a pretty big house but I still plan on the baby sleeping in our room for a couple of months.  DS did and it worked out really well, we transitioned him to his room when I had to go back to work and by that point he was only waking once at night (we were lucky!).

My house is also old, I think that 'back in the day' they didn't utilize the space like we do now - all our closest (which have been updated/remodeled - not original) are between what was once the wall and the eves of the house.  I hope that makes since.  And they're huge!  Our master has 2 - mine is the length of the room and DH's is 1/2 the size.  I wonder if you could put them in there; depending on how handy your DH is maybe he could do it.  Tear down some walls and re-dry wall.  But you would have to be careful for electric wiring, etc.

This.  Our closet is like this.  Its huge. If I didnt have it filled with clothes I would certainly put LO in there.  Our room is big enough to put a crib in but I dont think we will.  Where we have to have our bed positioned a crib would have to be across the room and its not much further to walk down the 4 foot hallway to the nursery.

CheriCO

We plan to co-sleep for probably the first 6 months. We'll have a pnp in our room, too. At some point between now & Nov, we'll transition DS to a regular toddler bed & convert his current one back to a crib for LO. We have to move a toy bin, book shelf and glider out of his room to do that. I think we'll be selling our futon to make room for the glider, etc. Our house is tiny!

catch2010

One of my best friends is loaning me her bassinet to use, so baby will be right next to my bed until he or she is too big for it, then will move to his/her room, which is our current guestroom. 

I'm waiting until second tri to even begin thinking about how I want the nursery to look.  There's a giant couch in the guest room that was such a headache to put in there and I have no clue how we're going to get it out.  It might just stay until LO is old enough to realize that there's a giant, hideous couch in his/her room. 

RedCamaro

We had DD in our room for the first 6 weeks. I have anxiety issues, and so I would get sent off by all the little noises the baby made. It was one of those "Oh she's making noise. Is she getting up? I haven't had that much sleep since I last put her down." So it took me a while to get used to her noises and convince myself that if she wasn't fussy, I didn't have to get up. Just wanted to put that out there (it wasn't in any of my books that I read).

Catkel1202

RedCamaro:

We had DD in our room for the first 6 weeks. I have anxiety issues, and so I would get sent off by all the little noises the baby made. It was one of those "Oh she's making noise. Is she getting up? I haven't had that much sleep since I last put her down." So it took me a while to get used to her noises and convince myself that if she wasn't fussy, I didn't have to get up. Just wanted to put that out there (it wasn't in any of my books that I read).

I feel like this is going to be me, and I'm nervous about that.  I also live in a very small apartment, one bedroom, so I won't have a choice in having the baby sleep with us.  We thought about moving to a two bedroom when our lease is up in June, but we plan to move out of state next year, so moving twice didn't sound like fun.

I've heard that around 4 or 5 months baby starts being more aware and might want want to wake us up and play if s/he's still in our room. Anyone have experience with this?  I'm thinking about putting up a curtain or something to section off the room.  We'll see how it goes!