moving #1 to another room?

Sofka · December 2009

I just discovered this board so figured it'd be a good place to RP the Q I OP on my local board:

did you move #1 to a "big girl/boy" bed in another room when #2 came along?

how old was #1 when (s)he went to a big boy/girl bed?

why did you decide to move #1 to another room?

Our nursery/DD's bedroom has 2 blue walls and 2 white ones (we never painted) so gender is not an issue. I am debating whether we should just keep DD in that room and make the guest room #2's room, or should we keep DD's room a nursery and move DD to the guest room?

what was your reasoning for moving #1? That seems like what everyone does but I don't really get it. If DD is too young for a big girl bed, it doesn't really make sense to move her. We can just move the changing table (or get a 2nd one) and the glider to #2's room and keep everything as it is in DD's room. Her crib is convertible and will become a toddler bed, and then a double bed. I will discuss moving her to a big girl bed with the pedi. She will be 20mo old when #2 arrives.

Was cost a factor? As in, it was cheaper to buy a toddler bed than keeping #1 in a crib and buying another crib?

Thanks, sorry this is a sort of rambling.

kgb1411 · December 2009

we had another boy, so I put the baby in the nursery since it was already set up with the glider, changing table, diaper genie, etc. I moved #1 to another room. Initially I tried to put him in a twin bed (it was cheaper, and we are going to have to buy it anyway), but that didn't work out, so we got another crib. His room is a little more "grown up" than the nursery was.

I really like having them in two seperate rooms. That way I don't have to be afraid of DS#2 waking up DS#1 when he wakes up at night, or, more likely, #1 waking up #2 when he starts jumping around in the morning.

If you are going to put them both in the same room, I would probably do two cribs until your older daughter is old enough to know not to hurt the baby and/or the baby is old enough to defend himself.

Sofka · December 2009

no, putting them in the same room is not an option. I am debating b/w moving DD to another room or keeping DD in her room and making another room into a nursery for #2

snickerdoodle27 · December 2009

We made the smaller room the nursery and kept it gender neutral. Tan walls, winnie the pooh theme. We moved ds into the bigger room before the baby was born, and he's 2 (will be 3 in Jan). We talked it up a lot, got him a new bed, etc. Though dh thinks we should have kept him in his old room b/c he wakes up and comes to our bed. But he probably would have been doing that anyway, and he says he likes his room. I would just do it a couple months before the baby is born, so your DD has a chance to get used to it. Plus, this way I didn't have to redo 2 rooms. I just put pink in the nursery to add some girly touches to it!

SymphonyGirl · December 2009

We kept DS in a crib and both kids have cribs now--we have a glider, changing table and crib in each child's room. We did move DS to another room, but only because the other room had been his play room and we figured he'd be more willing to give up his old bedroom than hand over his play room to a new baby. Our pedi recommended that any changes to new bedroom, big kid bed, etc. be done at least 3 months before the new baby is due so that the older child doesn't associate the change with the baby. In your situation, I'd keep your 20 month old in a crib and probably keep her in the same room. Doesn't seem like there's a need to move.

jlw2505 · December 2009

My girls are 21 months apart and we moved DD#1 into her big girl room and big girl bed (twin mattress on the floor with a bed rail) at 18 months. We switched rooms as we were keeping the nursery as is - did it gender neutral as we had always planned to not change it with the 2 kids, granted both ended up to be girls. I was so excited to finally give my older DD a girly room and I loved doing what used to be the office for her. We did the whole move to the new room, new bed 3 months before the baby was due. Once we did the move, we pretty much didn't go into the nursery until shortly before the baby was due and by then, older DD was totally into her new room and didn't have any issues when her little sister came home. We redid the nursery to a girly theme when DD#2 was 17 months and she moved into her big girl bed.

LisiLynn · December 2009

Great question and so awesome to hear all of the answers, I was just about to post something similar. We've decided to move DS into a big boy room because baby #2 is also a boy and I put so much into painting and decoration the nursery I'm not at all ready to give it up and redo another. We had decided if baby #2 was a girl, DS would stay in his nursery and we'd do up a girl room but since its another boy and the nursery is very babyish we think it'll be best to move DS and do up a big boy room. DS also prefers to sleep in our bed these past few months so I'm excited to get him his own big boy bed with a softer mattress and pillow just like ours. Hopefully that will help entice him to stay in his own bed.

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