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Two kids:one bedroom up and one downstairs? WTD???

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I know I am getting ahead of myelf, as I am not pg yet-but willbe trying soon :...

We have a traditional Cape Cod style home: 2 bedrooms upstairs and one down. The master and DS's room are upstairs, and an extra bedroom, which is being used as an office is downstairs . I was talking to DH about what to do when we have baby #2 (hopefully next spring/summer)....I am really not comfortable moving DS downstairs by himself...My neighbors across the street just had baby #2 and they split baby #1's room in half to create 2 rooms. I suppose we COULD do that, but the rooms would be REALLY small.

Anyone else go through this? Did you 'share' a room with the two kiddos? I am worried about a baby waking DS if we decide to have them 'share'...short of moving, I really can't figure out what to do!

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Re: Two kids:one bedroom up and one downstairs? WTD???

  • LoriJ11LoriJ11
    Any way you could make the downstairs room a master and put both kids upstairs? I would either do that or split the upstairs room. I personally wouldn't put one of my kids downstairs and me upstairs. Good luck
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  • japatton05japatton05
    We were in a similiar situation. I was pregnant with baby #2, who we lost, but will hopefully be pregnant again soon. We also  live in a cape cod style house, with two bedrooms up and two down. Our biggest issue when we moved in was our king size bed only fit in one room so we have to be upstairs. Right now DS's room is upstairs but his big boy room is all ready decorated and waiting for him downstairs when the time comes. Our other bedroom downstairs is a guestbedroom. I told DH I was uncomfortbable with our DS being downstairs alone when the time comes. We hadn't really figured out what we are going to do either. We are going to put in brand new windows with locks before he moves down, and we also have two dogs (over 100lbs each) who sleep on DS's bed so we're hoping that continues once he moves downstairs. Guess we will just have to wait and see what happens once baby# 2 arrives someday. Sorry I wasn't any help.
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  • MaxandRubyMaxandRuby member

    I have 2 boys.  DS1 turns 3 later this month and DS2 is 18mos.  We moved to where we are now when DS1 was 11mos old. He sleeps downstairs.  DH and I and DS2 sleep upstairs (ranch style home with finished basement and only 2 bedrooms upstairs). I keep a monitor is DS1's room so that I can hear him should he wake up in the middle of the night (which is rare) but it is the only way to hear him.  The bedrooms are big enough that I could have had them share a room but, at least for my boys, that would be a gigantic PITA and no one would ever get sleep (DS1 still wakes up in the middle of the night on a fairly frequent basis).

    It really has not been an issue at all with the boys sleeping on different floors. I like that they are split and even though the boys' rooms are on top of each other, DS2 doesn't seem to wake up DS1.

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  • SailorGraySailorGray member

    imageLoriJ11:
    Any way you could make the downstairs room a master and put both kids upstairs? I would either do that or split the upstairs room. I personally wouldn't put one of my kids downstairs and me upstairs. Good luck

    This is what I was thinking. While having my kids on a different floor would make me uncomfortable when they are little, I would feel better knowing they were on the upper floor together. 

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  • sapphire angelsapphire angel member

    I would have the kids share the upstairs room (and maybe as a newborn the second child could be in your room for awhile until he/she sleeps through the night) and turn the downstairs room into a playroom to keep the upstairs room from being over crowded...

    I would not feel comfortable having a child downstairs while I am sleeping upstairs, especially since you will likely end up having baby gates at the stairs for safety reasons... 

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  • MaxandRubyMaxandRuby member
    imagesapphire angel:

    I would have the kids share the upstairs room (and maybe as a newborn the second child could be in your room for awhile until he/she sleeps through the night) and turn the downstairs room into a playroom to keep the upstairs room from being over crowded...

    I would not feel comfortable having a child downstairs while I am sleeping upstairs, especially since you will likely end up having baby gates at the stairs for safety reasons... 

    Yes, but if the kids are sleeping there is no reason to keep the gate(s) closed so there are no children awake to potentially fall down the stairs.  Ours is open at night so if I have to go downstairs for whatever reason I can do so easily.

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  • dec13thdec13th member

    we have the same setup.  We're going to move 1 baby to the 1st floor.  We have an alarm system, dogs and video monitors. 

    I would move dh&I down *if* dh's schedule changes.  He works nights so has to sleep in during the morning.  We are too loud for him to be on the same floor in the morning.

    The video monitor is what makes me OK with this situation.  We have one made by Summer.

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  • g8trkimg8trkim member
    How about having the kids share a room and use the downstairs one as a toy room and to put the kid stuff that you don't need in the kids rooms? Even if you have a boy and girl it doesn't really matter. Once they are old enough to get their own rooms you won't be worried about moving the older one downstairs.




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