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Baby 2.0...new nursery or new room for DS? (kinda long)

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Just wondering what you would do...

We don't know the sex of baby 2.0 yet (July 2nd-if baby cooperates), but are trying to decide what we want to do as far as rooms goes.  We have a three bedroom house with all bedrooms upstairs and close together so planning for LO to be close is not a problem.

With DS, he stayed in our room for the first few months, but we loved having the nursery for storing his essentials, and of course, once we started sleep training, we moved him into his own room.  His room is gender neutral and not terribly personalized, so it would be easy to make the nursery for the new baby.

I am torn between redoing the guest bedroom for DS in a more "big boy" theme...I am thinking of a "cowboy" themed room or creating a new nursery for baby 2.0.

I know that if we do a room for DS, it would last awhile, but worry about changing his room with so many other changes coming along with the new baby.

If baby 2.0 is a girl, I'd love to do a more girly nursery and this would allow DS to stay where he is already comfortable.

The current guest bedroom is deeply in need of a rennovation anyway and DH and I are both teachers and want to get the room done while we are home on summer vacation.  Baby 2.0 is due at the end of November and DS will be 17 mos., so we want to keep him in the crib.

Any advice/thoughts?

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  • jc&catjc&cat member

    we moved DS into a big boy room and made a big deal of it before DD arrived. he was older than your DS so had a better understanding of what was going on. i liked having the baby in the gender neutral nursery since we didn't find out gender with either child....so much easier that way than to start from scratch in the other room.

    DS's room did need a little work and paint but it was worth it. The transition hopefully will be easier for your DS since we moved DS to a bed at the same time. My thought was to bite the bullet and get his room together ahead of the baby.

     

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  • wootownladywootownlady member

    I'm in the same boat - thinking about what to do with our current nursery and our guest room before DC #2 arrives in January.

    I've read that any big changes (new room, moving to a big kid bed) should be done about 6 months before the baby sibling arrives so as to make sure the first kid doesn't feel displaced. 

     Our plan is to recreate my DD's nursery in the bigger guest room - literally make it identical to her current nursery, just in another, bigger room next door .... and then recreate the little nursery for my new LO (but utilize the same neutral paint color for ease and consistency on our second floor).

     I think we'll tackle that in August - for now i need to rest up after completing 100 other home reno projects.  My DD won't have 6 months to adjust to her new room, but hopefully about 4 months.

     

    GL!

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  • LollyBug18LollyBug18 member
    We already know we'll be moving DD out of the nursery into a "big girl" room but we're not sure when. Our pedi did say not to do it close to the arrival of the new LO and DH seems to think it'd be better to wait until a few months after so I guess that's the plan for now. We too will have a lot of work in the other room, mostly clearing it out and actually having a garage sale like we've been saying we'd do for 2 years now. PP, 4 months prior sounds like enough time to me. Our pedi just said a few months, nothing like 6.
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  • cassoppeacassoppea
    We are planning on moving Avery but not right away. The way our rooms are set up, her current room is right next to our room and the other bedrooms are down the hall. So we'd rather have the baby closer. But we don't want to change her over when the baby gets here because I think it's going to be overwhelming for her already. I don't want her to feel like the baby is kicking her out of her room. So the new baby will stay with us until Avery is ready to move down the hall.

    In your situation I would just make a new nursery instead of moving your DS. You can update his room when the time comes but at 17 months with a new baby I think stability is most important.

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  • jc&catjc&cat member
    If it helps, I can say that we did the room transition for DS about 2 months prior to DD's arrival. That seemed like enough time. I was afraid to do it after DD's arrival b/c i envisioned chaos not being able to give DS enough attention during the transition. I'm glad we did the switch when we did. GL!
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  • LaRue86LaRue86
    DS will be getting a new room. Our nursery is gender neutral. DS will get his big boy room which will be classic transportation. We wont know until November whether or not 2.0 is a boy or girl. There is a side of me that would want to redo the nursery if 2.0 is a girl, but if DS had been a girl, it would have been the same nursery. Our goal is to move him no later than August.
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  • Diver0214Diver0214 member

    I still have no clue what we are going to do. I have a 7yoa SS who stays with us 60% of the time and has his own room, DD has her room too. We do not have any more rooms for this LO to have their own room so we need to figure something out. My plan was to have LO sleep in our room for the first few months then move DD to share a room but I am not sure she will be ready to move out of her crib at that time.

    I think I am going to have her stay in her crib and share a room and get LO a new crib and let them have the "nursery" until they are older. Depending on if LO is a boy/girl will determine who shares a room later on down the road.


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  • mamarazzi528mamarazzi528 member

    Here's what we're doing...

    We're team green.  We currently have a gender neutral nursery on our main floor.  We're going to do a new room for DD on our lower level, but not put her in it right away.  Baby #2 will be in our room in a bassinet for the first 5 months (this worked out well with DD), so DD will stay in the nursery and in the crib during that time.  DD will be about 22 months at that point and we'll then move her to her new room and into a toddler bed, and Baby #2 will get the nursery and crib.

    We did a lot of work on our current nursery, so I don't want to re-do it!  haha.  I'd rather do a room for DD. 

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