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kTedesco10
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Is it ok to have three in one room??? Stressed.
kTedesco10
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I just took a positive test. We have a DD1 will be 4 in December, DD2 will be 1 this week and I am panicking a little. So DD2 would be 21 months from baby #3?? I think lol
It still hasn't sunken in all of the way, I think I am living in a little bit of Denial right now. My husband is thrilled, but it am just a nervous wreck,
I am worried about what my mother will say, she is super judge mental and open with her opinions.
But also we only have two bedrooms. There is no room for two cribs and a twin bed in there!! Because we have a huge dresser, a huge desk with shelves, and a night stand, which I would prefer to leave for clothing storage.
How can this work?
We were thinking bunk beds. But I feel like that just won't work. Obviously we will try to move beforehand, but that may not be in the cards.
Is there any other solution 
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Re: Is it ok to have three in one room??? Stressed.
DD1 Feb 2010
DD2 Sept 2011
DD1 Feb 2010
DD2 Sept 2011
I didn't read all the replies, but we were in that situation. We had a two-BR townhouse when I got pg with #3, and our plans to buy a bigger home got postponed when I was laid off during my pregnancy. We did put a crib in the kids' room, but actually ended up not feeling comfortable putting the baby in the older girls' room, because DD1 would get out of bed and throw things into DD2's crib and such, and it made us nervous for if she did that to the baby, or pulled on her, etc. (Our oldest was under 3 when #3 was born though, so she didn't understand as much as your oldest will about not hurting the baby.)
We didn't have a ton of extra space in our bedroom, but we could fit a mini pack n play. It worked out so much better than a bassinet would have, because it held more weight so she could safely use it longer and the bottom could be dropped when she started sitting and standing. (We also bedshared with her, but I'd put her in the pack n play to nap and for the first half of the night.) We had a Graco Travel Lite, like this one. It worked out really well for what we had to work with, until we were able to move when she was 11 months old.
I know several parents who moved kids to a top bunk at age 5, so you could keep her in your room until your oldest is 5 and then get a bunk bed and move baby into the kid room. Some bunk beds on the market now have long rails on both sides, or stairs at the foot of the bed, so there isn't much room to easily roll off. Also there's an Ikea low-profile loft bed that can be made into a bunk, which is closer to the ground than a traditional bunk.
Another thought is to take the desk out of the room. Do your kids really use it, or do you just use it for the shelf space? If you use it shelf space, I'd look into other options. For instance, even when DD3 slept in our room, we kept her dresser in the closet in the kids' room. She had a few sets of pj's in my dresser in my room, but I kept the bulk of her clothes in the kids room, and her dresser fit perfectly in the closet so it didn't take up real estate in the room. There are lots of storage/shelving options for closets that you could get to make that space more valuable.
I would have the baby in your room for a while then transition the baby to the siblings room when it makes sense for everyone! One of our little ones was in our room until he was almost two in a pack n play! Haha! Not that I would necessarily recommend that, but really we all actually slept great that way. He shares with his brother now (they share by preference because we do have an extra room) and he still sneaks into our room now most nights to sleep on the floor where we have a blanket and pillow set up for him.
Congratulations!