Baby's room on different floor?

pandadair · February 2014

So, we are crazy and haven't figured out whether to buy/rent before our lease is up at end of April, nor have we decided where. Hooray. How many of you have a living situation where what will eventually be baby's room is on a different floor? We plan to keep baby in our room for the first few months. I think we've found a purchase opportunity that is perfect, except the two bedrooms are on different floors and I'd always told myself I did not want that with a child. Yae, nay, or meh?

Edited multiple times because I cannot effing spell today.

iadanza · February 2014

Our son will be moving to a different floor when the new baby comes. I think that if you have a monitor and don't mind going up and down stairs at all hours of the night it's totally fine.

ETA: our son will be 19-ish months when this baby is born, so he isn't waking up at all hours of the night like a newborn would...

rainydayluck · February 2014

We have a 3 story house and the master is on the 3rd floor. DD's room is on the second floor. It has been NBD.

Ladiebug30 · February 2014

I think it depends on you. I don't see a problem if you are comfortable with it as long as you don't mind the trips up and down at night. I couldn't do it now. Our current home has 1 up and 1 down. The upstairs br is huge with a bathroom and sitting area. The sitting area became our nursery. There are pros and cons of this. Pros being he is close which was great when he was smaller and got up lots. Also I can see him from my bed if the bathroom door is closed so it gives me peace of mind to see he is breathing. Cons are we have to be so quiet getting ready in the morning and for bed. Also if he wakes, he has a hard time self soothing if he sees we are in bed. Ugh. So eventually we plan to have an addition which would create 3 bedrooms upstairs but at that point we would have a completed master downstairs below. I don't think I will mind once there are 2+ and a they are a bit older but for the time being when they're little, I guess we are sort of room sharing.

Katemr1146 · February 2014

Our master is on the main floor and the baby's room will be upstairs. I really love our set-up right now. I'm still debating having the baby sleep in our room for a few months, or just moving myself up into the guest room for a few months. Not too worried about it.

jpbling · February 2014

We don't have any other option in our house, our bedroom is upstairs and the other 2 are downstairs. When DD was born we moved our room to one of the downstairs bedrooms, she slept in that room with us in her bassinet at first until she moved across the hall into her own room. Once she was sleeping through the night we moved back upstairs with a monitor. With the second on the way, we will stay upstairs and get his room ready, but he will sleep up there with us in his bassinet until he is ready for his crib. I want to find a new place but right now it just isn't in the cards! Hopefully we can get our house ready to put on the market by the fall/winter. We will see how that goes!

dragossoul84 · February 2014

I wouldn't have the kids on another floor. A few months ago DS got out of bed found a way to push his way under the gate and open his bedroom door even though there was a child safety knob on it. I woke up to the sound of him in the hallway at the top of the stairs he could have fallen all the way down had I not heard him. He is 19 months so a little younger than that when this happened. When the boys get much older we may convert our bottom level into a master suite but thats several years down the road

kalette · February 2014

Ours will be sharing for a few years until one of them wants to move. Our 3rd bedroom is in the basement directly under our room. Its a nice, bright basement, so not scary or anything.

CamrynnsMommy · February 2014

That's a no-go for me, especially with an infant, but honestly it's really probably NBD, I mean they have monitors and such to keep an eye on him.

cweiss04 · February 2014

we have a office/study that is attached to my master bedroom but still separated with French doors so well we plan on keeping him in there till we feel comfortable putting him upstairs....him being alone upstairs def. worries me but well be investing in a really good video monitor and I hope it eases my nerves

MissLadyTay · February 2014

We may have to make this work as it is rare to find a three bedroom place in our city where all three are on one floor. So our older child will probably end up downstairs at some point. It's not a big deal to me but I mentioned this to a family member with little kids and she acted like this was horrible and I was fine with him getting abducted. 8-| So maybe I'm not the norm.

TaylorHam86 · February 2014

Our master is downstairs and the other bedrooms are upstairs. My PLAN is to have him sleep nights in our room for several months and try to have him take some of his naps in his crib in the nursery so that he feels comfortable in it. Depending on when he starts sleeping through the night, we'll try to transition him (read: me) to sleeping in the crib upstairs at night with a monitor.

pandadair · February 2014

I figured it had to work for a lot of people, but you guys have made me feel better about it. We actually went to an open house on Saturday that had two bedrooms on the same floor, but then effer already had a contract on it before we even got home that evening. I've found another possibility and I just hate the thought of passing up something zoned to a good elementary school, in our price range, updated, etc., just because the rooms are separate.

rebecca1198 · February 2014

We do. It's really NBD. Don't pass up a good house because of the different floors!

NorthernGal248 · February 2014

My sister actually loves that her kids are on a different floor (upstairs). She and her husband can be up and about or even entertaining without having to worry that it's too loud for the kids. They of course keep monitors in the childrens rooms so that they can listen in.

Mimaloo · February 2014

Our nursery is downstairs and our bedroom is upstairs. DD will be in our room the first few months, but when she moves it will be a little scary. We've talked about getting our house on the market within the year.

Arinias · February 2014

Like some other PPs our master bedroom is upstairs and the nursery will be downstairs. The door is right atthe foot of the stairs, and the only things up are our room and a bathroom so I can get down pretty quickly. We plan on keeping LO in our room in a PnP for the first few months with naps in the crib, then transitioning when he is sleeping through the night more. I do plan on investing in a video monitor for his room. The situation is not ideal for me, but it was not enough for me to pass up renting this house when we had the chance, the price point and amount of space was too good. I would much rather take the two different floors then have stayed in the apartment complex we were at. Seeing how others on here have made it work makes me feel better about it.

Mittens14 · February 2014

When DS was born we were in a Townhome with his room right across the hall from us, so his newborn phase was fine, when he was almost 2 DH switched jobs and we moved and had to be in a two level apartment for a while, the master suite/bedroom was upstairs and the other room downstairs, we ended up giving DS the master because I didn't want him on the first level by himself in case of intruders or something. We JUST (like 2 days ago) moved into our new home and all bedrooms are upstairs, thank God!!! We had been there for almost 2 years and I HATED having him upstairs and us downstairs

I was so worried that I wouldn't hear him or get to him quickly enough if something happened. It was also a huge pain in the butt when he switched from his crib to his toddler bed and was getting up all the time. That being said, I think it's a very personal choice. For myself, I would never buy a property with the bedrooms split, I prefer them to be together.

ABColeslaw · February 2014

I could do it if the nursery was upstairs and the master downstairs but not the other way around. It may not even be rational I just know I wouldn't feel secure with my child on the main floor.

hsal · February 2014

Were in the same predicament. I'm less concerned about the infant being on a different floor, and more concerned about my toddler. We had to move her bed into our room because she was waking up with nightmares and literally kicking her gate off of her door. Were house hunting now and I'm hoping to find one with the beds on the same floor.

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