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071115 · September 2014

This will be baby number 3! We have three rooms upstairs and one down! My son has just decided he will not go down stairs... It's scary! So now I have no idea what to do??
Baby share with same gender?
My 7 yr old son and 3 yr old daughter share?

If baby shares my kids will not get much sleep!
My son sleeps with the light on my daughter likes the light off?

What is everyone else doing??

selena61307 · September 2014

We are moving everyone. Dd1 to the loft dd2 to dd1's room putting nursery back to New baby stage.

Anne Mommy · September 2014

DS1 and DS2 will share. They will be 2and 4 when baby arrives. #3 will get the nursery.

finallyourturn2 · September 2014

We are switching our guest room to our smallest room (formerly my husbands changing room/equipment storage because he is a police officer and has a ton of crap). The babies will share the guest room. Once they get older we will ditch the guest room altogether for a playroom or split the babies up. We also have my office that if we really needed I could do without.

mudbug84 · September 2014

My friend is going through the same thing. She said to him, "You can either take the room downstairs or share with the baby". He's moving downstairs.

071115 · September 2014

jessuhmarie said:
Is it possible to keep the baby in your room until he/she is sleeping better? We are moving DD to a new "big girl room" (currently the guest room) and the baby will sleep with us until he/she is ready to move into DD's current room/nursery just like DD did. She basically slept with us exclusively for 6 months or so and slept about half of the night with us for 6 more months until I dropped the night feed around 1 year old and she finally STTN. I just found it easier/got more sleep with the baby in our room instead of having to get out of bed and go down the hall to change and feed her.

No I do not sleep with a baby in my room... I find I am way more paranoid and our room is so small I don't think a crib would fix

JenniCollins · September 2014

We are lucky that we have four bedrooms. DD will stay in her current room and the twins will get the smaller of the remaining two (currently DH's office) so that leaves the guest room. Eventually the twins will each get their own room. The twins will go straight to their room when they come home from the hospital, DH does not sleep well with a baby in the room. He woke up to every like sound that DD made when she was a newborn, we moved her to her room after 2 nights.

In your case I would make a really big deal about fixing up the room downstairs for DS. Telling everyone to talk to him about how cool his new room will be. And maybe even say that if he stays upstairs he has to share with DD and sleep with only a small night light but downstairs since it's his own totally awesome room he can have the light on. If that fails the older two share until the baby sleeps thru the night more.

maisonduchoco2 · September 2014

Is the room downstairs pretty big? I would move the master down there and just have all three kids upstairs. For some odd reason, I don't like the idea of a kid alone on the main floor at night and the master is upstairs. But, that is me being paranoid and I can understand why your son would think being on the first floor is scary.

If you don't want to move downstairs, then I guess I would make baby share with same gender. I prefer to keep the newborn in our room and just transition once s/he sleeps through the night (that was around 4mos with DS, I realize that may not happen again).

071115 · September 2014

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JenniCollins said:
We are lucky that we have four bedrooms. DD will stay in her current room and the twins will get the smaller of the remaining two (currently DH's office) so that leaves the guest room. Eventually the twins will each get their own room. The twins will go straight to their room when they come home from the hospital, DH does not sleep well with a baby in the room. He woke up to every like sound that DD made when she was a newborn, we moved her to her room after 2 nights.

In your case I would make a really big deal about fixing up the room downstairs for DS. Telling everyone to talk to him about how cool his new room will be. And maybe even say that if he stays upstairs he has to share with DD and sleep with only a small night light but downstairs since it's his own totally awesome room he can have the light on. If that fails the older two share until the baby sleeps thru the night more.

Yah we tried the supper excited thing... You can paint your room whatever colour you want you can decorate it however! We can make your room amazing whatever you want to do to it! Still no it's scary!! Maybe I will mention the nightlight thing maybe that will sway him! I don't want to force him that wouldn't go over well! But I think it would be so much easier that way!!

052806 · September 2014

My boys will share a room and this baby will get it's own room.

mrskelly731 · September 2014

The nursery and guest room will be the same. Luckily it is large enough to have the Queen size bed, a dresser, glider, and crib without being cramped. DD still gets her own room. When we do have family come stay the baby will just sleep with us for the time to let the guests have it be somewhat their own 'space'. We have two sets of parents (My dad/step mom, and ILs) who are both out of the area so we need to have a guest room.

JenOSU · September 2014

Our house has two masters and DDs already share one of those. We will repurpose the play room as a nursery, and the guest room will remain a guest room since DH's family is out of town (although it will inherit some of the displaced toys from the previous play room).

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