Hi there,
DH and I are expecting a baby in November. We are actually trying to figure this out ourselves, but some perspective from moms who have been through it before would be handy too.
We have a 3-bed house, with the master bed and 2nd bed upstairs, and bedroom three is downstairs. DSD (age 7) is currently upstairs in the 2nd bedroom, and sleeps in it every other week, for 7 days at a time. Her bedroom is slightly bigger than the spare bedroom downstairs.
DH and I would like to keep the baby in our bedroom with us for ~6 months after it's born, following the advice about SIDS and all that. But, after that, we are pretty darn sure we'll have to have the baby in the upstairs bedroom. The baby will be with us every day of the year, as opposed to DSD who is with us only half of the year. Neither DH nor I are really warm to the idea of 1) stumbling down the stairs in the middle of the night, in a rush to tend to a crying baby or 2) finding out the baby learned to climb out of its crib after it runs into some hazard downstairs, while we are upstairs none the wiser. We think the baby is slightly more likely to be safe upstairs, where we can get to it a bit quicker.
Question is, would you move your young stepdaughter downstairs sooner or later? Would you not bother with a big furniture switcheroo until the baby is ready to move into its own cot, or would you save yourself some hauling and dismantling later on and do it all before you get the nursery furniture delivered and built?
I don't actually know what's going to be the best solution - the most emotionally sensitive one doesn't seem to be the most practical one. But maybe I'm making too big a deal of it all - wouldn't be the first time!
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ProbablyJustGas · 03/07/2013 18:10
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