AIBU sleeping arrangement

I find this hard to believe unless the single bed in the room is massive. I grew up in the box room of a three bed council house and before we moved in someone had moved the wall to make the double bedroom larger and I could still fit a small air mattress in there. It would mean possibly standing on the air mattress to get to the single bed and it wouldn't be ideal it but would fit.

I wonder where the OP spent the last 2 nights 😂

Maybe on a blow up bed on the floor “runs”

You are all guests in that house and you all deserve privacy. It's your problem, so you need to solve it.

You could buy a Jaybe bed for your husband to sleep on. They aren't expensive and they're very comfortable. It will come in useful for visits when your baby is born too.

Where are you suggesting she puts it?

I would say this is a pretty one off and unusual situation.

You have to go to see an unwell relative.

Your sisters have to go the exact same time (presumably as it’s the Bank Hol, so better to travel for longer)

Your parents’ house has had an unusual change of layout meaning it has a double room for your parents and three box rooms. You are aghast that people struggled with this, but you didn’t explain it to begin with, and it is unusual.

You can’t afford a hotel.

You can’t drive yourself.

It’s too far for him to drive you and drop you off.

You have fainted, so can’t travel on the train.

Your DH sleeping in the sofa or the pair of you sleeping together in the lounge room on a double airbed/mattress is the best bet, especially as you are bringing your dogs which will need to be let out into the garden. By you/DH.

As you’re having twins, your plans for staying there will have to change anyway.

Whinging about him needing privacy means you are ruling out about the only possible solution, other than forcing your sisters to give up their beds. It feels like you are creating a situation here.

If your sister slept on the sofa, your husband would have to wake her up and invade her privacy when he’s letting his dogs out anyway, so it makes sense for him to be on the sofa, dogs in with him and he’s up early to sort the dogs and dressed by the time everyone else is awake.

What about a luxury yurt in the garden -you can hire for the duration one of the others may prefer to have space and it would free up an extra room…everyone would be onsite and not excluded by being off-site

As others I struggle to see how a room can be so small that there isn't enough room for someone to sleep on the floor next to the bed. Self inflating mattresses can be quite compact and comfy.

We have a small room which we have put wardrobes in as the main bedroom doesn't have room for storage. We took the permanent beds out (used to be 2 singles which we pushed together if appropriate. We now. We have kept one single in the loft which we put together if we need the room (elderly relative who needs a standard bed) , alternatively we have two Z beds or we put an airbed or SIMs in there depending on who is using the room, it's much more flexible that way. Your parents need to consider how their rooms work for the family now everyone is older. Moving doesn't have to be the only option - look at the space and how the current furniture works or doesn't work, also to consider if they need to declutter.

I'd also depersonalise rooms so that nobody feels they have a right to any particular space!

You are prioritising YOUR preference for your husband to have privacy over your sisters having their privacy.
TBH this all sounds extremely childish. You are pregnant. Get a hotel, or go on your own this time.
TBH when your twins arrive you are going to have to make other arrangements when you visit because the house is too small to accommodate you all anyway, so why not start now?

Why dont you book a hotel or AirBNB nearby?

Because that would fix the problem and OP wouldn't be able to moan about it 😂 if she's this precious when pregnant I feel sorry for her family 😂

Why not read OPs answers?

I did! I kept seeing her response about not having room for an airbed!

ps. Are you ok?

And you managed to miss her repeatedly explaining why she’s not getting a hotel? That’s quite a skill.

For the future, get bunkbeds put into one or two of the rooms.

You could even do that now.....checkout the facebook pages local to your parents also, Freegle, Freecycle and Nextdoor for offers of bunkbeds.

Theres usually someone willing to help or ditching stuff.

There definitely won't be room for the children when they arrive so you might as well get used to staying in a hotel or only visiting when your sisters aren't or not visiting.

I actually do want to take OP up on her offer to photograph the three rooms! If there's room to open a wardrobe then there must be floor space for a husband in his sleeping bag. I call bullshit on the floor space thing.

Especially since OP now says they're exploring bunk beds for the future. If there's room for an adult to club a ladder on the side of the bunk beds, there's enough of a walkway to put a small airbed down.

We all know that when she has the children, she'll expect her sisters to give up their bedrooms for the babies!

And that's why I think the parents need to rejig and depersonalise the space, the sisters are all adult now and the space should be able to be used as needed. The babies will in time need their own space especially given the size of the rooms.

So OP and her family need to book a hotel if there's not space for their family when they are all visiting together at the same time as her sisters. OP's needs don't trump her sisters! Why do you, (and indeed OP) think her needs must be met at the expense of her sisters? She's not more important than them.

Ooh a pop at me!

I don't think anyone's needs are more important. It seems fairly clear that as described by the OP (correctly or not), there isn't enough space for everyone at one time.

However one assumes that the parents will want their daughter, SIL and twins to visit at some point so will need appropriate space to accommodate them without one of the sister's complaining that they are using "her room". As described none of the rooms currently will take two cots (with the existing furniture) so it would make sense to make changes to allow the space to be more flexible and usable going forward for all of them.

Really? 😂

You wouldn't ever be forgetting, you must have a lot of time on your hands.

Her husband and sleep on the sofa or get a blowup mattress and sleep on the floor in her room or they get a hotel room.

I don't think sister is saying people can't stay in her childhood bedroom at any point - I think she's saying on this specific visit she's not prepared to give up the room she was already allocated and sleep on the sofa so that OP and her originally-not-visiting husband can have a room each.

Exactly. If the rooms are unoccupied, of course anyone can use them. But each of 3 sisters get first dibs on their own room each when all 3 visit at the same time.