Do your children sleep on a different floor to you?

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How did you manage when they were babies/toddlers?

We moved from a bungalow to a cottage, and the DC have attic rooms on the floor above us. Youngest baby DD will be a year old soon, and we're starting to think of trying her in her own room (currently cosleeping)

I'm nervous about the stairs, and about having her on a separate floor. I feel it's probably psychological, as it's not a huge staircase, it's directly opposite our room, and we can see the children's bedroom doors from our bedroom door. The bathroom is also on our floor. Older DC have been absolutely fine but are well past the baby/toddler stage, so I've never had to deal with this before.

I was going to put a stair gate on the nursery door rather than the actual staircase. Does this sound OK?

I'd love a bit of reassurance... Nobody else I know has this set up, and I'm currently ordering black out blinds for the Velux window and worrying!

I wouldn't do it either. I'm currently house hunting and ruled out houses for this reason.

we have an odd layout and DS sleeps on a different floor to us. He's 2 and still in a cot and has not attempted to climb out so he just calls us when he wakes. When the time comes to have him in a bed, I'll just put a safety gate at his door. We have a monitor so we can hear every sound.

Oh how I wish they did. My friend (mother of five, although kids are late primary age plus) has just had a loft extension. Door at the bottom of the staircase and no children allowed up. She and her husband are in a very happy place at the moment.

Both of mine (now age 3 and 5) have slept on a different floor to us since they went into their own rooms at 6 months. No problems at all. We've used baby monitors in their rooms when they were little. Once we moved from a cot to a bed we put gates on their room doors as a safeguard so they didn't encounter the stairs in their own. We've just removed our last one from my 3 year old's door now he can manage the stairs (although in reality he still sits up in bed and shouts for us rather than comes out of his room!). In truth the only time I've found it a pain is when they're poorly and not sleeping well and I've been traipsing up and down stairs all night!