Hi, can any MNers help with a quandary about my daughter's bedroom please?
We have 2 bedrooms. One is my 3 year old daughter's, and the others is mine and my partner's. We have a 7 month old baby and he is still in our room - we're not ready to move him out, so there's no need or rush to. He is still breastfed and wakes twice in the night for a feed so practically he can't go in his sister's room yet anyway.
He's in a Next2Me crib next to our bed but rapidly growing out of it. We already have a travel cot ready which will be his upgrade!
Anyway, eventually we're going to put them in the same room. But, it's a nightmare. My 3 year old has additional needs and is still in a cot bed (with both sides on) for a number of reasons. I expect she will be ready for a proper bed later this year.
Problem: in her room there's her cot, a small wardrobe, large chest of drawers, and a toy storage area with wall-mounted bookcases above it. We can't find a way to fit another bed or cot in there. My daughter definitely would NOT be able to use a ladder on a bunk bed and won't be safe to even try for the foreseeable future.
So that leaves our only logical option as:
We get two very small beds - a toddler bed and small cot for the baby. What happens when baby grows out of said small cot and/or 3 year old grows out of toddler bed?
We can't swap rooms (the little ones have our room and we move into our daughter's). There's no way any of our furniture would fit in her room once we've got our double bed and bedside tables in there. We need drawers and a wardrobe too but no chance.
If you're wondering why we didn't think of this before having another baby, we did! We planned to move house before our son was born but the rising cost of living changed that for us when I was already pregnant.
Obviously we're looking into moving again, but that won't happen quickly even if it's possible. We also know that having a boy and girl means eventually they'll need their own rooms anyway.
I've scoured the Internet looking at different options for children's beds but drawing blanks.
Obviously with our baby in our room there's no urgency but I'm trying to come up with a plan for later this year. My partner and will want our room and space back eventually!
Thank you!