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What size home did you live in when you had your first baby?

218 replies

CheesePls · 04/06/2023 13:23

Just that!

OP posts:
KingofCats · 04/06/2023 15:09

A tiny 2 up 2 down cluster home (back to back with another so no garden). We had a little bit of front garden I would put a paddling pool up in for my little girl, stayed there until she was 2.5 then moved when I was pregnant with my second

DeathWinsAGolfish · 04/06/2023 15:10

4 bed semi, South West

inloveandmarried · 04/06/2023 15:11

Six bed detached1999. Outskirts of a beautiful village. Many decades ago when ExH was earning a lot.
Times have changed things greatly.

Yerroblemom1923 · 04/06/2023 15:12

4 bed.

pinkpirlie · 04/06/2023 15:12

We have a 4 bed detached (midlands) but we are older first time parents (aged 40). I've owned a home since aged 23.

DelurkingAJ · 04/06/2023 15:12

3 bed semi that came with DH’s job. 2012. Moved in 8 months pregnant…they’d suggested a date a month later but when DH told them my due date his work rearranged the order they were moving people!

3 bed detached of our own when DS2 was born. 2016.

33goingon64 · 04/06/2023 15:15

3 bed terrace with a tiny garden

Bugbeau · 04/06/2023 15:18

We lived in a 2 bed flat, 2011. In 2013 we moved to a 4 bed terrace (which needed serious modernisation and we are still working on nearly 10 years later)!

inlovewiththejoker · 04/06/2023 15:19

One bed terrace, moved to a 2 bed flat when DC was one

WhatTheHeckyPeck · 04/06/2023 15:19

CheesePls · 04/06/2023 14:23

Why did you move?

We moved to (now ex)H's GM's 4bed bungalow after his mum moved out. GM lived in the annexe.

Notamum12345577 · 04/06/2023 15:20

CheesePls · 04/06/2023 13:23

Just that!

One bedroom flat (though was just one up one down rather than a block of flats, so we had our own garden)

Muddygreenfingers · 04/06/2023 15:20

4 bed detached bought in 2018.
Up North for context.

LynetteScavo · 04/06/2023 15:20

Three bed terrace in a lovely quiet street with a tiny, (but big enough for us) garden. Happy days.

Fifthtimelucky · 04/06/2023 15:24

3 bed terrace, bought in 1992.

Baby arrived in 1997 when I was 36.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 04/06/2023 15:24

2 bed prefab on a construction camp in the Middle East.

Pollywoddles · 04/06/2023 15:26

4 bed semi

RobertsRadio · 04/06/2023 15:27

Rented two bed flat, 1970s. We were mid twenties and pretty broke, but we were (mostly) happy.

geminiflanagan · 04/06/2023 15:28

Tiny 2 bed terrace with a little garden. Bought in 2010, ds came along in 2013 and we are still here.

geminiflanagan · 04/06/2023 15:28

Oh, and roughly 75 sqm in terms of size. No garage, outbuildings etc and a tiny loft.

ThreeRingCircus · 04/06/2023 15:29

3 bed semi detached house. We'd bought it in 2014 and DD1 was born in 2017. The third bedroom was a tiny box room so was a study as DH and I both worked from home. When DD2 was born we stayed there for a while and DDs shared a bedroom then we moved to a 4 bed in 2021. We could easily have stayed there if we'd needed or wanted to though.

Crochetpenguin · 04/06/2023 15:32

2 bed semi. Bought 2000, dd born 2005.

fancyfrogs · 04/06/2023 15:34

3 bed semi. Bought 2018, first baby 2020. Up north

Emfrancesca · 04/06/2023 15:34

3 bed semi and we had our DD in April this year

OldTinHat · 04/06/2023 15:35

3 bed terraced house then converted the loft for another bedroom and bathroom when no.2 arrived.

GlasgowGal82 · 04/06/2023 15:37

One bedroom flat. It was in a Victorian tenement though so the rooms were big and we were able to fit a cot and extra chest of drawers into our bedroom. When we moved into a three bedroom house our furniture almost filled the new house. All we really needed to fill it was one new bed!