To ask would you rather move house at 9 months pregnant or with a newborn?

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We have to wait till September to move house (150 miles north) as we’ll pay a lower early repayment charge on our fixed rate mortgage and I’m due at the end of that month. But we also have to move before Jan 2021 (the deadline for DD’s school application) so we’ve either got to move when I’m 9 months pregnant or with 1/2 month old.
WWYD?

Another vote for pregnancy - currently in the process, whole place needs decorating which we should just about get done before baby arrives even if not fully done. Managing now, don't think I'd cope with a newborn. The paperwork caused enough headaches - get going now!

100% pregnant!

100% while pregnant, without a shadow of a doubt

I moved 18 months ago. I was 41+5. My DS was born the next day. It was hell on Earth. Packing everything up whilst pregnant was easy. I couldn’t go home from hospital, I had to go to my mums because we had no beds etc. I’m sure we’ve still got boxes in the loft we never managed to unpack because it was just awful doing it with a tiny baby.

Definitely aim for well before the baby is born if you can!

Newborn. I was more mobile after the EMCS that put me in HDU, and the 3rd degree tear than I was while heavily pregnant! At least I didn't have to be physically dredged off the sofa by another person after the births, plus I had the luxury of 2 hour blocks of sleep between feeds. I had crap pregnancies and births!

I moved at 35 weeks and would not do it after birth. My partner and I packed up the house in a weekend and I did no lifting. Just packing.

We hired men and van removals to do all the carrying which was bliss.

11 months later we were on the move with a 10 month old and it was 10 times harder to pack while distracting a crawling baby who just wanted to climb in the boxes!

As you will be so close to due date can you move a few weeks earlier or a back up plan if the baby comes early?

I did at 9months pregnant and 3 other children under 6. It was fine

I've done both. New born was MUCH harder

Pregnant. Moved 10 days beforehand but didn't quite get settled/feel at home. Would prefer that than trying to do it with toddlers/newborn.

Do you have to sell your house and buy another? It could take days weeks or months to sell a house. Im not sure you can plan a moving date like this.

Pregnant,just don't lift.You have no idea what the birth will be like but even straightforward you will be exhausted and hormonal.

Oh and you still can't lift straight after birth as your ligaments are still soft.

Definitely pregnant

Pregnant. The amount of care a new born needs is a big surprise. It is very hard to get a block of time.

Pregnant
Baby warm and safe inside you versus having to manage keeping a baby warm and safe while an entire house is in boxes, on a van, being unpacked
Baby being automatically fed versus baby needing to be fed at best every 3 hours day and night (so you needing somewhere clean and private to sit)
You awkward and uncomfortable versus you with stitches in your undercarriage, bleeding, having just had a placenta ripped out of your womb and pushed a 8 ish pound baby out of a stretch sock like tube using just your stomach muscles
You clearly in need of help as your big tummy is a visual clue versus you probably in need of help as you are looking more normal
You nesting instinct driving you to get things put away versus hormonal joyride meaning you are likely to just sit in a corner and cry

Move when pregnant everyday. I did it at 38 weeks. The first thing unpacked was a garden chair that was put by the front door and then I sat there and every item that was carried in was sent to a room by me. I was lucky enough to have a big attic and I had labelled the boxes with essentials with lurid green duct tape. They went to the relevant rooms, everything else went to the attic. Then my friends came round and we got all the essential boxes unpacked on the first day (I had to just trust their judgement for where they put the kitchen stuff as I focussed on the baby’s room and DS 1 room). So the house was straight pretty quickly and then over the next two weeks I just unpacked one box at a time (DH would grab a couple before he went to work and leave them on the dining room table). It was almost all done before the baby arrived two weeks later and the decorative stuff that wasnt didnt really matter. If you have a garage at the new house, you could use that as a box store if you want to do something similar

I made the decision to move with a newborn

Pregnant 100%

Definitely pregnant

Pregnant. I did it and it was brilliant, I didn't lift a finger

Pregnant, with paid or family help. We moved a sofa first, and all I did was direct and make cups of tea.

Pregnant absolutely definitely. As long as you manage to get sorted before baby arrives

Pregnant, definitely! Our house move got delayed by a month and we ended up moving with a 1 day old baby. It was more stressful that I can describe! I tried to find a happy medium spending time with my baby and unpacking but we were living around stacks of boxes for months. It was honestly awful and contributed massively to my PND. (Although we were moving from a rented house with uncertainty as to when the landlord would sell it, to one we bought, so in that respect I don't regret it at all).

I've done both. Moved at 7 months then again when dd was 3 months. I found the one with a baby easier.
Moving whilst pregnant completely knocked me out.
Whichever you decide please make sure you hire professional movers to take the pressure off yourself.
We relied on family and I felt very guilty afterwards for not being able to help as much plus it's difficult to please everyone so tensions were running high!

I would have rather moved with my newborn but she was a very easy baby whereas I had a really complicated pregnancy so hard to say

Pregnant. I've done both.