Will a young child sleep on a separate floor?

[Shazzabella]

HELP! We are thinking of buying a house for a hopefully expanding family (at the moment we have a 10 month old DS) ... however it would mean that DS would need to sleep on the 2nd floor (alone) when the second baby comes along (as the 1st floor only has 2 bedrooms).

Would a young child be able to do this or be frightened? Till what age will this be a problem? Should we therefore not be buying this house (we are still in the offer stage).

DS has slept on a different floor to us since he was 7mo (3 storey house, we're in the loft room)

My advice? DON'T DO IT!
Having that extra floor to climb is awful when you're up and down with a sick toddler/pregnant and can't waddle anywhere/knackered from no sleep etc.

I will never buy a 3 storey house again.

HTH

We have a house like this, and we put DS in his room on his own floor when he was 5 weeks old! He's now 4, but we still use a monitor so can always hear him if he needs us. He's never shown the slightest indication that he's bothered by it, and I know of lot of people with a similar style of house whose children are all happy with this arrangement.

3-Storey houses rock - definitely go for it

totally conflicting reports there.. heh.

Yes - clearly these houses don't suit everyone!

I'm with Gumbo, it has never been an issue for us

He'll only be frightened if he senses you think he might be

Oh, should have said - it's never been an issue for DS at all, he's perfectly happy being on another floor.

I just object to the constant stomping up and down stairs in the middle of the night. EVERYTIME he wakes up I curse this house

wasn;t an issue for us. Boy slept on middle floor, we on bottom, living room on top floor, could hear him from our room or living room so perfect.

dd(2.6) sleeps fine on the floor below us

am 8m pg and have not yet fallen down the stairs while stumbling to her in the night, and she has no problem thumping up the stairs to find us in the morning

Shazzabella - We live in a three-storey townhouse with this make-up:

Basement level - DS's room and second bathroom
Ground level - Kitchen
Higher ground level - Living room
Top floor - Master bedroom with ensuite

We now have two DSs - DS1 (23 months old) is in the basement room while DS2 is with us (only 11 weeks old). I don't think it's a case of 'will a child sleep on a separate floor?' Why not? It's more whether you are happy for them to do so. It took us ages to move DS1 into his own room as I didn't want to banish him into the dungeon (LOL!) but it was the best thing we did. He sleeps better down in his own room and since the arrival of DS2, we are so glad our rooms are not next to each other as DS2 would have kept waking DS1 up in the first couple of weeks.

If there are two rooms on one floor, can you not allocate that floor as the kids' floor and you have the room on the second floor? DH and I have the fantasy of buying a house with the kids being on a separate floor by themselves! Another plus is you won't need any additional exercises, just going up and down the stairs will do the job!