What room should be the nursery in my house?

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What room should be the nursery in my house?
Hi experienced Mummys,
I’m currently pregnant and can’t decide which bedroom the baby should get. We live in a London terrace house with a very typical layout. Floor plan attached.
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My considerations are the following:
I need one of the bedrooms to also be an office for my husband. He currently works in our sitting room but when I’m on maternity leave I will mostly be in the kitchen and sitting room I imagine as he takes many work conference calls sharing the space will not be ideal.
I also would like one room to remain a double spare bedroom for my Mum for when she come to visit and stay over.
Initially I wanted the nursery to be in the bedroom 3 (our smallest room). One reason is that it’s next to my neighbours kitchen in case we have a very cry-ey little one (2 flats next door) and would also be far from our master bedrooms so one of us can actually sleep if we are taking it in turns to cover the night shift.
Bedroom 2 is much nicer though especially in size and would fit all the extra stuff we might want/need like the baby changing table, an arm chair etc. Is it useful having your baby and cot right next door to your bedroom?
Top bedroom seems too far (in terms of stairs). So seems like it should be the spare room but my DH doesn’t really want to be evicted to the top of the house in the annex room as you can imagine (low ceilings in there).
Any tips warmly welcome. I basically can’t decide. Another thing you might want to know is that god willing we would like to have our second one quite soon and still need the home office/Mum sleep over parts.
Thank you!

Bedroom 2 nursery

Bedroom 3 office

Bedroom 4 guest room

That way baby is next to you and the parent who wants to sleep goes to bedroom four unless granny is staying. Bedroom 3 as an office as it has a terrace so nice for fresh air, daylight for DH. Bedroom 4 as guest room as its en suite and somewhere gran can go to escape!

Bedroom 2. Right next to your room, perfect!

Oh and your name is on the floor plan, you might want to sort that.

The one furthest away from your room so that if you get a child like mine who screams all night long you stand less chance of being kept awake all night.

I’m kidding... I think!

Could you use bedroom 2 for Baby? Bedroom 3 for home office and bedroom 4 for guest room/mum? I would want the baby close to me for night time feeding/changing. I wouldn't feel comfortable having my baby sleep on a different floor unless it was absolutely necessary. And surely a single size room is ok for the office? If we are just talking desk/chair etc?

If you're anything like me baby will still be in your room for the full year of your maternity leave, so your DH can have his office in any room he likes! In which case by the time you have to settle on a room for baby the office consideration will be out of the window.

I would use top floor, bedroom four, as guest room as it has en suite.

Small room 3 as office.

Room 2 for baby as it's next to yours and has more room as child grows.

2 for baby. You won't want them to have any risk of getting onto that terrace unsupervised once they're a toddler. You can put a stairgate either on their bedroom door, if you want them totally shut in or blocking each staircase, so they still have access to you, once they are walking.

If it's a Victorian terrace don't worry about noise to neighbours - those walls are amazing and block everything. My neighbours never heard my DS (or they were very, very nice and lied about it!!)

Agree with everyone else's suggestions of bedroom 2 as nursery. The baby is likely to be in your bedroom for a few months though, so make sure the spare bedroom is comfortable for your husband to escape to! But you really do want them to be as close as possible in my experience as sometimes you can settle them back down before they really wake up because you respond to them quickly.

for the first 6 months the baby will need to sleep with you.
If he/she is a good sleeper, that will probably be in a crib in your room. If he/she is not a good sleeper, you may end up sleeping with them in the 'nursery'

The nursery doesn't get used for much if the baby sleeps with you in those first months, just storing clothes and anppy changes. Until you get fed up going upstairs and have a changing mat downstairs.

I would definitely start with smallest room as nursery, no child plays in their room until they are about 4 or 5, so they only need sleep space.

2 for baby definitely, you'll want your baby as close as possible.
I'd do bedroom 4 as a guest suite as it's ensuite then make 3 into an office.

There was another thr

Bedroom 4 as guest room (as long as your regular guests don’t have mobility problems)

Bedroom 3 as study

Bedroom 2 as nursery

BUT if you plan a second child within 4/5 years I’d make bedroom 4 the office as you’ll need 2 and 3 as children’s bedrooms (well I wouldn’t put a child on the 3rd floor until old enough to cope with stairs sleepy) then bedroom 2 nursery and 3 guest

Agree with others. Bedroom 2 as nursery- if youre up in the middle of the night with them you want to travel as little as possible (or that might just be my laziness!!)