Seriously, this isnt as heartless as it sounds. I am due in June. DH and I are in a rented 2 bed house, both bedrooms are v small and one is upstairs, one downstairs. We are planning to sleep the baby in our bedroom (upstairs), in a moses basket which will just fit in the room with us, for the first few months (?six months? i dont know how long it will fit in a moses basket for). This realistically means dh will sleep on his own downstairs most week nights as his job is stressful and he will need his sleep. But when its time to put the baby in a cot, we couldnt fit a cot in our room with a double bed too. But I cant imagine it would be safe to put the cot in the 2nd bedroom, downstairs, on a separate floor, whilst we sleep upstairs?: Am I getting in a stew over nothing, would that be fine , with say a baby moniter?
Its just that if its really not ok to sleep a child on a separate floor, then we will need to look at moving house in december when our rental contract is up, ( but we are lazy and hate the thought of moving) which means I should take it easy and minimalist when it comes to making the 2nd room a nursery/cutesy baby room. Im not exactly planning to go mad but I would like to make some new curtains etc and try and re-arrange stuff. Or perhaps DH and I are destined to sleep in separate rooms for ages so I can be on the same floor as the wee one. Or we could move the single bed upstairs and the double downstairs as there is a little more room downstairs and we could feasibly fit a cot in there with us. Some friends have even suggested we have the cot in the sitting room, which is also upstairs next to our bedroom. But that would be messy. Aaargh! Please could anyone advise me on whether they have had the same problem/ would feel happy putting a baby downstairs while they slept upstairs?
Please tell me frankly if I am making a mountain out of a molehill and it is perfectly ok to put cot downstairs.....