Our 10 month old baby boy is currently sleeping in a cot in our room, but I’d like to get him into his own room in the coming months. The problem is the layout of our house. It’s a 4 storey town house with 2 large bedrooms on the first floor and then 1 small bedroom and an open plan office on the second floor. At the moment we all sleep on the first floor - DH and I with the baby in the main bedroom and our 2 daughters (4.5yo and 2.5 yo) in the other.
The obvious option is to put the baby in the bedroom on the second floor (with a baby monitor, stair gate and smoke detectors obviously). Our daughters are quite happy sharing. I tried to sell the idea of the 4.5yo having her own room upstairs so the two youngest could share but she wasn’t having any of it. There is ample space to put all three of them in one room but this seems a bit too much, especially as the 2.5yo has only just started sleeping through and is still not a great sleeper. We could also put the 3 kids in the two bedrooms on the first floor, with DH and I moving upstairs. But then the kids would have the two biggest rooms in the house and we’d have to give up our super kingsize bed for a small double bed and barely any room for a wardrobe. (I know, that makes me sound hugely selfish...)
I guess I just feel really guilty about him being up on the top floor on his own even though it’s the obvious solution. Does anybody else do anything similar or have any bright ideas?