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Will newborn wreck our bedroom?

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BoyMeetsWorld · 30/11/2013 22:49

Probably a totally stupid question but...

Our bedroom is very cream, Lacey, lots of velvets / silk etc. Clean cream walls, thick cream carpet.

Baby will obviously be in our room in a Moses basket when first born (any day soon!!) and I keep hearing other mums talk about projectile vomit, poo explosions etc in middle of the night. I just wanted a heads up what we're in for & whether our immaculate bedroom (I know it sounds totally ridiculous lol but it's our one and one sanctuary room in the house! I love it) is going to inevitably get destroyed?

Already have another child but didn't go through this with them as he went straight into his own room...

Thanks for advice

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Only1scoop · 30/11/2013 22:56

Our bedroom is all very white....Still is ....all they do is sleep in a little crib or basket next to you. We used nursery to change nappies and were lucky (perhaps) to have no projectile vomiting etc. Its when they get to 3 with sticky bogies and secret stashes of Playdoh you have to worry!
Good luck with your imminent arrival x

BummyMummy77 · 30/11/2013 22:57

My bedroom is similar. All white though. The only damage done by ds so far is that I've pooped on the carpet a few times. :S

I don't actually care when he stains stuff though. He's only a week old so I'm still thinking of it as cute. :S

HaroldTheGoat · 30/11/2013 22:57

Mine didn't. Then he became a toddler and wrecked everything I held precious.

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BoyMeetsWorld · 30/11/2013 22:58

Thanks scoop that's reassuring :) the toddler years I can cope with...the rest of the house is play zone (ESP DS1's bedroom!!) just nice to be able to retain one 'pretty' place if possible amidst all the baby mess!

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BoyMeetsWorld · 30/11/2013 22:59

Aaaaargh poop on carpet. Terrifying :(

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Onefewernow · 30/11/2013 23:00

Already have another child, and you don't know???

Did child 1 make a mess of the spaces they slept in?

WaitingForMe · 30/11/2013 23:00

Depends on the baby. I wore dry clean only jumpers and have had two exploded nappies ever. A friend of mine just wiped her clothes over with a baby wipe as there was so much vomit that if she changed her clothes every time, she'd never not have had the washing machine running.

AmandaCooper · 30/11/2013 23:01

Not at all, I thought babies and mess would go hand in hand but DS has been very neat. Occasionally I'd find a loose hair in his cot; that was the messiest he got!

TheRaniOfYawn · 30/11/2013 23:04

Baby sick is milk coloured so cream is very practical. All those dark tops that you love because they never show stains? They will become the ones that always have pale splodges.

Babies do tend to leak poo, and the chances are that at some point it will get on your clothes or soft furnishings, but it tends to wash out fairly easily.

The time to worry is when they are a bit older and keep lying with their dirty feet against the wall.

BlueChampagne · 30/11/2013 23:04

Entirely depends on child. Neither of ours particularly pukey. Change in bathroom? If necessary redecorate in a couple of years.

starfishmummy · 30/11/2013 23:08

I think you should cover the whole bedroom with plastic sheeting.

NoComet · 30/11/2013 23:14

DD2 was born in our bedroom without leaving any mess.

So sleeping shouldn't be a problem!

Laradaclara · 30/11/2013 23:17

We decorated our room prior to baby being born. There was a great deal of explosive newborn poo to deal with I'm afraid. Mostly it was fine but there was one memorable occasion where I'd just taken DD's nappy off and she managed to poo several feet across the room
However, vanish on the carpets worked wonders and sunlight seems to have a miraculous bleaching effect too.
Good luck!

MrsDeanAmbrose · 01/12/2013 11:48

DS (8 weeks) has a lovely habit of weeing the moment you take his nappy off, and it gets an awfully long way away from the changing mat! Apart from that things have remained mostly bodily fluid free.

ipswichwitch · 01/12/2013 12:02

Get a very large changing mat/tarpaulin if you plan on doing nighttime nappy changes on your bedroom floor. Vomit is not the only bodily substance that can be expelled in a projectile fashion

General destruction and stain issues have got a lot worse during the toddler stage. I had plans to keep DS out of our room. That lasted about 5minutes. Now our bed is his trampoline (ok so that was deliberate on my part - I want a new bed!)

GeppaGip · 01/12/2013 12:15

We changed our newborn in a different room to ours so he had no impact on the condition of the room at all. No projectile vomiting or poo here either.

As someone mentioned above, our 'baby' started wrecking the house shortly before he turned two. Bogies are a biggie, throwing or dropping plastic toys on our beautiful oak flooring (:-() and smeary fingerprints on our dove grey and pebble walls.

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