How soon did you get the nursery done?

[beehappybe]

So the sickness and nausea is mostly gone now and have been replaced with tiredness and kicking but still, I have more energy than in the last three months (finally). So I have managed to come up with the nursery design and colour scheme and pick all the bits we need to buy. I am 20 weeks.

I wonder when did everyone start decorating and furnishing their nursery?It seems the second trimester is the best time to do this??

I figure if I start doing everything now it will be done before Christmas leaving me January to focus on training my maternity cover at work and February just for me...

[Hippahippahey]

Had mine more or less done by around 30 weeks. We used it from day 1 for nappy changing, dressing the babies etc.

I like to be organised and have places to put things. I would have driven myself mad without a nursery

[stargirl1701]

About 5 months after DD1 was born. No need for it until 6 months.

[Miffyonline]

I'm now 30 weeks pregnant with my second and the main things in the room are done - new carpet, painting, curtains etc. It's a nice thing to do to mentally prepare for the baby. Even though our DC1 was in our room for 3 months, theres no way I felt like decorating a room after we had the baby

[SpecialStains]

Going to start nursery after 20week scan. I've already got lots of my old childhood books, toys and some handmade childrens furniture that was given to me by a relative out of my parents attic.

My mum is going to come up over Easter and help paint jungle animals on the wall (she's fab at wall murals, our childhood bedrooms were works of art). I want to have it painted and the room aired ages before baby arrives.

Cot and things may have to wait until further on in pregnancy, as we've just bought a house and a little skint. I know baby will be in a little carrycot with me when it's born, but like you I still need somewhere to store baby stuff, change baby, keep all the presents baby will get etc.

This is pfb (and likely only child). Don't care how unnecessary other posters feel it is - I want to do it and be ready before baby arrives!

[shackattack]

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[shackattack]

Started the nursery at about 20 weeks once the sickness had disappeared and did it off and on until baby was born. A week past my due date I was outside painting the cot! Took ages as I did it on the cheap and made over a lot of old furniture / did ikea hacks. But I'm really pleased with it. When it was done, I splashed out on some prints I found and loved on Etsy which are big and bright - we didn't want to paint the white walls so this was a way of adding colour.

[SoozeyHoozey]

It doesn't yet exist! We're busy converting the loft for ds so the baby can have his room. Should be finished by my due date in Feb but won't be decorated especially and the furniture will just be whatever we cobble together, as long as the baby has a cot. It will be in our room for six months anyway. I've never understood the fascination with decorating nurseries, babies are oblivious until they're about two!

[WorldsBiggestGrotbag]

Mumber we moved countries at 27 weeks pregnant with DD1 (from Italy back to the UK), moved again when she was 6 months old then again when she was 17 months and I was 7 months pregnant with DD2... Maybe that's why I've never been organised enough to have a nursery!

[CityMole]

We're not going to bother.

This sounds evil, but hear me out!

This is an unplanned pregnancy, albeit we are very happy about it. We live in a city centre town house which is all sharp edges and glass and roof garden with skylights- a bit like something out of American Psycho, and extremely un-child friendly! We even decided against getting a cat, as we thought it was too much of a death trap. There is no point trying to adapt the property- we know we are going to have to move a some point next year. Probably once the child needs a room of its own (which we are guessing will be at least after 6 months, potentially more like a year.) In the meantime, there is little sense in turning our spare room into something that the next buyer (demographic- childless professional city couple) will look at and think WHAT! (at the moment it's my office).

when we move, I will allow myself to get excited about this!

[acquiescence]

I'm in the process of doing it now, just finished painting. I'm 37+4.

[Mumberjack]

Its easier to get stuff done before baby arrives! Said by someone who.moved house the week before daughter's first birthday. Argh!
Unless its an amazing bargain, dont get tied into buying a full set of nursery furniture. We got a nice cot but rest of furniture was from ikea so also suitably sized for adult sized clothes, far more flexible.

[kep1979]

We painted the nursery last weekend (I'm 27 weeks). It is the first room in the house to be decorated since we moved in during the summer and I really wanted to get all the baby things organised well in advance. And yes totally for my benefit rather than baby's. We will have a cot in our room too, but I agree with a pp, not everyone will keep baby with them for six months.
We are going to see how we feel, and how she sleeps, before making any decisions. Like everything to do with pregnancy and babies there are lots of guidelines and parents have to make their own minds up, based on those guidelines and their own risk assessment.

[Dixiechick17]

We couldn't do ours until we moved back into our own place when she was three months old. She still sleeps in with us and will untl she is six months, but when we change her in the nursery she loves looking at the wall stickers that we put up, she coos at them.

I also put her in her cot when I am putting her clothes away in there as she likes the mobile :) and the kicking about room.

[Paperblank]

We've not started decorating the baby's room but it will be started quite soon (I'm 20 weeks)

We want to do it even though the baby won't sleep in there overnight for a while.

We're not going for a baby theme though we want something that will last through until when the baby is 4 or 5.

[jobrum]

I was still painting it at 38 weeks. It is painted, has a cot, wall stickers, things dangling from the ceiling and a very bright rug. And a beautiful framed picture that I bought before we'd even begun to empty all the stuff out when it was a spare room. Dd is nine months and she's not going to appreciate the room for a while yet so you don't really need to get it ready for the baby iyswim.

[jorahmormont]

Just before DD turned one. Well, that's when we moved her cot into the spare room and put some stickers on the wardrobes and her name bunting on the wall. Spose that counts as her nursery

[blueandgreendots]

With DD I didn't want to decorate the nursery until I knew she'd arrived safely in the world, but I'm more paranoid than most due to my job (pathologist). We had fun decorating it in her first few months. I'm due in April and will probably do the same and wait. I do intend to get a bedside cot for our room as I hated the Moses basket we had last time.

[Runningupthathill82]

We currently have all the storage under DSs bed too! One day we will move.
Until then, I can revel in small luxuries such as not needing a baby monitor and being able to Hoover an entire floor without moving the plug between sockets...

[ShowOfHands]

My darling great grandma btw, was born in 1889 and was one of fourteen. She lived in a 2 up 2 down with her parents and siblings and if you ever asked her what that was like she said "it was better than being down the pit" and gave you a hard stare. She used to think this whole one room per child thing was a sign that we've all gone soft.

I can't wait to tell my teenaged children to be grateful they're not down a mine. It's all in the perspective I find.

[ShowOfHands]

Could you put the baby in a drawer perchance?

Our house is tiny and the only way we could stick the two in one room was to have a bunk bed type arrangement. Before that DC1 had a cabin bed as it was the only way to have storage as well as a bed.

Fuck it. It's cosy and bijou and um, cheap to heat.

We plan to move. One day. Before they start tormenting each other for pleasure and after we win the lottery.

[Runningupthathill82]

Showofhands - no, sadly there's no room for a double in DSs room. There's barely the room to stand next to the single bed!

Unless we manage to move house before then, my plan is to keep DC2 in with us until DS is big enough for a cabin bed, and then get a cabin bed type thing which could have a cot below it for the baby.

Over time, that set up could then become bunks. Your bunk bed arrangement sounds great - and demonstrates there's ways and means of making a small house work.

So I guess I'll never do a "nursery." Am clearly a terrible parent!!

[ShowOfHands]

Running, my 4yo has a dinosaur bedcover and that's about it, so you've got at least a year for that to suffice as a nod to them having a nursery imo.

Is there room for a double in DS's room? My brother ended up sticking his bed in the smaller room once DC2 needed to be in their own room (a real squish tbh) and the DC now have the bigger room to share.

What we did (2 bed house too) was to keep the youngest in with us for quite a while. We cosleep anyway but had a cot with one side taken off pushed up against the bed. DS had his own space that way. Then, when they were bigger, BIL built bunkbeds for them (small singles) but they're configured in such a way that they can be under each other or l-shaped, whatever fits the room and obviously takes up much less room and the ladder moves too. They're 8 and 4 and love sharing.

[mrsmugoo]

"Doing the nursery" is definitely more for the parents' benefit than the child!