Bathroom refurbishment with newborn?

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Currently 34 weeks pregnant. Due 18th May. Baby has been breech the entire pregnancy so there is possibility of slightly early ECS.
Our downstairs loo is currently not functional and we want to get it renovated. With one thing or another this hasn't been possibly until now.
Someone can start on the bathroom on 10th May. This is earliest we can get. And it will take a week.
I think it would be a big help to have a downstairs loo working for when baby comes to save having to go up and down stairs all the time.
In the scenario that the baby comes early and is home at the time of the renovations, would this be a very bad thing? Has anyone got experience of house renovations with a newborn?
If we put it off from 10th May, next available opportunity is July.
Any thoughts?

Heya! We had our bathroom completely gutted and rebuilt when my first was 10 days old - it was a little annoying with the noise etc but not much of a hassle, plus the workers were really good about baby and always warned me if there was anything extra noisy they would be doing.

If you're having a section a downstairs loo will be a huge help (we moved before I had our second baby and have no downstairs loo - climbing stairs the week after isn't much fun!). Good luck.

Our bathroom was gutted while I was in hospital having baby at 36 weeks, it was being completed until he was 5 weeks. We have an ensuite too and live in a bungalow so it was fine. If I was you I'd prefer to get it done then than risk waiting for July if you ended up having a csection and having to traipse upstairs to pee will be unnecessary pain and hassle.

I would go for it. Like you say, you'd have to wait until July to have a downstairs bathroom to save you going up and down the stairs. I don't think there's any difference in whether you do it when baby is newborn or 2 months old to be honest, both could be affected by the noise, so just go for it now and get it done!

Book a cleaner to do a post building work clean afterwards.

Yeah good point actually which I hadn't thought of, it's not going to be any better at 2 months! I think we'll just go for it.

Thanks for all the replies ladies. Huge help.

I’d go for it as soon as you can. I managed after a caesarean with a newborn and only an upstairs loo but I would have loved a downstairs loo when we got to the potty training stage.