Lack of room and new baby? Any suggestions?

[Carly1409]

Hi. So I already have two boys, (6 & 1). Im due another baby at the end of the year, we have a good sized 3 bedroom house. But obviously all rooms are occupied. I know it’ll be a while before baby would go into a room anyway, but has anyone had a similar situation? What did you do?. For wardrobe/drawers for clothes etc, I’m hoping something good sized but compact that can maybe go in our room. Any recommendations for compact furniture? What kind of bedroom situation you ended up, if you’ve 3 kids and two bedrooms? I know they could share. But do the baby and 1 year old? Or 6 and 1 year old? Thanks!

Growing up I shared a bedroom with both my siblings, in a regular size double room. It was fine. Bunkbeds and then another small bed. Cupboards on one wall and two sets of drawers. My Nan was in the box room, parents in the other double.

I'm in a similar position. I'm thinking all kids in 1 room, other bedroom is clothes and toys and one room for adults (probably the kids anyway)

I'm going to have this issue too, baby due end nov. We have a 4 bed house, us in 1 room, grandad in 2nd room, 19 year old stepson in 3rd room & 16 year old son in 4th room. The boys have had there own rooms for years, so no way I could now force them to share, so baby will be in with us for a while. We've decided that worse case scenario we'll get a sofa bed in the living room but keep our furniture, clothes, etc in the baby's room.

In your case I think it depends on the sex of your 3rd baby, if you have a girl I would put the boys in together. If you have another boy, I would let the eldest have his own room (smallest room) & have the 2 youngest share.

I am currently 36 weeks with our surprise 3rd baby. We have a 16 year old girl and a 12 year old boy. They can't share and I can't expect either of them to share with a baby so we have had no choice but to increase our mortgage and build an extension. Covid has put these plans on hold so its looking like baby will be in with us much longer than the expected first 6 months.

Your situation seems easier to resolve depending on the sex of baby. I am sure that whatever you decide will work out fine.

It depends on their sleep and personalities. My older two share (they are better sleepers). We do staggered bed time so older one with toddler and dad and then middle one with me for stories. I put middle one to bed and then have the older one for stories and dad puts toddler to bed. Toddler still wakes screams at night but once this settles and when the older one is ready to have some space I will move older one into toddlers room and toddler in with middle one. If on the odd occasion middle is still awake we let the eldest stay in our bed and read until they’ve gone to sleep. It may take trying a few things and seeing what works for your family.

We were due to make a big move miles away this year but covid has put things on hold and i would rather not split maternity care up due to being high risk

We have a 3 bed with a dd aged 3, the 3rd room is a box which was supposed to be nursery but now with working from home and going forward it seems as though dd will work from home at least twice a week so needs to be an office

So baby will be in our room, we have space at the bottom of the bed for the cot and room at the side for a bedside crib or moses basket but torn between taking out our current wardrobe and replacing with larger one and chest of drawers or not...

We have the pax IKEA triple wardrobe atm and it fits our bits but no space for baby.. We will probably look to adding more drawers and changing it up and doing the same with dd wardrobe so we can have nappies etc in her room and clothes in ours but still thinking about it

Long term though if baby is a girl they may share but it'll be pretty much a 4 Yr gap so not sure if it would work well... If baby is a boy I'd not have them sharing but hopefully we will have moved by then into a 3/4 bed with enough space

I did share with my sister most of our childhood and in 1 room post parents divorce and it was fine until teenage years I'd say

Dh working from home.. Not my dd obviously!

I had 4 kids in a 3 bed. 3 girls in the master bed, my son in the box room and me and husband in the second double. Honestly it was pretty awful and my eldest daughter moved into my mums down the road for a bit. We've moved into a four bed now but my two youngest girls are still sharing. We had plans drawn up for a loft conversion a year ago and were waiting to remortgage but I've now found out I'm pregnant again so it's getting kind of urgent. Luckily we have plans for 2 more bedrooms and an extra bathroom so everyone will have a bedroom eventually!