Moving with baby

[Missytizzy]

Hello all. I’m 9 weeks pregnant with our first child, and pretty desperate to move house. However, after much umming and ahhing I think we’ve decided to stay here until after the birth. Only because the hospital is literally up the road here, and the area we’re looking to move to doesn’t have a consultant-led maternity unit nearby (I’ll need a section). I don’t want to be racing far away to the hospital if something goes wrong.

So I just wanted to ask for people’s experiences please. My thinking is that it’d be better to start house hunting/putting our house on the market later on in the pregnancy (6 months maybe?) with a view to actually moving when the baby is a couple of months old. I know it’s hard to exactly plan a house moving timetable though! Has anyone done anything similar? Does this sound like a sensible strategy?!

And yes I know, moving with a tiny human in tow will be hell, no one needs to point this out to me 😂 But we’re desperate to leave this house/area and I think I’d rather do it when the baby is still pretty immobile! We’ll be hiring packers/movers to make things easier on us.

Thanks in advance!

Anyone?

Personally I would sell now. You are not going to want to do the cleaning for viewings etc...... when more pregnant. If you already know you are having a section it will be booked in anyway so you can travel to your nearest birth centre anyway.

We put up for sale whilst I was pregnant. Didn't go through estate agents so managed all the visits ourselves.

Sold when baby was a few weeks old and moved when he was 4 months old (not UK - different time scale).

Anyway, visits were fine as we just didn't put any baby stuff up (just used a moses basket, baby bath and changing mat on table or floor).

Moving was pretty awful as we packed ourselves and had a velcro baby. However we got through it and I can't remember the details (11 years ago) so no long term trauma 😀

However our buyer was soooo happy to see a tiny newborn during her visits/whilst signing documents etc that she was lovely to us. We sold on the Friday and she let us move out the following Monday (the day we bought!). Her solicitor was horrified and tried to persuade her not to but we gave her all the keys except one last set. We left the flat very clean and left champagne to say thank you (we had offered to pay rent but she refused).

If I had the choice though I would have sold before giving birth. But we didn't manage it

we put our house on the market when I was 8 weeks pregnant, moved when I was 38 weeks pregnant luckiky baby was 2 weeks late giving us a month to plan and I’m soooo glad we did and not after as I could fully nest and organise her nursery and I also had a section and was immobile for 2 months pretty much so to know we didn’t have to do anything or pack or plan visits with a newborn was bliss to just relax and enjoy that precious time. Definitely think about it as an option!

Thanks everyone. I appreciate what everyone’s saying but moving while pregnant just sadly isn’t an option for us. Aside from the reasons given, I just really don’t want to go through an incredibly stressful experience while heavily pregnant.

We were supposed to move while I was pregnant but things just didn't fall into place. Completed the day I can home after giving birth to DS and moved when he was 3 weeks old! We my mum packed boxes but we hired movers.

Moved again when my DD was 8 weeks old - related to DH's job this time so house was packed up for us by movers. Don't think I'd have done it otherwise. But honestly think moving with a newborn would be easier than a 6 month old - at least newborns sleep all the time!

I moved house with an 8 month old. It wasn't hell, it was just...moving house.

You'll be fine, no point worrying about it. Even it's complete shit, it's just a bad week then it's over.

My thought would be is it better to apply for a mortgage whilst you’re working, and not on maternity leave?