Could be moving & having baby at the same time, tips & advice need

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Offer was accepted on Monday and hoping that we will be moving during the summer holidays, but things never turn out as planned, so even if baby comes early as previous ones have, it could all be happening at the same time.

Anyone been in similar position, what tips & advice do you have to make life a bit easier and organised.

Find a local firm to come in and pack up all your stuff. They can do it in hours and it saves you days.

Label your stuff with post-it notes according to which room it needs to end up in the new house.

Disappear to a friend/relative for a day or two while your OH manages the move.

no advice sorry but just wanted to wish you luck! We moved when DD was 4 days old and it was...very traumatic! We didn't have any family or friends here so my poor DH had to do it all on his own (lucky we bought the furniture in the house as well so no heavy lifting).

It sounds like you have other DC which might at least help you to mentally prepare for it all - we had never bought a house or had a child so it was all just too much for me

Enlist help from everyone and anyone. You have enough stress as it is!

We moved 2days before my due date. Relocated to the other side of the country. I remember sitting in the transit van, the seatbelt straining over my bump.

I was repeating my mantra of "don't come now...don't come now...don't come now" throughout the 7hour journey. I had visions of giving birth in an M6 layby and having to call him Bernard after the AA man....

I'm in a similar boat to you, although hopefully moving a bit earlier than due date

My only tip is to do what I have been doing - decluttering like crazy (use freecycle, charity shops, school bric a brac, and obviously bin day!), sorting out the loft before you get too big to get up there, packing absolutely everything except for the bare essentials, even if it feels too early. I feel more in control and know that the worry of actually lugging the stuff is not going to be mine, I've done my bit :)

My friend moved on the day her baby was due! She arrived a bit later though thankfully. She de-cluttered well in advance and packed as much as possible as early as possible. Had extra hands on the day of the move (hired or friends/family either are good) and had the stuff which needed unpacking right away packed seperately and labelled then the less urgent stuff as she went along. It worked out OK though they still (who doesn't) have some boxes, but only the rarely used stuff!

Good luck. Very exciting. :)

I just moved at 31 weeks, and would second wellies suggestion to declutter like crazy and pack everything except bare essentials. I did this and it made the move SO much easier as packing was out of the way as early as possible although I was amazed at how much unwanted crap we were storing in our house.

I moved house 3 weeks before DS1 was born - I would suggest get the kitchen sorted first then the bedroom so you have somewhere cosy and a cup of tea and then rope in whoever you can to do the rest

Same position here too! Due in August, we sold and bought in April so we'd hoped to have a bit of time before the arrival of DC2 but all the legal stuff is taking so long it's looking like we'll be moving and having the baby at the same time

What we've done is booked some self storage for 6 months, we're gradually moving all our stuff into that so it's just furniture to move on the day, then we can move the boxes of books, DVD's etc into the new house at our leisure so we aren't overwhelmed by boxes & clutter and the stress of having to put everything away when we're dealing with a newborn

Oh yes, like ginpalace said, label label label everything, to the smallest detail, so you caneasily check what is in a box without pulling everything out.

Following this thread with interest, as I am in the same situation - baby due in two weeks, due to complete on new house in one week. It wasn't what we planned, but buying a house always seems to take way longer than anticipated. We are booking packers and have lots of helpers available to look after DS (2.5) but I still envisage chaos. Luckily a friend lives just around the corner from the new house and has offered her house to me and the baby as a refuge if needed.

We have also given ourselves some leeway by arranging to move out of our current flat in early August, which gives us flexibility with the moving date (given that we can't schedule the baby itself!).

p.s post it notes are risky as they can come off easily. Permanent marker less likely to end up in a Mr Bean scenario where you are pulling out bra's not the teapot in front of the new neighbour who has popped round.

Thanks for all tips and advice, got a date of 1st of August the sellers are very keen to get things moving, awaiting survey should be end of next week and then will be all systems go.

I think my dh will hate me after all the work he's going have to do!!!

i was meant to be moving and giving birth this week!

now one of those definitely isn't going to happen, and the other seems a bit reluctant too..

play it by ear. your OH will get paternity leave to help. if you give birth before move, you will have time to box everything up in readiness (except a few essentials)

you are giving birth, i'm sure your DH would rather do donkey work than do that if put to him like that!

MW told me lots of people move in late stage pregnancy. i think its a nesting thing.