Three floors with 2 kids

[Thatsnotmycat]

We're thinking about putting an offer on a house we've seen. Thing is it's an older house with a loft conversion, we've got 2 children baby and 3yr old. There is a large room in the loft and 2 rooms on the first floor. Where would people put everyone? For some reason I feel apprehensive of being right at the top and the kids having their own floor as they are so young but given the type of the loft conversion I would be worried about the toddler being up there alone. Any solutions? What do people tend to do?

We had his configuration with a baby and toddler and we had us on the top and them on the middle floor. We had a stair gate at the top of the first flight of stairs and at the bottom of the stairs up to our room. I'm a light sleeper so always heard if they woke up/opened a door so they were never roaming around on their own. It worked fine for us.

What Ecureil said. I grew up with 4 dc in a 4 storey house. (2 DS, 2 DD, 13 year spread).

1 single room, 1 double room in basement
No bedrooms on ground floor
1 single room on first floor, although sometimes this squeezed in 2 dc for a while depending on age/sex.
Parents in double room on 2nd floor.

We coped. We didn't even have monitors. 1970s!

Thanks that's good to hear, I'm a light sleeper as well, logically I think it would be fine but have thoughts of them wondering around/climbing over stair gates or going downstairs without me knowing!

We have this too and have done since before the children were born (now 8 & 10). We're on the top floor, kids on the middle floor. Same set up as Ecureuil with a Stairgate at the top of the lower stairs and another at the bottom of the upper stairs until the youngest was properly confident on stairs. We also kept a baby monitor in our room until the youngest was about 3, just in case of any late night wakenings.

When they were babies they stayed in a cot in our room until they were each approx 9 months old.

It can be a pain in the arse when they do wake in the night (meaning that DD usually ended up staying in our bed if she woke in the night!) But other than that it's fine really.

We have this as well. Originally my plan was to put them in the loft but then I got the heebie-jeebies about them having access to the balcony (even if we locked it, there would doubtless come a day when it was left unlocked) as well as the steep stairs.

So we took the loft room and they have the first floor to themselves. You can hear them very easily in the night and I feel better that it's an adult going down the stairs in the night rather than a child.