New house- where should DC sleep?

[LongLiveGoblingKing]

We are moving soon to a four bed house which has two bedrooms upstairs and two bedrooms downstairs. We have two DC aged 2.5 and newborn.

Of course newborn will be in with us for the foreseeable. And in the future both boys will be upstairs/ will have their own floor which I hope they will find quite cool! We will sleep downstairs. The 4th room needs to be a WFH office.

Once newborn is ready to go into their own room, which configuration would you go with?

A) toddler downstairs and baby upstairs. Toddler gets out of bed and comes into our room a lot, so he can still do this, and I don't want him on the stairs when he's sleepy. It does mean we have to go upstairs for baby wakings.

B) baby sleeps downstairs because he will wake most often. We put baby gates upstairs and teach toddler not to leave his room at night and shout us if he wants us.

C) both boys go upstairs.

Any opinions welcome. Thanks!

All of you on the same floor. Kids can share. Safety first.

@minipie

Arf at all these “they can share”. My DC have been terrible sleepers right up to primary school age. Them sharing a room would have been torture.

Why would you have a 4 bed house and only use two of the bedrooms? Makes no sense. Parents sleep on a different floor to their young DC up and down the country.

My kids are terrible sleepers if they’re in rooms on their own but sleep well if there’s someone else sleeping in the same room! I’d hate to have to traipse up and down the stairs every time a kid woke up in the night

Considering this very same thing today - 4 year old and 1 year old. Not really suitable for sharing and 2 up and 2 down bedrooms makes it hard to know what to do! Would be a squash to be all on same floor but not comfortable leaving one/ both on a floor by themselves !

C - both upstairs.

I would have all downstairs, two boys in the same room, near you.
The wfh office can go upstairs and a spare room upstairs.
Then when the boys are bigger, and I mean over 10 years, they can both move upstairs, and then eventually both can have their own room upstairs. Or perhaps you would prefer to go upstairs for some peace and sanctuary and the kids downstairs!