Moving house with a new baby??

[Jilko]

Hi all...
I'm looking for some advice regarding moving with a new baby. I am due my first DC at the beginning of June, and my DH and I currently have our house on the market. The house we live in at the moment is a 2-bed, so we don't have to move right now, but we would like to move to a nicer area eventually.

As I don't have any DCs at the moment I'm not sure how I'm going to feel until I've had the baby, and I'm not expecting it to be easy, but at least I'll be off work until next March... Would you recommend moving when the baby is this young (around 2 months old) or do you think it's best to wait for a year or two and have a sligthly smaller mortgage for now ??

Thanks for any suggestions..

Jill

Congrats on your pregnancy!

We moved house and to a completely new area (over an hours drive away) when our DS was 4 months old. It wasn't that bad.

However, moving is stressful in itself so with a young baby, just make sure you have enough help from friends and family who can perhaps look after your LO on the day of the move.

My only advice would be to make sure you can unpack everything for LO ASAP and try and keep to his/her routine as much as possible.

Good luck with whatever you decide

We also moved when ds was four months - I found the whole conveyancing/selling our place very stressful and we then had builders in for several months in the new place. In retrospect, it was easy to see why ds was quite a grumpy infant...

If you wait too long though, the house becomes saturated in your dc's stuff and is much harder to present to viewers - it will always be stressful, you might as well do it while you have some time off work and can put your energies into it.

Can't advise on your mortgage - that's up to you and your husband. May be harder to get a significantly larger one though with only one person working.

we moved when ds was 6 mo
would have preferred to do it earlier
he got so frustrated as couldnt crawl round on day, plus when we were selling his stuff was everywhere - harder to contain!
if you're hiring removal men make sure they don't pack the car seat!

We moved when dd2 was 3 weeks old.It was suerprisingly stressfree,apart from dh & I trying to get wardrobes upatairs in the new house 3 weeks after my giving birth.Not to be advised.We parked the d's with my parents for the day & did it all ourselves.

See what happens with your house, and have a look at what's available that you can afford in your current circumstances, or in those that you will be in while you're on maternity leave etc.

While I eventually still want to move out of London completely, I've actually come to appreciate my area more since I had a baby. It's near enough to visit lots of much posher areas of north London but has lots to offer locally too.

That said, a huge number of people I know seem to have moved house since their babies were born - the ones who haven't often moved while they were pregnant.