Would you/have you moved house with a newborn?

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We have been offered a great deal on selling our 2 bed flat and are about to take the plunge and sell. DC2 is due at end of July, but I don't want to change hospitals so I am not moving until baby arrives.
The thought of the upheaval scares me witless as recovery from having DS was shocking!
But we do need more space and DH needs to live closer to work, so considering trying to move around a month after due date.
There are so many unknowns of course - if I were to have a cs, or baby is late, or we can't find anywhere to live (eek!), that I am flip flapping and bugging DH who just wants to get on with it.
Any advice?

we turned our house into a building site when ds2 was 6 days old.(The work was supposed to finish before he arrived,but...) And we moved out temporarily when he was about 5 weeks. So we had to pack up the house and put some in storage and dismantle a kitchen. We then moved back in when he was 5 and a half months. His big bro was still going to nursery in our home town and we rented in the next town half an hour away.

All the above was much less stressful than when my DH and I moved in our first house.Like someone said, you fill any available space with stress.

DEF get a company to pack for you!!! You'll prob want to pack the kids stuff yourselves though!

We're due to complete when I'm 8 months pg -imagine it'll be hell, but worth it when you're in!

Moved in with mil at 9 months. Did all the packing but no lifting. It was good exercise.
Due to move into our new house at the end of May with ds 10 weeks, if the house is finished! Move before tthe baby is born, very difficult to get things done when they need you. Good luck!

I am Queen of pregnancy moving! With DS, completed on first-ever property when about 20 weeks pregnant. Moved to a new town when 7 weeks gone with DD, then moved again unexpectedly (bastard landlord) when 27 weeks. I now have a 2 year old and 3 week old and woe betide this landlord if he gives us notice next month .

Hated every minute of it but wouldn't do it with a newborn!

We moved last December with a 3 month old. I watched the whole process of removal with lo in a sling. We paid someone to come and help with the packing but to be honest I went around after them redoing it.

I found it stressful but spent as much time as possible in the baby's new bedroom so that she had one familiar place nice and quickly. I don't think it affected her after the first week. I was worried that she would be disrupted but that didn't happen.

I think it's important to have one safe haven in the new house to retreat to. We put a heater in the nursery so it was always cosy and warm. The unpacking was done first in there. Then we gave ourselves permission to unpack everything else slowly and eat take out for the first couple of weeks.

I'm so glad we did it then. It's been lovely to watch her develop in the new house.

Yep - moved when DD 4 weeks old. She was supposed to be 6 weeks old but was late. I refused to move until after her birth as important for me to have continuity of care in familiar place - I would have hated to have moved and then given birth as first few weeks of move was very unsettling anyway. We were also moving area so was a big upheaval and it was great to have familiar environment and friends for DD's first few weeks. Plus was very uncomfortable in late pregnancy and too knackered. Also have DS (3 years) and at that point, it was all I could do to look after him.

My tips

• get full packing service. I didn't pack anything except for a few clothes for me and children for the 1st week
• help from family and friends. My parents were on hand for the couple of weeks and did the bulk of the unpacking and cleaning for which I am eternally grateful.
• you'll need to be on top of who needs what and when in terms of post natal checks/jabs if moving after birth and you need to change surgeries. DD had all her jabs etc late.
• possibly htink about staying at friends/family/hotel for first couple of nights if you can afford it while you get everything sorted.
• we bought DS a few new bits and pieces for his room so it was nice and exciting. Things like name for his door etc. Moved most of his toys separately and had a bag of activities for him to do while we did other things. Also removal lorries are very exciting if you are a small boy so that helped.
• Read riot act to DH. He was under no illusion that I was packing anything or do much more than look after both children (and with focus on DD at that point).

Good luck!

having dd by cs on 28/5 got to move out by 29/6
house hit delay, lease up so we have to pile into mum n dads with hypo ds 2.9
its already hell
i'll be mad in 2/3 weeks ha ha ha ha he he he

I moved just before a major leg op and had a nightmare with the stairs:

advice would be:

pay for movers to pack
leave valuables with relatives
get a postal redirection (it can take a while to kick in)
leave a bottle of plonk for the new owner with a forwarding address asking for any post to go there
move out the day before you need to and pay for overnight storage so you don't have to try and do it all in the one day
ask a good friend or relative to come and help out, even if its just being on their feet to make the tea or watching the front door for chance passers by
make sure the new place is secure as turning up with a lorry load of stuff is a massive advert for potential thieves
get the locks changed the day you move in and give spare sets to relatives in case baby brain gets you locked out

look up all the baby activities/ nearest chemist/ doctor you need in the area now and print it out in a folder
join the NCT for that area and/or work out where their coffee mornings are
set-up online food shopping in advance

Coffee mornings could be a great way of getting to know the area. Rather that than meet a bunch of mums and then move a month later.

good luck!

moved from a 1 bed flat to 3 bed house about a mile inbetween the 2 houses when ds1 was 8 weeks old. went very well. moved from scotland to plymouth when ds1 was 18 mths and i was 20 weeks pregnate with ds2. hubby packed the house i unpacked at other end( yeap we are forces!). moved again when ds2 was 4 weeks old ds1 just turned 2. simple move about 5 miles and ds2 was in hospital! have since moved twice more! now living in our own home so me and the boys will stay put and dh will travel!

i have moved once while pregnant and another time when dd1 was a week old. both times my mum refused to let me help move anything. it's a great time to move

Hi, just readin about your anxieties about moving house and having a new baby.

well, I managed it all...on top of getting married. But that's not all, we did the house up too!
Time wise it went a little something like this:
Nov - house on market, sold within a week.
Feb - found out i was pregnant and was already planning a wedding for the Aug so just decided to carry on, we had lost out on one house so concentrated on wedding for a bit (our buyers were friends and hadn't sold their house so there was no hurry).
Jun - found a house just as our buyers completed, they were due to move in with parents until we had sorted ourselves out.
Aug - WEDDING on 22nd, EXCHANGED on 17th!!!! Hubby started to do the house up that week, yes the week leading up to the wedding, I was 6 and a half months pregnant and we were due to complete the week we got back from honeymoon.
Sept - arrived home on 6th and completed on 11th!!
Nov 12th - Heidi Annabel arrived to a mostly finished house.

All I can say is it was all worth it!