Sleeping on a different floor to your baby

[Squashbanana1]

Hi all just wondering for your opinions, we are moving into a new house soon and the best master bedroom is downstairs. My husband wants to have this one however how do you all feel about the babies room being upstairs?
I am wondering if this works when the baby grows up / how do you manage this during toddler phase etc? What do we need to consider?
Wondering if anyone has experience of this working out?
Thank you :)

I don’t have this issue - but I suppose the main problem will be you having to go up and down the stairs a millions times of baby/toddler isn’t sleeping well. My DS is 16 months and still wakes occasionally because he’s lost his dummy, and used to do this a few times a night when he was younger. His room was just next door - I wouldn’t have wanted to climb the stairs three times a night. Other than that I don’t think it’s a problem - it’s just whether you have the energy

We did it . Baby was in with us for a bit when first born but when ready to I've to his own room he was upstairs from us. It was fine although looking back I wonder how I didn't fall down the stairs when I was up twice a night feeding him and was trudging up and down the stairs half asleep in the dark.

He's still up there !

It’s fine. We’re in the loft and our 3 kids are on the floor below us. We’ve done this since the middle one was one.

We're on the floor below our 2 dc and it's fine. Ds was 1 when we moved here so went straight into his cot in his own room (had a baby gate across his door but never really needed it). Dd stayed in with us unti she was one then went upstairs too. They're 4 and 5 now and the main disadvantages are still having a potty upstairs and hearing their banging on a Saturday morning!

I didn’t feel comfortable with it.
No logic, just didn’t.
Fine, once they were a bit older.

I especially couldn’t have us in the fabulous en suite loft room with the babies below. I needed to be between them and the front door.

I think I’d be fine with it now dd is 2. Not before though.

Make sure the bedroom is completely child-safe - furniture screwed to the wall, nothing to climb up/on, no choking hazards etc. And get a stair gate that is securely fitted.

I’d probably wait till they sleep through the night consistently first though. Nothing worse than having to navigate stairs to get to a screaming child!

Great thank you guys for your food for thought! I think we'll do it.

We have had this since our older son was 6 months old and we moved him to his own room. We do still use a monitor even though he is nearly 3 now but it works fine

My children have woken/are waking in the night until past 3 years. Walking up and down stairs wouldn’t work for me. It’d be awful when they were teething/unwell and waking lots too.

Have you had the baby yet?

This is why both of mine (4 and 15 months) share a room. Our house has a lot of floors/stairs and I wanted them both on the same floor as us. In theory dd's room is on the middle floor down one and half sets of stairs, in practise though she will share with ds until one of them hates it. Running up and downstairs to the bathroom (old house, currently only has one bathroom on the ground floor) down 2 and half flights of stairs whilst pregnant was the final straw as far as I was concerned.

I'd keep them in my room until 2, then consider it.

The women I know in this situation have joined their baby on that floor for some or all of the night once the baby is old enough to safely sleep alone.

We are up in the loft conversion and DD (13 months) sleeps in the bedroom below us. We leave our door open and use an audio visual monitor so it feels like we know what's going on in the house.

DD is 2.5 and has slept on the floor below since she was about 6 months. We leave our door open a crack but close hers. Works well for us - she is LOUD and even when she was little we could always hear her really well. It helps that the sound insulation between floors isn't great.