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star444
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Baby's Bedroom on Different Floor in House
At what age would you feel comfortable having your DC in a bedroom on a different floor from your master?
We have two bedrooms down and two up. DS is in the bedroom across from us but we have another one on the way. The thought of moving DS upstairs literally kills me.. so I haven't even thought of nursery furniture or anything for #2 because I am basically pretending there is not an issue we have to address...
thoughts?
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nraboni
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Baby's Bedroom on Different Floor in House
At any age, I would feel comfortable having them upstairs as long as I had a video monitor in the room. I would not be comfortable with them downstairs and my room upstairs.
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| Posted 5/10/17 11:04 AM |
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lightblue
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Re: Baby's Bedroom on Different Floor in House
Posted by nraboni
At any age, I would feel comfortable having them upstairs as long as I had a video monitor in the room. I would not be comfortable with them downstairs and my room upstairs.
This.
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| Posted 5/10/17 11:30 AM |
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evrythng4areason
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Baby's Bedroom on Different Floor in House
We're upstairs and both DC are downstairs. DD was 2 when we moved up, and ds was alone from day 1
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| Posted 5/10/17 11:35 AM |
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star444
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Baby's Bedroom on Different Floor in House
I think I am most hesitant about it all happening at once... moving him up, having a new baby, and jealousy on his part about sharing attention with the new baby coupled with him being kicked out of his room.. so I think I need to kind of plan this strategically to not cause him to freak out
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| Posted 5/10/17 11:37 AM |
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nycgirl
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Re: Baby's Bedroom on Different Floor in House
Have them share a room for a little while. Buy a cheap twin for the bigger one and put it in the room. If a twin doesn't fit, a toddler bed will (and my very large 5 year old still has room to go in the toddler bed).
My DS and DD (5&6) share a room and scream if I threaten to separate them. They literally can't sleep apart. I know it will come eventually... but even #3 wants to be in there now that she sees where she sleeps. We are, at this point, using only 2 bedrooms.
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| Posted 5/10/17 12:37 PM |
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MrsT809
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Baby's Bedroom on Different Floor in House
Like pp, we had them share so they could both be downstairs with us. My kids are 5 and 2.5 and will be moving upstairs together vey soon once their new room is refinished.
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| Posted 5/10/17 12:56 PM |
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star444
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Baby's Bedroom on Different Floor in House
Do they ever wake eachother up when sharing?
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| Posted 5/10/17 1:00 PM |
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MrsT809
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Re: Baby's Bedroom on Different Floor in House
Posted by star444
Do they ever wake eachother up when sharing?
We kept dd2 in our room at night for the first few months. It was a bit of a difficult transition to her room (maybe bc I waited too long) but after they got used to it they were fine. They can each scream their head off and the other won't move a muscle.
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| Posted 5/10/17 1:04 PM |
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alli3131
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Baby's Bedroom on Different Floor in House
Ds is upstairs and we are down. Never been an issue. Our house isn;t that big so its not like I have so far to go.
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| Posted 5/10/17 1:17 PM |
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Katareen
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Baby's Bedroom on Different Floor in House
My kids share a room for this exact reason. I won't be comfortable having them on a different floor for quite a while.
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| Posted 5/10/17 1:19 PM |
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nraboni
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Re: Baby's Bedroom on Different Floor in House
Posted by star444
I think I am most hesitant about it all happening at once... moving him up, having a new baby, and jealousy on his part about sharing attention with the new baby coupled with him being kicked out of his room.. so I think I need to kind of plan this strategically to not cause him to freak out
I think if you involve him in picking out the theme for the room and promoting that he is now a "big boy" it should be ok.
But I would move him up there before the baby is born.
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| Posted 5/10/17 2:07 PM |
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ml110
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Baby's Bedroom on Different Floor in House
we just went through this. We have 2 bedrooms on our main floor, right off the living room. THEN, we have another bedroom in our "basement" (its a "walk-out basment, so you can walk right out into the backyard from it, its all finished with lots of windows, etc. So it doesn't really "feel' like a basement).
so- DH and i had our room on the main floor, and our 6 year old DS was next to us in the other bedroom. WELL we just adopted a 3 year old little boy, so we needed to actually use the third bedroom in the "basement". DH and i moved down to that one, and now the 2 boys have their rooms on the main floor.
Its been fine- we're right below our younger DS, so we can hear him if he gets up walking around, plus we got a video monitor to keep tabs on him if we hear something.
its not ideal, but it works for now..... we actually are in the process of getting approved to add on another bedroom on the back of the house, so we're all on the same floor...
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| Posted 5/10/17 2:51 PM |
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nycgirl
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Re: Baby's Bedroom on Different Floor in House
Posted by star444
Do they ever wake eachother up when sharing?
No. I don't know how that works. I've heard it from people. They ALL wake me up, but don't wake each other up.
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| Posted 5/10/17 8:21 PM |
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MrsWoods
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Baby's Bedroom on Different Floor in House
The upstairs of our house is just one giant bedroom and than 2 bedrooms downstairs. DD's bedroom is downstairs but she has been co sleeping but eventually will be sleeping in her room downstairs. Not that big of a house so don't see a problem with different floor bedrooms unless its a huge house.
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| Posted 5/11/17 8:46 PM |
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MrsZ2014
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Baby's Bedroom on Different Floor in House
We're dormering right now and only making a master suite upstaires. DS will stay downstaires (hes 1) and so will any new babies.
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| Posted 5/11/17 11:27 PM |
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blu6385
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Re: Baby's Bedroom on Different Floor in House
We moved into our house when DD was about to turn 2 and before I was even pregnant with DS.
The house has 2 nice size rooms upstairs and one nice size room down stairs then another really small room.
I hate moving and switching rooms. I knew we would have 2 and I felt bad having on upstairs one downstairs and I wasn't going to give anyone the smallest room in the house. So DD went upstairs and we took the downstairs room.
When DS was born my plan was always to keep him upstairs but I ended up with an emergency c-section so for a couple months he ended up in my room then right upstairs once I healed and when he was sleeping better at night.
We have video monitors and both kids room and it works out fine.
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