I need help - room situation - sorta long

Ok, we are looking for someplace else to live but in the meantime we need to do something about our situation right now.

My bedroom situation stinks. On the 1st floor we have my bedroom which is 12x12. Emmas (& Jeremys) bedroom is 12x10. My bedroom has a queen bed. Emmas room has a toddler bed and the crib, which Jeremy occasionally sleeps in, very occasionally, and 2 dressers.

2nd floor is an 8x12 bedroom and a 18x20 bedroom. The larger used for storage and the smaller is a guest bedroom.

Now I was fine with having Jeremy in my room but with the new baby coming I don't know what to do.

I dont know if we should get a twin bed for Emma and give the toddler bed to Jeremy and get rid of the crib. If we do that it should work out but then we don't have room for a dresser for the new baby.

I don't know if DH and I should trade rooms with Emma and Jeremy and put 2 twin beds in there or bunk beds (which worries me since I dont want my fearless 2 yr old jumping from the upper bunk.

I don't know if we should put Emma upstairs, which I think she will hate being the only one alone upstairs.

I also don't know if I want my kids that far away from me at night. She is only 4.

I don't know what to do. Any help/advice would be appreciated!!!!

Message edited 11/24/2006 12:07:50 PM.

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hmmmm.....

what about a trundle bed? one bed slides in and out of the bottom of the twin bed?

does Emma have any insight....maybe she has an opinion...maybe she wants to be upstairs in her own big girl room.

I think you should get a twin bed for Emma...you're going to need it anyway eventually.

maybe Jeremy will sleep in his own room with his own bed?

is Jeremy in your bed or in a crib in your room?

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Do you know if you are having a boy or a girl? I would say that you can put Emma in her own room and Jeremy and the baby in the same room. Give Emma a twin bed and Jeremy the toddler bed and the baby the crib. Maybe if you make it a special event for Jeremy to get his "big boy" bed, he will be more inclined to sleep in it.

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Posted by pmpkn087

Posted by KPtoys
I don't know the sex of the new baby. My problem is which bedroom to put them into. I would like to have them in their own rooms but 2 beds upstairs and 2 down is really my issue.

We cosleep since I BF so I am ok with ditching the crib since I have a mini cosleeper in my room right now. Baby can sleep in that.

In that case, I would say to keep the kids together. I would put the kids in the two rooms upstairs and you stay downstairs. As you said, you will be cosleeping for a while anyway, so maybe give Emma and Jeremy their own rooms for now upstairs. And, when you are ready for the baby to go into a room maybe share a room with the sibling of the opposite sex. then you can keep the bedroom downsairs for storage, toys, guest room, etc. Just a thought. Good Luck

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I thought of that but I dont think I like my almost 2 yr old and 4 yr old upstairs alone.


How do they sleep at night? do they get up a lot? Do they walk around? I don't think it will be so bad if they are generally easy children, I would think having them all downstairs with a crying newborn may be worse, no? JMO

Message edited 11/24/2006 4:07:53 PM.

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Can you and your DH move in the upstairs big bedroom? Then you could give Emma her own big girl room and Jeremey his own big boy room?

I def. think you should put Emma in a twin bed, and give Jermey the toddler one...

And then whoevers room is bigger.. you could keep some of the baby stuff in (dresser or changing table or whatever)

As far as the crib- if you know you arent gonna use it.. i would take it down until you move- and then if you do a nursery or whatever for the new baby- set it up then...

You could always keep a monitor in their rooms so you can hear whats going on... and like a PP said- if your children are good sleepers- than you should be fine..

Personally- Id rather have my kids walking upstairs to me in the middle of the night- then walking down..

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I have a 2 and a 4 year old and I wouldnt put them on another floor - for the same reason you have hesitation. Since you are looking to move anyway, I'd do what I could with the downstairs rooms. I think they are too small to be on another floor by themselves right now. I'm too tired to offer any other suggestions on the room set ups right now but I just wanted to pipe in and say that I would go with your gut about keeping them on the same floor.