Advice: moving house before or after baby is born?

[alioops]

I have done moving with kids twice. We had family to look after the girls. I was pg the 1st time, and I suffered for it for the next week, even though I tried to avoid doing too much, I ended up very sore. That was a move about 20 minutes away and was pretty easy because we had people around who could easily do a little bit and then go about their day. Our second move was a big one. I wasnt pg officially (pre conception but the cycle I fell pg) I took the girls out the day the movers uplifted our things and DH supervised the movers. They had done the packing the day before. And on the day they delivered to our new house DH took the girls out while the movers got eveything out of the truck and unpacked.

If you have someone available to look after DD for you or to help DP with the move then do it post baby, because then you can still do little bits without hurting yourself. Do start looking for a house now though, and if you find the perfect one and get approved early enough then you may need to go out on the day of the move so as to remain out of the way.

[tattoo_mama]

Thanks ladies...
The thought of DP moving stuff wihout me there freaks me out...call me a control freak but I can just see him and his mates dropping all my fragile stuff and packing heavy stuff ontop of light stuff etc if im not there...
Im still not very big, my bump doesn't get in the way at all , so I think if I pack the boxes, get DP and his friends to move the heavy stuff and put everything in its appropriate room (I will write 'babys room' etc on each box) I should be alright. Its just so annoying, I can just tell we will get a place a week before my due date and will be in limbo between two houses at the worst time!!!

[visitor1]

I moved interstate (NSW to VIC) when i was 35 weeks pg with DD1.....not fun!

We then moved house again when i was 24 weeks pg with DD2....not fun either.

My choice would be to move BEFORE bub comes, that way you can settle in to a house and get set up, then you dont need to disrupt bub moving later on and get them all out of wack or routine.