No nursery with either bub. Had no choice first time around, but then I am all for bubs being in the bedroom . 2nd time I did not even bother with trying to put bub into a cot or bassinet, just went straight to co-sleeping.
Very doable with what you have suggested. I found baby change in a living area worked best for us and same with the clothing. Even now as DD2 is still in with us, we have a chest of drawers for her in the hallway, prior to that it was in our lounge and was used as a way of defining the toy area. Having their clothing out of the bedroom makes it much easier when doing the folding and putting away as it can be done after bubs is asleep
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We had bassinet then hammock in our room with DD1 and had her clothes and nappy paraphernalia under the change table which was in the living room. We didn't worry about a room for her until she was about 8 months and needed to sleep in a cot.
For DD2 (currently only newborn) she will have to share a room with DD1 (now 2.5yrs) eventually but we are doing the same thing again.
I find it much easier to have all the clothes and change things on hand rather than having to go to another room, especially when trying to keep an eye on DD1.
Do what works for you, as ajm mum said, you will work out a system
Best of luck with your little one's sleeping and here is hoping she is nothing like your toddler and takes after your 9 year old!
We survived for nearly 18 months with no nursery! As it is, DD2 is turning one next week and is still in a port-a-cot next to our bed and she has no change table or anything like that We make it work, I wouldn't know how to do things any different!
we still don't have a nursery!!! We put the cradle in the walk-in-wardrobe (it just fit) and that allowed us to close the door on him to give him some quiet. Change mat on top of a chest of drawers in the kitchen (renovating!) worked well for us.
I'm hoping the amount of wriggles is an indication of how good the baby is - they seem to keep the same sleep/wake cycles inside as outside for quite a few months after they are born.
Last one I blame coffee on - I went off coffee 100% with my first but not my second and she was a serious wriggler, until midnight each night or later. It took us a year to get her to bed before midnight. This one doesn't seem anywhere near as bad. There's no way I could have co-slept with grumpybum. I still can't snooze when she is around, she climbs up on top of my tummy (which makes the baby kick me), announces "NO go to sleep mummy!" and hauls my eyelids open.
My partner is a shocking sleeper - grumpybum takes after him in every way, I think all she got from me is her blood type. I'm hoping this one takes after ME. I'm a good sleeper!
We had a nursery for DD, but she slept with me, and her change table was in the lounge room. All her clothes were kept in the drawer under the coffee table.
We're living with no nursery at the moment, waiting on extension to be finished, although had planned to have bub in with us for at least 6 months.
We have the change table in the lounge room and cleared the hall cupboard/coat cupboard and put the cheap wire stacking baskets in there for all of bub's things. The lounge room is pretty chockas with baby things, toys, bouncers, rockers etc but it's working for now. Bub didn't like the bassinet so from 2 weeks we ditched it and fully co sleep, no room for a porta cot in our room.
Just to add to my previous post,(back from feeding hungry DS) DP has been sleeping in the lounge room for the past few weeks DS is a light sleeper, and DP a noisy sleeper. DS is still doing 2 hourly feeds so after he's fed and settled I wasn't coping well with DP then waking him again while coughing, snoring or talking in his sleep. I sleep in bed with DS it's easier to feed him in bed with out getting up, when he starts to spread his feeds to longer than 2 hours I might consider a cot next to our bed...when the extension is finished and we have room.
You'll be ok, you'll find the best way to make it work, sounds like you've already got a good plan, with plan B as well
We were lucky enough to have enough room and set up a gorgeous nursery but...what a waste of money! DS slept in a bassinet in our room til he outgrew it and then was supposed to move into the cot, which was set up in the nursery...DH had to pull it down and put it back up in our room, DS is still happily sleeping in our room. For months, the change table (with most of his stuff on the shelves underneath) was in the family room, so really the nursery is just a storage room for nappies and wipes (toys r us just had some great specials on )
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We make it work, I wouldn't know how to do things any different!
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