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 )
Update - this is working quite well because DS is such a good sleeper. He has his day naps in a bouncer in whatever room we are in, I was co-sleeping but he's going longer between sleeps now so I put him back in the bassinet in our room after each feed. Other half has been sleeping in the lounge but has been sneaking back in with me now the baby isn't awake so often. The change table is cluttering up our hallway but it works.
The only downside so far has been the cat. The bassinet has a basketty thing underneath it for storage, I've been using it for baby clothes, and the blasted cat has decided to sleep under there.
That's a good idea - we just put some hard toys and things in there to annoy the cat, she moved to the top of a wardrobe but we have to keep an eye on her. She comes down to investigate at 4am when I change the baby in the middle of the night (he's Mr Poops-a-lot).
We have no nursery. Up until 6 weeks ago, we had no cot. We have no change table. We have no bassinet. Missy moo sleeps with us in our bed, her cot is next to our bed (she is rarely in there though).
I wouldn't have it any other way and plan on keeping things the way they are until she is around 18 months - 2 years!
She doesn't know any different - and quite frankly, she is too young to care!!
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