buying house, master on first floor and nursery on second floor

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here thank all, all things i worry about and continue to be worried about. unfortunately we have put in an offer on the house and are proceeding, mixed feelings about it mostly anxious but my husband and family are excited.

It’ll be fine, OP. None of our lives are DCUM-perfect in all areas. You’re preparing to bring a baby into a loving family with a safe home. That’s wonderful!

[Anonymous]

We live in a small cape cod and our bedroom is the top floor so our kids are on the first floor. I was a little worried at first but it’s been a nonissue for us, our kids are now 6 and 4. I kept them both with us as a baby until they were around 1 years old and sleeping mostly through the night.

In the south I feel like most houses have a master on the first floor. GL!

[Anonymous]

I think you'll be totally fine OP. DCUM always reminds me that some people consider totally unacceptable the things I wouldn't think twice about. The testimony of all of the people on here living with the same setup and dealing well with it speaks volumes more than the people who "would never" for fear of things that sound a little irrational to me.

Congratulations on making the offer!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow so many debbie downers here! OP I had two c's. For the first I guess we had the ideal nursery off the master situation. It was great. Baby never slept in our room because nursery was close enough to hear her.

For baby #2, we had moved into a larger apartment where 18 month old was upstairs in her bedroom. She was fine, we had a monitor, she became very good at stairs! Baby was in our room until we moved into our current house when he was almost 1.

Now we have the master on the third floor (its the only thing on the third), bedrooms on the 2nd floor! So the opposite direction. Once again, totally fine, we have monitors. Kids are happy we are happy and planning on #3 who will be in a nursery down there on the 2nd floor.

I don't really understand what is difficult about the situation. Getting out of bed blows no matter where you're going to deal with the situation. Last night the 18 month old woke up, I stumbled out of bed, ran down and rocked him, put him back in his bed, went back to my bed. I don't see how it would be that different to have gone down the hall.

Buy your house, congrats on the opportunity!

Your child is in a crib so it's you making the effort to get to him right now. But eventually he will be older and you won't want him coming to find you, groggy and heading down a flight of stairs in the dark.

NP. That’s what baby gates are for. We had one at the top and bottom of the stairs. We removed them when the youngest was 2.5 or so.

I had 2 c sections, stairs, a problem sleeper, problem eater, all that jazz. We put them in our bedroom until they were ready to sleep train, then they got their own rooms. It’s not a big deal. They’re just stairs.

Congrats on your new house!