Stairs with 1-2 Kids?
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Anonymous
| We are going to buy a condo and found one we both really like but it has stairs. We are on the second floor and it had 3 flights up ( 24 stairs). We are expecting our first. We are hoping to live here for 5+ years and have another child during that time. Do you think it will be too hard with 1-2 kids? |
Anonymous
| Think about logistics for when you come home with groceries plus baby. You can’t carry everything at once, so you would have to take up the kid and deposit in a crib or something and then go back down for stuff. Is the parking/street/condo set up ok for that? Ok, now picture the same but with a baby and a 2 year old. Does it work? |
Anonymous
OP here. We order our groceries and do delivery services ( Hello Fresh). We will have one parking space ( we have one car) in attached underground parking. I think it will be fine but some friends said it will be hard. |
Anonymous
| We had stairs before we had kids so I don’t know anything different. We’re all happy and healthy! |
Anonymous
It will definitely be harder than it would be in an elevator building. It’s possible to make it work of course, but you really don’t have a frame of reference for how annoying this will be with 2 kids (answer-very annoying). If your friends who are telling you it would be hard have kids I would believe them. |
Anonymous
| You can make it work, but yea sometimes you will curse your stairs. You will probably have to do special up-and-down the stairs prep, especially with two kids - ie make sure you have the baby carrier to wear the baby. |
Anonymous
| DOn't overthink it. I have a SFH and have stairs from the garage to the main floors of the house. More than 24. It's not really any different. |
Anonymous
| Not hard at all. We have a gate at the top of the stairs. The stroller stays at the ground floor. We get almost all our groceries delivered. |
Anonymous
| You just get used to it. I don't even really remember having problems with groceries when our DD was a baby (and we almost never get groceries delivered). I think I would just put her in a carrier and then carry up the groceries? Or maybe I made multiple trips. Either way, it wasn't annoying enough for me to remember. And now that we have a toddler who can walk, I never think about it. We could easily add a baby to the mix now and the stairs wouldn't be an issue. |
Anonymous
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Are you saying that this unit is on the second floor of a building with no elevator, or that the unit has a second floor, and you're just wondering about stairs in general? If the first, where will you store your stroller?
Honestly, the first scenario sounds annoying to me, but I know that people do it. |
Anonymous
We live in a condo on the second floor (no elevator) and we keep our stroller either in the building's vestibule (it is a small building and we checked with our neighbors first) or in the trunk of our car. It's actually very nice not to never have to bring the stroller inside and worry about tracking dirt into our apartment. |
Anonymous
It is different because you presumably could leave your child in the garage or house and still be “home”. |
Anonymous
You might be surprised. We live on the second floor of a small condo building, and I will definitely leave my child in the lobby if I have to run up to our condo for something, because I can see the lobby from our door, she can't open the front door of the building, and we know all our neighbors really well. Context is everything. People make such a big deal about apartments versus houses with kids, but the truth is that there is a great deal of variety with both set-ups and one is not automatically good/safe and the other bad/unsafe. |
Anonymous
| No way. |
Anonymous
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God that will be so hard. I miss our 1 story home so much.
Now with 2 kids, they basically have 1/2 their Stuff down and 1/2 up. I take a huge pile on sundays back Up to their rooms from the week (shoes, books, stuffed animals, pajamas) |