Our home is configured so that the master bedroom and nursery are on the 2nd floor and two additional bedrooms are on the 1st floor.
Having a bedroom on a different floor than an infant.
We have an almost 2 year old and a baby due in january.
They d be on the first floor and have an easier route to safety i d presume.
After having lo little one we revised our plans completely as i couldn t put my baby downstairs.
I have to say it actually currently bothers me that our master bedroom door is four feet further down the hall than the nursery door both on the 2nd floor in case an axe murderer breaks in and goes to the baby s room first.
You will be up and down those stairs 40 times a day.
Now that my daughter is getting closer to a regular bed i have horrible visions of her tryig to get to us during the night and falling down the stairs.
I wanted to put the baby room upstairs but i am wondering if i will hate my life if all the baby stuff is upstairs when our bedroom is.
For the first few months i would recommend sleeping on the same floor.
Our bedroom is on our first floor and there are no other bedrooms on that floor the rest are upstairs.
I have a 2 1 2 year old that the baby will share a room with.
Infants are demanding and they need to be fed every 2 3 hours from the start of the feed not the end.
Having my child on another floor from me makes me alittle uneasy.
We have been truely fortunate to have a good sleeper who stays in her bed.
It s on the smaller side but i don t think either child should be on a different floor than us we have four bedroom 2 on the second floor and 2 on the third.
Our initial layout for our house was a dormer bungalow with a master upstairs and two kids bedrooms on the ground floor at the front.
I d work with the different bed times of the two youngest kids and err on the side of safety.
I m a 1st trimester preggo but we are starting to think about how we might need to make changes around the house to prepare for the bebe.
I would not put children that young on a different floor.
For the first few months the baby typically sleeps in the same room.
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When my 1st child turns 18months we will be expecting our 2nd child.
Then your older children wouldn t even have to bother with the fire ladder either since you said it s too heavy even for your older children.
I would have no issue being on a different floor if it was 3 storey but didn t feel safe having them on the ground floor looking out onto the street whilst i was.
They will have to share a room for a long time until the older one is older enough to be downstairs by herself.
I would consider putting the baby on a different level than you all because they are in a crib.