Room arrangements for #2

[sjh722]

Did you leave the nursery for the baby and make a big kid room, or convert the existing nursery into a big kids' room and make a new nursery?

The baby will probably sleep in our room for awhile, but I figured it might be good to get past room/bed transitions before the baby comes.

[Deleted]

New nursery. By which I mean "moved rocker and crib into the room next door".

[matildasun]

I did nothing until after he was born. He slept in our room for a long time. We moved A into a toddler bed we put in a hallway we are pretending is a room, and kept M in our room until A was settled. We moved M into the crib in the original nursery when he was about 9 months old.

[ilikedonuts]

New nursery

[irishbride2]

DD was older and ready for a big bed anyway. She was already in the room we planned to be her big kid room. So all we had to do was move the crib and get her a new bed.

we did the transition about 3 months before DS was born, even though he didn't go into the crib until around 4 months. We didn't want her to have issues with the transition and "blame" the baby.

[justjen]

New nursery

[holly116]

I've used the same gender neutral nursery stuff for all three kids. I really love it, luckily.

The older two were in the same room and we moved when I was pregnant with #3. We did big kid rooms for the older two at that time and set up the old nursery the same in the new house . Now the boys are in the same big kid room.

[Yankees21]

We don't have #2 yet, but are planning to make a new big kid room since our other spare bedroom is quite a bit bigger than the current nursery.

[soozy87]

#2 will get #1's current room.

[BlueNotebook]

We turned the guest room into a new 'big girl' room for DD and left the nursery the way it was. She was 2.5 when DS was born so she would have been out of the crib soon anyway. We decorated it all in pink and white with butterflies and she loved it. We did her new room about 2 months before DS was due. And I'm glad we gave ourselves extra time. Even after she helped me move her toys and clothes in it, she refused to sleep in there for a while.

[carolinagirl831]

We are leaving DDs room the way it is. It is not decorated specifically for a "baby" She loves her room and I think she would be really sad if the new baby took it.
We are doing a new room for baby #2. We purchased a new dresser, a new swivel glider (we still use DDs all the time, and I just anticipate leaving both chairs in their rooms forever. They can read or do homework in them.
We are still waiting on the crib, but I think we're going to be buying another one.

[Deleted]

DS is staying in his room, it's "his room" IMHO. Babygirl will be in our room for at least the first 6 months. Which gives us time to turn the 3rd bedroom into her room. It's currently the office/junk room that DH is very attached to, but never uses. If she's a unicorn baby who STTN at 6mo, we may put her in with DS. But his room is small. We'll see.

[turtlegirl]

The nursery was a very small room, so it stayed the nursery. DS1 moved into a bog boy room (which was the office/guest room). And since #2 was the same gender I didn't have to repaint or redecorate the nursery.

It a as more fun to paint and decorate the new big boy room.

[water*drop]

Realistically, the baby will be in our room for at least a few months, but we wanted all of DD's transitions to be well-established before he gets here. We made the guest room into a big girl room for DD. That room is a little bigger with more closet space, so it makes a better older kid room, plus she's 2.5 and would be out of the crib soon anyway, so we didn't want to buy new nursery furniture. We made a huge deal over it and surprised DD with a fully decorated room and new furniture at Christmas (so 4.5 months before the baby is due, and she did not know about the baby at the time). She loves her new room. She figured out that the baby would go in her old crib on her own shortly after learning that she was getting a baby brother, and she refers to the nursery as "baby brother's room." She's helping to pick out fabric and stuff for his room and seems fine with the arrangement, although obviously that could change when he gets here.

[anna7602]

I have never had a "nursery" in the GBCN sense. I had a crib and changing pad on a dresser in DD's room and when she outgrew those, they went into storage. We also moved the rocking chair out of her room at some point to make more floor space for playing. But I had the same rocking chair in my bedroom while growing up and in my bedrooms after college.

We converted our guest room into DS's room this fall when he outgrew the co-sleeper in our room. The crib, changing table and rocking chair are all in there now.

[Deleted]

We moved when I was a few months pregnant with #2, so we just set up the nursery in a new room.

#3 would have depended on gender how we did things. If he's been another girl we would have moved #1 into the spare room at the time, #2 into #1's room and #3 into the nursery. But since he was a boy he got the spare room. Reasoning behind this is the girls bedrooms have a jack and Jill bathroom and the other bedroom has it's own bathroom. Figured later on it would be better for the girls to share a bathroom and the boy to have his own than to have oldest have her own bathroom and have boy and girl share.

[roo54]

We are leaving the nursery, and moving DD to the guest room which we will finally decorate for her.

[july]

I don't know yet what we are going to do. Without worrying about D's opinions, we would move her to the guest room and put the baby in her current room. However, she might flip out with all the changes. Even if we kept the same room, the futprniture would have to move. I think she is just going to have to deal with it.

[deo]

#1 moved to his big kid room and I kept the nursery the same for #2.

[sixtwelve]

Each baby got a "new" nursery. DS 1 & 2 are only 20 months apart so we got a second crib and set it up in the other room for ds2. We moved since then and had DD. She is 4 years younger than ds2 so she got a whole new set up. They all have their own room.

[brady2012]

We made a new nursery, but took all the baby stuff out of DD's room.  We got her a twin bed and took the crib and glider out and put them in DS's nursery.  They are 22 months apart.  I didn't change much about her room other than that.  We still used the changing table on her dresser until she was PT'd at 2.5.

[gibbinator]

We moved the baby related furniture into another bedroom. Ds1 got to keep his room but got a new bed, dresser, etc

[Velar Fricative]

We are going to give #2 DD's current room. It's smaller than what would be her new bedroom with not as much closet space. Eventually (when #2 is sleeping okay through the night) we would like them to share the bigger room and use what is now DD's room into a playroom.

[meltoine]

Added a second crib to the nursery and they share.

[undecidedowl]

Kept the nursery the same for DS2. Made a new big boy room for DS1 to get him excited, he loved it.

[Deleted]

DS got a room all his own. It was completely empty. I also didn't want to start a whole another transition for Rubes out of her room either has she loves and was sleeping good.

Also lazy, I didn't feel like moving 2 rooms worth of furniture. I took the crib out, gave Rubes a bed and called it a day.  

DSs room is also a bit farther away and I didn't trust DD to not wander in the night. DS isn't going anywhere in is crib.  

[t]

We plan on moving DD to another room and keeping the nursery as is since it's done and babyish.

[jenn248]

We will keep the nursery as is, more or less, and move DD into what is currently the guest room. The guest room is slightly bigger than the nursery, so it makes more sense to move DD there (and not have to deal with the hassle of moving the nursery furniture).

[mrssandro]

We ended up moving DD1 into a big girl room and keeping the nursery as is. We did get a changing table and that is about it. 

[curbsideprophet]

DD stayed in her room. We converted the guest bedroom into DSs room. The office and the guest bedroom got combined into one room.