Baby room or baby in my room?

Crib in the corner of your room with a caddy organiser on wheels. Filled with diapers, wipes, creams, rags, a booger remover, humidifier on the top and if you are using one you can put a breast pump on the bottom shelf.
I also has a night light/ white noise machine on mine. It’s super convenient and somehow they find the sound of snoring to be really relaxing lol

My baby was born in September and we had my in laws staying for 3 weeks.
The advice is to have baby in your room for the first 6 months. I had the babyletto Yuzu crib as it’s a small bassinet which can be made bigger as baby grows. The biggest benefit of this was having wheels so if my in laws were looking after baby we could wheel the crib out of the bedroom easily. The only space she has in our room is the size of the crib.
We swaddled in muslins for the first few weeks and then transitioned her into the Love to Dream swaddle as she loved having her arms up.
We also set up a baby change area at the end of our kitchen island with all her clothes so anybody could change her and had access to her clothes.

Bassinet is fine and if another dresser fits then that too! All of my Newborns clothes fit in a dresser along with a drawer being full of only diapers. On top had a changing pad and wipe warmer.

You should share room with the baby until at least 9 months :)

Sid’s recommendations is to have baby in the same room as parent/parents at LEAST for the first 6 months - ideally 12 months.

Safe sleep recommendation (in the US, at least) is actually to have the baby in the room with you in their own sleeping area, so a bassinet or similar would be great! Even if it weren’t, I found that I was too anxious to have the baby very far from me, anyway. She just turned one and still sleeps in our room, and I don’t anticipate moving her into her (fully set up, ready & waiting) nursery any time soon.

In that ready & waiting baby space we used the changing table (with clothes storage) and the rocking chair the most over the first year. We rarely play in there and the crib is pretty much just for show at this point 😅. But those items could easily be elsewhere in your home for while your folks are staying with you. I also had a breastfeeding/pumping cart that was mobile but I mostly kept next to the rocking chair in the nursery.

It is useless having a room for your baby in the first 6mo 🤣
Your baby will want to nap on you more-so than anything.
The first 4 weeks my husband and I had to take turns holding the baby while the other slept. Then she would sleep in her bedside bassinet at night and that’s how it has been since! She will still scoot allll the way to the edge of the bassinet to be close to me.

Studies show baby sleeping in your room (if possible) for at least the first 6 months can help reduce the risk of SIDS. Having the baby in your room also makes night feeds easier.

Thank you!!!! Big relief and such helpful advice 💛 really appreciate it!