So my husband and I have a four bedroom house the main floor in the master bedroom and another bedroom that our 1 year old is in. The second floor is two bedrooms and another bedroom extra storage closet my plan was to put our next baby due in July upstairs and make one of the rooms her bedroom now she wouldn’t be up there right away the first few months she would sleep in the bassinet next to our bed but around 3-5 months we move our kids into there own room. My mil and some of my friends are absolutely mortified by the idea of putting the baby upstairs but no one has gave me a valid reason other then “what if they fall down the stairs” like ummmm yall a 3 month old is not going to get out of her crib and fall down the stairs that’s just not possible. I thought of putting my one year old upstairs and she does know how to go up and downstairs however ik it would be to dark and she would definitely fall down the stairs and she has pretty bad night terrors and comes into our room and gets us or it’s close enough we can get to her fast enough when she’s really freaking out. My husband doesn’t seem to really care what we do lol so he hasn’t said much but I’m wondering what some other ppl think we should do.
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My house has bedrooms upstairs and living space downstairs, so my kids are obviously upstairs.
If my house had the same layout as yours once I moved baby to own room I would move both kids upstairs and use the downstairs bedroom as a playroom. I’d mount baby cameras in both rooms and put baby gates to avoid the stair issue.
I want a bedroom as a playroom on the lower floor sooooo badly. It would help the living room not look like a toy store 😂

Trying having them share the downstairs room first and see how they do together until your toddler gets really good at stairs and stops waking in the night. Worst case scenario is you have to separate them.
If you want them to have their own bedrooms right away to avoid them disrupting each other put new baby upstairs with monitors. She should be perfectly safe up there considering she won’t be reaching the door handle for some time.

Whilst little I would have them share if the room is big enough or since your happy for new baby to go upstairs just put a stair gate so there’s literally no chance they’ll fall