Moving into a bed

Our 3 year old still sleeps in a cot 😅 our other son is 4 months old and so he’ll be moving into his big brother’s room with the cot when he’s around 6 months. So my eldest will be moving to a spare room upstairs 🥺🥺 the rest of us will be downstairs. Any tips for the transition? I feel awful that he’s upstairs and we’re downstairs 😟it will be his first time sleeping in a bed every night

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We moved our 3yo 5 weeks ago before our newborn arrived so she would feel like she upgraded her room instead of needing to leave for a sibling which worked well.
We made a big deal about her having a big girl bed and she called it her ‘princess bed’. We let her pick her bedding, we asked what colour she wanted her panelling and tried to accommodate lots of choices she made so she felt involved. We explained that she wasn’t allowed out of her cot unless mummy or daddy came to get her etc.
We live in a townhouse so she has always been on a different floor to us since 6 months so I can appreciate that sleeping on different floors would be harder to introduce. Could you have a little code between you e.g. if you need us, say ‘bananas’ and we will come to you.

Hope it goes well 🙏🏼

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