Not enough bedrooms, how do you cope?

[purplepumpkins]

As title says, what do you do.
We live in small 3 bedroom house, we have DS14yrs in one room
DS7months in the other
and of course us in ours.
We thinking of having another bub very soon, DS7months will hopefully be around 18months, when next bub arrives, I just not too sure where to put new bub.
I dont want bub in the room with 7month old cause he will get woken up at night.
The rooms are all very small too, so 7 month cant share with 14 yr old no room.
We might be able to buy a cheap bassinet to put in our room but really not much room at all.
Also I am really hoping to not have a summer bub, as our house is soooo hot in summer and we only have air conditioning in our room, which means bub wont be able to sleep in there, with it on, as it is loud, and gets rather cool by morning.

What do others do?

[TripleTime]

We're currently in a a 3 bed 1 bad, no car old federation. We're short on a few things, like a bedroom, bathroom & 2 car spaces but we make it work by keeping the house tidy-ish. Everything has a home & thats where it lives, no if buts or maybes. If it doesnt have a home, it goes or you find it one.

ATM both girls share a room cause they dont sleep without each other & DS cant sleep with anyone. Untill the girls are asking for their own rooms constantly, we stay here. DH & I would both much rather a smaller house with spare money than a massive house & live on struggle street.

This house is bigger than our last 2 bedder that the 5 of us were in for 7 months, we are in front of what we did have.

[MummaBear03]

I easily fit 5 kids (2 girls and 3 boys) into my 3 bedroom house and my neighbours now have 6 children (5 girls and 1 boy) in a 4 bedroom house where the bedrooms are quite small. Their kids range from newborn (3 or 4 days old now) to 13 years in age and they just have them sharing rooms. Bunk beds and sharing of clothing are what help them through.

[purplepumpkins]

Mummabear.
so with your nieghbours, where do they have newborn at the moment. I know newborn and my 7 month old can share a room, after newborn starts to sleep through the night, my question really is what do they do with newborn where does bub sleep? With them in their room or with other kiddies?

[mummythreetimes]

we live in a 3bedroom house
1 bedroom us
2 bedroom Master
3 Miss

And our baby due soon will be in our from in a bassinet hopefully until March but baby needs moved into a cot before then it will go in with one off the twins depending on babys sex and then we plan to build a new deck and a new bedroom for us. This is going to cost us around $40,000 but we dont plan on moving in any hurry and we are very settled in our area.

[MummaBear03]

At the moment they have their newborn in a bassinet beside their bed, their 2 year old has a bed but sleeps with them and still feeds often through the night whereas the newborn only wakes up at 10pm, 2am and 6am then feeds hourly through the day.

They have:

13 year old girl
10 year old girl
8 year old girl
5 year old girl
2 year old boy
Newborn girl

They have their room for the parents and the newborn, but she'll go into a room with the 2 year old and the 5 year old.

They have a room for the 2 year old and the 5 year old to share, and in this room they have a bunk bed that comes apart and makes 2 single beds. When the baby is ready for a bed, the 2 beds will be put together to make a bunk bed and they will buy a new single bed. The 5 year old will go on the top, the other 2 at the bottom.

The 8 year old and 10 year old share a room. This is the smallest room and literally only fits a set of bunk beds and a book shelf in it.

The 13 year old has her own room but it's not just for her which makes no sense so I'll explain further.

She has built-in robes in her room which is where all their clothes are kept. She also has a desk and a computer in her room and the desk is for all the school aged kids to do their homework on, the computer doesn't connect to the internet and is for assignments and that's for everyone to use whenever needed but mostly it's the 13 year old because she's in Year 8 so has lots of assignments to type up. So even though she has her own room she has to share the space, she just doesn't have to share it overnight.

They are a very close family and have no problems with this set up, and in fact the 5 year old often goes into the bed of the 8 year old, and both are happy for this to happen.

[sweetseven]

Is it possible for you to buy a cheap caravan and put Mr14 in the back yard?

I would keep bub with me until around 12 months old, then put his in with the toddler (perhaps even sharing a bed).

Also the last thread on this matter can be found here More kiddies than bedrooms...

[lambjam]

Can you fit a bassinet in your room? If so, in your situation, I would put bubs with us until they moved into a cot, at which point they would share with the other little 'un.

We have a large bedroom that fits DS3's cot, and our older boys (9 and 4) share a room. We have spare bedrooms and they could all have their own room, but they love sharing.

When DS3 goes into a single bed it's my hope to move him into a room with DS2 and put DS1 into his own room, but I don't think DS1 will agree to it at this point!

[Pina Colada]

I would buy a bassinette and put bub in that in my room until they grew too big, and then put the cot in my room if it fit, or in with the then 2 year old.

You would be surprised how dead to the world kids can be when they are asleep, I used to worry about my kids waking each other up, but they seem to sleep through most times.

If you are worried about waking I would take bub out to the lounge to feed.

[anewme]

My DH and I have
16 yr girl
10 yr boy
9 yr girl
6 yr girl
2 yr boy

We live in a double garage. We all share one room it works for us. (we are building a 7 bedroom house)

At time we have live in a 3 bed house. The 3 girls shared, The boy was on his own then (no5 had not arrived) and us in the last room.

Our newborns always spend the first year or so in our room no matter how many rooms we have.