Families that live in a cape style home with 2+ dc?

What is your set up? We have 4 bedrooms 2. Upstairs and 2 downstairs with a toddler (2yrs old) and a baby on the way right now it's perfect ds right across the hall from master ( downstairs) I am panicking as I have no idea where I am going to put everybody! Ds room is still set up as a nursery which would be perfect but I'm not ready to put him upstairs all by himself all night long Any suggestions are more than helpful TIA

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We have our DC downstairs in the two bedrooms and we are upstairs. It is fine because our room is directly above the nursery and DD's room is at the bottom of the stairs and we are directly at the top of the stairs. I was nervous at first to be on a different floor from them but we are as close as if we were at the end of a long hallway or something. It works especially with the monitors.

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I have the same set up as you...2 bedrooms on the first floor (that is also where our master bedroom is) and then 2 bedrooms on the second floor. When the triplets were newborns and able to stay in a crib together, I had all 3 in the small bedroom next to our room. They stayed downstairs with us for the first 5 months. Once they all grew and needed their own cribs, we moved them all upstairs. Right now they are all together in one room upstairs...but as they get a little older I will probably keep the boys together and my DD will have her own room.
i was very nervous at first about having all three of them upstairs while I was downstairs. The first few nights I set my alarm for every hour so that way I could go up and check on them. Now we are all used to it. Having the video monitors are awesome. I can see them and hear them all night long. I think its just something you will get use to after you have each of ur DC's upstairs.

GL

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This is a really good question! I'm sorry, I can't really help b/c I only have one DC but me and my husband talk about this a lot (we have the same setup). We have no idea where we would put a second!

What if you put your older DC upstairs and the new baby next to your room at first? So, this way the baby won't wake up your other DC in the middle of the night and its convenient for you? And then when they are older, put them on the same floor together.

Ultimately, I think I would want the kids upstairs (it feels safer to me) but my DH said he would want them downstairs (and us upstairs) b/c it's safer if there's a fire??

Ack, I'm rambling out my own thoughts that we've been going over. Again, sorry I'm no help, lol!

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In our cape, the downstairs back bedroom was pushed out a bit to make a living room. We are downstairs and all 3 kids are upstairs. I'm totally comfortable with that. The girls have a gate on their door to prevent nighttime wandering, and we have a good monitor.

Recently my 11 year old has been lobbying hard to move down to our finished basement. That will probably happen eventually so everyone can have their own room but not yet.

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We have a cape with 2 dc boy/girl. At first we were upstairs with DD, then when DS came, he was in our room for a few months. Then they shared a room until DD was 4-he was 2. At that point we moved downstairs and they each have their own room upstairs, with a gate at the top of the stairs to prevent a night-time tumble.

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I have the same setup...2 bedrooms upstairs, 2 down. Right now DC is upstairs with us. When DC#2 arrives they will share a room (whether they are the same gender or not) for a few years. I am not comfortable not being on the same floor at this stage.

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We're the same. Two BRs up & two down. We sleep downstairs & the other room is used as a playroom. Upstairs is the girls' room & the guest room. They're 1 & 2. We keep the door at the top of the stairs closed (used to be an apt. there), but we hear them when they wake up.

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We have DS #1 downstairs and DS#2 upstairs across from our room. We have another bedroom downstairs, which DS #2 will move into when he is out of the crib.

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Thanks for the responses I'm just not comfortable for him
To be upstairs all by himself all night long Besides the fact lately he's been sleeping on our bed I have a feeling all of us will be in out bedroom for a while
BTW ds will be almost 3 when dc #2 arrives

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We have the same setup. DD is 2.5 and DS is 8 months. When DS was born, he was with us in our room for the first few months in the bassinet. then when he was ready for the crib, we kept DD in there too in a toddler bed. it is a bit tight in there, but it works. she loves her "big girl bed" but knows that we're right there. she also likes it when her brother sleeps with her. if she goes to bed first, she asks when he is going in the crib. lol...

it works for now... i just thought she was a little young to be up there by herself. eventually, i'll move her upstairs and he'll have the smaller room. then, if we have #3, they'll both go upstairs. :) right now, our upstairs is an office and guest room.