Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site terak.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!qantel!lll-crg!seismo!hao!noao!terak!suze From: suze@terak.UUCP (Suzanne Barnett) Newsgroups: net.kids Subject: Re: Making room when baby makes three Message-ID: <916@terak.UUCP> Date: Wed, 20-Nov-85 11:27:39 EST Article-I.D.: terak.916 Posted: Wed Nov 20 11:27:39 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 27-Nov-85 05:48:52 EST References: <17700003@ism70.UUCP> Organization: Calcomp Display Products Division, Scottsdale, AZ, USA Lines: 51 > > I am interested in any comments or suggestions that readers of net.kids have > about living in a 1 bedroom home with a newborn. Has anyone out there tried > it? My husband and I are expecting our first child in May. We are living >... This is not from experience, but rather things I know from places I've lived, and what to me seems common sense. > that it really isn't necessary. Now, we're starting to consider either > sharing our room with the baby, moving the baby into the living room (it's > ... In Europe (or at least Germany and Italy) babies sleep with their parents (in the same bed) until they are large enough to have their own bed. It is virtually impossible to get a hotel with a crib because of this. > I can't > imagine that sharing our room with our baby would be that difficult for six > months (maybe it's the maternal instincts that I've been feeling so strongly > lately, but right now I think I'd love to share our room with our baby), but > some of the people who we've talked to feel very strongly about us having a > private space available where we can be by ourselves when we need to be. > Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated. We have no idea what to > expect... Do what YOU feel comfortable with. I would think it very convenient, especially while the baby is not yet sleeping through the night to have it in the same room. Easier to hear crying or other wakeup noises, less stumbling around to get to the baby, etc. On the other hand, having the baby that close could disturb your rest when it needn't be disturbed or interfere with your romantic relationship with your spouse. (I say romantic because I mean more than just sexual.) You might try one arrangement and have it work fine the entire time you remain in your current home. Or you might try one arrangement and not like it at all after a day or two. Or you might find that several different arrangements can be used at different times during the baby's first few months. If you want a separate area for the baby (in whichever room) you might purchase or make (if you have access to some woodworking tools) one or two inexpensive room dividers. -- ************************************************************** Suzanne Barnett-Scott uucp: ...{decvax,ihnp4,noao,savax,seismo}!terak!suze phone: (602) 998-4800 us mail: CalComp/Sanders Display Products Division (Formerly Terak Corporation) 14151 N 76th street, Scottsdale, AZ 85260