Cosleeping parents... did you still build a nursery for your LO? - Page 3

[Down2Earth]

I would say it depends on how long you are going to live at your current place. If you plan on moving within the year, then just keep everything the way it is. But if you are going to live there until your LO is old enough to need a room that I would start making that room over. Maybe moving around some stuff when you need room for your LO's things. Plus, it is really really nice having a place to put all of the baby gifts!

We cosleep and DD's room was the catch-all/junk room until she was about 5 mo. We then bought her a dresser, low shelf, and twin mattress for the floor. I never changed her diaper in there, I only stored her clothes. But now that we have fully made it her room she loves to play in there. And we have a safe place for daytime naps. And a great bonus, when I had the flu I stayed on her bed and she was able to play and come to me when she needed to nurse.

She will sleep with us until she doesn't want to anymore, but it is nice having a place that is just hers.

[Mal85]

Our place is a two bedroom and what is now the nursery was our guest room/office/extra storage room before. We did some major rearranging and did turn it into a nursery. And for us, it was well worth it. Her dresser and clothes are in there, all of her diapering supplies are kept in there, her changing table is in there. And she naps in her crib, so it was definitely needed.

As she gets older, I imagine we'll use it as a play room as well since there is no other place for that in our house.

[Latte Mama]

When DS was born we lived in a 1 bedroom apt so no, no nursery. Then when he was 7 months old we took the 2 bedroom apt. downstairs in my bldg. and even though he was still cosleeping, we did make a bedroom for him. It was just something I always wanted to do. I really got into the decorating and Winnie the Pooh stuff, yeah corny I know.

Now at 13 months, he does sleep in his room and we also keep the changing table in there. It's useful for us.

[NaturalMindedMomma]

I live in a 2 bedroom apartment. It is small and has one HUGE walkin closet..

With my first we were in a house and we didn't cosleep, so she slept in her crib in her room from about 2 months old and on. Before that she slept in our room in her pack and play. But I wanted the nursery (I needed to nest, completely for me, lol)

With my second, I set up the pack and play as a changing station in my room (and for any surprise CPS visits, they are sticklers for this in MA) and she has a bureau in the living room that I use as a TV stand. We all share the closet. When she gets older I will get bunk beds for the girls and she will join her sister in the second bedroom.

[Karrie42]

At this age, I think it's much more helpful to the baby if *the parents* have a room to escape into (i.e. weights, reading, etc.) :-)

[Headmeister]

Well, we had no intentions of cosleeping at all and here we are, 15 months later, with no intentions of stopping cosleeping until my daughter is ready. Because we fully intended on using a nursery, we set one up for her - soup to nuts, really spared no expense. We have a 3 bdrm house, and the rooms are *tiny*. We kept the bigger of the two spare rooms as a guest room and made the itty bitty room her room. We made a lot of changes to make that happen, as it was our cat room, our server/computer/printer room, etc. Now? She's never spent more than 15 mins in the crib in that room, and we never, ever use it. Had I known, I would have left it as it, because now the cat boxes are in the guest room and get everything dusty - forcing us to not only put them in our room when we have company but we have to literally mop the whole room down because of the litter dust that gets on everything, and, all of the computer gear went into our bedroom. We literally user her room as a dumping ground for things we need to get out of the way but don't know where to put them. We also use the closet and dresser for her things, but that's it. Now that I've read this thread, I'm seriously thinking about dismantling that room and making it what it was before, and then when this baby (I'm pg) gets old enough, just moving them both from our room into the larger guest room together.

I say keep that room what it is and change it only if you decide you need to after the fact - no sense making all the changes and then deciding it wasn't necessary, know what I mean?

[MorgnsGrl]

We didn't bother with a nursery. We knew DS was going to sleep with us, so it seemed unnecessary. We put his bureau in the office (because that's where there was room for it) and bought some waterproof changing pads so we could change his diapers on our bed. We never had a crib or a changing table.

[tykys]

I would hold off til you needed it, otherwise it's just going to be a big headache - and what's the use if it's never really used? Right now we are sharing our room with DS (8 weeks) - his changing table, dresser, etc. is all in our room- whenever he is ready to sleep on his own we are going to move our room to the bedroom in the back of the house and give him our room, right across the hall from his big sister. But we're not going to worry about any of that until the time comes.

[tykys]

Originally Posted by NaturalMindedMomma

I live in a 2 bedroom apartment. It is small and has one HUGE walkin closet..

With my first we were in a house and we didn't cosleep, so she slept in her crib in her room from about 2 months old and on. Before that she slept in our room in her pack and play. But I wanted the nursery (I needed to nest, completely for me, lol)

With my second, I set up the pack and play as a changing station in my room (and for any surprise CPS visits, they are sticklers for this in MA) and she has a bureau in the living room that I use as a TV stand. We all share the closet. When she gets older I will get bunk beds for the girls and she will join her sister in the second bedroom.

What are CPS sticklers about?? Having a changing station? Weird.