I don’t think we have space for a nursery room

We have a 3 bedroom house and my hub WFH, so he took the smallest room and the second bedroom we made our LO nursery and guest room for the grandparents. We took the opportunity and decluttered and sell a lot of things we didn't need or use so we gained a lot of space. I hope it helps

@Marisa I like the idea of decluttering because babies seem to come with alot of stuff 😂

I ‘decorated’ the nursery (my bedroom) with stuffed animals and used an animal theme to not completely make my bedroom into a baby room. The recommendation is to have babies in your room until 6 months but at almost 2 years I’m still waking up multiple times a night so he is still in my bedroom. You can always change your mind and make a nursery later on.

Safe sleep guidelines will tell you to room share until at least 6 months so I never understood having a nursery done before as they're rarely used 🤣 Honestly they will just need a room to sleep in eventually and all the extra stuff is just for convenience

My baby does have a small room of his “own” but it’s not decorated as a nursery, it’s still where my desk lives until our extension is built and it’s still where my clothes are kept until my other half removes some of his crap from our bedroom to make room for a wardrobe! Baby sleeps in there for naps and the first part of the night now but is still in with us a lot of the night. Don’t worry about living up to the pictures you see on social media, honestly! Baby isn’t going to know or care!

Even though I had a nursery, I don’t use it much. It’s basically a place to keep his clothes and change his diaper.

My son is a year and we bedshare, he came early and our nursery wasn’t finished, it is now a storage room for his and his brothers toys, prams and bikes 🤣

My LB has a beautiful aesthetic nursery … that he’s never used 😂🤷🏼‍♀️

My boyfriend WFH and he did have the smallest bedroom as his office and then we had a spare bedroom with a king size bed. When we found out we were pregnant we decided to turn his office into the nursery and then we got rid of the bed in the spare room and used his sofa bed from his office so it’s now his office/spare room. You have to make the rooms you have work for you so don’t feel pressured to have a proper nursery just because that’s what other people have x

We did lovely nursery and we store her clothes there and all the junk rn 🤣 she's 6.5m and not gonna move from our room anytime soon as I BF, we could have saved money.... I wouldn't bother if I could do it again, I would just get a wardrobe for her stuff, but that can live anywhere. And do her room once she's ready to move

Honestly social media is not reality - we had just moved into our house before lo was born it wasn’t decorated we don’t have ‘the pic’ we were kindly handed some wardrobes and drawers which saved a fortune but the first few months I had all her clothes downstairs as was easier 🤣

We have a 3 bed the smallest room is my husbands office as he is wfh. My son has the second bedroom room (the nursery) and we have our own room. A few months ago i took a wfh job myself so my desk is in the dining room and we have a fold up dining table to help with space. Our house is only 20 years old but its got that new build style to it so although the space is decent theres not much wiggle room to move furniture about!

Baby is recommended to be in your room for the first 6 months anyway so there’s no need to worry about it yet. I’d say get in the groove of newborn life and use the smallest room to store their things for now. After you and your husband get a feel for your priorities you can act accordingly. A few options you have are using the small room as a tiny nursery/office space so the other room can be used for the opposite. keeping baby in your room as they get older and continuing to store their things in the small room, or even adapting your bedroom into an office space if that’s more appealing than leaving baby in there. You’ve got plenty of time to decide though. We had the aesthetic nursery done before my daughter was born and ended up co sleeping for 15 months/moved in the process so she never slept in there 🤣

We made nursery room and never used it, not even for my son’s nap, nothing at all. So we made it into play room instead and we had so much use out it (in our old house) But I co slept with my son, and he is still sleeping with us in a room and he’s nearly 2. He’s got his own room now but again we changed it to play room instead and just left space for his bed as I am planning to sleep train him sometimes next year.

We have a 3 bed. Before pregnancy the tiny 3rd room was my office, then we thought it’d be my daughter’s room (but we were never going to use a crib, just a floorbed so actually didn’t buy furniture as its safest to have an empty room, and her clothes fit in a chest of drawers in the second bedroom (guest room)). We actually still cosleep at 2 years, so we rearranged things and the tiny room went back to being an office/storing toys etc & the second bedroom will be hers when she leaves our room

Hopefully a little bit of inspiration for u x

I genuinely don’t really understand this obsession with having a perfect nursery complete before the baby comes. It’s recommend that the baby sleeps in the same room as you for the first six months anyway. I personally want my baby as close to me as possible, plus I’ve heard that most of these nurseries go relatively unused for a long time. Just seems like a bit of a social media trap to me, but each to their own.

We have 3b. Our bedroom, my older son and a office/spare room. We made a new office inside our closet space and moved all our clothes to a wardrobe in the nursery room.

It may be the reality for some. I see the posts often of people worried about what paint shade they’re going to go for in their nursery. First world problems. Babies sleep in same room as us their care giver/givers for nearly first 6 months. Don’t feel bad about not entering into the hype of it all.

2 under 3 and both mine are room sharing atm as we live in a 2 bed flat!

We are in the same position with two offices. We’ve agreed to reduce to 1 office that my partner will use so that the bigger of the two rooms becomes the nursery. I’m happy to work on sofa as I’ll be on mat leave soon enough. In terms of the nursery I’m really excited to do that as it’s something I’ve dreamed of. But it’s a personal choice, don’t let social media dictate what’s practical for you x

Put a divider into one of the bigger rooms and make two office spaces? And put baby in the small room? baby doesn’t need a wardrobe, a chest is plenty, but this is all later down the line baby doesn’t need their own space for a while and you won’t need an office space for a while so you have lots of time to plan it Another idea if you have space to divide part of your living space downstairs for an office then have one down there you could get some space saving office ideas from Pinterest and then the small room upstairs can be a second office and baby gets one of the bigger rooms 🤷🏼‍♀️