3 children in a 2 bed house

tiamai_d

Just discovered that I am pregnant with my 3rd child, was a huge shock as I had a minera coil (it seems to have gone awol at some point).

Now the dilemma, we can't really afford to buy a bigger house, we hadn't been planning on it since the recession hit. We are comfortable where we are in a rather small 2 bedroom mid terrace house. Front and back garden, nothing special but it keeps us warm.

Can we fit 3 kids in one room? Does anyone do this at the moment and does it work? DS1 is 7 and DS2 is 3.

We can possibly convert the loft into another bedroom but again, it's all about the cash.

winnie81

Hi there I have 4 kids in a 3bed house and 3 kids are in one room so yes its do-able There are 2 in bunk beds and theres a small single in there too. You need as much stoarage as you can get in the room and you will also need to make sure you often de-clutter and don't keep hold of things you don't need in there etc so the space isn't wasted.

Good Luck and Congratulations on you news

tamlem

Congratulations on expecting your third.

When we had our fourth child we were living in a small 3 bed semi, the third bed was a box room so we had our 4th in the cot in there and our 3 older children shared a room. At he time they were 6 (girl), 4 (boy) and 19months (girl).

There were a few teething problems as my two older children had shared for sometime and had a good bedtime routine but when we moved our 19month old in with them she made it her mission to entertain them at bedtime for as long as possible!

On the whole, space was tight but we managed. We now have 4 bedrooms so our younger two girls still share and they wouldn't have it any other way. Admittedly its not as cramped with 2 as 3 but there are lots of positives to children sharing a room (but I think good bedtime routines are a must!)

You may well get some responses from people regarding the impact of the gender of your children (if your third is a girl). Unbelievably I did get a few strange comments from people about the fact that my 2 older children (girl and boy) shared a room from ages 2-6ish. I have no issue at all with mixed gender sharing, until, of course children grow older and puberty and privacy become more of an issue.

Good luck with everything. I hope all goes well for you.

tiamai_d

Hmmm... so the plan prior to yesterday, was that I am at college closy by this year and next year, then DS2 starts school and I either go into a job and work through a degree or go to uni for 3. Then we moved house.

Lets see, I would be a SAHM next year (EDD is 31st August so no hope of college), following year I go back to college. hmmm, we could move when DS1 is 10, DS2 is 6 and baby is 2. That sounds OK, DS1 has not yet hit puberty and really they will only all be in the same room for about a year.

Think I am worrying over nothing.

Thanks everyone! Makes me feel better knowing that there are others in the same situation.

wes_cov

This brings back memories when i was young i shared with my brother and cousin in a bunk bed and talk cabinet bed. ended up jumping from the bunk bed onto the other bed! great fun until one of us went through it!

we tried to hide it but when my brother woke up in the morning his matress had fell down the hole and he was stuck

So yes i agree with the good night time routine !

jellymid

Is one of your bedrooms bigger than the other? If so, could you and your partner have the smaller room, leaving the bigger one for the children? Or would it be possible to divide one room to make a smaller area? I always remember seeing a documentary on the Waton sextuplets, where they had divided up bedrooms with stud partitions to make sure that each of them had their own space, however tiny, whilst they were teenagers. I am one of 5 and we had a three bedroom house, so always shared until I left for uni age 18. I think it made us a close family and it certainly made us more tolerant adults.

Maybe you could save and plan for the loft conversion in the future, but I'm sure that your children will have lots of fun together along the way. Good luck!

freebiequennie

hey when i was younger (only 28 now) there was 8 children and then my parents in 3 bed house. us 3 girls in one rooms, my parents in another and 4 brothers in another and then one brother slept on pull out sofa bed in dining room as he wouldnt share with 4 others!!

eventually dad put a large conservatory on and that became dining room so us girls had downstairs bedroom (old dining room), 2oldest boys shared and 3 youngest shared.

strange now as my mum and dad split 3yrs ago and now only mum and youngest (16) at home now and 19yr old stays when home from uni so mum feels house is so empty!!

newlywed

We were four kids in one bedroom, but it was a fair sized room. Then later on my brother didn't like sharing with all those younger girls and so slept in the front room on a fold up bed.

squidge60

phew you think you have worries 1 of my sils has 3 sons sharing a smallish bedroom and theyre 24,20,17:eek:

Krystaltips

squidge60 wrote: »

phew you think you have worries 1 of my sils has 3 sons sharing a smallish bedroom and theyre 24,20,17:eek:

:rotfl:You'd think they'd want to move out by now!

squidge60

Krystaltips wrote: »

:rotfl:You'd think they'd want to move out by now!

you would think so wouldnt you but i think theyre gonna be home a longggg time yet as the 2 older ones havent even had a girlfriend yet :eek: :rotfl: