https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 07 May 2026 18:12:34 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/can-your-current-living-situation-accommodate-another-child/page/2#post-1006625 Sat, 10 Aug 2013 15:48:11 +0000 pui 1006625@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My current living situation can hardly support one child. It'll be adequate when we have a baby, but we'll have to move when he/she starts getting bigger.</p> <p>(we could potentially use the basement of our home for more space, but moving is a more likely option for us). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/can-your-current-living-situation-accommodate-another-child/page/2#post-1006621 Sat, 10 Aug 2013 15:43:29 +0000 LittleFox 1006621@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No. We have 1 bedroom, which DS shares with us, and an office. I could convert the office into a bedroom, but then I would have no place to work from. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/can-your-current-living-situation-accommodate-another-child/page/2#post-1006540 Sat, 10 Aug 2013 14:32:12 +0000 indi 1006540@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have a 2br/1b apartment, and I think we can easily have 2 kids or even wrap up with the 3rd before we'd have to move. However, I grew up in a house with 2 adults and 4 kids and only 2 bedrooms, so I definitely don't feel the need for each kiddo to have their own room right away. When we buy a home, it won't necessarily have 4+ bedrooms unless it happens to work out that way. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/can-your-current-living-situation-accommodate-another-child/page/2#post-1006493 Sat, 10 Aug 2013 13:53:00 +0000 Dandelion 1006493@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope...we're going to have to move soon after this kid comes. The third bedroom is my craft room and I have no where else to put that stuff. I'm already having to compact it enough as it is. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/can-your-current-living-situation-accommodate-another-child/page/2#post-1006491 Sat, 10 Aug 2013 13:51:33 +0000 lamariniere 1006491@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We technically only have 2 bedrooms and the current plan is for the kids to share after baby2 is born and has some sort of decent sleep pattern. We could possibly switch some rooms around and have 3 bedrooms, but I like our current configuration. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/can-your-current-living-situation-accommodate-another-child/page/2#post-1005907 Sat, 10 Aug 2013 07:41:27 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 1005907@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have plenty of room for a third child although we're not planning to go there! It's a 3 br/4 bath and 3500 sq ft...</p> <p>But, I grew up in a 3/2 with 1500 sq ft and four kids until I was 13. We didn't feel squished or anything, though we did play outside a lot :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/can-your-current-living-situation-accommodate-another-child/page/2#post-1005892 Sat, 10 Aug 2013 07:28:32 +0000 LazyLightning 1005892@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We're a 3 bedroom 1.5 bath with nearly no storage...so it could, but would lose office and book storage plus one of the bedrooms is in an awkward location. It's work though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/can-your-current-living-situation-accommodate-another-child/page/2#post-1005891 Sat, 10 Aug 2013 07:25:32 +0000 Beyond2 1005891@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep! But I think I'm, in the minority because I see a lot of people on here with bigger homes saying they can't accommodate another. I think it's all how you look at it. DH and I want 4-6 kids and we don't plan to move. We live in a 900sq ft 3 bedroom home (with no attic or basement). If when we get to that point I plan to build triple bunks on 2 of the walls in the big bedroom and use the smaller room as a playroom (it's the nursery now). We have one child and are working on #2 now! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/can-your-current-living-situation-accommodate-another-child/page/2#post-1005856 Sat, 10 Aug 2013 06:42:46 +0000 lilyofthewest 1005856@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Urk. I hope so. Sweetie and I don't have any kids yet -- we just got a bigger place with the idea of having room for kids and not scrambling with housing once I'm preggers or with a new baby...</p> <p>...but now sweetie is insisting that the spare bedroom become his office/alone time room and I'm afraid it'll be difficult for him to give up when it is needed as a baby room. I'd been hoping/planning for it to be a guest room.</p> <p>So, now we have no guest room and I'm anticipating drama when sweetie has to give up the space. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/can-your-current-living-situation-accommodate-another-child/page/2#post-1005821 Sat, 10 Aug 2013 05:24:12 +0000 ElbieKay 1005821@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have a 2bd 2ba 1500sf apt and our first baby is on the way. Our living room is L-shaped, so if we needed a third bedroom we could put up a wall to make another room. Or if the kids were close in age then they could share the second bedroom for awhile, </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/can-your-current-living-situation-accommodate-another-child/page/2#post-1005813 Sat, 10 Aug 2013 05:02:00 +0000 Sweet T 1005813@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes. We have 3 bedrooms but one is currently being used for storage. We really need to get it cleaned up for baby #2! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/can-your-current-living-situation-accommodate-another-child/page/2#post-1005811 Sat, 10 Aug 2013 04:58:46 +0000 SugarplumsMom 1005811@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Absolutely. We bought our house with 2 kids in mind. With one, we just have more room for junk :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/can-your-current-living-situation-accommodate-another-child/page/2#post-1005803 Sat, 10 Aug 2013 04:23:19 +0000 nana87 1005803@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm going to be losing my office for this baby's nursery-- we have a 3 bedroom apartment but the rooms are tiny tiny tiny-- ie our bedroom is the biggest one and ONLY fits a queen sized bed, no other furniture. Dh and I both work at home and have our own rooms w our dressers plus desks. The good thing is we have a very large living room/dining room area so I will combine my office with that. We will have to pare down our clothes and other things we have space to make it all fit though! I actually really like working in the dining room already-- so much morning sunlight-- but losing my storage space will be hard </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/can-your-current-living-situation-accommodate-another-child/page/2#post-1005800 Sat, 10 Aug 2013 04:14:46 +0000 yin 1005800@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have a 4 bedroom house and can definitely accommodate LO2 on the way. Tonight DH and I discussed how we would like the two boys to share a room, which opens up two more rooms. So I guess we could accommodate up to 4 kids. DH says we can have another set of kids share and bunk up. Haha. I can't imagine 5 kids. Pretty sure I'm done with 2. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/can-your-current-living-situation-accommodate-another-child/page/2#post-1005615 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 22:30:20 +0000 HLK208 1005615@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes! 4 bedrooms and a loft would fit 3 LO's. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/can-your-current-living-situation-accommodate-another-child/page/2#post-1005607 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 22:23:23 +0000 red_seattle 1005607@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our house is 760 square feet. We were talking that through a lot this week because X needed to transition to a toddler bed. (Do we get a bunk bed and X sleeps on the bottom bunk, with plans to move to the top with another? Can we fit this particular bed model with a crib in his room? etc.) Right now, I think it's tight but we're all happy. </p> <p>Can we fit another? Yeah, we think we can-- even with the nearly twin size bed we picked out for X. Eventually, if/when LO #2 comes along, what we'll do is keep X in his room, move the 2 of us into our large living room (treating it like a studio apartment for us parents), put potential LO #2 in our room until they sleep through the night, and then move both kids into 1 room once both are sleeping decently. It'll be tight, but by the time kiddo #2 is 2 years old, I will have graduated and (God willing), we'll be in a financial position where we can afford a bigger house. So-- less than 800sq ft for a family of 4 + a dog == totally do-able. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/can-your-current-living-situation-accommodate-another-child/page/2#post-1005554 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 21:45:21 +0000 Giraffe 1005554@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Maybe if we finished our basement? We have a 2 bedroom, 1 bath, 1050 sf house, so it would be pretty tight as things stand - but we are thinking about a second, and have no plans to move, so we'll have to figure something out! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/can-your-current-living-situation-accommodate-another-child/page/2#post-1005533 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 21:35:32 +0000 StbHisMrs 1005533@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh gosh no, it barely fits all of us now! We have a 1700 sq ft. 3bd/2ba. Luckily we're renting though. Right now the three girls share a room, the two older ones are only here every other weekend though. Our oldest son has his own room, and the baby will be in our room until we move. We really need 2300+ sq ft. 4-5bd/2.5ba to make this work! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/can-your-current-living-situation-accommodate-another-child#post-1005516 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 21:29:04 +0000 CupQuakeWalk 1005516@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It can accomodate like 5 more kids:) BUT...i'd lose my office/dh's home office. I think in the future, we will just add a room because we have a large room that can be split to two. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/can-your-current-living-situation-accommodate-another-child#post-1005513 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 21:27:44 +0000 Mrs. Pen 1005513@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrs. bird: oh yes it definitely was enough space for us once my dad finished the basement and added the extra two bedrooms (otherwise it was half the amount of space). I just find that in general people think its a small space, and too many kids! But it worked for us. And most of us did grow up close :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/can-your-current-living-situation-accommodate-another-child#post-1005497 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 21:20:56 +0000 Sugar.Biscuit 1005497@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If we had to we could but I'd rather not! 2 is going to be more than enough. We wanted out of here before we had our second child. Now we want out before they are 3. Preferably before they are walking. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/can-your-current-living-situation-accommodate-another-child#post-1005469 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 21:11:21 +0000 MamaChin 1005469@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have 4 bedrooms but its configured weird, 2 upstairs and 2 downstairs, so I don't actually know where to put the new baby! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/can-your-current-living-situation-accommodate-another-child#post-1005456 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 21:05:54 +0000 chopsuey 1005456@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Make the girls share a room!! :)</p> <p>We could have another, but it'd be cramped. Our new house will have plenty of space, but we're done! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/can-your-current-living-situation-accommodate-another-child#post-1005419 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 20:51:11 +0000 cascademom 1005419@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope, we have a 2 bedroom condo. We could last a few months with another LO, then would need to move. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/can-your-current-living-situation-accommodate-another-child#post-1005414 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 20:48:57 +0000 T-Mom 1005414@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@autumnlove: or you could have two kids share! :-)</p> <p>We have a 5 br and could accommodate more kids but are actually thinking of making DD and DS share even though we have plenty of rooms. Since its a master down and bedrooms up configuration and DD gets scared we are thinking to have them share the trundle bed for a year. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/can-your-current-living-situation-accommodate-another-child#post-1005407 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 20:46:09 +0000 mrs. bird 1005407@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Pen: 2,000sq ft is a decent sized house! one bathroom would be hard though i imagine! i had my own bathroom as a teenager, guess i'm spoiled &amp; have a hard time sharing. i'm more in awe of DH's aunt because when 4 of the 8 in the 900sq ft are adults, there are... needs... to be met :wink: and privacy needed for such activities. also i can't imagine having other adults in our space all the time for DH &amp; i to have a healthy relationship- even private conversations would be a challenge! i bet being tight on space made you guys really close as kids though :happy: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/can-your-current-living-situation-accommodate-another-child#post-1005385 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 20:38:23 +0000 MrsF 1005385@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I guess so, but it wouldn't be ideal. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/can-your-current-living-situation-accommodate-another-child#post-1005384 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 20:38:16 +0000 cyndistar3 1005384@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We could make it work but it would be a squeeze! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/can-your-current-living-situation-accommodate-another-child#post-1005378 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 20:36:29 +0000 Mrs. Pen 1005378@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrs. bird: I grew up in a family of 8. Our house was less than 2,000 sq ft and we all shared a bathroom! It was tight- and we all shared bedrooms but it worked for us! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/can-your-current-living-situation-accommodate-another-child#post-1005372 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 20:35:40 +0000 Mrs. Pen 1005372@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have a 900sq ft 2 bed 1 bath apt but the layout is nice. We could fit another child. I'd likely have the baby in our room for maybe 6 months and then they'd have to share with J. </p>