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We definitely needed it. We only had a 2 bedroom apartment during LO's first year. He slept in his bedroom starting around 8-9 weeks. When we had guests, we would move his crib into our room and the guests had a mattress on the floor in his room. We knew we were only living in that apartment 1 year. Now we have a place with a separate guest room/office.

How long do you plan on living in the house? Say in 3 years time you have a second child. Will you want/need to move again?

There was no second guessing our need for a nursery. OOT family can either sleep at a hotel or on the blow-up mattress in our living room or office. While LO isn't here yet, I can't imagine not needing her own space. Not just for all her stuff but for when she is no longer sleeping in our room.

Honestly, while I would love to have a guest room, our baby lives here and deserves a room a heck of alot more than guests who might come and stay every now and then. We even had this battle with my MIL who thought we should keep a guest room just for when she visits... once a year maybe. She will be getting a hotel.

She didn't sleep in her room until she was 4.5 months old. The room still isn't decorated...the frames and prints are still in her closet!

We have one and never used it. DS still sleeps with me at 2 and his nursery is basically a catch-all at the moment or served as a play room he rarely used (played in the living room more). We didn't intend not to have one, just the way it worked out, but totally doable without one from the start!