baby's room
By C
@ShyBear88 (59347)
Sterling, Virginia
April 14, 2012 9:29pm CST
So I'm talking to my husband sister. Which many of you know that she is also pregnant right now as well as myself.
Well I was talking about redoing my daughters room which is also our new baby's room once he or she is big enough to sleep in there. Now my daughter is almost 15 months old and loves Tinker bell and ducks. So I thought it would be nice to make her half of her bedroom all about Tinker bell and do tinker bell wall stickers all over her side. Now if we are having another girl I'm leaving up the butterflies and flowers that my daughter has on the other side of the bedroom for our other baby. If the baby is boy we will do some kind of animals. I know a lot of parents have there young onces share a bedroom for a while.
My husband sister said I should leave the room even the way it is even if its a girl because she is cheap. Well so am I, I like to save money too but even if I had another girl they are two different girls they will like two different things and why keep up stickers that my 15 month old doesn't like just because I want to save money. Its not like I"m going to paint the whole room two different colors. Now if we where in the same boat as last year and could afford to do stickers on the wall then I would leave it boring and blank for both of my kids but we have a little bit more money then last year so we can afford to spend $5 on room stickers.
Now she only has one kid to take care so I know she can't spend the money on decorating her baby's room. Now I"m going to have two and I want to show off they are two totally different people even if there gender is the same.
Now if you where having a second kid and your first born had to share there bedroom with there younger sibling would you keep the room all the same theme even if the baby was the same gender as your first kid?
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@sarahruthbeth22 (43143)
• United States
15 Apr 12
I think it is a great idea. Sugar is old enough to tell you what she likes and doesn't like. Nugget? He won't be able to. So Tinkerbell is Sugar's side and Nugget gets a Newborn theme, a color Baby will like until Nugget is old enough to tell you what he likes. I know I'm saying he. I'm being hopeful.
@ShyBear88 (59347)
• Sterling, Virginia
15 Apr 12
They are two different people and Sugar is a toddler and not a baby. Even though she can't say with words to much what she likes you can tell by her reactions to things. She will sit and talk to a shirt with Tinker bell on it even one she has on. She loves ducks so I was ducks if it was a boy and if a girl I can reuse Sugars old sticker and put them all on that side of the wall and get when the time is right paint the bed room either a soft yellow or a soft green and that works well with both genders. Its not to girl and not to boy and they will both go well with the stickers and make the stickers pop out.
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@sarahruthbeth22 (43143)
• United States
15 Apr 12
Yes Sugar talking to Tinker Bell tells you she likes her. I love the idea of using the older stickers because they pop out. the new baby just needs something to focus on , right? When he/she is older , they will tell you what they like.
@ShyBear88 (59347)
• Sterling, Virginia
15 Apr 12
Yep they are something pretty to look at while they go to sleep and stuff. It helps with the eyes focusing as they get bigger since a newborn can only see about 18 inches in front of them. Once we know what he or she likes then we will change it.
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@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
17 Apr 12
I actually would keep the room the same as it is right now (or based on those things that your oldest daughter likes) as opposed to changing up half of the room on behalf of the new baby.
The reason that I wouldn't make any major changes at this time is because of the fact that the baby isn't really going to have a set of likes and dislikes right away, so it won't be something that will bother him/her.
@ShyBear88 (59347)
• Sterling, Virginia
17 Apr 12
I said above my daughter doesn't like flowers or butterflies which is what she has on her walls. So we are going change that and we are going to put new ones up on the other side of the room to match what ever gender we are having. Its not like we are repainting we have ugly white walls in there right now as well was the rest of the house. Later on we will change that. I don't think it matters what other people think since well its not there kid. I know what my daughter likes and yeah babies don't know what they like for a while but its always good to have something for them to look at other then just white. There are flowers and butterflies where the baby will be on that side of the all from when we moved in I put them all over the room like at our old apartment to try to give it the same feel.
They are two every different people from the every being in so they should be treated as so and not have the same things other wise your treating them as the same person with the same likes when they don't have same likes. Babies have likes and dislikes we just don't know what they are.
@hpresley86 (12)
• United States
15 Apr 12
There is something exciting about having a new baby and getting to decorate their room. My sons room was done in Noahs Ark, and my daughters in butterflies and dragonflies. But now, they are sharing a room, he is 3 and she is 10 months. I am just not comfortable with either one of my kids being on another floor of the house and the second floor only has 2 of the bedrooms, so we have his bunk beds and her crib in one room. Honestly, if you are looking to change things up, painting the room a different color, or 2 different colors, is not that expensive. About $30 for a can of paint. We let our son choose the paint for their room, choosing from 2 neutral colors, and we painted. The walls are an orange color, and his side is done in Toy story, while hers still has flowers, butterflies, and dragonflies.
@ShyBear88 (59347)
• Sterling, Virginia
16 Apr 12
$30 is a lot of money for two different cans of paint you have to remember different places the coast of paint is different its either higher or lower. I'm going to paint there room one color. I would mind if we had another room weather it was on a different floor or not I know for me that isn't a biggy. I would rather my kids have two different spaces then share one but we live in an apartment and I don't feel like painting all these room different colors and then having to repaint when I move out and with two different colors then I would have to do twice the work depending on the color opening them closing them washing the paint rollers really good to make sure each kids pain isn't on the same roller. To much work and it coast more money then people think. So either the walls are staying white with just stickers on them or we are going to pain them and add the stickers to the wall and split the room down the center with one them of stickers on one wall and the other on the other wall.
@ShyBear88 (59347)
• Sterling, Virginia
16 Apr 12
I think you missed the point of the discussion. One you can't ask a newborn what they like they don't know what they like. Parents decorate there child's rooms till there child is old enough to tell you what they like. If I have another girl like my husband thinks I"m using my daughters old stickers that I know she doesn't like because she isn't into to flowers and butterflies. She is going to be 2 almost when our second baby is born. So I"m getting her tinker bell stickers because she loves tinker bell. the other girl will get the flowers and butterflies till she is old enough to tell us what she likes. I don't have to ask my daughter if its okay or not because one she is the child I"m the parent. Now if the baby is boy like I think we will get some kind of boy stickers and put those on that side of the room of where his stuff will be and my daughter will stick get her tinker bell stickers.
I feel because she is older she doesn't need her baby stickers any more. Decorations for a new baby is just something nice for them to look at and get there eye sight working better. I don't see how it would be painful because they are sticker and normally stuff like that doesn't bother toddlers and newborns because newborns don't know anything other then crying.
