I’m having a seventh baby but live in a 3-bed house – people ask where he’ll go but I’ll wear him & bath him in the sink
SHE lives in a three-bed house, but is expecting her seventh baby.
And Jaclyn is always asked where she’s going to find space for her newborn when he makes his big entrance into the world.
In a video on Instagram, Jaclyn explained that she’s “confident” in her parenting skills – having already had six children.
So she’s well aware of what is needed to happily and healthily raise a baby.
“We don’t use bulky equipment, baby is worn instead of fancy robotic devices, and baths are done in the sink or laying on a towel in the bathtub,” Jaclyn wrote.
“As much as my eye and brain would LOVE to decorate a nursery, I know we can’t.
“Not even just can’t, but it’s not needed.
“Beautiful and beneficial, yes. But a necessity, no.”
But as she’s “maxed out every square inch” in the home, and is fast approaching her due date, Jaclyn decided to work with what she’s got.
So she sacrificed the two little walls in her bedroom that could be “sacrificed of their beautiful milk glass bookshelf and basket wall”.
Jaclyn added that she’s now got a “little space made just for him”.
As well as somewhere for the baby to sleep, it will also be a “temporary space for mum and baby to sit, heal and bond postpartum”.
And people in the comments section were quick to praise Jaclyn for turning a space in her bedroom into one for the baby.
“So precious!!!” one wrote.
“We are welcoming baby 9 this summer and we are in a 4 bedroom home!
“I can’t imagine being in a huge house.
“I love being close and we always end up hanging out in the same space too!”
“We are about to have our 9th baby and I’m going through the same thing!” another added.
“I have one little wall in our master bedroom for a nursery area, and that’s ok.”
“It all depends how big are your three bedrooms though,” a third commented.
“I have a three bedroom house where the third bedroom don’t fit a moses basket, so the third baby will be on the floor next to me.”
“I get this!” someone else wrote.
“We are a family of 6 in a two bedroom! We make space where we can!”
“We just welcomed our third, very unplanned, baby into our tiny home,” another added.
“His room is the space at the end of our hallway and I love how cute it is.”