Nursery or your own Room?

Thanks for all your replies ladies :) appreciate it.
I think we are going to have him in his own room from day 1. we will leave our and his doors open and have the heater on so hopefully it wont be too cold to get out of bed and walk to his room to feed him. do you need to change baby in the middle of the night as well? sorry if this sounds stupid :S coz i was thinking even if we had him in our room , we will still need to go to his room to change him as the change table doesnt fit in our room... And where did you all have him sleep during the day? in his room or brought the bassinet or portacot to the lounge where you were?
thank again :)

We planned to have Callum in his own room from the beginning, straight into a cot. We couldn't fit a cot into our room and expected him to be a fairly big baby so didn't want to shell out for a moses basket for only a few weeks.

As it turned out, he was early and tiny so we borrowed a moses basked right before he arrived and had him in that for a week or so and then the one I liked at Mothercare was on sale so we bought one. We got about 2 months' use out of it but will hopefully use it again now we've got it.

C was in our room till around his due date (so nearly 2 months) but DH couldn't sleep so he slept in the spare room. We had to move him into his own room when my Mum came to stay so that DH could sleep with me

During the day he was in the lounge right at the beginning and then after a couple of weeks I just put him in his room for day sleeps as it meant I got more done instead of watching him constantly (I think it was around the time I managed to get out and buy a monitor LOL).

We didn't have a change table in our room, I changed C on our bed at night if he needed it but once we stopped having to wake him 3hrly for feeds I strted only changing him if he'd pooed in the night - much easier.

Now I feed C in the lounge in the night, the couch is comfier than the chair I bought for BF as I have to use the football hold!

Hope you find something useful in that novel!

We had Luke in his own room from day one as I couldn't sleep with him in the same room as me - spent too much time listening and waiting for him to wake. I never used my monitor either, becuase I could hear him fine and woke really easily when he did. I think it is a personal decision that you can't really make until the baby is here.

Sorry that doesn't really help with your dilemma of a cot vs bassinette.