do you close the door on your 6.5 month old babies room ?

[robinredbreast]

dd has just this week started going into her own room, tonight for the 1st time ive closed the door, mainly because we are about to watch a movie but im a little unsure about closing the door

do you do this

[ragetty]

yup

[biglips]

yes. Do you not have a baby monitor?

[mollythetortoise]

no, i leave the doors to both my dc;s rooms open. would definately not close them. theyt sleep through any noise we make downstairs.

[forkhandles]

yes all children's door closed

[emkana]

No and I wouldn't.

In fact, I don't even close the door on my dd's room, and they are six and four.

[tassisssss]

i would and have done

[ScaryHairy]

Yes. If my daughter cries we still hear her.

[ChasingSquirrels]

I did - ever since I read about a house fire where the young children died but the parents survived - because the childrens doors were open and the fire spread in more quickly.
Never had a monitor in use in the house, always been able to hear both of them (apart from in the utility room with the door shut and the washing machine on).

[CarGirl]

yes bedroom doors shut and they were on their own from a few days old! We have an open plan house so only have bedroom & bathroom doors, don't need a monitor and I could even hear whimpering sounds when I was asleep through 2 shut doors.

[luckylady74]

i just can't sleep with an open door so i shut my kid's doors, but i had monitors before they could shout!

[fingerwoman]

yes, I close the door to our room when my 11 week old is asleep in there. he is quite a light sleeper and wakes if there is too much noise.
we can hear him when he cries though

[JingleyJen]

yep we used to close DS1s door as well but he started having nightmares after some problems at school and now won't sleep with it closed.

[Sexonlegs]

We do, as we have 2 cats and they would quite happily go in and curl up with our dd's if their doors were open.

[BettySpaghetti]

All bedroom doors always shut here (due to a cat that would end up bothering everyone for food at 3 am )

[robinredbreast]

ah well dd woke up for an extra 10 mins after i posted, so when i put her back aftr she was cuddled back to sleep
i left the door open

w do not have a monitor,we would be able to hear her if she cries, i just like to be able to peek and make sure shes ok iykwim

[PortAndLemonaid]

Yes, with a baby monitor. More to cut down on light than noise though.

[Acinonyx]

No doors shut - neither ours nor dds (22.5) . Cats do wander and one occaisionally sleeps on her bed (but they scratch the doors if you shut them). I don't like closed doors and like to be able to pop in now and then and check on her.

Sometimes close her door during the day to keep the cats off her bed.

[Misdee]

i shut all doors at night. i am very aware of fire risks especially since we liv in a bungalow and a fire could whip through very quickly.

[Acinonyx]

We have smoke alarms - doesn't that help with fire risks?

[Misdee]

dh had a fire in his old house, the alarms didnt get a chance to go off as they melted in the heat.

[Acinonyx]

crikey!

[hellish]

No, I hate closed doors at night, I can't sleep with my bedroom door closed and I always leave dds' open too.

[Misdee]

i know Acon, its scary. MIL woke up when the fire extingiser blew up. they all got out by sliding down a roof at the back. i know we dont have that extra bit of time, and being on floor i make sure doors are shut at night. dd's tend to get up for a wee and dont shut their doors afterwards, but at least the kicthen and living room doors are shut all night.