baby in own room at 1 month old

[foreverastudent]

I am willing to concede that I am probably being a bit unreasonable to be at a friend's parenting choice.

I dont think mums should criticise each other for their choice of parenting techniques so I wont say anything to this friend.

But I do feel a bit sorry for this baby to be turfed out of his parents' room at such a young age so they can have "couple time".

I assume she is not BF and have my suspicions that the pressure for both these choices is coming from her chauvinistic neanderthal DP.

I wonder what the tribals would do if they had a nice bugaboo and didn't have to work in fields with no organised childcare. I'm sure these choices cannot be purely related to the child's benefit. You are right, the 'tribal' kids do seem happy and content but mine would probably have never winged either if I had decided to carry them around all day non stop. I tried a sling once - totally did my back in.

I often wonder why we consider things like nappies, pushchairs etc to be unnatural. We are an incredibly intelligent speciese which has evolved to be able to create these inventions. Surely that makes them no more unnatural than a bird building a nest? Just a thought - and probably a whole new thread which I am not about to start.

Parents have to do what works for them. It's that simple.

I co-sleep/breastfeed/babywear and couldn't have coped with the idea of baby that young and some being in another room. But equally people I know couldn't cope with co-sleeping, breastfeeing, babywearing etc.

It's hard to understand other peoples spin on thinga somestimes, but try not to be upset by it. Just be proud of how you look after your children and let your friend do the same.

Eldest was a noisy sleeper who slept much better when put into his own room at a few weeks old.
I did some co-sleeping largely by accident as breastfeeding and occasionally fell asleep with him next to me in the bed in his room next to the cot.
1 time I awoke to find I'd pulled the duvet over his head. That put me off the whole co-sleeping idea. Him sleeping in his cot and me in my bed seemed much safer.

My twins were moved into their own room the second night they came home from SCBU. I couldn't sleep at all with them in our room, wild boars is an understatement!

I took a risk but decided as they were sharing a room their breathing would regulate each other.

when I had DD we lived in a one bedroom flat and couldn't wait to move out to put her in her own room as she was so noisy nobody could sleep. This happened when she was 4mo and it wasn't a day too soon for us.

DS went straight in his own room and I have no regrets. It hasn't stopped him still waking up in the night and coming for a feed at 2.4 yo....

YAWN

Is it me, or are there an abundance of baby in own room threads at the moment?