To have my 8 week old baby sleeping in her own room

[Olivetti]

My little girl (8 weeks) has slept in her own room since she was 3 weeks old. She currently sleeps 7-9 hours and I wake up if she even squeaks loudly, and check on her - she usually just seems to be dreaming. She's putting on weight and thriving. I remember very heated debate about this on MN when I was pregnant, so just wondering whether people think it's ok, given she seems to be happy enough.

I don't know - maybe put it in "sleep"? Wish I'd done that!

Giddyup - some of the research for co-sleeping was seriously flawed, yet it is still quoted, and completely out of context of the original trials carried out.
(the most recent studies showed a much higher risk of death when co-sleeping, but failed to state that the trial group were all drug addicts)
I'm not sure if there has actually been a no-skewed trial into co-sleeping.

I know plenty parents who have been despairing because their children refuse to sleep in their own beds at night and prefer to sleep with their parents.. and the later a child goes into its own room, the worse the problem is I have found.

mine were with me for 4 months, 16 months and 18 months respectively

all moved into their own room just fine

I havent done any "research", it is simply the general feeling amongst all the parents I know. Many wish they had moved their children into their own rooms much sooner than they did and the ones whose children went in earliest seem to be the best sleepers.

No of course you arent being unreasonable. It's fine, stop worrying.

Current advice is to have baby in the room with you for all sleep day and night. This is because babies can die of SIDS whenever they are asleep not just at night!

Baby monitors with sensor matts are a waste of time for SIDS as the alarm doesn't sound until the baby has already stopped breathing.

Once a baby stops breathing because of SIDS they can NOT be revived. So the alarm is no help at all. ( it would be helpful if baby stopped breathing for other reasons and revived obviously, but no good for SIDS)

The advice is just that, ADVICE, its not a law therefore do what you thinks best.

You have however took note and implemented all the other guidelines so why not this one?
Or maybe the rest of the advice fits in with your life easier?

SIDS is a FACT and DOES happen.

Thank you for this interesting thread. I am 36 weeks pregnant and am constantly surprised by the controversy with parenting issues.

It seems that the more recent the "Guideline" the more likely it is to change again or revert back to what it was before. Like the recent weaning literature review.

It's difficult for a first timer to figure it all out and keep up with the changing expert opinions!

I think for me if the Guideline has been established and not changed for many years and appears achievable I will implement for e.g. putting the baby to sleep on their back. But as for where they sleep I shall keep reading these threads with an open mind :)

"Baby monitors with sensor matts are a waste of time for SIDS as the alarm doesn't sound until the baby has already stopped breathing"

It isnt physically possible for someone to watch a sleeping child every second it is asleep though.. it just isnt.

I am sure that every parent who suffers this tragedy will wonder if it is because they did or didnt do something though, and nothing would ever stop them thinking that.

Brices,
if you were 36 weeks pregnant when they changed the guideline to 'back to sleep' and 'feet to bottom' to sleep would you have really ignored it?

You don't have to watch the baby all the time though charliesmommy, you just have to keep it with you when it sleeps.

Out of curiosity do none of you leave your child to sleep alone ever? As in do they nap by your side and stay downstairs until you go to bed?
And at what point are they safe to sleep alone?

but what about when you are asleep????

The advice isnt to do with 'watching' the babies but for them to be able to HEAR parents breathing/background noise etc to keep reminding them to breathe.

Dreamteam - the guidelines are for the first 6 months, yes I did keep my babies close all the time.
I had a crib in the lounge downstairs and a cot in our room upstairs.

DreamTeamGirl - Advice is 6 months. I think my ds started having naps in a separate room at about 4 months, night time on his own at 5 months.

I asked this further up thr thread DreamTeamGirl, as until recently I had no idea that was the advice. It certainly isn't well publicised in my neck of the woods. DD would be awake at all times if I kept the little sticky beak with me all day!

DS went in his own room really early. I find it really odd that I didn't worry about the risks of SIDS being higher.

With DD I had her with me all the time, daytime as well as night.