Having a baby in your room after 6 months?

[Pumpkinx3x]

Hello,

So my baby girl will be 6 months at the end of nov. Her nursery is set up and everything but I’m starting to not want her to go in?

The room gets pretty cold in winter, putting the heating up makes partner and my room too hot so there’s no balance.

But also she’s exclusively breastfed. Obviously she will be weaning at 6 months but in the night I’m the one to feed her meaning I’ll be the one up every night. She refuses bottles and even if she would magically take them having to go sterilise the bottles, heat them up in water etc compared to just putting her on the boob. So yeah maybe I’m just being lazy...

Partner wants her in her room at 6 months but obviously understands where I come from.

Question 1; have you waited past 6 months to move over?
Question 2; how do they sleep in your room? Next to me cots last till 6 months and we have a cot bed which won’t fit anywhere in our room?

Thanks

My brother and sister were in my mums bed through most of primary school. I always preferred sleeping alone. Mum used to get into my bed sometimes cause she was worried I was lonely. I hated it 😂 All kids are different do what feels right.

My dad always said having kids killed their marriage and I have to agree to some extent. Mum focused only on us and it was a bit much.

Just move them when you want to. If it's working as it is then there's no need to change anything.

DD stayed in our room until she was 3 as we were all sleeping well and didn't want to rock the boat.

My eldest dd Coslept till she was 2. Our youngest months, is still in our bed. It's not right or wrong, just do whsts right fir you and your baby. P.s. no way I'd be getting out of bed in the winter st all hours to feed!!! Good luck

DS was still in room with me on floor bed until almost 2 years old. He only moved into our bed at 10 months, prior to that I was getting up 5-7 times a night to breastfeed him and I was utterly exhausted, as was my DH. This has worked so much better, I could feed DS just by rolling over and without waking up fully and DH got a good night’s sleep in spare room (mostly as with cats ). I don’t think sleeping separately makes sense if solely breastfeeding. But even if you do move him out you can still have a flexible set-up as teething, illness and sleep regressions could lead to more feeding and wake ups. DS transitioned to own bed and room no problem and now mostly sleeps through without breastfeeding but still comes through at moments like those. I found his move tougher than him I think as miss that snuggle time.

DC was 3 when they went intobtheir own room, co-slept until then.

Dd stayed with us until she was nearly 2, we had a 1 bed flat so no choice, but I was happy to have her there. We moved her cot away from our bed at some point and because she wouldn't tolerate the bars up we set it up like a low bed. Until about 8 months she was in a bedside cot.

She did need some persuading to stay in her room when she eventually got one but we got there.

They're not babies for long.

Oh and from 6 months don't bother with bottles if she's never had one, tippy cup will be much easier.

We moved DC1 at 7 months. She went from feeding every two hours to sleeping eleven hours straight the first night. From then she fed once overnight maybe 4 nights out of 7. I never would've expected that, she was a terrible sleeper for the first seven months and has been brilliant ever since (bedtime another matter entirely).

It's very personal. I love having my room back - getting changed with the light on, coughing without having to shove my face in a pillow, rolling over without worrying I'll wake a baby (like I said terrible sleeper).

All of mine were in with me until they weaned at between 11-18 months but all migrated back into my bed at some point every night until past 3.

There's no hard and fast rule that baby HAS to go in their own room at 6 months.
What's the rush?
I exclusively BF too, and son was in our room until about 8/9 months, until he really wasn't safe in his next to me.
Even then he didn't take to his room or cot too well and would wake around 5 for a feed, then he used to just stay in our bed til morning.
He's 2 now and the past 4 months, loves his room, goes straight up and into his bed when we say bedtime.
And sleeps 12 hours overnight.

Depends on the sleep you get. DD was "evicted" at 8 weeks, I know not recommended now (DD is 13 years now) but it was that or me not getting any sleep at all, we kept each other awake all night.

I know others who kept the babies in their bedrooms for a lot longer. Others had to move them when they outgrew the crib and a cot wouldn't fit.

DD moved to bottles around 5.5 months and luckily was not feeding a lot during the night at that point.

Luckily DS was tiny, he was also BF and stayed in with us in a next to me until somewhere between 9&10 months when it became apparent it isn't just me who is disturbed by DHs snoring

Small flat, so 9 years on we still share a room with DD.

My daughter is still in with me at 2year 3 months in her cot. She won’t be going in her own room till she sleeps well regularly! She’s getting there but I’m not keep getting up and walking from room to room every night! Keep her next to you. Much easier.

My youngest stayed in with us until about 12 months when he weened at night. No way was I wondering around in the middle of the night to feed a baby who woke every few hours.

Gosh keep her with you, especially if you 're breastfeeding! 6 months is far too tiny IMHO; I don't understand the rush to get small babies into their own rooms. All mine have stayed until they were about sleeping completely through the night 90% of the time and didn't need me - about 1.3 years.

My third will probably be staying with us until he is 2 - 2.5 as I need my DS to be a bit bigger and more grown up before he joins him!

I think the person who exclusively breastfeeds gets the last word on this as you will be able to sleep better if you don't have to schlep to the spare room. Definitely keep her in with you! Do what feels right and go with your gut.

My son was 8 months when we moved him to a junior bed on the floor. He’ll get asleep by breastfeeding and I’ll move into his bed when he wakes up in the middle of the night.

He’s 2.5years and we’re still doing this.

Don’t focus what others do. Do what works for you and your family.
Also even if by 6m they’ll be weaning process they’ll still eat very little and milk is their main intake

Ds went into his own room at 6 months but at that point he was on formula and slept from 7pm-7am with a dream feed around 10/11pm.
If he had still been breastfeeding through rue night I wouldn't have bothered moving him.

The concept of a baby having their own room or a very young child is very western. Many cultures co-sleep share rooms.

My dc is 2.5. Cot with side down in room. He does still wake up and look for cuddles and climbs into bed.
We have plenty Of space and his room set up but he’s still so little (pfb and only child) so I’m definitely not ready yet to transition him to the his room!

My friend has 2 ds, one is almost 4 and one is almost 1. Neither have ever slept on their own.
Whatever works

Both mine were in with me until about a year, because I'd much rather not leave my bed to feed, just fish baby from cot, feed, return to cot, stroke a bit through bars while lying down and go back to sleep.

When I moved them I was in a position to sleep in with them, especially DC2 which made life a little easier.

It's not laziness when the priority is maximising your night sleep.

My nearly five month old is already in his own room. We were all keeping each other awake and now he sleeps like a dream. How you guys keep kids in your bed until 3+ blows my mind, I would never sleep!

One of mine was in our room till 12 months , other till 2 years . Most of the rest of the world has kids in parents room till older . Mattress on floor . La Leche League website might have practical suggestions . We are the odd ones out here in the West.