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To ask when you put your baby in their own room

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Annabell80 · 19/02/2021 20:36

Despite my best efforts my 8 month old is a light sleeper. He frequently gets disturbed by me and my husband going to bed /getting up in the morning although sometimes he will resettle.
I would like to put him in his own room but my husband is really against it and says it's mean while he's so little. I'm sure our older girls were in their own room by 8 months (pretty sure it was 6 months).
What age did you put baby in their own room?

OP posts:
PCar20 · 19/02/2021 21:15

7 months

ItsAllComingBackToMeNow · 19/02/2021 21:17

DD1 - 5 months
DS - 6.5 months
DD2 - still in with us at 2.5 years! 🤣Wouldn’t necessarily recommend that, although she is excellent. Will sometimes have a sleepy chat to us when we come to bed. We are awaiting the architects plans for her bedroom.

With DD1, I was becoming increasingly desperate to move her out and had a chat with some baby group friends and discovered they had all moved their DC out at around 4 months. I used a monitor with breathing sensor so it did make me a feel a bit better although I know they’re not totally reliable.

theDudesmummy · 19/02/2021 21:18

About 15 months

GoLightlyontheEarth · 19/02/2021 21:18

From birth.

shouldistop · 19/02/2021 21:21

Ds1 I think a week before 6 months.
Ds2 is 11 weeks and still in with us

TwirpingBird · 19/02/2021 21:22

4 months for DD1. DD2 is now 3.5 months and I probably wont put her in as early as she isnt sleeping through yet. Maybe 5.5 or 6 months for her.

mynameiscalypso · 19/02/2021 21:24

9 months, when I got no longer jam him into his next to me. I was really worried that it was going to be a nightmare to transition him (at this point, he'd never even napped in his proper cot) but we did it one night and he barely even noticed. I wake up more with him in another room to be honest - or at least I'm more properly awake because I can't just look over and see he's okay

  • but it isn't really practical to keep him in with us.
follygirl · 19/02/2021 21:25

6 months for dd, 6 weeks for ds. We don't live in a mansion so his room was next to ours.

OhWhyNot · 19/02/2021 21:26

3 years

maybemu · 19/02/2021 21:28

Between 5 and 6 months, I found I was waking him up because he is also a light sleeper. He gets a much better night and so do we

OneForTheJourney · 19/02/2021 21:29

8.5 months. I was disturbing her sleep too much.

NotJosieGrosieAnymore · 19/02/2021 21:32

Four months with each. Definitely wouldn’t have moved them so early but both were too big for the Moses basket by then. Our house is tiny and they were just across the hall so no big deal.

partyofsixteen · 19/02/2021 21:33

The second night we brought him home from the hospital. He was four days old.

TotorosFurryBehind · 19/02/2021 21:36

21 months and we are still co sleeping!

Fascinationends · 19/02/2021 21:36

6 weeks, when she had been sleeping through the night for a week.

dementedpixie · 19/02/2021 21:37

I just couldn't have moved mine before 6 months. I would never have forgiven myself if something had happened re SIDS from being moved out of the room early. I wore ear plugs and still heard them before dh did.

We had the crib along the bottom of the bed and with ds we ended up with the cot there for a wee while too.

Gwenhines · 19/02/2021 21:37

About 7 weeks I think (could have been 5). As soon as I realised it was 5 normal steps from my bed to her bedroom door, and 3 large leaping manic run steps should they been needed.
We all slept better and I stopped stubbing my toe on the Moses stand 25 times a day.

c24680 · 19/02/2021 21:38

4.5 months because we were waking each other up.

Wimpeyspread · 19/02/2021 21:40

3 months, when he dropped his night feed (this was 37 years ago, mind!)

mamakoukla · 19/02/2021 21:40

From day 1, with a monitor. I’m a very light sleeper so any sounds and I would go through. However, DD was still sneaking into my bed at 10 years + !!!

Cindersrellie · 19/02/2021 21:41

Nearly 5 months. Sleep improved.

Lazypuppy · 19/02/2021 21:43

3 months, we were all being disturbed so much, so we did it early. We've always been very adamant that everyone sleeps in their own rooms and beds

NotAQueef · 19/02/2021 21:47

First baby 15 months, 2nd 11months

User65412 · 19/02/2021 21:50

Jumping on this thread! Those of you that co-slept til 2 or 3 or older, are both parents working full time and if so, how do you manage it? I'm so worried about how tired I might be and the danger of driving to work and working 10+ hours. So hard to know what to do for the best. Or will I just wake more out of worry with the baby in another room 🙈

DailyCandy · 19/02/2021 21:51

I ended up moving into the baby’s nurser v early on. DH didn’t do night feeds at all. And he snores. The baby at least was quiet after a bottle.
Whatever gets you through the night.