To ask when you put your baby in their own room

[Annabell80]

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?

Ds1, 7 ds2, 5 - we moved them out at the same time.
Dd, 7

6 weeks, I went upstairs and DH has moved her mainly because he was waking her with his snoring and I was waking every few minutes to check her. I was distraught but it was actually the best decision as we all slept much better.

Somewhere between 4 and 5 months for each. They'd all outgrown the moses basket by then and our room was too small to fit a cot in. We were also disturbing them during the night by that age. It's such a personal decision as not everyone will feel comfortable having a 4mo in their own room but it worked for us.

7 weeks.

Of course everyone is different but I always often wonder why a lot of people are happy to put their tiny babies in a different room so early on.

10 days & then the other two from birth. Things were different in the 90s. I couldn't sleep with them in the room.

At about 4 months old
My son was a very wriggly baby and I was scared he'd topple the Moses basket
He'd also wriggle all the way up the Moses basket too

6m for the first; but at one year for the rest - only due to space and not quite having the rooms all set up on time! Otherwise I would’ve gone for 6-8 months for them all.

@MrsBlue4

Of course everyone is different but I always often wonder why a lot of people are happy to put their tiny babies in a different room so early on.

Mine were across the landing, not in the East Wing or the Upstairs Nursery

@PinkyU sounds utter bliss!!

5 weeks but so close by could I still hear all the squirming racket he made(and still makes 17 years later!)

I’m putting mine in his own room the minute he’s six months old. He’s the world’s noisiest sleeper!

4 years with the first, second one at nearly 2 still with me in the bed.

You people are all crazy. Lol. I could never have put a baby that small to another room.

Disclaimer: you're not really crazy but maybe cultural differences play a part.

My son was 11 when we moved him into his own room.

Just kidding OP. He was 3 months. Everyone just slept better once we did that.

Eight months for us, too, although not by choice. We moved house then and she had her own room. Otherwise it would have been six months!

2.5 years. It's a cultural thing - Oriental & African family. All my female relatives co-slept with their babies until at least 3years. No issues! I was brought in the U.K. & I did the same, I would have found it really weird to have put our baby in a different room.

@AnnLouiseB babies are such noisy sleepers aren't they. Both of mine have been like sleeping next to steam trains.

2 weeks. Our room couldn't fit a Moses basket and I found myself staying awake just listening for him with him right next to me. The lack of sleep wasn't good for any of us.

Of course everyone is different but I always often wonder why a lot of people are happy to put their tiny babies in a different room so early on

Why would you not. Believe me you are totally tuned in to hearing your baby's slightest murmur from quite a distance. I was up and down regularly as I was breast feeding my children on demand. Each one was across the hall - not in another house. Didn't have a baby monitor either - but with great monitors available nowadays, even the most nervy parent should be reassured they will hear every murmur.

Five and a half months. Would have been fine with it being longer, even though we were disturbing each other a bit at night and I missed being able to use my bedroom in the evening. He was too big for the bedside crib and his cotbed wouldn’t fit in our room. It was a pain in the bum having to get up two or three times a night to feed, and I was scared of falling asleep in the armchair with him. Luckily he might weaned at about 7 and a half months.

@StoneofDestiny

Of course everyone is different but I always often wonder why a lot of people are happy to put their tiny babies in a different room so early on

Why would you not. Believe me you are totally tuned in to hearing your baby's slightest murmur from quite a distance. I was up and down regularly as I was breast feeding my children on demand. Each one was across the hall - not in another house. Didn't have a baby monitor either - but with great monitors available nowadays, even the most nervy parent should be reassured they will hear every murmur.

Firstly there is a higher risk of SIDS with babies sleeping in a different room under 6 months old. And secondly I just don't understand why you would want to separate yourself from your newborn baby so quickly. To me it's just weird.

@B1rthis it was really lovely. They come in to my room every morning and have a cuddle before we go downstairs.

Having a now adult dd I can appreciate just how little time I have as a parent of being able to make everything ok for them with a hug.

8 months. When ds outgrew his Snuzpod and was pulling himself up to stand.

17 months for first , 2 years for 2nd
12 months is WHO-guidelines

Around months for our twins because they needed separate cots and we couldn't fit two in our bedroom. We were still really close to them, with the doors open, just a few feet away as our house is small and our bed is right by the door.