How early did you move your baby into their own room?

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And did you worry about SIDS if you did it very early or at least before 6 months?

I did at 5 months, I was certainly aware of the SIDS risk but felt it was safe enough at that point - I wouldn't have had him in his own room earlier than that. I think I read that SIDS peaks between 2-4 months.

Six months

Three nights - no, I didn't worry about SIDS.

DD went into her cot at night at 9 weeks. She simply would not fit in her moses basket any more and the cot would never have fitted in our room, nor did i want it too. She routinely slept in there during the day for her naps before that.

I did read the SIDS guidelines and research and came to the conclusion that the guidance was more about a suite of risk reduction techniques. We put her to sleep on her back, her room was kept at the right temp, we didnt smoke etc, so having her in her own room was a small statistical increase that we could live with.

6 months (because DH forced me to) and I worried very much about SIDS.

Those of you who worry about SIDS - do you sit with your baby all the time they are having daytime naps etc? I always put my DS in his own cot, in own room for his daytime naps (which were at least two hours long) and I certainly wasn't in and out of the room all the time.

I must be very laid back .

My DD is 5 months, I am in with her at the minute and I am going to wait until six months to move back to our room as that was the advice I was given at my hospital.

I will probably start with putting her upstairs alone for daytime naps and between 7 and 10 pm, before leaving her overnight alone.

I am going to use a sound and movement monitor at first,I have read that that they cannot prevent SIDS but it would make me feel better.

Ragwort - in the first few months ds always napped either in the pram/sling or in his basket in the living room (or in bed with me!). Didn't start doing naps in his own room til about 5 months either.

DS1 10 days DS2 3 days. Both too gunty. No didn't worry about SIDS, I'm not convinced a sleeping parent would awaken if something happened. We didn't have a monitor either.

2 DDs in their own rooms from day 1, no I didn't worry about SIDS.

Ragwort -In the Carrycot downstairs- DD can sleep through anything!

Ragworth, I did keep a close eye on daytime naps. Whilst the babies were still small enough for the Moses basket, I kept them with me.

After that, I slept when they slept or rested near them.

We moved DD to her own room at six weeks, mainly because we had borrowed the crib from a friend who needed it back sooner than expected as her own baby came prematurely, but also, if truth be told, because DD was so noisy at night!

SIDS didn't even cross my mind, but I do remember feeling a bit lost and as though she was a long, long way away. Didn't seem to bother her at all though.

6 weeks, we had a mat thing under his mattress that would go off, and we would both fly out of bed and into his room,he used to yawn then hold his breath for a bit before exhaling! never slept at all while in with me and dh, shuffled and cried all night for the 6 weeks until we bought this monitor, then he slept through (while routinely scaring us witless!) i had plans to co-sleep when i was pregnant...

3 years. We co-slept until then. No worries about SIDS

6 weeks. It was doing bad things to my relationship with DH as he couldn't stand broken nights. We live in a small flat so I can hear her breathing in the other room anyway!

Was a bit worried about SIDS but then there are so many other things that are important in life (like sleep and happy relationships etc), and SIDS is a relatively uncommon thing. DD slept on her back in a cool room so other factors were in her favour.

I think it's always a compromise and you choose the lesser of two evils in the end, you can't avoid ALL risk or you'd never have a baby in the first place.

The biggest factor in keeping ds in with me rather than his own room was that I didn't want to get out of bed to do nightfeeds - that was a bigger consideration than SIDS

about 4 months. i panciked like mad about sids and i still do at 17 months (best friend is a&e nurse - doesn't help sids panic AT ALL). however we live in an apartment all on one level so she is not really any further away from us plus we leave all the doors open and used baby monitor when she was ittle. we co slept if she woke in the night but the only thing i will absolutely not allow is for her to be in our bed if either of us have been drinking.

i use a room thermometer, a gro bag and have only this week allowed soft toys in the cot. we check on her at least hourly too.

Is the room thing about you waking up if there's a problem or is it about the synchronised breathing thing that people sleeping in the same room tend to fall into?

5 nights old. Had not got a wink of sleep due to her grunting etc and my worrying about it. Took a calculated risk as was aware of SIDS but we had none of the other risk factors- I figured a hallucinating mother due to tiredness was as big a risk frankly. Don't regret it and would do it again. Although I was lucky in that she only ever woke for one bf in the night so being in another room wasn't a major problem.

5 months DD, 4 months DS. Was very aware of SIDS (my sister died of SIDS), but

1. DCs got too big for moses basket and we couldn't fit cot in our tiny room.
2. Once DCs started sleeping through I was kept awake (seemingly all night) by the grunting.
3. Moved them into room next to ours (partition wall) with monitor up on highest setting (could hear breathing clearly).

My DCs both slept in a separate room for naps from a few weeks old. Those of you who kept baby downstairs with you for daytime naps, how did you manage if you had another child? I had to put DS in his own room for naps from very young as DD would not leave him alone, and kept nearly tipping the moses basket when I turned my back for a second. He had to go in his own room for his own safety!!!

LessNarkyPuffin - it's not so much synchronised breathing, just that the sounds of the parents breathing/moving/snoring keeps stimulating the baby so they don't fall into too deep a sleep and stop breathing.

3days with DS1. His snuffling kept me awake and duvet rustles disturbed him. He was across the corridor about 2m away. I spoke to the midwife about the guidelines. She told me they're only guidelines. DS2 was in with us until at least 6mnths.

10 days old and it was our first day home from hospital with our twins.