want to put 5 month old in own room but...

[octopuscakes]

...he sleeps on his tummy, against the SIDS guidelines (no way around it - he flips over almost immediately though I always put him down on his back)

Also we're in a hot country and have the AC set at 79 degrees, which I think is 26 degrees centigrade, again against SIDS guidelines, though it feels cool and in fact if we set it lower DH and I get cold.

So with these two things in mind, can I really move DS to his own room? (desperate to as a the moment his dad is sleeping in the spare room!)

In my case, I could only sleep with babies out of my room. Because they are shuffle noisy little things, aren't they? Both mine went into the bedroom (next door) from 2 weeks old.

Sorry to chime in on a tangent but I want to jump to the defence of infant breathing monitors. My dn stopped breathing at 6 weeks old whilst sleeping. My dsis was also asleep and the alarm woke her up. He was unresponsive and she called an ambulance whilst performing first aid with the help of the 999 operator. That alarm saved my dn's life and he is now a bonny 2 year old. The doctor who treated him said categorically that alarm saved his life and if he had not been breathing any longer he wouldn't have survived. I know they do cause anxiety and give off false alarms but they can also save lives.