When do you put a baby in it's own bedroom?

[shinyshilling]

When do you put a baby in it's own bedroom? Our daughter will be four months on Thursday. She's a great sleeper - goes down at 6.30 and wakes 12 hours later without any breaks. She has on a few occasions made this sort of funny noise as if she was choking. Not sure what it is - maybe some saliva just rolls to the back of her throat. It sounds a bit worrying, but she doesn't even wake up and just rights herself. Any ideas what this might be? For this reason we have refrained from putting her in her own room, but sometimes she wakes at 5:30am and DH could do with the extra hours sleep. Is it too early or unadvisable to put her into her own room yet?

[blueteddy]

Mine were both around 3 months.

[youngmama]

With my first I followed the reccommendation of 6mths.
With my second I kept her in to 4mths as she was a bad sleeper who would wake at the slightest noise.She slept so much better when she was in her own room.
With my third I put her in her own room almost from the start.I think she was around 3 weeks when she was put to sleep in her own room consistently.I just found everyone slept better like that.Obviously I kept the baby monitor on all night and I checked on them before I went to bed and if I got up in the night.

[staceym11]

i think a lot of you people must have the patience of a saint to share for 6 month +!!

[Poshtart]

DD we put in her own room after the first night! DS lasted about 6 weeks.

[staceym11]

dd was 6 days old when she went in her own room, she slept through from day 1 and i never slept well with her in our room as i heard everytime she rolled over and shes a fidget!!

it was what was best for us, she always had a monitor and still does at 18month but then shes downstairs and we'r upstairs so theres a need for that!

do what you feel comfortable with!

[Oblomov]

And alp - sorry guys.
Am always too embarrased to admit how early we put ds in his own bedroom - feel like a bad mummy.
But I know it was best for all of us.

[Oblomov]

Sorry Kayzed - didn't mean to miss you out.

[Oblomov]

God OzJo, I have never seen someone say the first day !
I am impressed with your honesty.

We had ds in his own room , in his own cot after two nights.
You wouldn't believe the snuffling, moving, wheezing, noises, and SNORING - yes, I really do mean snoring that went on - and that's from Dh

No, seriously,we did move him very soon, because dh and I didn't sleep a wink - where as ds was sleeping through this whole orchestra !

I am not advising this to anyone else - I am just saying that we did it.

[sweetkitty]

DD1 15 months, co slept for 9 months, then due to house moving saga she was in with us until her own room was ready.

DD2 still with us at 13 weeks, starts night in bedside cot then comes in with us for a feed and I'm too lazy to move her back across. She will be in our room until I finish BFing far too lazy to get out of bed!

[dinosaure]

SIDS advice is that baby should sleep in a cot in parents' room for the first six months.

[threelittlebabies]

dd is still in our room, and will be 8mo next week! For various reasons- am breastfeeding so it's convenient, she is quite a weeny girl so still fits in crib, and we have yet to get our arses in gear and buy ds a bed so dd can have the cot bed! She's getting a bit restless in it now though, and keeps trying to sit up, so must sort it out asap.

[OzJo]

Dd in own room from about 2 weeks, Ds in own room from the day we returned from the hospital. I'm really grateful we've got enough room to put them in one each. You have to bite the bullet re worrying about them when they sleep. I've got a friend who was really worried about her dd stopping breathing..though she never had, in the end she got one of those mattresses that alarm if that happens, cost a bit of money, but she was at last able to sleep.Do whatever feels right for you...good luck.

[alp]

kayzed - our dd was in her own room from day one too so maybe we are both mean mums!

[tracyk]

we put ds in his own room in a big cot at 10 weeks.

[Dottydot]

At 2 weeks if they snore like a train - like ds2 did - drove us bonkers and we decided we need the sleep!

[hotmama]

dd1 went in when she was 16 weeks - she was sleeping through.

dd2 is nearly 11 weeks but is still waking for a night feed at about 5/6 a.m. so she will stay next to my bed until she sleeps through - it's a lot easier to drag her in to feed than stagger along the landing!

[madmarchhare]

14 weeks here, couldnt stand all the noise.

[Mercy]

Mine went into their own room at around 7 months (and dd started coming back ionto our room once she was in a bed!)

If they were not in my rooom I would not have heard them when they woke up tbh - unless they were crying really loudly.

[wannaBe1974]

we put DS in his own room at 9 weeks. before that he would sleep there in his cot until his late night feed and then come into our room for the night. he slept through from the night he went into his own room. I still had the baby monitor so could hear everything, including the activity centre on the bars of his cot that made pig/cow/dog noises if ds brushed it in the night, lol.

As a matter of interest, does anyonw know how they back up the theory that having baby sleeping with you reduces cot death? I can see the logic behind putting babies on their backs/not smoking etc, but I really fail to see how a baby is less likely to die if it is in your room than if it's in its own room?

[lizziemun]

like chole55 our dd was in her own room at about 10 weeks because she started to rock her cribb, a we don't have room for a cot in our room. just had a monitor unfortunley she still woke a least once a night for a feed untill a few months ago now 2.4months.

[PinkTulips]

the recommended age to reduce the risk of cot death is 6 months but like everyone has said do what is comfortable for you. if she isn't disturbed by you being in the same room though i'd personally keep her there just to keep an eye on her for a while yet.

[Bozza]

Both mine were in our room until 6 months - in the cot from day 1 btw.