At what age did you transfer your newborn to sleeping in their own room?

[moomin35]

I know its recommended that baby sleeps in the same room as you for the first 6 months and I am fine with doing it at the moment but unless he starts sleeping through for longer periods I think it will just be too difficult to do for a whole 6 months. Just wondered if anyone went against the advice, why you did and how it worked out? Would it just be irresponsible of me to do this?

Jumble I think you are wrong in saying it is down to personal preference and I'm not sure it should be down to the fact you don't want to spend money on crib. It needs to be an informed choice.

I find often on these type of threads and ones about early weaning. The OP doesn't know the reasoning behind the guidelines. Lot's of posters pile in saying they didn't follow the guidelines and their child is ok or the guidelines change all the time(they don't) and happy mum= happy baby.

I think for an inexperienced parent that isn't the best advice. Particularly when posters don't know anything about the OP's circumstances, are they smokers, do they know about appropriate bedding, feet to foot etc.

Sleep deprivation is awful, really awful. I don't blame anyone for wanting more sleep. However I do sometimes wonder what people expect of little babies. They are small, they can't eat much food and they don't know day from night. It is surely no surprise when they don't generally sleep until they are bigger.

Two months for ds, when sleep deprivation meant he was more at risk of me dropping him or being chucked out the window than of SIDS in a non-smoking household. After a couple weeks he was back in my room most of the time.

Dd - two years, minus the odd night. It was fine until she was about 9 months when she got clingy and wouldn't sleep in the cot, so I'd cosleep and get thumped/hair pulled/eyes poked out. Also I'd snore and wake her up - as soon as she was in her own room we both slept better.

13/14 months and 15/16 months. First one then needed a lot of parent in his room and the second one moved back in when he was four ;)

Ds is 9 months and still in our room. I still have to feed him in the night and no way can be arsed to go to another room when he's just as happy in our room and even us coming to bed doesn't wake him. In fact last night we changed the sheets on the bed without waking him!!!

I'll miss hearing his grunts and farts when he goes to his own room!!!

DS1 was 7 weeks old - his snoring kept us awake and my husband disturbed him getting up at 5am for work.

DS2 was only 4 weeks old.... he was a very large and long newborn and out grew his Moses basket in just a month!

The nursery was next door to our bedroom and we kept the doors open so we could listen out (plus we had baby monitor)

2 months and it was amazing!
I slept better , so did DD and DH.
I was nervous as was against advise but it was just so much better for all of us and helped her get much better at sleeping. She was horrendous until then and has been sleeping through since 4 months so was def the best thing we did. We have a monitor , she's now 6.5 months as is fine. Has massively helped with routine as goes down at 7 no problem every night.