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When did u put your baby into their own room?

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CrazyAlien06 · 04/11/2011 07:33

not sure where I should post this question!

Basically my 5 week old DD loves sleeping with her ants and kegs outstretched which she can't do in her basket:(
We don't have room for her cot ( it's a cot bed) in our room so just wondered when people moved their child into a cot in their own room.my house is a small 2 bed and I could hear everything from her room without a monitor!

I'm just concerned what with the cot death guidelines.another 5 months of sleepless nights does not appeal to me

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LoveInAColdClimate · 04/11/2011 17:26

Oh, sorry, just realised you're in a 2 bed (so assume 2nd bedroom is the baby's room?). Could you put a bed in the baby's room for DH for now so you can co-sleep? I'm sure I'll get people saying this is a slippery slope to certain divorce, but it's only for five months...

SausageSmuggler · 04/11/2011 17:41

Oh yeah sleeping bags really made a difference with DS as he would kick his blankets off then decide that as he was awake he may as well have a snack. They seemed to help him get into a slightly better routine.

SkinnyGirlBethany · 04/11/2011 17:47

8 weeks but the room is literally next door to ours. Dd is also a tall girl! She can hear me snoring away I'm sure

CatherineWheel · 04/11/2011 17:50

We had dd in the cosatto bedside cot until 6mo. She moved to her own room at 6mo - everyone's sleep improved but is still shit.

NinkyNonker · 04/11/2011 19:01

10 months for us. She still comes in with us in the early hours if/when she wakes.

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CrazyAlien06 · 04/11/2011 19:50

Can't fit a bed in her room, unless it's a blow up mattress or something!DH was sleeping downstairs until our inflatable mattress deflated lol. So has only now come back to sleep with moi lol. But he has ear plugs so nothing wakes him! I may look for a small camp bed type thing to put in her room with her and see how she sleeps in there with me.

At the moment she is grizzling away after being put in her basket whilst we watch a film....hopefully she will settle herself as she is very tired.

Thanks for all your advice and opinions it's really helped me :)

Fingers crossed for some sleep tonight! A nice two hour stretch would be lovely! Wishful thinking! As if my princess could be a quiet sleeper lol

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Notanexcitingname · 04/11/2011 22:15

Close to a year for both. DS2 slept in a travel cot with a proper mattress (there are several places where you can get bespoke-sized mattresses, very reasonably) for a while a we couldn't fit the proper cot in our bedroom

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CrazyAlien06 · 04/11/2011 23:39

Well I've ended up on deflated air bed ( I'll get about an hour out of it before having to pump it up again!) in DD nursery :) she is in her Cot bed with sleeping bag on and is snoring away all spread out!!

Doubt I'll get any sleep but it's better I'm in here as no different to being in my room regarding Guidelines! Must say sh looks so content! Wonder when she will wake for a feed? And if she ll get freaked out beig somewhere new!

Only time will tell!

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ThatsNotMyBabyBelly · 05/11/2011 09:48

How did it go?

LoveInAColdClimate · 05/11/2011 17:16

I suggest buying a Bed In A Bag if you're going to sleep in her nursery long term - much healthier for your back. Hope it went well.

peedieworky · 05/11/2011 22:27

As daft as this sounds, I hadn't fully realised the implications of the "sleeps in same room as you" guidelines (blame sleep deprivation), so through the day DS was napping in Moses basket in another room and at night, he was sleeping in Moses in our room until I turned in for the night. So it turned out, though we thought we were following the guidelines, he was actually sleeping without us more than he was sleeping with us.

Clearly the University education was wasted on me...

LoveInAColdClimate · 06/11/2011 08:21

I had been thinking about that too, Peedie! Friends' babies seem to mostly nap in a different room, other than when very tiny, but sleep at night in the same room. And once they grow out of their carry cot, they can't very well nap in the same room as you unless either you have a cot on wheels and live in a bungalow or you spend all naptimes in the nursery. I am hoping the solution to this mystery becomes clearer to me when the baby arrives - perhaps they don't tend to sleep as deeply in the day so the SIDS risk reduces? I know some people who are SIDS experts, I'll have to ask them.

lilham · 06/11/2011 09:01

loveinacoolclimate I havent got a mosses basket but use the bugaboo carrycot for naps. It's designed for up to 6 mo and there's still room when I swap the fabric over to the seat when my DD turn 6mo. Luckily my bedroom does fit a cot with a tight squeeze.

LoveInAColdClimate · 06/11/2011 09:03

Ah, thanks, lilham - we've got a Bugaboo so will just do that! Brilliant, thank you.

RitaMorgan · 06/11/2011 11:14

Mine never napped in his cot in the day until about 5 months anyway. Up til then it was moses basket in living room when tiny, pram/sling when out, on the sofa, in my arms or in bed with me when I went for a nap too. He didn't sleep more than 45 minutes at a time in the day until 7 months.

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CrazyAlien06 · 06/11/2011 22:52

Hey it went ok :-) i didn't get a lot of sleep as DD snores very loudly!!

I have got a lovely new inflatable mattress which is rather cosy. :-)
Not sure whats going to happen from here on but I'm staying in her room for few nights as quite enjoying our little sleep overs lol.

I've bought one of the sensor mat monitors so will try that out when it arrives and leave her in her room I think as would quite like to snuggle with my DH again!

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