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When did you move baby into their own room

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Lily189 · 28/10/2020 22:23

Hi my baby is 1 month old and I was thinking when hes 2 months putting him in his own room
Hes a really restless sleeper at night and me and my bf take turns sleeping downstairs with him so we sont wake eachother
Is 2 months too early did you just put the baby in the cot in a grobag or what's the best for baby
I'm just hoping if hes in his cot hell be better settled

All advice be great thanks

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annlee3817 · 29/10/2020 10:09

Five months, but because she was getting too big for her crib and we couldn't fit the cot in our room.

doadeer · 29/10/2020 12:04

11 months I think. I liked having him near me. I would follow the guidelines which are built on lots of research - why risk it?

FizzingWhizzbee123 · 29/10/2020 16:32

8 months. I was waiting until at least 6 months, but decided to wait until he dropped his last night feed so I wasn’t traipsing up and down the hallway in the middle of the night.

The SIDD guidelines are there for very good reasons. A restless baby isn’t a good reason to go against them. All newborns are restless and grunty. I agree with the suggestion of white noise and some very light foam ear plugs.

Lazypuppy · 30/10/2020 22:19

Guidance is 6 months but we did it at 2 months for same reason as baby was so noisy and we kept waking her up.

We reduced the SIDS risk as much as we could (dummy etc)

Read up on the guidelines and then make your own decision

BeautyAndTheBump1 · 04/11/2020 19:11

When he started rolling onto his side at 13 weeks 4 days, because we only had a moses basket and the risk of him rolling and suffocating in the moses basket was far higher than him being in his nice big cot in his own room.

MuchTooTired · 04/11/2020 19:17

I moved my DTs into their room and their own beds at 8 weeks. They each had an angelcare monitor, and had outgrown their shared next to me crib and were keeping each other awake fighting.

Neither of them liked grobags, so they ended up on eBay! They started to sleep through shortly after they were in their own beds.

I wouldn’t recommend it, it’s against guidelines. We had no choice as we didn’t have room for anything else, and their bedroom is right next door to ours.

allfurcoatnoknickers · 04/11/2020 19:54

We were in a 1 bed flat and shared a room for 14 long, long months before we moved somewhere bigger and I immediately kicked DS into his own room.

He napped on his own in our bedroom from about 14 weeks and I used to put him down before we went to bed from about 12 weeks onwards. We the had to sneak about in the dark and try not to wake him up.

Terriblecreature · 04/11/2020 20:08

I personally wouldn't do it so young. My LB moved to his own room around 7.5 months but then for 5 weeks I decided I wanted to sleep in his room with him 🙈 on a sofa. I clearly wasn't ready to be without him in my room.

I couldn't imagine leaving a tiny newborn in a room by themselves.

firstimemamma · 04/11/2020 20:11

"Five months, but because she was getting too big for her crib and we couldn't fit the cot in our room."

Same here @annlee3817

ivfbabymomma1 · 04/11/2020 20:14

About 7/8 months I think!

Misty999 · 04/11/2020 20:17

14 months, two weeks before I went back to work, number two due at xmas will probably do the same. I found it easier to feed and resettle when he was in the cot next to me than get up and go into a different room and of course the SIDS guidance, DP lost a brother to cot death so followed the guidance as closely as possible.

lambo88 · 04/11/2020 20:19

We waited till 6 months with our little boy but if we had another will probably do it earlier skeins 4/5 months as the older they get the more they understand about the change xx

Applebloss0m · 04/11/2020 20:20

2-3 years! And our bedroom is always there if they need a cuddle anytime! They are fabulous sleepers now.

unknownscot · 23/09/2022 22:59

I'm interested to see what you did OP

Cm078 · 23/09/2022 23:06

6 months but went from moses basket to cot around 4 months. In our room still. He was tall!

Original poster

Lily189 · 24/09/2022 12:44

Hi We moved him in at 2 months and he slept perfect from then every night hes sleeping for 8pm till 8am was best thing we done he never liked being in the room with us as he likes his room dark and quite when hes sleeping

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Loulou1712 · 24/09/2022 19:59

The guideline is 6 months, this is for babies safety, so they can hear you and don't go into too deep a sleep themselves, them stirring is a good thing to help prevent SIDS.
It's easy for people to say their babies were safe, but why risk it when you know you shouldnt? Could you live with yourself if you didn't follow the guidelines and something happened?

TheBirdintheCave · 24/09/2022 20:05

Our son was four months as he grew out of his bassinet and the cot doesn't fit into our bedroom.

Barleysugar86 · 24/09/2022 20:09

About 3 years old for us! I couldn't relax with such a young baby in another room, I'd be constantly going in to check and waking them up...

RegeJeanPageMeOnMyCellphone · 01/10/2022 14:24

We moved DS at 5 months. Solely because DH’s snoring was waking him up. Although looking back I could have just moved DH!

shipwreckedonhighseas · 01/10/2022 14:26

Two days. Ahem. We did have a monitor. Somehow the six month rule passed me by

Mommabear20 · 01/10/2022 14:48

6 months for our DD, and 9 months for DS because he would still wake for a feed once in the night and he was going to be sharing a room with DD and didn't want him waking her up.

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