What age to put DD in her own room?

[KatOD]

Ok... I know "the advice" is 6 months but what are people's thoughts on when to put junior in their own room? Our DD is 8 weeks old and her room is next door to ours and the cot would be literally the other side of the wall. The main reason we'd look to put her next door is because she makes noises like a snuffling pig all night and we're struggling to sleep (albeit finding it quite funny sometimes, have obviously recorded it for suitable embarrassment at her 18th). Anyone else had this?

6 months here, longer 2nd time. Suppose to help reduce chances of cot death,

Put earplugs in. 8 weeks too early, them listening to your breathing is supposed to regulate theirs and help to avoid cot death.
It was 7 months here.

A year here with both DD's. DD2 has only been in with her sister a month.

7 days here - I didn't know there was a 6 month rule!

My ds is nearly 14 weeks and we're starting to 'phase' him into his own room (like you, right next to us), for the same reasons as you - getting no sleep, and he's getting louder! Strangely he doesn't make much noise in his room, I'm wondering if he finds his Moses basket a bit claustrophobic compared to his cot, he likes to sleep with arms spread and basket is now way too snug for that! He goes in own room after bath and feed at about 7.30, then comes into our room for feed about 11.30, then into his basket. He wakes about 4 for a feed, is fed in nursery then into cot. Monitors all the time, obviously. Tonight and last night are exceptions, he's been awake on and off all night so routine out the window!

PS - I started an identical thread about a month ago, and had lots of very helpful replies, plus the odd sanctimonious tit calling me a terrible parent for not co-sleeping til the teenage years, just a warning before they pop up too badly!

I would say at least 6 months as I also think it is important they can hear you. Monitors can help you hear them, but they can't help your baby hear you.

I read a post on mumsnet just the other day by a mum who only noticed her DD wasn't breathing properly because she was in the same room as her. Had she been in another room she would probably have been found lifeless in the morning.

It's scary stories like that which make me think I wouldn't be able to sleep if my baby was in another room, snuffles or not. I'd be constantly trotting into her room to check she was still breathing!!

6 months here, we were/are using the Angel Care monitor for reassurance.

8 weeks here too, I couldn't cope with the constant snuffling either. We live in a little terraced house so she went from being 1/2foot way to 5 foot away, I kept both our doors open so I could still hear her.

6 months with dd (an god she was noisy. Still is).
8 months with ds1 - he was quieter and generally a better sleeper.
ds2 left our room at 16 months, technically. I say technically because he appears most nights like a silent assassin and is there between us when we wake up (he's 2 and a bit now). :)

We're going to love DD when she consistently sleeps all night. Can't be arsed with getting out of bed and moving about in the cold when I could just scoop her up and pop her on the boob while staying snuggly in bed

She's just dine a stretch of 10 nights of 7.30 ish to 9am ish so was starting to consider it, she's 5 months. But lady night she was up 3 times, so it'll be a while yet!

Errr move. We love her already

Somewhere between 5&6 months for both because we were keeping each other awake.
Eternally BF DD2 still generally co slept for a few hours each night.
FF D1 had her bottle and left. She wouldn't co sleep she just wriggled and as soon as she could pull herself up bounced on the pillows.

2 years! But then we are very over protective helicopter parents. It was more for our comfort.

DS was in his own room at 3 days and DD at 6 months

I'd suggest at least till baby is 1 yr. There has been a lot of research on cot death and reducing chances by sleeping in same room.

Nearly 2 years here too! But only because the cot had to be dismantled to get it out the door and we were both too bloody idle to do it. We are not particularly helicoptery though, I think.

I miss waking in the night and hearing DS breathing.

He never really snuffled though. DH's doh who also sleeps in our room is louder.

that word was 'dog'

both mine were moved when they slept through so about 7 months for dd and 8 months for ds. I used earplugs and still heard them before dh (he snores so the earplugs were partly due to him)

5/6 weeks.

Big, healthy boy. Never even posseted after milk and slept well. Woke for feeding twice a night until 3 months, which I found reassuing. And then started sleeping through.

Now, at 17 months.... positively LOVES his cot (honestly, after bedtime milk he actually reaches for his cot) and I think this is in part because it is all he has ever know.

I am NOT suggesting this for everyone, but you get a sense of your baby. Mine was a strapping boy at 6 weeks, and sounded like a farmyard when he slept in our room, so we moved him next door and it worked for us.

Ds1 was 6 months I think.

Ds2 has only just gone into his "own" room at 15months.

I say "own" it's actually Dss's room but we put ds2 in there during the week as he was starting to sleep longer stretches at night. Now he's done 12hrs for the last 3 nights we're gonna start thinking about movin him into ds1's room.

DS went into his own room at 4 months as he was bursting out of his Moses basket and we haven't enough room for his cot in with us. He likes sleeping with his arms flung out too, was waking himself up by hitting the sides of the moses basket towards the end. Having said that, he's not the worlds best sleeper so ends up in bed with me from about 3-4am.

6 months.

Your baby hearing you breathe and using that to regulate their own breathing at night massively reduces the risk of SIDS.

Yes,it's a pain when they're snuffly or grunty buggers, but surely it's worth putting up with for a few months?