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?

Fliss, I wish I could play you a recording of my ds at night, it really isn't snuffling and grunting, we're talking full on roaring in his sleep, sometimes so loud I'm frightened he'll wake the neighbours! At one point I literally had no sleep 5 nights running, I was hallucinating with exhaustion!

My dd2 stopped breathing in the middle of the night at 11 days old. I'd just turned the light on to wake her up for a feed, so I happened to see that at first she'd stirred and then went still. When I scooped her up, the flapping began, froth came out of nose and mouth etc, it was utterly hideous to say the least (called an ambulance, was taken to hospital, was fine in the end), and immeasurably scary. I would definitely advise to keep them in with you at least for those six months and use ear plugs if necessary.

Thank you all for sharing your thoughts, advice and experiences... I'll take what you've said on board and discuss with my husband.

Hi Natasha, they checked all her vital signs (oxygen levels, heart rate etc), her muscle tone, sucking reflex etc (all of that was fine) and then concluded that it must have been a mucus plug that lodged itself in her air ways. It had probably accumulated since the birthing process and they had seen this happen before.
By the time the first response medic arrived, she had already managed the occasional breath and when the ambulance got there, she was still warm and quite red but the breathing seemed pretty much back to normal.
It did happen again (at three weeks old) but that time during a feed. Ambulance and hospital again and they then diagnosed her with reflux. Thankfully she's been fine since.