when did you put baby in own room?

[orangeshortbread]

just wondering when you first let baby sleep in a room alone. DD is 3 months and she always sleeps in same room as me, even for naps. She is fast outgrowing her moses basket and I guess it will soon be time to put her in her cot. Did you have the cot in your room and did she go straight into room alone and at what age? I naively thought she'd be in moses basket til about 6 months!

[notso]

DD 7 months,
DS1 8 months,
DS2 16 months,
DS3 still in st 12 months but am dreading building up to him moving in with DS2.
I would not have got any sleep with them in a separate room until at least 6 months. I'd be forever checking on them and all but DS1 were feeding at night until 5-6 months and I'd rather do that in my warm bed.

[SarahJinx]

DS is 23 months, still firmly ensconced in a cot wedged next to our bed.

[FunnysInLaJardin]

both dc from about 2 days old, in a moses basket in a cot right next to our room. We could hear them and had the monitor

[smellsofsick]

Both DDs about 3 months. They've been completely different in their sleeping preferences (DD1 was in her Moses basket for TEN months whereas DD2 starfishes in her cot).

In both cases they slept much better without us and vice versa. Quiet rooms, blackout blinds.

[breatheslowly]

6 months. DD was in a co sleeper cot and at 6 months started to be able to turn round and kick me, so the side went on and she moved out a couple of weeks later. We never got her into the Moses basket and she was big so would have been out of it pretty quickly anyway.

[charlove]

i put my LO in her own room as soon as she started sleeping through the night, which was about 2 weeks. she makes a lot of noises in her sleep which would wake me up even though she was sound asleep so as soon as we cut out the middle of the night feed she went in her room. she absolutly loves her cot and sleep for 12-13 hours a night (at 5 months) and even hits the button for her projector on her own if she wakes up in the night.

but i guess it depends a bit on the baby. mine is very independent and hated her moses basket because she likes to spread out but clingy babies might need to be closer for longer and maybe if they are the kind of baby that likes a smaller space a cot might not feel as cosy for them.

[GingerDoodle]

I knew (and respect) the 6 month advice, however for us, I had been wondering for sometime if I was waking DD up as I ALWAYS work up just before she did. We moved her the night after she slept a long stretch of the night at just before 3 months.
We still have the crib in our room for when she is ill (which has thankfully only been once).

[lizzieannejames]

From day on here.

I slept on a Z bed for the first 10 days or so with both. Never had any problems- have a super baby monitor and always sleep with the doors open.

[ShadowStorm]

DS slept in our room until he grew out of his crib at about 7/8 months. Our crib is bigger than a standard moses basket though.

[BedHanger]

2.4 years when the next one arrived :o.

[superbabysmummy]

3 months; like yours she grew out of Moses basket. No room in our room for crib or cot. With movement sensor & video monitor = much better night sleep for all of us :-)

[twinklyfingers]

DD is five months this week, we moved her into her own room last week. I was convinced she would be in our room with us for a long time, certainly up to the recommended 6 months. Also, for the first 3 months I loved having her in our room. Some of the most content moments of my life have been lying between her and dh while they slept. However, when her sleep patterns changed and became more 'adult' she would wake if either of us stirred. Sometimes I'd hear her wake then realise I must have been awake and making noise which had woken her! So we moved her to her own room and she wakes much less.

I did insist to dh that we have a monitor with a sensor pad to detect if she stops breathing and this has made me feel a bit better.

[cleoowen]

Nice him! Should read move him.

[Munxx]

DD at 8.5 months and DS is still in with me (co sleeping) at 7 months. I don't expect him to be going anywhere soon.....

[teacher123]

4 months. He grew out of the Moses basket at 7 weeks so we had a travel cot in our room until 4 months and then moved him and slept with both doors wide open (I sleep on his side of the bed, tiny house, he's probably about 8 feet away from me when in his cot!

[cleoowen]

Everyone else from Nct group has moved into their own room but I haven't. I wanted to wait until he slept through which he is now as it's so much easier to get fun out his Moses,feed and put back.

However, he is now sleeping through and although he's 15 Weeks I don't feel ready to nice him. I like having him next to me but I have started putting him down for naps in his own room, first in his Moses and next week in his Moses in his cot in preparation as I know I'll have to do it sometime.

[binger]

6 weeks and 2 weeks. I couldn't sleep with them in our room.

[PuffPants]

Around 8 months, we probably should have done it a bit sooner. Sleeping definitely improved (for all of us) afterwards.

[Startail]

Just before the recommend six months with both. Basically when both kept the other awake.

DD2 still BF and co-slept for bits of the night and I can't remember when she slept through. She was very little bother.

[carrietwick]

I put my baby in her own room at 8 weeks - still in the moses basket and put it in the cot. She's quite tall and had outgrown the basket at 11 weeks so then went into the cot in a sleeping bag.

It was mainly because she was doing longer stretches of sleep but I couldn't sleep at all because she was so loud lots of snuffles, grunts and groans! I've always used a video monitor though and still use it now she's 6 months so I can see what's going on - it's so clear I can even see her chest rise to check her breathing!

[SevenReasonsToSmile]

6 weeks, DD is a light sleeper and liked to sleep with her arms outstretched, every time she hit the crib bars she woke herself up. We all slept much better with her in the cot in her own room.

[starlightloz]

We had our last baby in a cradle by our bed until he was 9 months old. Co slept half of the time and was dreading putting him in his own room because it was a floor down and I thought that being up and down the stairs would be a nightmare. But literally after the first night he slept through and has done every since so going to try doing the exact same thing with the one on his way. When we have been to stay at other houses we have had baby in a travel cot in our room and I barely got a wink as he is so very active in his sleep, plus wakes up, wriggles, crawls about but then self settles so glad we finally went to his own room but do think in our case he started sleeping through because he had the security and contentment from all the in bed cuddles at first. Absolutely whatever works best for individual parents though.

[Egusta]

Moses basket and then cot in our room until he was about 18 months. Mainly because I needed to wake up in the night and hear him breathing.

Oh, and we had SO many comments, as we live near the sea and have people to stay alot over summer and for some reasons some people -DH's friends felt the need to comment.

when we did move him into his own room, we had no issues or transition problems at all.