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At what age do you put baby down to bed and leave him?

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marleymooo · 28/05/2014 22:15

You would think I'd remember this from DS1 but I don't! DS2 is 13 weeks old and at the minute settles down for the night between 9 and 10pm. I put him down in the carrycot and keep him with us until we go to bed, then transfer him to the moses basket when we go to bed.

At what stage is it recommended to put him down to sleep alone in our bedroom? (SIDS risk etc).

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drinkyourmilk · 28/05/2014 22:17

They are supposed to sleep with an adult in the room until 6 months.

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marleymooo · 28/05/2014 22:20

Thanks drink your milk. I will be keeping him in our room until he's over 6 months, I just mean can I put him down alone for the hour or 2 before DH and I go to bed? He wakes these last few nights when I try and transfer him over.

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ThinkIveBeenHacked · 28/05/2014 22:25

I put dd down in our bedroom from eight weeks. It was the room adjacent to the lounge and door between left open (for noise from us).

Tbh id do the same this time round too.

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restandpeace · 28/05/2014 22:27

When he will settle without being upset?

AnythingNotEverything · 28/05/2014 22:28

Official guidelines are all naps and sleeps with you until 6 months due to SIDS risk.

I waited until 16 weeks. We are low risk in every other way and I read that the peak risk period was 2-4 months. Once we we're passed that I was happy with the risk, as DD was desperate to start her big sleep at about 8pm.

Some people do it much earlier. You have to do what you're comfortable with.

williwonti · 28/05/2014 22:44

I'm in same boat marleymoo except ds2 is 10wks. He's a big baby so outgrown his basket so ideally needs to go in cot but then wont be with me so not sure what i should do...

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marleymooo · 28/05/2014 23:27

Thanks all. Willi I do remember putting DS1to sleep on his bouncer that went out flat, once he outgrew the Moses basket. We were renting a big house at the time and upstairs seemed so far away to leave him on his own! Our new house is a smaller 3 bed bungalow so DS2 only down the hall, he refuses to sleep in the same bouncer so no other option really once he outgrows Moses basket and carrycot!

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mumofboyo · 29/05/2014 09:03

We put ds to bed on his own from around 4 weeks and dd from around 12 weeks: iirc it was about the time they outgrew their Moses baskets.

tertle · 29/05/2014 09:13

Dd is 10 weeks, I put her to bed in our room at about 8pm. She used to sleep in her Moses basket in the lounge until we went to bed but wouldn't settle, I think there was too much noise.

beccajoh · 29/05/2014 09:26

Dd wouldn't go to sleep until 9-10pm and cluster fed, so stayed with us downstairs until we went to bed. DS has wanted a 7pm bedtime since birth, and so he has more or less.

Cuppachaplz · 30/05/2014 17:44

I put DS down in his own room and left him to settle from the day we came home. He never ever cried, and has always slept well. He slept from bedtime at 7, until I woke him for a feed when I went to bed (rather than leaving him to wake of his own accord at 2am), and slept through until 7.
This was the advice at the time (he has just turned 11)
Amazing how much advice changes so quickly isn't it?

Writerwannabe83 · 30/05/2014 20:49

I put my DS to sleep for 8.30pm and he's in a Moses Basket. I stay in the room with him but don't engage or interact unless he gets upset. It usually takes an hour for him to fall asleep (he likes to dance about and sing to himself) and I use this time to catch up on MN

Once he is asleep I still stay in the room with him and me and DH will usually put a DVD on or catch up on sleep ourselves.

During the day DS sleeps in a Moses Basket in the living room.

He is 10 weeks old.

neversleepagain · 30/05/2014 21:41

I put our twins to sleep in their cot in our bedroom from 5 weeks for both naps and night time sleep.

wheresthelight · 31/05/2014 20:50

Against all advice dd went in her cot on her own til I went to bed from about 2 weeks as trying to move her woke her and she absolutely hated the moses basket. it was better for me and her that she got uninterrupted sleep between feeds.

Do what you feel comfortable with! We were in a small flat and our room was next door to the lounge so I could hear her clearly

BertieBotts · 31/05/2014 20:53

Technically it's 6 months.

I started taking DS upstairs earlier than us when he started crawling and/or wanting active input in the evening, around 8 months IIRC? Before that he was happy on a lap or in a bouncer or being fed so he was no trouble, just lovely snuggles :)

StillaChocoholic · 31/05/2014 20:54

From about 4 months. He got into a routine where he'd be asleep by 7:30ish so I'd take him to bed then.
Do what you feel comfortable with.

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