Baby going in own room at 3 months

[LucyB1]

We are considering this as baby is growing out of her mosses basket.. We don't have room in our bedroom for a cot. Has anyone moved a baby into their own room at such an early age? Thoughts please..

Yep me I just found that we all slept better. It's totally your decision and obviously they recommend six months but I did it with dc 3 as he was huge and was sleeping through from 10 weeks.

Both of mine did. No issue

We moved dd into her own room at 10 weeks and she was absolutely grand . There's noway I could've kept her in for 6 months . Ds is 5 weeks and still in our room but I imagine we'll move him around 10 as well . I also wanted to move dd before she had any idea that she was being kicked out of our room .

What's worrying you do you think?

DD was 4.5mo when we moved her and I wish we did it sooner, we all slept so much better!

14 weeks in own room. Always had monitor on. Slept through....brilliant move.

I had to move DD2 at 4 months. She had hip dysplasia and the treatment for that meant she did not fit in anything other than a cot bed that would not fit in our room.

You will find that people move their DC into another room at all ages, from 1 day old to several years old. Every story will be different and the vast majority will have had no problems. I assume you are aware of the guidelines so you need to decide for your self how significant the guidelines feel to you.

The SIDs advice is 6 months. Could you move bedroom furniture into the nursery to make room for the cot?

However, if you can't, you can't and there's no point worrying about it.

I think it's more me that's causing the issue.l I find it so easy just pulling her into bed to feed laying down. Not sure about going to sit in a cold room in the middle of the night! Then if she doesn't go down I will be up and down numerous times.

Yep I did this with both of mine. Both slept 12 hours a night from very early on. I had a very good baby monitor etc etc.

The sids advice is that they sleep with you for at least the first 6 months because they use your breathing to regulate their own (almost as if the very fact you fidget about and disturb them a bit is prompting them into a lighter sleep so they "remember" to breathe). However the overall risk is very small and you have to weigh that up against your own sanity and lack of sleep!

The issue is that babies should not sleep 'so much better' at that age. They need to be disturbed fairly regularly by stirring adults to reduce SIDS risk, as it stimulates breathing. This risk drops sharply after six months of age, hence the advice not to move babies into their own rooms until that age. Is she definitely outgrowing the basket? I thought my very tall and large first baby was imminently outgrowing the carry cot at that age but growth seemed to plateau a bit around then and he fit into it longer than I expected.

I did, with both dc. Both extremely tall (91st and 99th centile) lady about 6 weeks in Moses Basket. DS in own room at 9 weeks; think dd was at 8 weeks.

No due to Sids risk

I'm in exactly the same boat. Ds2 is 3.5 months and fills his Moses basket. I don't want to move him yet though for several reasons.

I would be a bit worried at his age, it's still quite young from a SIDs perspective. He also still wakes up between 3-5 times per night for feeds.

On a logistical level, DS1 is also still using part of the cot as a toddler bed so we need to buy a new bed first anyway.

I'm hoping that, like elphaba's experience, DS2 plateaus, then we might wring another few weeks out of the basket but may have to buy a smallish travel cot in the meantime. Our bedroom is too small to accommodate anything larger.

We moved our first son into his own room at 10 weeks, we both felt it was right. Second is now 6mo and i'm struggling to let him go to his own room, just beign soft really =)

We moved ds into his own room at 3 weeks. Right next door, our door open, babymonitor. I was sleeptalking because I was paranoid he was in our bed (he wasn't, was in a cot at the end) and dh was back at work. We both slept better once we moved him. I wouod wake up as soon as he did anyway and feed him in chair in his room - half the time dh didn't even wake up anymore.

As others have said, only you can make the call. Read the SIDS guidelines and decide. Do bear in mind that, as others have said, it is about them hearing you and not vice versa.

Personally I wouldn't and didn't. I climbed over DH to get into bed cos my side was blocked.

3 weeks here. No issues. Admittedly I did spent half the night in the single bed in her room after the night feed.

DD was at 3 months
DS just after 4 months

6 weeks. Brilliant decision for us.

My DD went into her own room at 3.5 months as she was sleeping through for the most part except that my DH snores really loudly and would wake her up. My DS is now 11 weeks and will probably be in our room for longer as he has reflux and so is not such a good sleeper (and I don't want to be getting up in the cold to settle him loads in the night).

I know someone who got a special in cot mat that monitored breathing etc. and made a noise whenever the gap was too long - if you are worried you could see if you could find something like that. She said it kept her and the baby awake though...

We're facing this dilemma too. DD is 15 weeks and not much space left in carrycot. Not able to fit her cotbed in our room. No space in nursery for me to sleep in there. We have a movement monitor that alarms after 20 seconds of no movement. Not moved her yet, but will in the next month or so. I'm dreading it!