Where does your baby (young) sleep in the evenings before you go to bed?

[Newtobecomingamum]

We have a chicco in our bedroom and Moses basket down stairs in the living room for our 4m DD. In the evenings once we have put our toddler to bed and I give baby a feed, we put her in the Moses basket in the living room. We play white noise to help her sleep (although she often gets disturbed) and drown out the noise of the TV (we can't really hear it so our evenings are spent sitting in the dark a bit frustrated). I have an angel care alarm in the bedroom and a video monitor but am so scared about SIDS and I don't think you are meant to leave them in a room in their own? What does everyone else do? Would baby get a better sleep in the bedroom and us have an evening to relax after hectic days be better? Please let me have your thoughts? Thank you

[ODog]

I think we started putting DS upstairs around that age but if he was unsettled we would bring him downstairs and he would sleep on the sofa while we watched TV or on my chest. Luckily he was never really disturbed by TV/noise.

[Writerwannabe83]

My DS would stay downstairs with me in his Moses Basket and then we'd all go up to bed at about 10pm.

As he got to about the 3 month stage I realised this was no longer appropriate so I would take him upstairs at about 8pm and I would just stay in the bedroom with him, reading or watching a film on the iPad with my headphones in.

When he turned 6 months old I would then put him to bed in his cot and then go back downstairs with a baby monitor.

He was in mine and DH's room until he was 9 months old.

[ANiceSliceOfCake]

I struggled with this, practically I wanted to put my baby upstairs but I just couldn't go against the SIDS advice no matter what. I personally just couldn't cope if god forbid we were the ones that it happened too, I'd always think what if I kept him downstairs with me. The SIDS advice is based on real statistics so for me that's what I wanted to stick to. Having a monitor makes no difference to the SIDS Risk as its about them being able to hear you too.

So he slept on us downstairs till we went up to bed. Then at 6 months we put him up in his own room. It's been fine.

Not judging anyone by the way, I know I'm in the minority, it's all personal choice.

[trilbydoll]

We kept dd1 downstairs with us and she's a bloody nightmare at bedtime, always has been and at 2.11 shows little sign of improving. We can at least threaten and bribe her now though.

DD2 has come up at 7pm since day one and is pretty good at just going to sleep. Admittedly she's generally a more placid baby but I think it helped. I just stayed upstairs with her when she was under 6m, DH might watch something on TV but usually he would sit on the bed with me and we would chat quietly.

[KP86]

DS went into his own room at about 18 weeks, after we went to sleep school. Then was going to bed around 7 and by himself until morning (except for an overnight feed).

Before that he would sleep on our chest before cosleeping when we went to bed. We didn't have a special cot though, he was just swaddled and laid in next to us (above blankets).

[GeorgeTheThird]

Mine were in their own rooms with a monitor from three or four weeks. Mind you, I often ended up sleeping in their room with them after the late evening feed. So I guess they were only on their own for three hours or so. But it gave us an evening.

[Primaryteach87]

In our bedroom from about 6 weeks.

[Brummiegirl15]

We do bath, feed, bed routine with our DD and put her to bed in her cot in our room. She's 17 weeks and we've been doing it since 12 wks as she was far too over stimulated downstairs with us.

I've read previously that the SIDS risk peaks at about 13 weeks then starts to decrease

I certainly will keep her in with us until 6 months though

[Newtobecomingamum]

Thank you everyone for your responses and taking the time to write about what you currently do. Still undecided so going to wait until I feel more comfortable and maybe review in a few weeks. Thank you it's been so helpful hearing what others do x