Has anyone put baby in own room before 6 months

[akankwasakelly]

Our daughter is 14 weeks old, and sleeps in her cot next to my bed. It was a real big squeeze getting the cot in our room and because of this me and my other half have no room down the sides of our bed, so we have to crawl from the bottom to the top of the bed.. some of our slats are broken on the bed and it makes it really noisy, every time we get into bed it wakes the baby up, we also can't watch Tele in bed / talk because she seems to wake really easily.. she sleeps really well apart from us waking her up at night.
I know the nhs advise is 6 months but I'm thinking she might need to go in her own room earlier, has anyone else done this? I have a camera monitor so I can see her all night if I want too

Peak age for SIDS is 10-12 weeks.

I did it.
With DD it was 3 months, she was just the other side of the wall and I could still hear her breathe ( even without a baby monitor) and about 6 weeks for DS.
It was the right decision for us but it is against guidelines ( mind you, so was my bottle prep!!)

4 weeks here. I guiltily confessed to the health visitor and she told me she'd done the same thing.

12 weeks here. Can you sleep in her room to minimise disruption?

I did it before the current advice. Room next door to ours. Monitor. Open doors.
If the advice is not to, I would now follow that and make it work.

8 weeks here.

It was when they grew out of the bassinet. DS was huge but was the most fragile of the three so he stayed with us longer. All were out and in their own bed by 4 months.

We waited for a year because one of our other children was brain injured when he stoppped breathing at few months old .

I would have a look at the lullaby trust website to ensure you have the facts. What stands out to me is that since they started publishing guidelines in 1991 the number of sids deaths has reduced by 85%.

I have an 8 week old- the question I ask myself when making decisions like this is if the worst happened did I do everything in my power to prevent it.

DC1 went into own room at about three months. Don't remember any guidelines as such. I had a great hv and used to talk things over with her, but her advice was always pretty much that I knew my baby best and she would support us in our decisions. Gave us the confidence to be the parents of our children rather than following ever-changing guidelines written by people who didn't know us or our children.
If you think your child is ready and as long as you have a decent monitor, why not?

Interestingly I am in Switzerland and just looked up info about this and it says follow parental preference!

Day one with my first it was the room with the working door handle and we lived in a flat with two house cats so it seemed the best solution

12 weeks here - he was fine.

We did it at 6 weeks (10 years ago ). We had DS in a full size cot from day 1 which meant that we had no room in our bedroom to move. Our chest of drawers had to go in the spare room. Also the catch on the bedroom door was at DS head height when cradling him in my arms. I had a few narrow misses. So he went in his own room adjoining ours and kept both doors open.

We did at 4 months as DS would wake every time I stirred! Used a video monitor and he has slept so much better.

No. I don't understand why anyone would increase their child's risk of SIDS for the sake of their own convenience.

Yes - around 3 weeks - DS never had a problem sleeping, learned to self settle immediately (ie: first night home from hospital).

I put mine in their own room quite early on - I couldn't sleep with them in with me, and the risk of being so knackered I was going to crash the car was far higher than the risk they'd die of SIDS.

Think both of mine were at about three months.

Full term, no health issues, non-smokers (us...).

My 3 went straight into their own room but they were about 6 foot away from where I slept as my side of the bed was next to the door and the cot was by the entrance to the adjoining room which was right angles to us so I could see the cot from my bed. No monitors ever needed and all 3 were/are fine.

Ours were in their own rooms from when we came home from hospital so 3 days old for DS and 2 days old for DD. DS is our first born and in those days his bedroom was like an en suite next to ours. By the time we had DD we'd moved and her room was fully separate.

At 5 months with dd because she outgrew the moses basket. She was sleeping solidly for 12 hours by then and was fine in her own room.

I did want to keep her in for 6 months because of sids but we couldn't fit the cot in our room.

I moved my DD at 12 weeks and I did research on SIDS before doing this (I'm boring everyone with my research, I know).

Firstly, SIDS peaks between 7 to 10 weeks (bmjopen.bmj.com/content/3/5/e002299.full - figure 1). The number of cases goes down rapidly from weak 16.

Secondly, in terms of level of risk - putting baby to sleep in his/her own room is the least contributing SIDS factor in comparison to other known issues (including "safe" bedsharing). Here is the summary of all knows factors (based on the Carpenter's study in the link above):

expectingscience.com/2015/09/18/bedsharing-and-the-sids-controversy-why-i-bedshared-with-my-second-child/#more-905

I know in the ideal world NHS/AAP/WHO/etc would love us to strictly follow their guidelines (even if it means noone will get any sleep) but the reality is we are making risk based decisions every day. I felt NHS recommendation was over-conservative and the risk of sleep deprivation for me and my DD was more real than a small increase in the risk of SIDS. Of course, all parents will make their own informed decisions but it is always useful to know actual facts.

I did it from 16 weeks. He was going up to the cot anyway at 7pm for the night, so we wouldn't have kept down stairs with us. So he spent a portion of the night on his own anyway. We all slept better being separated. I had the angelcare monitor which detected if he stopped breathing.

No judgement here where people have done otherwise, but I feel more comfortable being able to hear my DD. She is 6 months. I will move her into her own room but I am not ready to do so yet.