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when did you move your baby out of your bedroom?

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xenabelly · 20/03/2007 09:50

hi all

I should be confident about this cos i'm on baby no2 but I've turned all neurotic and obsessed with cotdeath - my friends say it's cos i've got a boy (first born was girl) and mums are always more 'precious' about their boys...anywayyyyy...

He's 9weeks and sleeping from 11pm - 6am (what a star!). I know the HV says to keep him in your room for 6months !?! BUT our room is tiny and would be nice to not keep falling over moses basket etc.

My daughter was a great sleeper too and we moved her into her room at 7weeks without batting an eyelid - don't know why i've got all freaked out about it now.

Just keep thinking if he died of cotdeath cos he was in his own room before 6months i'd never forgive myself.

BTW: our house is fairly small, his room would be next door and we'd leave doors open nad have monitor on if that makes any difference to anything..

Thanks

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Cloudhopper · 20/03/2007 21:32

13 months and counting.....

I can't move her into her own room because she would be sharing with dd1, and they would wake each other up etc.

malaleche · 20/03/2007 21:33

1 year and 7 months, when we moved house and she finally got a room of her own...
Will probably move DD2 into DD1s room with her sooner tho...maybe after she stops having bfeed first thing in the morning? cant remember how old DD1 was when she stopped doing that...

somersetmum · 20/03/2007 21:34

One week - both of them

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Prettyfull · 21/03/2007 07:49

dd was 7 months when she went in to her won room

Prettyfull · 21/03/2007 07:49

thats meant to say own room oops x

WaynettaSlob · 21/03/2007 07:50

DS1 - 6 nights
DS2 - 5 nights!

Papillon · 21/03/2007 07:51

both sleep in same room as me, 3 years and 17 months - big room and I don't like getting out of bed!

FrannyandZooey · 21/03/2007 08:00

3 years old

moondog · 21/03/2007 08:17

A year nad six months respectively.
Would have sooner chopped off my left tit than put a newborn in a room alone.

staceym11 · 21/03/2007 08:33

in answer to runninglate i found putting dd in her own at 8 days was fine, she was acctually downstairs and us up, but she was right beneath us, so i could hear her through the floor! we did have a baby monitor for ages tho!!! as for getting up, i bottle fed so would have had to get up to make the bottle anyway! no difference for us!

harpsichordcarrier · 21/03/2007 08:38

blimey, I am surprised at this thread. the advice about preventing cot death is pretty clear tbh - it is not just the usual bonkers HV advice but the strong recommendation of the DoH and the FSID to reduce the risk of Sudden Infant Death.
six months is jus the blink of an eye, really. I personally wouldn't take the risk

harpsichordcarrier · 21/03/2007 08:40

I am rubbish at explaining the potential explanation as to why having the baby in the same room reduces the risk of cot death (it's something like - having an adult in the room helps reduce the risk of babies "forgetting" to breathe or regulate their breathing patterns) but it does reduce the risk.
someone else can correct that

MaeWest · 21/03/2007 08:43

Just after Christmas, so DS would have been about 5 months. He was in a cotbed pressed up to our bed in our room until then (had outgrown Moses basket long before). Not much room in there, but made night feeds easier. We wanted to follow SIDS advice (particularly DH as he is very into 'guidelines', I'm a bit more slack ), but found that DS was capable of sleeping from 7pm until 7am with a feed in the early hours, but had started to wake up whatever time we came to bed, have a really fussy feed (not that hungry) and then be difficult to settle. He did sleep a lot better until about 3 weeks ago when he got a cold and 2 teeth at the same time and spent a lot of time sleeping in our bed as we would have been up and down all night otherwise.

I have a pile of cushions to sit on in his room if I do need to feed him in the night, and bring him into bed for his breakfast feed.

MaeWest · 21/03/2007 08:45

harpsicordcarrier - and am I right in thinking that the guidelines have been amended to include daytime naps now? i.e. naps should be taken downstairs with adult in the room. Not a problem for us as under 6 months DS wouldn't nap in his cot anyway in the day...

q7 · 21/03/2007 08:49

Never had mine in my bedroom! Wouldn't have slept a wink if I had.

Tortington · 21/03/2007 08:51

as soona s they slept through the night.

staceym11 · 21/03/2007 08:52

but harpsichord (i prob didnt spell that right) if id have kept dd in my room for 6 months, neither of us would have slept for 6 months and with that much sleep deprivation i think it may be more harmful than the risk of cotdeath (i dont do well without sleep).

its hard to judge people if you dont know all the circumstances.

GibbonInARibbon · 21/03/2007 08:55

I started threads on this just before I moved DD - she was too big for her moses basket at 12 weeks, so we moved her then.
I was dreading it, but it honestly was fine and we all slept better. She is only accross the hall and I can still hear her (esp with mothers hearing )

3sEnough · 21/03/2007 08:58

ds 3 nights (dh complained - couldn't sleep!), dd1 and dd2 - I went into spare room with them - 3 weeks with dd1 and 7 weeks with dd2. Not long.

MaeWest · 21/03/2007 09:14

In the early weeks DH couldn't sleep with all the interuptions, so he went into the spare room . Now he's got used to it he has to ask me whether DS woke up for a feed or not .

KittyLetteMeEatAnEasterEgg · 21/03/2007 09:15

my son is 2.4 and hes still in our bed

so is the 9 month old

staceym11 · 21/03/2007 09:18

oh kittylette, i dont think id ever get any sleep!

BandofMothers · 21/03/2007 09:21

dd1, when she out grew her moses basket. about 4/5 mths. was harder for me than her. she was on bottles by then and slept thru.
dd2 is still in my room, in cot at 7 1/2 mths as she is bf, still wakes in night to feed and don't want them waking each other up yrt.

I use moniter, but close doors cos then they get used to it. and we don't wakethem. i checked a lot at first, then less. still check dd2 a lot. do what feels right. if cot death is going to happen it wont matter where they are. don't want to make you paranoid, but it could happn while you're asleep next to him.
dd2 is sometimes so quiet i put my head right next to her to listen to her breathing.

IntergalacticWalrus · 21/03/2007 09:27

DS1 was about 7 months, as we wre in the bigger bedroom and had plenty of room for him and his cot. He was being woken up about 7 times a night by DP's sbnoring, so we thought it was best to shift him into the other room.

DS2 was in a room withy DS1 at 3.5 months as he's outgrown his moses basket, and we couldn't fit him in our room any more.

Neither of them would co sleep either

harpsichordcarrier · 21/03/2007 09:30

here's the guidance re daytime naps and yes the guidance is to have them sleeping in a room with you
I will shut up about it in a minute I promise but BoM it does matter where the baby sleeps. the guidance issued by FSIDS and DoH about how babies should sleep in the first six months has saved thousands of lives

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