When did you let your baby sleep alone?

[segc94]

I don't mean in their own room all night, I just mean in the evening time after 7pm until we go to bed at about 10/11pm.
My 7week daughter sleeps between this time and wakes up for a feed and then goes back to sleep.
However when she's sleeping downstairs with us she does get disrupted with us talking or if the tv has a loud part.
So I'm wondering is it safe yet to let her sleep in her Moses basket upstairs on her own (with monitors obviously)

Also, what age did you put your baby in there own room?

From about 4 or 5 months, but we were in a single storey flat with the bedroom door open directly from the living room, plus I would keep nipping into the room to check on him or put away washing etc.

This was just in the evening, he spent the night in our bedroom until about 19 months

From the beginning like flossy. But with a monitor. Both went happily to bed and off to sleep. They were checked on regularly in person too - not just abandoned. No doubt I will get flamed on here!

From about 6 weeks we did a bedtime routine which included a feed then down in Moses basket at 7.30ish in our room with monitor on. Fed again at 10ish until dropped this and later feed at some point.

Too big for Moses basket at 5 months so in own room in cot from then with monitor. Monitor stopped about 10 months I think. When he could stand up & shout for us!

Climbed out of cot at 2years so in toddler bed from then.

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Ha brilliant! You really got your money's worth!

10 months

Watching this thread with interest as my 4m old is getting increasingly agitated in the evening and I'm thinking it's time for a bedtime routine. I've been resisting it cos I like having him downstairs with us!

I'm at the couple of posts sneering at people for not putting their babies in their own room straight away, as though following the safe sleeping guidelines which have massively reduced SIDS is some sort of over the top pfb nonsense. Understanding risk isn't just about the probability of it happening, it's also about level of impact of it did happen. So most people willl take mitigation action in a low risk-high impact situation, which is what this is.

OP, my DD was seven months, she'd been getting disturbed in the evenings for a while. We ended up having her awake in the evening and sleeping later in the morning. (She was prem, so we waited longer than six months to have her upstairs alone). She adjusted within two days to an early bedtime upstairs.

Flossy yes, millions were fine. But lots weren't. Which is what the guidelines are for. If you want to be cavalier with your own baby that's your own stupidity look out, but don't be condescending to people who do things differently.

You're right flossy, millions were. Just like the people who smoked for 90 years without getting cancer and all of those of us who were carried around in cars without seatbelts without dying. Doesn't make it a good idea though.

Our DD is 17 weeks. We tend to keep her downstairs with us, lying on a sleepy head. She tends to go to sleep anytime between 7pm and 9pm. We will then take her up to bed with us between 10/11pm.

If I am home alone as DP is working, we might head up around 7/8pm and I let her sleep on the bed with me until DP gets home, then move her to the cot.

However we have also put her in her cot and then sat in the garden with the baby monitor.

Hi my baby is 4 n half months she's nearly growing out of her Moses basket I've got no space next to my bed I've got 30 inches in width so I can't fit a cot there what shall I do?

Sweet personally in that situation I'd probably sleep on a mattress/ air bed by the cot in the baby's room. It's a very personal decision though as I know lots wouldn't.

DS (all 3) went into their own room the day we got back from hospital (so one day, two days and two days old). Straight into a cot.

Would go up at 7ish and have a 10.30 feed before I went to bed.

I know what the guidelines say but if you've got more than one child it's practically impossible for them to sleep in the same room as you at all times isn't it? We have four and our house is noisy at the best of times. We've done what others in the thread did, kept them with us for as long as possible but when they started to get disturbed they went into a bedroom for naps and the evening.

Meant to add, at the moment DD is in with us, but when she outgrows her cot she will have to go in her own room as we don't have room for anything bigger.

If it happens before six months, then there isn't anything I can do about it!

One of the mums from our antenatal classes has her baby in his own room already and has done from about eight weeks. It's up to you to decide when they are ready to be left alone.

From about 2 weeks old we'd put her to be in her cot (bassinet level) at 7pm after her bottle, with video monitor. We usually go up once or twice in the evening to check in on her.
She went in her own room about 5 months old

At 7 weeks we started a bedtime routine with each baby so they were in our room and we were downstairs with a video monitor. Both went into their own room at 5 months with monitor next to my bed.

I understand the guidelines are to have your baby lying next to you until 6 months at all times but I've never understood how that works in practice. Neither of my babies would actually sleep lying next to me on the sofa in the evenings past about 5 weeks so it seemed natural to implement some kind of routine.

Can I ask what people are "looking for" or listening out for with a monitor?

(Ignorant, not goady! Ftm trying to work out when/if to get one!)

Apologies for typo's, useless keyboard -(and user)-

At 10 weeks she went into her own room for naps and hen at 12 weeks she went into her own room for the night.
From what I understand there is a hypothesis that being in the same room as an adult helps regulate a baby's breathing hence the recommendation wrt SIDS.
However I reduced the known SIDS risks:
We did not cosleep, the baby was put on her back on a firm mattress with no soft or loose bedding and we are a non-smoking household.
So I felt ok with her sleeping separately but it is a very personal choice.

15 months ! Slept in the living room until then. On a beanbag or in my arms because I'm a sad loser .Can sleep through a pneumatic drill (DC, not me!)

sweet, as you can see from this thread, many people would move the baby into their own room at that point. If you don't want to though, I think the Chicco Next 2 Me might fit? You can use it as a stand alone crib.

When my son turned 8 months he started to sleep on his own in his room. Since then he slept better and we slept better. I know that people are afraid of doing it but it is a good move, believe me!

I just want to point out that part of the reason the guidelines recommend having your baby sleeping near you until 6 months is to reduce the SIDS risk. This is because there is evidence that baby hearing your breathing helps regulate their breathing. Therefore, even if they are only in a room next door or you can see them on a video monitor, you still lose this benefit as baby cannot sense and hear you.

Make decisions that are best for you and your baby. I know many people put baby to sleep in a separate room before 6 months. I just wanted to explain the reasoning so people can name an informed decision though, as there is more to the recommendation than being able to hear if your baby cries.

From 2 or 3 weeks, for most of his naps and from 7.30 till we came up to bed about 10.30pm. Agree with PP that Angelcare movement monitor is very reassuring.