When did you start putting baby down at night themselves.

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When did use all start putting baby to bed with monitors on?

The guidelines say that when they're sleeping (both for naps and during the night), they should be in the same room as you until they're 6 months. We plan to follow this (DD is currently 4 months).

Ok thanks, we still have to get monitors. Will hold off until 6 months.

Thanks.

We started putting baby to bed on her own at 6 weeks. We needed the evenings alone for our own sanity. Baby still slept in our room at night until 15 weeks when we moved her into her own room. Guidelines say 6 months but we were waking each other up in the night and a cranky sleepy baby everyday was not fun.

We started at about 4 months putting her to bed on her own but still in our bedroom

9 weeks

He always slept in own bed (just in same room as us). He moved on to own room at around 6-7months. I thought it would affect him somehow or upset his sleep, but it didn't make the least bit of difference!

At about 8 months.

We moved him into his own room at 5 1/2 months as he outgrew the smaller cot in our room

At around 18 months....when she finally slept through 😂

At 5 months we started to spend the evening downstairs with monitor on. Previously we had been going to bed with baby at 7 (we needed the sleep!).
She stayed in our room until 7 months when we transitioned her to her own room and cot.

At 4 months in own bed in own room.Everyone slept better.

Live in a flat where our bedroom is adjacent to the living room so slightly different than if we put DD upstairs (as I can literally hear her snoring from the sofa), but from about 8 weeks I put her down from 7ish in our room and followed to bed about 2 hours later. She’s 5.5 months and still sleeps in our room.

Moved them all to their own rooms at 6 weeks.

In my experience, everyone sleeps better that way. I always wait until the baby is sleeping for longer stretches between feeds before moving them, but the 6 month guideline wasn't a thing with my older children (I still don't think it's a "thing" where I live - I haven't heard it), and I think everyone benefits from a decent sleep over an unnecessarily fractured one.

Thanks everyone, we would be putting him down in our room but wasn't too sure if we could put him down when he falls asleep after feed as he wakes up when we go to bed hour later.

He's 15 weeks so will go buy some monitors this weekend I think.

The guidelines are that until 6 months all naps and sleep should be in the same room as the parents.

I understand people saying that they ignored this because everyone got a better nights sleep if the baby was in a different room, but that's kind of the point, the baby is supposed to be 'disturbed' by their parents in the same room and not fall into the very deep sleep that has possibly been linked to a higher risk of SIDS

However, we chose to start putting DD up to bed/naps at night on her own (but still in our room) with monitors at about 5 ish months. She had pretty good head control from birth, started rolling at 4 months and crawling at 5 months (and walking at 8.5 months!) and it got to the point where she wouldn't settle if she was downstairs with us. She was ready herself to be having a proper bedtime at that age, and I felt confident that she was physically ready to have a couple of hours to herself. If she hadn't I would have stuck to the guidelines and intend to do so with DC2 when they arrive.

I understand people saying that they ignored this because everyone got a better nights sleep if the baby was in a different room, but that's kind of the point, the baby is supposed to be 'disturbed' by their parents in the same room and not fall into the very deep sleep that has possibly been linked to a higher risk of SIDS

Exactly this.

I'm perpetually flummoxed by The 'we all slept better' argument. No, the adults slept better. The baby slept dangerously deeply because they weren't getting external stimulation to, you know, keep breathing.

A wakeful baby is a normal, healthy baby. It's hard for the adults in the short term but it passes.

We started putting DD to bed in her cot in our room at 7.30 at 4 months then in her own room at 7 months.

We compromised and put DS to bed in our room at 8pm ish once he was reliably sleeping through (bar a dream feed) so 10-12 weeks I think. We went up to bed at 1030-11 ish and did a dream feed and he was in the same room as us for the rest of the night until we moved him into his own room at 7 months.

We followed the safe sleep guidance and baby slept in the same room as us for all sleeps until 6 months.

We will hold off with monitors and remain all heading to bed at 8.30pm for couple of months then.

Just like to add our baby will be In with us for a while yet, just wasn't too sure if they could go to cot in our room after their last feed with monitors on hour before we went.

At 4 months, before that she slept in the wrap with us downstairs in the evenings. But we co-slept, so she went to sleep in our room and we joined her when we went up to bed ourselves usually around 10pm.

I agree with Elphaba and pasta. The guidelines are to be in the same room with you because a monitor isn’t going to help a baby that has stopped breathing. Even those alarm ones - once they’ve stopped breathing the alarm isn’t going to help.

They’re supposed to be in the same room so that they don’t fall into too deep a sleep. This is because they can hear your heartbeat and breathing, it reminds them to breathe. No monitor will recreate that for you.

6 months for DD1, 7 months for DD2. Before then we coslept. Evenings were fine - after dinner I fed the baby, then I or DH cuddled a sleeping baby until we all went to bed somewhere between 9 and 11pm. As baby was asleep we could watch whatever telly we chose (as long as volume wasn't too loud), and talk to each other. No big deal, really.

I actually didn't move my DD from our room until she was 9 months old in the end. I just liked having her close. But we used to put her up to bed after her evening feed (from about 8pm I think) from just over six months with a monitor. We'd then go up around 10pm so she was only on her own for a short while and we got a little break!

slept in our room till 6.5months,
naps in different room from 4months - needed blackout and have floor to ceiling/wall to wall window
put to bed around 2-3 hrs before me at night from a few weeks old - very slight sleeper and wouldnt settle for long while i had dinner, did washing/housework had a bath etc. but as soon as it was done i went to bed next to baby