Baby naps

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I know official guidelines say baby should nap in the same room as someone until they're 6 months but it's so hard!

My baby is 10 weeks and a complete delight. She just struggles to stay asleep for her day time naps and so much going on around her.

Would it be wrong to put her to sleep in her cot in her nursery during the day? With baby monitor and regular checks? I feel like she'd be much better and less cranky in the evening!

Hey there! My Bubba is 8 weeks old and has been sleeping in his own room from 3 weeks, it's literally 1meter from ours so we can hear his main cries. Our issue was he is such a congested, snorting, sniffle baby. He'd wake us up with all sorts of noises despite still being sound asleep! It works much better for us. He sleeps in his pram day and night (it's basically a moses basket on wheels, safe and all that). And he just naps wherever is comfortable, sometimes on me, sometimes in the room with us, and other times in his own room. He's a haply smiley little boy, I'm sure that'd be fine with regular checks and a monitor, that's all I do anywho x

The reason they need to sleep in the same room as you is to reduce the chance of SIDS. Babies dying from SIDS don’t make a noise so a baby monitor won’t help.

It is up to you if you want to take that risk.

My baby has always napped in a different room to us. But she's also been sleeping in her own room since 5 weeks old. I use a video baby monitor so i can see and hear her breathing.

Its up to you to make the judgement for your baby.

The SIDS risk reduction is apparently about being able to hear you breathe, so a monitor doesn't address that. A mat sensor that detects breathing would be more relevant, although false alarms are an issue and of course it can only alert you if something happens rather than help prevent.

Having said that, if you have already eliminated the main risks for SIDS, then you might decide you're ok with a very very small extra risk factor.

I could never get either of mine to nap on their own in any kind of cot at that age. I used a sling, or they napped on me, or in the pram if we'd been out.