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At what age did you put babies in there own room?

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AlfieJacksmummy · 28/05/2007 20:53

My ds does sleep through (mostly) apart from the odd stir when he needs repositioning but goes straight back off. Not sure I will ever wnt to put him in his own room the thought terrifies me, I dont think i'd get any sleep!
When did you put yours in their own rooms and how did you cope?

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LittleB · 29/05/2007 21:02

About 6.5 months, wanted to get her settled in her own room before I went back to work at about 7 months. It was fine for all of us, as it would have been tricky having her in with us when I had to get ready for work, probably would have disturbed her, but would've kept her in with us longer if I hadn't had to go back.

deestingsduznotappen · 29/05/2007 21:11

7 weeks! Had to go into room and sit on chair to bf but I'm an asleep or awake kinda person, - feeding in bed too difficult (huge norks - nipple kept getting burried in matress when LO fell off).

Didn't use monitor either! Worry kept me awake when I could hear him!

oooggs · 29/05/2007 21:19

ds 4 months.
dts are now 8 weeks and we moved our kingsized bed into their room and will be staying in with them until our room is decorated or until they can no longer share the cot bed, will be about 6 - 8 months

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rookiemum · 29/05/2007 21:21

8 weeks and I tortured myself over the SIDs thing but I just couldn't cope with the thought of him in the bedroom for another 4 months with all his delightful snarfling and cooing. We all seemed to sleep much better once he was in his own room.

bohemianbint · 29/05/2007 21:30

4 months. It was the difference between having no sleep/borderline madness to getting almost 12 hours unbroken kip.

LucyJones · 29/05/2007 21:32

from day one.
To answer Hunker's question - I wetn into the baby's room and fed in there. Sometimes I went to sleep in the single bed in that room or I went back to my bed.

mumblechum · 29/05/2007 21:41

It would never have occurred to us to keep either of our boys in the same room with us, once we realised with ds1 that they make a lot of noise in their sleep.

You're knackered enough if you're up in the night feeding, why make your poor dh knackered as well when they have to get up to go to work?

Then again, we're extremely light sleepers so it wouldn't bother everyone, I'm sure.

mozhe · 29/05/2007 21:43

DS1...still sleeps in our room, he is 6
DS2...moved of his own accord at 3.5, he is 5
DS3...moed in with DS2 at about 17/18 months, he is 4
DDS( twins ) are nearly one, they sleep in a small dressing room just off our room...cuddled up together in same cot
We're all happy...

lucyellensmum · 29/05/2007 22:31

mohze, wow my DD is coming up for two, im not sure i would want to give up my room for another four years, however i can't bear the thought of her not being with me of a night, i think dd1 was about 2.5(shes 16 now). do you not find it affects your sex life, we tend to "do it" downstairs , tell me to mind my own fecking business if thats too personal.

lucyellensmum · 29/05/2007 22:33

actually, you don't need to answer that , it clearly has no effect, you have lots of children

mylittleimps · 29/05/2007 22:58

DS1 at 16 months and ds2 at 9 months but that was purely down to the fact we were completely renovating our house and didn't have the rooms ready as other things needed doing first and it wasn't a biggy. whatever age it happens i think it makes you feel funny - it's just down to what is right for your circumstances

mozhe · 29/05/2007 23:03

LOL...his bed is on little wheels and we wheel him out iyswim
We have conceived 5 more since him so it seems to be working....

mozhe · 29/05/2007 23:06

Sometimes we forget to wheel him back and he wakes up on the landing/his sister's room He says ' what AM i doing out here ? '
Ooo it's a laugh a minute in the mozhe household I can tell you....

MadamePlatypus · 30/05/2007 08:26

DS - more than a year - took us that long to get his bedroom sorted.

DD - 6 months. Celebrated by watching a DVD on the laptop in bed with icecream after her bedtime.

Re: FSIDS recommendations about keeping baby with you for daytime naps - I was initially worried about this, thinking DD would never sleep but in the end I was really glad I did it. DD quite happy to drift off next to the washing machine, and I found it easier to let her fall asleep by herself if she was in the same room as me.

Countingthegreyhairs · 30/05/2007 10:53

Six months but then dh and I took it in turns to sleep in a different room because dd snored and rolled over and regularly cried out without waking up! Sometimes in a quiet separate room (but monitored regularly) for daytime sleep. Just do what feels right for you and your dp AlfieJacksma!

Sound travels almost too well in our house - we hear every murmur - so now dd is nearly 4 we don't tend to use a monitor (well, only for the babysitter) . Wierd thing is though - when she was younger and we did use one - it had the reverse effect. She somehow could know/sense when it was turned on and that we were listening to her and she grew more vocal and restless. As soon as we turned it off, she settled (and I know this for sure because I was sat outside her bedroom door for most of the time!) Wierd but true. Babies have great extra-sensory-perception! Sorry for digression!

kreamkrackers · 30/05/2007 11:03

both my dd's were 6 months and still on apnea mats (was worried about them as dd1 had a complex cardiac condition and dd2 was 11 weeks early).

i would have had them in our room longer if we could've fitted the cotbed in our room.

yaddayah · 30/05/2007 11:25

ds 18 months (co slept mainly)
dd 11 months (co slept until 6 months then cot at end of our bed but she snored like a trooper and slept through so moved her earlier)

anniemac · 30/05/2007 11:59

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RuthChan · 30/05/2007 12:56

4 months.
She grew out of her basinette and her cot didn't fit in our bedroom.
Always use a monitor so I get up if she cries and DH can get a decent night's sleep.

mozzybear · 30/05/2007 13:02

From birth (small landing, could hear every snuffle) We had a unsettled patch (2-4 months) where he found it hard to get settled.

When he was 5 mo we got a cotbed (instead of crib) got into habit of putting him in it for every nap with a dummy and a blankie and touch wood, have no problems apart from the odd 4am "Wheres my dummy?" cry I think he liked being able to stretch out, would often find limbs hanging out of crib!

Since we got this rountine going he's been so much happier and so have we

Botbot · 30/05/2007 13:02

About three weeks ago, at 9 months. We've all been sleeping a lot better since.

juicychops · 30/05/2007 13:40

after about 2 weeks. i just couldn't relax and sleep properly and his dad i was with at the time was so noisy in his sleep

squeakybub · 30/05/2007 13:45

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DragonFaerie · 30/05/2007 13:46

All four LOs were a year old before they went into their own rooms.

SpacePuppy · 30/05/2007 13:48

8 weeks

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