When did you put baby in own room?

[doggymom23]

I know guidelines say six months with mum and dad but when I mentioned this to my mum she was shocked! She said I was in my cot in my own room from six weeks! What did you do?

17 weeks. She outgrew the crib and we can't fit a cot in our room

My 14 month olds been in own room since 1year...however im also in there a lot on a spare bed.

6months is recommended due to SIDS risk. Hearing mothers breathing helps baby regulate. Id recommend following the official advice.

My mum had me in own room from about 2weeks old, but i think in the 80s there was a big focus on independant babies. Encouraged not to pick them up to much lol

5 months. We moved house and DP built the cot in the bedroom and then couldn't get it back out. We figured 5 months wasn't that different from 6 so from then on, DS was in his own room.

1 year.

Guidelines are because baby regulates their breathing through your own, it helps them to not ‘forget’ to breathe, thus preventing SIDS. All naps and sleep with you for 6 months, although I eased up on naps at around 3/4 months and just checked dd regularly.

DC1 - day 2, he was so noisy we couldn’t cope with him in our room. Truthfully I wasn’t aware of the guidelines and nobody told me - maybe I would have been less cavalier... but it worked for us.
DC2 was far quieter and I was also clinging onto my last baby - coslept regularly until 4 months, then with me for a bit longer, own room from 6 months.

7 months but she wasn't in all night until about 9 months. I'm pretty relaxed about most things but I take the SIDS guidelines seriously. Advice has changed since our parents generation as has the SIDS rate.

5 month both times round, as they had just about outgrown the Moses basket in our room. And that age they were being woken up by us rather than/as well as waking up for feeds of their own accord so it seemed unfair on everyone to keep them in our room!

Can't really remember but approx 1 year. I knew I'd sleep better with them close by. I'd have been out of bed checking them otherwise.

My 3yo was out at 12 weeks because he was sleeping through and was too big for his crib.

6 months. I was very anal about the ‘rules’ but frankly she was such a noisy sleeper by them I couldn’t wait for her to be in her own room! Equally, earlier I could t have imagined her not being in our room.

We are still co-sleeping aged 2. Didn’t plan to, but this works for us at the moment. I think there is no right or wrong answer to this question, you have to work out what works best for your family :)

18 months. It was when we moved house.

1st child 6weeks due to horrific snoring. Yes it really was that bad. We could hear him still on the next floor as we slept on different floors!
2nd child age 1. Entirely down to DH he'd still have here in with us now given a chance. It's a daddy's girl thing I think. My bedroom will be my own!!

I think the SODS 6 months guidelines are over the top, especially for babies born at term, living in non smoking households.

DS1 now age 3 was in his own room at 12 weeks as he was too big for the Moses basket and was sleeping through. He instantly started sleeping even better in his own room. DS2 age 14 weeks is still in with us as we have a snuz pod this time round, much bigger than a Moses. Won't wait til 6 months though as he's noisy and I'm sure we're disturbing him too. He'll probably go in his own room 4-5 months. Clinging on a bit as he's my last baby!

SIDS obviously, not SODS!

11 months.

4 months. She had grunting baby syndrome and I had severe PND. My medical team were begging me to move her much earlier. In the end they sat down with me and showed me the SIDs stats and how they drop dramatically from 4 months. It persuaded me to move her and I finally started getting some sleep which set me on the road to recovery. I don't regret it.

SIDS guidelines have reduced babies dying by a huge number (1 in every 250 to one in 3000) so no, I don’t think they’re over the top at all.

DS is 14 months and I think i left it too late to move him to his own room as now he will only sleep in the bed 🙈 i sleep better with him next to me though!

DD is still with us at 8 months. Mainly because we haven't had any cause to move her. She's still in the same crib as she was we a newborn, she still wakes up (frequently) in the night and we were planning on moving so never did the nursery.

We're moving in August when she'll be 11 months so she'll go into her own room then.

DD is still in with me at 15 months. We've not been able to move house and the place we're currently in is a two bed, with the other room occupied by DSD who refuses to share but that's another story.

She's noisy, moves around constantly and I definitely disturb her when I come to bed - but that's what we've got until we can move.

I think DC1 was the youngest at about 7 months once she stopped waking to feed at night.
The others were all over one as they were moving in with siblings and we wanted to prolong that.

1 year. But he sleeps in the same room as his brother so I had to wait until he had a decent sleeping schedule so that they didn’t disturb each other.

When she outgrew her Moses basket at about 4.5months. She went into her cotbed and about the same time started to take a bottle. Both of our sleep improved greatly.

DS1 6 months. He outgrew his crib and we couldn't fit a cot in our room. DS2 is still in our room at 16m because we moved to a house with a bigger bedroom. Haven't really thought about when we will move him out.