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?

16 months. And only then because we wanted to put him in a toddler bed, so we wanted him to get used to his own room first. I still didn't want to though

First three 15 months last one 2 1/2 years just because his room wasn’t built. I used to hold his little hand through the bats of his cot.

Mine all co slept until 12 months then slept beside me in their cot for a bit. If they had been in another room I would be up every 30 mins to check they were still breathing. more sleep when they slept in the crook of my arm plus I’m too lazy to get out of bed to breastfeed.

Seems so long ago now, they aren’t still sleeping with us and you do what’s best for your family but I do miss those days.

13 months in our case, but it depends on the baby and the situation. At the end of the day, parents need enough sleep if they are to parent effectively and safely.

I think on and off in his own room from 8, for good from 11.

6 months for DS. But by the end of it we all kept waking each other up. We were going on holiday and returning on the day he turned 6 months and he went in his own room that night. I just didnt want to distupt him twice so waited until he was being dusrupted from thw holiday anyway. If we hadnt been going on holiday i recon we would have done it at 5 months

Haven't yet at 9 months. DS1 was over 2, though probably could have moved at about the age of 1 if I hadn't split up with his dad around then. (I thought staying with me would give him continuity at a time of big changes). I prefer not to have to walk to another room to comfort/breastfeed at night so they stay in with me until they either sleep through or can walk and have the communication skills to understand being told to come through at night.

Safety wise I'd be comfortable with own room from 4 months when SIDS risk drops but not before personally. The research doesn't specify a cut off point but guidelines need to specify some time frame so that people don't move babies very early.

At six days but that was in the days when you were allowed to do that 😉

6 months. No reason to move them, and many reasons to keep them in with us (mainly SIDS guidelines).
DC3 is currently 5 months and won’t be moving him until I don’t have to plug his dummy in 3/4 times a night. No point going across the landing when I can just reach over.
My second had grunting baby syndrome and it was pretty hellish but as I’d have used a monitor anyway if she was in her own room it wouldn’t have made much difference to the noise.

6 months. Would have kept him in our room for longer but he was outgrowing his bedside crib!

Guidelines etc change all the time and what we do with our babies today sometimes confuses older generations e.g. the waiting until 6 months to wean guideline.

Just do whatever works best for your baby and trust your intuition. You know what's best for your baby far better than any book or relative.

Never. We coslept and then had an open bed policy.

Dd still in with us and won't be moved anytime soon. She's 5 months. I like having her there and she settles with a dummy so good having her close to pop it back in if needed. I do think we disturb her though.

Day one!

DD is 6 months and still in with me (in the spare room, where I moved at 7 months pregnant when I couldn't get comfortable and didn't want to disturb DH). At the moment she's waking 2 - 3 times a night and all I do is roll over, get her out of the Next2Me and plug her on to the boob before falling asleep. I wake up when she unlatches and pop her back and go back to sleep. I'm not planning on changing things until she's sleeping through or not waking so much. I don't want to have to get up, walk along the landing, down 5 stairs (to the half-landing where her room is) to feed her!

I also love being in the spare room (Or as it's now called, my room). No snoring, farting DH annoying me. It's great

2 years. Terrible sleeper and I needed sleep too much to be getting up and walking into a different room rather than just rolling over and patting every time she woke.

My parents had me in my own room from day 1, and I was a terrible sleeper anyway and it sounded like hell to deal with. Didn’t stop my mum telling me I should move the baby to her own room earlier though!

About 12 weeks, when she started sleeping all night.

Only when he was well past the risk of SIDS. I would never have slept otherwise.

11 weeks in her own room, was bliss we all slept so much better!

DS was 6 wks! I can't believe I did that but a good friend convinced me as he was such a noisy sleeper and I wasn't sleeping as a result. It made sense at the time. DD was 6 months as per guidelines.

6 months for both of mine. The number of babies dying have dramatically reduced since the introduction of the SIDS guidelines.

I never had her in my room

A coworker had had a baby die of SIDS at 6 months, she told me when I was pregnant. I don't think I could've moved my baby to their own room at night even as old as 6 months, I think 12 months minimum.

Dd was 10 months. Ds is still in with us at 11months. 1. He is a terrible sleeper and 2. We have just moved house and his room needs replastering and decorating. I think after 6 months but other than that its nobodies business what you do.

Pretty much 6 months exact and he slept so much better for it

‘Because they were sleeping through at 12 weeks’ (or similar age well under six months) is all the MORE reason to keep them in with you as that’s a baby who sleeps deeply and doesn’t rouse as much during the night, therefore needs you to disturb them. Same with ‘I kept waking the baby up’ - you’re supposed to! Yes, toom sharing is to regulate their breathing but it’s also to provide disturbance to stop them from falling into long heavy sleep which is when they stop breathing.

SIDS guidelines have saved thousands of babies. I really don’t know why people think ‘mother’s instinct’ is best.

@ElphabaTheGreen

Its up to all parents to read the guidelines and then make their own decision based on the risks. Keeping babies in your room does not eliminate the risk of SIDS, which in itself is tiny.

There are other risk factors which play a part, and for me i felt we were low risk and i was happy to move her into her own room