Would you put 13 week old in own room?

[Bluebells45]

Hi,

My daughter is 13 weeks and is a fab sleeper. She has her last bottle of an evening at 7 and then goes to bed at 8. She then sleeps through till 8. It’s great, I haven’t done a single night feed since she was 4 weeks so I’m kind of thinking she’s ready to go in her own room? Obviously I have a baby monitor so I should hear her if she does wake but generally speaking she never does. I know they say 6 months but each for there own I suppose. I do also have a snuza baby monitor that attaches to the nappy. Personally I would feel comfortable. I haven’t even suggested it to my partner yet !
Has anyone else done it before 6 months?

Thanks x

@MelAndShoe how dare you!!!

You missed out Mummy Knows Best!

Absolutely not especially at the moment

1 the aforementioned sids risk relating to the baby hearing YOUR breathing which helps them "remember" to breathe while asleep

2 corona virus being a respiratory disorder which I think will increase risk of infant illness and death

3 there's a fair amount of evidence suggests there's a genetic component to sids so as you've lost a dn already to it then you need to be more aware than most

Wowzers no way. Especially with a family history of SIDS.

Agree with @NoNeedToBeRudeDear

Sounds like you are getting lots of very sensible advice on here which you seem to be ignoring. Why ask if you’ve already made your mind up? Honestly, trying to get your room back to yourself already and put a tiny baby on their own against ALL proven guidelines, I despair.

Why would you want to ?? I just couldn't do it

Sorry to hear about your nephew too. Don't just rely on an alarm though.

Anyone else just thinking 🎣🎣🎣

Blue bells why ask if you have already decided ??

Mine slept through very early on. As one of the pp said, the 6 month guidelines have nothing to do with convenience to parents. It's to regulate breathing. Why take the risk?

No!!

This has to be a troll post?

No sane person would put their tiny baby in a room alone against all guidelines when there’s a family history of SIDS? Sure NO ONE is that stupid?

My dd went in her own room at 4 months as she's a wriggler in her sleep and wasn't coping in the next to me crib.. she did sleep great in her own room as she was a great sleeper till she hit 8 months.. now she wakes a couple of times a night but we're working on it!

If this is a troll, it's probably the sickest one I've read.

No, absolutely not. Especially with a family history of sids.

@NoNeedToBeRudeDear sadly I knew someone who fed their baby irnbru in a baby bottle up u till they were 4yrs old then were shocked when the wee one had to have her teeth removed under GA. Sadly people are THAT stupid

Ignore the lectures. It's your baby. I put all of mine in their own room at about 4 months. No monitor. They're still alive five years on.

Not at all. There is evidence that keeping baby in with parents helps to lower risk of SIDS as being in the same room tends to stop them from going into such a deep sleep- which is risky time when babies literally "forget" to breathe .

Reading through the thread im not on my own !

I didn't know about the 6 month rule when I had my 3 children, so they were all in their own room at 3-4 months.

Having said that, you have obviously very firmly made up your mind. Why did you start a thread?

@bluebell your decision is flawed though- a rare number of babies may die next to their parents but the overwhelming evidence is that being in a room with parents reduces the risk.

However if you happy to play russian roulette and discount a vast amount of research & evidence then you have to be prepared to take any consequences.

Also ... good luck when babe teethes/gets poorly/ has a developmental spurt because you will be up & down like a manic yoyo on speed .

No
SIDS

I wouldn't at all. In fact I wanted mine in with us as long as possible. He was in our room until he was 16 months, we only moved him then as he was going in a bed at 17 months and we wanted him to be used to his own room for a month first.

I personally wouldn't, especially given the family history - very sad. For what it's worth op, my children have slept through from an early age and did continue to do so. There doesn't really seem to be a need for her to be in her own room so why rush it.

We moved DS at about 5.5 months because he was so bloody noisy that he kept us awake and then we in turn kept him awake so none of us were getting any sleep. I wouldn’t have moved him earlier I don’t think but he was prem and We’d had previous losses (not SIDS) and I was fully anxious. We had a Snuza too. I tried to follow the guidelines And recommendations as much as poss because I didn’t want to look back one day and say that I could have done something differently even if it would have made no difference.
It’s a personal choice though.
That snuza was worth its weight in gold!