At what age did you put your baby in their own room?

[marti2]

Exactly the title really, ds is 8 months old and starting to think about moving him to his own room 😊

6 months. He travels like a mad thing in his sleep and it was keeping us up. And then he discovered how to pull up on the side of the next-to-me and that was it, into the big cot he went.

7 days but he is 26. Oh the noise he made - still does .

When dd came along we had a bed in the nursery and because she was very clingy I slept in there with her until she was 7 weeks.

How times have changed.

DS1 - 3 days
DS2 - 1 year

Bit of a difference there...

DD was about 7 months. We'd been talking about it for a couple of weeks and I was struggling to make the move. Then one night she flailed her arms around and scratched DH's eye. Landed him in A&E and barely able to see for several days so the next night she went in her own room!

3 months in her own room and we took it in turns to sleep on a camp bed for about another month, so completely on her own from 4 months.

3 1/2

DC1 8 weeks, DC2 5 weeks own rooms.

5 months - realise that's earlier than recommended but it worked for us.

10.5 months. Tonight is the first night. I am so sad/ worried I can’t sleep!

Age 4. We were sharing a room as we lived in a one bed flat. But even when we moved house, she chose to carry on sleeping in our room. I loved being close to her.

I don't understand why pp put their tiny babies in another room. It is less safe. Plus they're only small for a short time.

6 months for us and worked well.

3 months after he grew out of his moses basket

My 3dc sleep in my room 6yo, 2yo, 8month old. None of them sleep through the night, and if they're in their own rooms they scream and wake each other up.

14 months. Before that we lived in a 1 bed, and had nowhere else to put him. I was desperate to kick him our from about 9/10 months though, he was SO LOUD. Plus we constantly had to tiptoe around him when he went to bed and it was a total pain.

16 months. I didn't want to but we knew he was in a toddler bed at 17 months so we wanted him to be used to being in his own room first.
I don't understand the obsession with putting Todd

Toddlers in their own room ASAP.

Makes me laugh considering they say they should be in the same room as you to sleep all the time, even in the day until they are 6 months.

Tonight is my 8 month olds first night in her own room! She's just had a feed but slept from 8 until now which is amazing. However I was awake every hour staring at the baby monitor 😆 don't remember being like this with my toddler. Missing her but it's nice not to have to bloody manoeuvre around the next to me crib.

My boy has always been in his room, but we slept in there so there was no transition. He's a could of days shy of 6 months and we've moved back into our room. His sleep has improved dramatically, although I still wake between 3am and 5am multiple times 😴

I don't understand why pp put their tiny babies in another room. It is less safe.

It’s fine from 6 months. And every parent has to make the decision that’s right for them. If you struggle to sleep with the baby in the room (and by god I do), you might well be a better parent for getting them into their own space so you can have a chance of rest.

This post has made me really sad. Why fhe obsession with trying to get your baby to sleep apart from you ASAP? 😔 It's so unnatural for a tiny baby to sleep alone... these people must be overriding every motherly insinct, as well as knowingly increasing the risk of SIDS (apparently they were aware of the risks and it was 'worth it' 😳). Probably the same people who sleep train.

3.5 months roughly. DD slept through from weeks old, we live in a house with old creaky floorboards which would wake DD when we came up to bed.
We used one of those may things that beep if they don’t breath for 20 second but it was bloody useless. Would go off while she’s in it moving around clearly breathing; but wouldn’t go off half the time when we lifted her out to change nappies ect. Useless piece of kit IMO.

About 5.5 months for DS. DD is still in with me at 6 months but we’ll move her in the next month or so (waiting to see if her sleep naturally improves a bit first as I don’t want to be up and down like a yo-yo to a different room!)

Tucancrossing I can't speak for everyone, but the reason I moved my DD to her own room was to keep us both alive. Am sure you can comprehend that every mother and every baby is different and with that comes different circumstances. Your post comes across as very judgemental which I am sure you didn't mean as this is a site that supports parents. I am sure you understand, sometimes it takes everything a mother has to give just to get through the next hour let alone a day.

I shared my experience, not to brag that she was in her own room from 3 weeks, but to help anyone else who was struggling with their own decisions. A balance for the mums who choose to keep their babies with them until they are toddlers or more etc. If my post helps one mum to get through that hour she is struggling with then job done.

@Tucancrossing I had severe postnatal depression and was suicidal and wanted to give the baby away - that's why. I literally couldn't think straight and my DH had no clues that what we were doing was incredibly risky. With my next baby I was well supported and no PND and he stayed in with me for so long. Really sad thinking about it.

How on earth did putting a 3 week old in a room on her own “keep you both alive”?

My worry is always that people read posts like this and think the NHS guidance is just over cautious scaremongering, and it isn’t. It’s up to individuals what they do but that doesn’t mean the safer sleep guidelines should be completely dismissed.