When did you put baby in their own room?

[kidsareok]

Hi - just wondering when other people but their babies in their own rooms? My LO has just turned 6 months and I just don't really want to put him in 🙈 I don't feel ready. He sleeps 7.30 - 6am every day and we all sleep well, I feel like it's our little team in one room together ❤️. However, I do want him to grow up to be independent and I don't want to do anything to get in the way of his development emotionally etc. Are there any negative effects of keeping a baby in your room too long?

I think he was eight. He happily went away on a four night camp where he knew no one at seven, so it didn't affect development. He had his own room from school age just didn't sleep there.

We moved ours at 4.5 months because they'd grown out of the crib and the cot didn't fit in our room.

6 months is tiny!! Some people move them because they feel ready. No need to think about it if it's working for all of you 🤗

8 months here, ours had a sleep regression and no one was getting any sleep so we decided that as things couldn’t get worse, we would move him to his own room. It worked fairly well

You always get people proudly saying they put tiny babies in their own rooms on these threads. It was six months here, it seems to be going well. If he’s already sleeping well with you I’d keep him there.

I moved her out at about eight months, she had grown too mobile for the next to me and none of us were sleeping well.
I have friends who kept their children in with them for over two years and no issues. It's what works for you, baby and your partner

Four months, but we were hoping for better sleep (it worked) sounds like you've got that sorted!

For both my girls not long before they were 2 years old and even then one of us often ended up in bed with them.

Especially before 2 with still feeding, lots of development, teething, lots of illnesses if they are in childcare it made not sense to us to put them in a different room when we would still be doing multiple wake ups a night.

If you’re all sleeping well, stay as you are until you feel ready or if it doesn’t work for you any more. Before my DS was sleeping in his nursery I used to hang out there in the evenings to read, exercise and fold washing, it was the tidiest and most newly decorated room in the house so I loved it!

We moved a little earlier than six months as he outgrew the bedside crib and his cotbed would not fit in our room, but I missed us all being together.

6 months. Brought him back in beside us about 30 mins later 🙈 then tried again at around 8 months ...
He was a noisy sleeper too though so once he was moved we all did sleep a bit better

Well, she’ll be two this summer and has slept in her own room for around a year… but one of us sleeps in there with her so I’m not sure it counts.
She’s very independent during the day, just doesn’t like sleeping alone; clearly her primitive monkey brain needs someone there to protect her from sabre tooth tigers.
You aren’t going to emotionally stunt him by sleeping near him.

15 months. We weren’t ready until then, I waited until night feeds had vastly reduced and DD was sleeping through sometimes.

She’s very independent during the day, just doesn’t like sleeping alone; clearly her primitive monkey brain needs someone there to protect her from sabre tooth tigers.
DS was the same, didn't matter if he was in a tent or bunk room with other children, just didn't like sleeping alone.

7 months. I never slept well with a baby in the room I'm a light sleeper.

4 months. Just do what works for you though, its really a personal decision.

7 months, I was absolutely dreading it, my friend/midwife suggested waiting until then, so he remembered, I was expecting a lot of drama & tears his & mine! MW said to pick a quiet weekend etc, put DS in his cot he cried for a couple of minutes then went to sleep, it was much easier than I expected.

DD is still in with us at 11 months. Lots of people say their babies are noisy sleepers, DD I still check she's breathing so I guess she's a super quiet one! No plans to move her yet.

Mine is 6 months and I have no plans yet to move them Do what feels right for you

Six months. Both DT’s were noisy sleepers. They had separate rooms (although some keep twins in the same room). We all slept better and less chance of one twin waking up the other.

DD is 7 and still doesn't sleep in her own room. She does have one, and lovely it is, but she has slept with me since she was born, and clearly has no desire to sleep alone just yet!

different with all of them, 6m earliest, 18m latest.
although DS6 had to move back in with us for 9 m before he was 2 because we had extension/building work done and had to move out of the house - him in our room was the only solution to where everyone would sleep

Independence doesn't equal alone. In fact the more secure your children are growing up the more confident they will be in doing things themselves.

Do what works for you.

1st 9mth but she spent more time in our bed than her own until 2yr.
2nd 16mth just before 3rd arrived.
3rd almost 3yr just before 4&5 arrived
4 & 5 were 5yr.
This one will stay with us for years too.

Almost 3 and still in with us. We'll be moving into a new house this summer and we're really talking up his new room so we'll see how that goes.

4.5 months as she was just growing out of her next to me crib especially being soo wiggly! I was intending on her being next to me until she was 7 months.
She sleeps alot better in her own room, as I think we was just all disturbing each other aswell & she has more room to wiggle around!

If you all sleep great & your happy i don't see the rush, my LO would 100% still be next to me if we slept as good as you do!