When did you put baby in their own room?

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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?

Our first was 13 or 14 months. We didn’t bother getting his room sorted until then. We were all happy so just kept him in with us. DD is 7 month as and I have no intention to move her any time soon. She’ll be sharing with DS so needs to be sleeping really well before I even consider it!

A secure attachment is actually really important for emotional development so keeping a baby in your room certainly isn’t going to do any harm.

We moved my daughter at six months and I wish I'd waited a little longer - I hated the idea of her sleeping on her own (it didn't help that her bedroom was at the other end of the landing) but I had this daft notion that once we'd moved her, we couldn't go back. If you aren't ready, don't rush it.

do what feels right for you.

sleeping arrangements are not what makes a person independent or not, although I think some kids will prefer to stay in parents's bed/room longer because they feel less secure otherwise.
let them

It was around 12 months for us I think. There's no need to rush it - just do it when youre all ready! 6 months is just the minimum recommended age.

(Definitely no problems with developing independence here! Quite the opposite )

13 months when we moved out of my parents house.
2nd baby 7 months and she shared with her brother.
3rd baby 18 months-shared with siblings.

7 months for us. I wasn’t ready, but DS started being able to pull himself up in his crib, so that was that because we couldn’t fit anything bigger in our room and I was too worried to have him in bed with us in case the dog ever jumped up. It all turned out fine.

My eldest moved about 8 months old, when he started sleeping through the night.

My youngest is almost 8 months and will be staying until he’s sleeping better too as I don’t fancy trekking up and down the hallway for night feeds. He will probably go in to share with his big brother, so definitely waiting until he is sleeping better.

No harm in keeping baby with you a bit longer.

Not a popular opinion but about 1 month old, he snored alot and even though he slept well i would just lay there awake waiting on him to cry or move so wasn't sleeping myself

About 6 weeks for all 3 of mine which makes me feel I must defend myself after all the above Partner has various issues related to ear nose and throat and one side effect is a horrendous snore!

We've never had the space to keep a cot in our room, current room gets overheated enough due to the size. Our youngest had us climbing over the furniture to get to the door which looking back was more dangerous than whatever the risk is of not having them in your room!. All were sleeping for slightly longer stretches pretty quickly once in their own rooms.

I'm sure there are no negative effects of keeping baby in your room for "too long" - waking each other up maybe? 6 months is very much still a baby, do it whenever you feel is the right time for you.

9 months, would have put him sooner but room not ready. As soon as I moved him he went from waking up several times a night for a gees to BAM- sleeping through 12 hours straight!

@De88 don't feel you have to defend yourself. Each parent does what they have to do.

Once they outgrew the bassinet (so at about 4-5 months for each child). In saying that, over the years they have both had stages where they slept in our bed for long periods of time. I don’t think my youngest started sleeping every night in her own bedroom until she was 5. I was very ready for that!

5mo with DD who is a awful noisy sleeper - DH had moved out to the spare room already by that point because it's like sleeping in a room with an elephant.
7mo with DS who is a dream sleeper but outgrew the crib.

Six months, I personally believe it’s better for babies to get used to sleeping in their own room, however on saying that I shit myself snd had the monitor turned up full volume. It was like sleeping next to darth Vader. 😂

8 months. Do what suits you best 😊

Between 11 and 15 months, though we always put in a place my spouse or I could kip in their room if they were having a rough night for several months after that - those chairs that fold out into a mattress were great.

I would have waited longer with the 11 month old, but she kicked and moved around a lot in her sleep & benefitted a lot from having a bigger bed to herself. Really, the main negative of possible having them 'too long' is if it's disrupting someone's sleep too much.

Really, whenever they get into their own room isn't going to have much impact on their independence and emotional development. There are many other things you do as a parent and things in the wider world that help build that more than where your child sleeps.