When to move baby into own room

[19annie86]

I know the recommended age baby can sleep in own room is 6 months due to SIDS, but just wondering has anyone let baby stay in their room with them longer than this.

Baby currently sleeps in next to me but with the sides done up, currently 7 months old and still plenty of room in it for her

Just wanting to hear others stories

We did at 7 months.

6 months felt too early, baby was still so little and also waking up so often in the night it made my life easier not to go traipsing across the house each time.

We felt really sad when baby first moved into their own room but actually once we adjusted it was so much better, getting your own room back was a huge relief haha.

Watching with interest. We did 6 months bang on with DD and it went really well, but she was already sleeping through until about 5.30am in our room so the bonus was that whichever of DH and I were getting the ‘lie in’ was getting to sleep through until 7 without the baby stirring us.

DS is 5.5 months now and a horrific sleeper, still up multiple times a night… I don’t really fancy trudging up and down the hall and I really don’t want him waking DD, but I wonder if we’re disturbing him at night? Also if things don’t improve soon we’d consider sleep training but I don’t think there’s much point going through all that just to move him out of our room and disrupt the routine again…

Coslept till 17 months (and a fair bit after that for partial nights/sickness etc). She went straight into a single bed in her room.

6 months 1st.
8 months 2nd as he was an awful sleeper but actually when he went into his own room he got so much better so I think we were probably disturbing him, he is such a light sleeper.
3rd is 7 months and still with us but thats because she doesn't have her own room yet.

Baby can stay in with you as long as is practical for everyone but will need a big cot soon, so you should consider if there’s space for that. It’s not just whether they fit lengthways but whether they’re safe- once baby is sitting up and pulling to stand, they’re generally not.

We moved DS at 9 months. He was pretty tiny so fine in his cot until then.

We tried to move our DD several times since she turned 6 months and she just wouldn't sleep well.
When she outgrew her next to me we put her cot sidecar next to the bed and that's how she currently sleeps at 15 months. She sleeps through the night.
We have tried putting her into her cot with sides up in our room but she doesn't sleep as well.
We are due baby 2 in January so we are going to put her cot as a bed in her room and try her in that and see how she gets on.
Some children just aren't ready early on and that's fine with us, we're not going to force her to move if she's not ready cause it will be awful broken nights again so we just keep trying and she'll be ready at some point

We made a co-sleeper out of a cotbed once DS outgrew next to me. We took one side off and strapped it to our bed so it’s safe. DS sleeps in that until first wake up and then sleeps in between us for rest of the night.

We are considering moving the cotbed to his room after we come back from holiday next month. Hopefully he’ll do first stint in there and then carry on sleeping between us after first wake up.

He is 13.5months.

6 months is the minimum recommended age for SIDS risk but there is no rush. In some other countries (US I think) the minimum recommended age is 12 months.

Do what you feel comfortable with.

DS is still in with us at 3! DD is 10m and still with us, too. We have multiple beds in our biggest room. We got DD a Montessori floor bed for our room and she has a cot in her own room too.

5 months for both. Best decision I ever made for everyone involved!

5months really improved his sleep

We had planned to move him at 6 months but it ended up being 8 months due to a house move and not being able to get his room ready in time. He was a big baby but still managed to squeeze in to the next to me! I don’t know what I’d do with a future baby, maybe 6 months if it was like our set up now as we can leave both doors open and see his cot across the hall from our bed so he really isn’t much further away and we don’t need to put a monitor on

We did at the time of a house move at one year.

My baby was about 6 months corrected, 8 months actual age. I would have kept her longer but by the point she was tossing and turning in her sleep and I thought she'd want more room than the snuzpod offered and we couldn't fit the big cot in our room

I know lots of people who kept longer though

We moved DT’s from our room to individual rooms when they were six months. They were waking each other up and us. Everyone slept better when they moved into their own rooms.

In the US the American Academy of Pediatrics now say to sleep in the same room as baby for at least 6 months but ideally 12. I would have liked to have done 12 months but we couldn't fit a cot in our room so both babies moved to their own rooms at 6 months but continued to wake in the night till 11 and 14 months!