Putting baby in own room

[Firsttimemumsteph]

Just wanting to hear some of your experiences with putting your baby in their own room. Obviously it is highly recommended to wait until your baby is 6 months before putting them in their own room. But every baby is different.

What was your experience with this? How old was your baby when you did it? What was the outcome? Was the baby okay with it? Etc.

thank you!

I can understand your frustration @Bundeena.

I'm old enough to remember the time before the SIDS guidelines and the devastation that a baby dying causes.

Six months, why not move husband to other room

7 months for both. And we were very lucky that both became great sleepers after moving them. But I definitely wouldn't have moved them any earlier than 6 months regardless. I think I'd have actually slept less in that case because I'd be so worried about them being on their own and the risk of SIDs

4months for both of mine, sleep was much better for everyone. We were very low risk for all the other factors for SIDS so were happy with our decision.

The risk of SIDS reduces every week you get closer to 6 months

I didn't mean for SIDS...

I meant for what suits them. I'm only looking for helpful advice so if you're not going to be helpful please don't comment.

I understand the risks. I understand why it's a guideline. But I'm asking for is whether people have decided to take parenting into their own hands, to do it before 6 months or after, whether they found it helpful to put baby in their own room at 6 months or whether the baby didn't take to it...and as I have previously stated...I'm just asking for people's EXPERIENCES. Not that I'm 100% going to take on their advice and do what everyone else says...

I've done my research. Thank you.

1999 - DD was 12 weeks old.
2001 - DS was 5 weeks - he was a really noisy sleeper. It would have been sooner but we’d decorated his bedroom and waited for the paint smell to go.

Coslept until 18 months then into a toddler bed.

No problems whatsoever and they both were good sleepers. DS is still a noisy sleeper.

DT’s were six months. We moved them into separate rooms as they were disturbing each other whenever they moved. It coincided with me going back to work and their starting nursery. Thankfully we had already sleep trained and both were reliably sleeping through the night

I’m sure you aren’t going to lose yourself any sleep over this thread. Parents will do whatever they want with their children and if seeking advice from those who have the T-shirt is what the IP wishes to do then so be it. Guidelines are just guidelines… I myself prefer to seek advice from other parents.

First baby - 4 months. We moved house so it was probably easier to make the transition between rooms once rather than twice. He actually slept better

Baby 2 - 7 months. Purely because she outgrew her next2me. She was much less disruptive than my son (he was a noisy baby) so I'd have had her there forever 😂

You have to do what's right for you. I know people who have moved their babies at 2 months, and others who have literally waited until their 'baby' was 2

So your partner waking baby up snoring is a good thing. It isn't typical for a 4 month old to sleep through the night, and night wakings are a protective factor in preventing SIDS. Sleeping many hours at once, isn’t necessarily a good thing. The ability to wake easily is important and may be critical in preventing SIDS. The waking up that happens with room sharing may be the exact thing that protects the baby.

Why only 3 days?

@User4374 - this, exactly. Six months is absolutely the earliest. They need to be aware of adult noise and breathing and hear others around them. Waking through the night is a protective mechanism.

Beyond 6 months, it's personal choice.

6 weeks. She was sleeping through from 11-6 by then.

Babies are not different when it comes to safe sleep. Never before 6 months and preferably nearer 1.

I can’t fathom anyone wanting to deliberately endanger their own child for the sake of a few months.

DD1 moved at 6 months as per guidelines.

DD2 bed shared until 2 and half years as per intuition.

Mine were 3 months (really noisy sleeper) and 5 months (outgrew her next to me)

2 years when we moved to a house that allowed her to have her own room. As we were both having to work from home we had to sacrifice the nursery for a study. Also due to weirdly proportioned rooms the cot fitted better in master bedroom where it was 6ft from our bed rather than the 6ft square box room that we initially planned for the nursery.

My partner spent most of the first year and half of the second year in the spare room due to being up very early and she was a poor sleeper due to allergies and reflux.

What suits every baby is to be in with their parents until 6 months, after that it's entirely up to you.

I slept in with my eldest until 9 months as my husband was working odd hours at the time, and there was room for a bed.

Baby no2 shared with us for 1yr

Baby no3 was on a shared hospital ward for the first 6 months and then at home in with us and an ox monitor for the next 6 months

Our three were between 6 - 10 months when we moved them to their own room. Always felt a bit sad to do it but every time both of us and baby slept a whole lot better! Always had the monitor etc so it was peace of mind. My husband also snores!

How many people will post on here saying they put their baby in their own room before 6 months and their baby died? Very people would admit to that

DC1- 18 months
DC2- still with me at 18 months but will go into own room in a month or so when we move house.

There’s an uptick in SIDS around 3-4 months as parents think ‘oh it’s fine, they can go in their own room now’. The guidance in the U.K. is 6 months but many countries are now advising 12 months due to new research. Ultimately you’ll do whatever you want to do, you can be evidence based or not, there’s no baby sleep police.