Has anyone moved their baby to their own room before six months?

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My little one is 6.5 weeks old and currently sleeps in our bedroom in his crib. He's a 98th percentile baby - for reference he is already wearing size 6-9month clothes.
In the night he keeps hitting his arms on the side of the crib and waking himself up, he is also an incredibly loud sleeper and I think I keep getting him out of his crib too soon because I think he is stirring when he isn't.

He is a good sleeper and has a very chilled personality, he doesn't like to be fussed or held too much, he just likes to be involved and is incredibly nosy and watchful. He is so good at going to sleep, and will often just fall asleep if you out him down drowsy.

I am struggling though because his sleep noises are keeping me awake - last night was especially hard and felt like the last straw, he slept 4 hours which is amazing but was so noisy that I just couldn't sleep at all. This often ends up with me cuddling him in my bed because it makes him quieter for a while, but I don't want to cosleep, it's not the right decision for us.

I want to put him in his own room, I feel desperate to do it just to get some sleep. We have a good monitor and he likes his room for naps. But I know the guidance for refucing SIDS risk Is not to move them until 6 months. I don't feel that his risk is particularly high with being such a big baby, but I dont want to be a bad mother moving him too soon.

Sorry for the rambling, I'm just so sleep deprived and wondering id this would be a solution for me, baby and husband - has anyone else moved their baby to their own room early?

DS and DD went straight into their own room, but there was a single bed in the nursery and I slept in there with them for the first six weeks to make sure DH got enough sleep to go to work.

If we follow this line of thinking, I would still let my people smoke in our house, we would never bother use car seat belts and allowing small kids to be hit by teachers would be fine as it "never did me any harm" and I totally survived the 70s.

Sebastian was asleep on his tummy which is what was advised at the time. The back to sleep campaign she fronted has saved so many babies lives.

I did clearly say "before anyone shouts".

Our eldest went in his own room day 1, because we could not physically fit even a moses basket anywhere in our tiny bedroom. He was next door. The doors were next to each other at a 90° angle, left open. He was no more 2.5m away from me. If you are in a similarly small space, where he is still physically close, I wouldn't think twice about it.

My comment about research payiments was general, not just this instance, I doubt anyone benefits financially in the case except as you say maybe they have to spend a bit more on alarms etc., but if that's the price of good sleep for everyone it's probably worth it!

I totally relate to this the grunting kept me awake and I think I used to wake her as I thought she was waking for a feed but looking back I think she was just noisy and I was waking her when checking on her. We had to sleep in shifts in the end so I went to bed at 7pm and then my husband would be LO one up at midnight so at least I had a chunk of sleep every night. Eventually the grunting stopped

I wasn't shouting I was just saying your argument is flawed according to science.

Update: Thanks everyone for the information and experience you've shared. Have decided to hold off and will try the earbud suggestions and at least wait until 4 months for SIDS risks to reduce significantly.

DH has decided to watch DS and put him to bed in his own room in his cot after I've fed him at his bedtime (between 8/9pm) and then I can sleep in our room for 3+ hrs while baby sleeps. Then he brings DS to me for feeding and we all settle down together in our bedroom for the rest of the night, DS in the moses basket.

So I am getting some sleep now and feeling like everything is nore manageable x

None of ours liked cribs constantly battered the sides so after no.2 didn't bother getting anymore and they all slept well in there cots. Even the twins slept end to end till they got to big.. but no never that early, not even animals leave there young that early alone. Twice a week hubby would sleep in one for the spare rooms and then took over the other days soon as he got in from work so I got sleep unbroken. And now we have 9 wonderful children all in there own respective beds lol

This sounds like a great step forward for now; you’ve come up with something that works for you, and that’s really all any of us do - the best we can. Things change all the time at that stage, and in my experience just when you think you’ve got something figured out, things shift again!- so keep compromising, keep adapting, and you’ll get through this. And keep snatching that sleep wherever you can!- even a little bit of sleep makes everything seem brighter.