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What age did people move their DC into their own rooms??

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mishkamoo · 30/12/2008 12:14

DS 12 wks and very noisy/unsettled sleeper. Thinking about moving him into his own room for my own sanity/sleep but worried he's just too little.

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littleboyblue · 30/12/2008 12:19

It's recommended that babies stay in your room for first 6 months as it's thought it reduces the risks of cot death. I wouldn't move baby just yet, 12 weeks is very young and most babies can be quite unsettled. If you have to move him, put him in next room with all doors open, but I would just wait it out.
We had ds in with us until he was 11 months as we only had 1 bedroom at a time, he was a nightmare, but we soon all got used to it

Rindercella · 30/12/2008 12:23

IMO 12 weeks is way too little to be in his own room. All guidelines say 6 months is the earliest to be moved into own room as it's thought to reduce the risk of SIDs.

DD was in our room until she was 8 months.

Us Mums are kept awake by our babies for a reason!!

12StoneNeedsToBe10 · 30/12/2008 12:31

Guidelines are just that, guidelines.

DS has never slept in our room - always in his own room. BUT (before I'm flamed here) for most of the first 3 months I did sleep in there too because I was BFing... no point in waking his dad (who had to get up early for work) now was there???

If your DS will settle in his own room, and you're comfortable with it, I don't see anything wrong with his having his own room.

Whether you're kept awake by DS from another room, or kept awake in your own room, I don't really see the difference. My reasons for NOT having DS in our room was purely to allow DP (ex) to be able to sleep as he was the one getting up really early for work every day.

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FrostytheSurfmum · 30/12/2008 12:33

That's exactly what my HV told me - they are guidelines. I can't remember when dd moved into her bedroom, but it was before 6 months and when she had outgrown her moses basket.

sweetkitty · 30/12/2008 12:36

DD1 15 months
DD2 13 months
DD3 5 months and still in with us

TBH I sleep better with them in beside me, I know I am probably in the minority but I have never understood this fascination with getting babies in their own rooms and sleeping 12 hours, it's like an obsession in this country.

I love having DD3 sleeping beside me, it's one of the most lovely things in the world having a little warm body snuggled up to me I don't even mind her so much rooting about for a feed in the night. In all too short a time she will be in her own room and be a headstrong toddler.

But like everything else in parenting I think you have to do whats right for you and your baby. Some people put them in their own rooms from the day they come home from the hospital, some have 5 year olds cosleeping, whatever works for you.

Seona1973 · 30/12/2008 13:06

both dd and ds were about 8 months and when they started sleeping through the night. It is easier for night feeds to have them in the same room as you can hop back into bed with them (and I bottle fed mine). I used ear plugs but still managed to hear when they wakened before dh did.

SpecialOffer · 30/12/2008 13:12

My son was about 15 weeks when he moved into his own room. He was a good sleeper, and only woke once for his feed at 11pm.

I would agree with everyone else, do what feels right to you. My friends were split 50/50 wheither we moved them before or after 6 months.

Claire236 · 30/12/2008 13:21

ds was in his own room from when he was a matter of weeks old. We seemed to be disturbing each other when he was in our room & all slept much better once he was in his own room.

willali · 30/12/2008 13:39

my 2 were never in my room - own room from day one. Isn't that what baby monitors are for?

OblomovOYeFaithful · 30/12/2008 14:02

A week for ds1 and ds2.
I know that SIDS say 6 mths.
But it was right for US.
Not something I tell many people, but it is the truth.
Think you would be surprised how many people, how many MN'ers move them early.

honeybunmum · 30/12/2008 15:56

If there is one thing I have learnt in my 4.5 years of being a mother to 3 DC, it is do what is right for you. Guidelines are just that, they do not have to be followed to the letter. My own experiences were that my DC and I disturbed each other and I picked up and fed them everytime they whimpered which was obviously not necessary.
DD1 - 6wks
DD2- 5days, then 4wks in en-suite
DS- 1wk.
I didn't use monitors as I am a very light sleeper. I will probably get flamed for this but I have 3 happy children who sleep brilliantly, so I don't care!

dinkystinkyclaus · 30/12/2008 16:08

Um, at about 2 weeks as he was too noisy. Would hear him as soon as he woke and go into him.

Habbibu · 30/12/2008 16:18

Read the SIDS advice and research for yourself, before you make a decision. AFAIK, it's not to do with you hearing the baby, more the baby hearing you, and possibly not sleeping so deeply. Personally, I didn't think 6 months sharing a room with dd was a particular hardship, and felt that the research justified it.

stillstanding · 30/12/2008 16:31

We moved DS into his own room (right next door with doors open) at 3 months and it was 100% the best move. He went from waking practically every hour to 3 times a night. I am convinced that we were waking him up unnecessarily. But, as others have said, you must do what feels right for your family.

rosyleecupoftea · 30/12/2008 16:44

DS - 2 weeks. Just couldn't sleep a wink with him in the room with me

DD1 about 3 months

DD2 about 1 month

notcitrus · 31/12/2008 17:17

8 weeks for my one - decided it just didn't make sense for him to be sleeping just fine but keeping me up with his mad parrot squawking.

He's only next door with the doors open and can probably hear me - but I felt he would be in more danger with an exhausted sleep-deprived mother than anything else.

I sometimes still keep him in my bed after a night feed though, and over Christmas he was in my room in his moses basket (amazing he's still happy in it at 15 weeks!)

unfitmother · 31/12/2008 17:27

Six months for both. Once I'd read the SIDS guidance I wouldn't have dreamt of doing it any earlier.

treacletart · 31/12/2008 17:33

Ds (5) was in his own room from the off and we've co-slept with DD (17m) from day one. We're all getting much more sleep this time around!

ChubbyChubs · 31/12/2008 17:34

1 year for DS1 (but he's been back in my bed with me since he was 3) and DS3 is 13 months and still in with me. I wouldn't have put them in their own room before 6 months.

DS3 wakes me with all his snuffling about but I'd rather have him there so I don't have to get up in a freezing cold house and go to the next room! Brrr.

PestoHaggisMonster · 31/12/2008 17:36

From the day we brought them back from the hospital.

Ambi · 31/12/2008 17:41

3 weeks, she was such a noisy sleeper, cute sleepy noises but noises none the less so Moses basket went into the nursery then. We had a monitor but her door is opposite ours and we always have our door open so I had no problem hearing her when she needed me.

I'd just second others who've said do what's right for you

Milliways · 31/12/2008 17:43

DS was only about 6 weeks as he was too big for the crib and we found he slept much better in huge cot where he didn't bash the sides and wake himself up every 10mins.

pamelat · 01/01/2009 12:29

We moved DD at 5 months. I really wanted to wait until 6 months but she just used to wake up and want to play and we were becoming so tired that I felt I couldnt cope during the day. Her sleep improved dramatically in her own room. The monitor was on until she was 9 months old and she is only next door to us.

HensMum · 01/01/2009 12:35

7 weeks. Mainly because he was getting too big for the Moses basket (DS is a very wide baby, weirdly, and kept banging the sides with his arms and waking himself up) and there's no space in our room for a cot.
We all slept much better after that. DS started sleeping through at 7 weeks too.
It helped that we had a movement sensor monitor that would go off if no movement was detected for 20secs.

themoon66 · 01/01/2009 12:37

DD about 12 weeks.
DS about 4 weeks.

But there were no guidelines in those days (1986 for DD and 1991 for DS)

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