How old was baby when moved across to their own room?

[laurenann23]

Hi everyone! Me and my OH are looking to rent somewhere for a year and we're not sure whether to get a 2 or 1 bedroom place! How long did your baby stay in your room until you moved them across?

Gosh I've never heard those guidelines ever. I had one in own room from birth and slept in with the others for few weeks and not every night .

8 weeks. Her room very close. Her Moses basket too small very quickly. Our room too small for a cot as well. I was very poorly and couldn't bf.

10 weeks, for the same reasons as Bringme, albeit that I was able to BF until just past 12 months. DS was too long for his Moses basket, our room was too small for a cot (had to move furniture out to even fit that in) and DS room was too small for one of us to share with him.

6 months as we bought an Angel monitor & my DH is a very light sleeper plus he needed the extra space to move from a crib to a cot

6months for my daughter but I should have done it sooner, but for this baby due in the Summer it will be a lot sooner if he's a noisy as his Sister was.

Just over 7 months, mainly down to the fact that I had a nasty cough and kept waking him up. I would have kept him in longer if i had my way! I miss him being next to me, he's 10 months now.
I can't imagine putting a tiny newborn in their own room, I feel white strongly about the guidelines and the reason behind those guidelines and don't know why someone would risk It!

DS outgrew his crib at 14 weeks & went into his own room as we couldn't fit the cotbed in our room. DS slept so much better once he was in his own room. Think he liked having the space to move his arms around. We had a video monitor with sensor mat which gave some added reassurance.

I'd probably go for a 2 bed if your budget will stretch, as pp have said you then have an option of one of you having somewhere to go to get a good sleep, was invaluable to me when DS & I both had awful colds, I went into the spare room & DP looked after DS. Also, babies can accumulate a lot of stuff so even if DC is in your room at least you're not falling over each other & all of the stuff.

Three whole years. But we had a 2 bed and the second was a study and guest room. And with grandparents living on a different continent and taking turns to visit we needed the other room free. It was fine. He slept through the night and when one of us needed a good night's sleep we went to the other room. At 3 he chose his own decor and moved in and has loved having his own room since. We now live in a 4 bed so DS2 won't be in with us for that long but he was a micro preemie so I am loathe to move him out any time soon.

11 weeks and we all slept so much better. DC2 will hopefully arrive in September and I think they will be moved earlier.

5 months when he grew out of the crib.

I'm really surprised at how many people ignore the NHS guidelines!

8 months and counting...

I want him in with us until he's at least a year, I don't think I would sleep a wink without him next to me!

We never had those guidelines for my 1st. She went into her own room from birth. There was absolutely no way she could have safely fit into my room anyway. Im surprised so many people have such spacious houses. It would have been a fire risk to have her on the floor blocking the door at the end of the bed

The rest varied from 2 weeks to 2 months but that was due to house renovations rather than following any guidelines. Their rooms still smelled of paint/didnt have carpet etc

NHS guidelines weren't in place with our dd when we moved her at 8 weeks. Hvs too busy chastising me for "failing" to bf when I was poorly. But that's a whole other can of worms we won't open just now. I have MS, btw.

DD - 10 days
DS1 & 2 - as soon as we came home from hospital. The guidelines are relatively recent, and there were none then. We were just told to put them on their backs. I couldn't sleep with them snuffling away.

Four months. He was sleeping through and once he was over his illness and three month regression he went in there and has been fine and dandy ever since. We were waking each other up!

3 months with ds1. He'd outgrown the crib and was a massive fidgeter. Ds2 is 1 and is still in our bed.

(Along with ds1)

No guidelines when mine were born so both went in from our first night home from the hospital
Ds was 7 days and dd was 2 days old

13/14 months. And that was only because I was pregnant again and wanted to encourage her to stop feeding as much in the night.

Odin, a cot really doesn't take up that much space. A room hardly has to be overly spacious to fit a cot next to a double bed.

milpool a cot would never have fit. Try a pair of shoes width around the bed and nothing else. Thats how much room I had.

14 months for both of them co-indentally. DC1 spent the 9 months sleeping on me so we didn't need a cot. He was a little sod

2 weeks with dc1 and 6 weeks with dc2 but mainly to get to them quicker so they didn't wake sibling. And yes I knew the guidelines but assessed the risk and felt comfortable with my decision. Everyone slept better in their own rooms. I think you need to do what you feel comfortable with. What do people understand the reasons for having them in with you to be?

14 months - nearly 15 and I cried myself to sleep when he moved to the room NEXT DOOR. ;-)

He was in a co sleeper for ages then in his cot which I rearranged the furniture in our room for.

Baby no 2 is arriving in the summer and will be in with us for at least 6 months - probably a year.