Where does your newborn nap?

[katiegolightly]

Our baby is 6 weeks old. She is still 24/7 - and naps wherever we are. If we are in the lounge, she naps in her buggy basinet in the lounge. If we are out, same. If we are in the bedroom, she naps in her swing crib next to us until we get up. It might be 7am, it might be lunchtime.

I'm wondering whether we should leave her to nap through in the bedroom after 7pm or continue to keep her with us at all times. Curious to know at what age you are happy to leave your baby to have his/her 'constant' naps in a different room (by which I guess I mean the room she associates bed time with)

TIA

I seem to think when DS was around 6-8 weeks & he started sleeping for a longer stretch of around 5hrs from 7-12pm, then we started to put him upstairs at 7pm bedtime& had the monitor downstairs so we could hear if he needed us. He continued to have his daytime naps in the pushchair if we were out or in the lounge in his moses basket/baby nest/cuddled in my arms until he was around 4 months, when we started to put him in the cot for more structured daytime naps.

I think current SIDS advice is to have them sleep in the room wherever you are, just as you are doing, so if you are happy with that for now then keep doing it!

Our DTs have slept in their nursery since 2 weeks old after 7pm ( I slept there too but I didn't go to bed till later). In the daytime they sleep in a travel cot downstairs or in their pram. They slept through the night from 12 weeks and I think the bedtime routine helped with this.

Thanks everyone. Yes, we are happy having her in the same room as us at the moment, I just wondered when might be the right time to start getting her more used to the bedtime routine, but that's probably a can of worms I'm opening there! It seems good advice to carry on as we are until she starts having longer evening / night time stretches. Thanks!

I started taking dd into the bedroom for bedtime at about 6 weeks as I remember ds started to get more alert and not settle. She also got woken up with us at half 6/7 am. It seemed to set her day/night much quicker than ds who we just woke whenever really!

Day naps were always with me in sling/car seat/push chair. Now she's nearly 6 months she naps in her cot.

Up until DD was about 4/6 weeks old, she napped in her buggy (carrycot) during the day in the lounge and then bedtime was in her moses basket in the bedroom with us. She had bath bottle bed (into the buggy) at 7pm and slept till we went through to the bedroom at 11 when we would wake her, change her bum and feed her and then she went down in her basket.

At around 6 weeks, we put her down in the bedroom at 7pm, and woke her at 11 when we went in to change and feed. We live in a ground floor flat though, and our bedroom is adjacent to the lounge so don't know if I would have done the same in a house. We also used the monitor. About a week or two after we started doing this, we all went on a big family self catering holiday, and DD went upstairs to our room to bed at 7pm each night with the monitor on, while we all stayed downstairs. Worked really well for us. He naps then were in her buggy still, and as she has gotten older, she has also napped in the bedroom during the daytime also.

Shes 5 months old now, and sleeps in her own bedroom for naps and overnight.