Dilemma- When to put LO in his own room

[TheVeryHungryScreamerpillar]

Hi Mummies,

My gorgeous boy is 7 weeks old and is growing fast. In another few weeks he will be too big for his moses basket and I'm undecided on what to do next. He has a full size cot in his own room or a swinging crib in our room.

The swinging crib would be perfect except he gets his arm through the bars and wakes up when he tries to move it. I bought some breathable bumpers but the health visitor says that they don't advise using them.
I asked if he'd be better going into his big cot where he won't catch his arms but she said he's too young and should stay with us until he's closer to 6 months!
I don't have the space to put his big cot in our room.
So my question is, do I put him in the big cot in his own room and use a video baby monitor to keep an eye on him OR use the breathable bumpers and keep him in our room until he's older?
Advice please!

I would use the bumpers. I've used 'normal' bumpers for both my boys and they survived... Just to prove how much HV's differ, mine was pressuring me to put my baby in his own room at 12 weeks. Needless to say he stayed in with us until he was 6.5 months. I was breastfeeding so didn't fancy sitting in the cold feeding him when I could be half covered with a duvet!

Not wishing to promote an expensive buy but will a sleepyhead fit in the swinging crib? If so, I can really recommend and it might also then make the transition to cot easier

I used breathable bumpers (the airwrap ones) in a swinging crib with DD and they worked well. Never heard of it being an issue as long as they're breathable.

The reason she has advised to keep him with you until he s at least 6 months is research show that SIDS is less likely to occure if the child sleeps in the same room as his parents.
I'm not sure why she said the bumper was unsafe, there has been concern over bumpers in the past but te airflow ones seem to be fine. She may just not be informed about them.

I had this exact problem with my very long wee girl. We got a crib as I was not ready for her to go in her room and is easier to breast feed her in bed etc. I got the airwrap bumper and it is a godsend. She is now starting to try and pull herself up (was 6 months last week) so will be going in her cot this weekend and i plan to move the airwrap to there.

Travel cot in your room? Smaller (IKEA) cot rather than cotbed in your room? Swaddle so his arms are in?

Thanks ladies, I'm very conscious of the SIDS risk which is why we had planned to keep him in our room for as long as possible. I think we'll be using the breathable bumpers for the time being and move him to the big cot once he starts looking cramped in the crib.
He's sleeping 6-8 hours fairly regularly and I have a nursing chair in his room which I do his night feeds in when he does wake.

His sleeping habits will change lots of times over the coming 6 months.

I would take a chest of drawers out of my bedroom and use the same created for a full sized cot.

No way I would be padding down the landing for every wake up for many months.

same = space