Evening sleep- sleep downstairs or in own room??

[Dweeby]

Hello all. Just wondering what you do with evening sleep? My DD is 16 weeks and seems to need to sleep from around 7pm ish but health visitor advice is to always sleep in same room. We can't get her to sleep in the lounge with us with the tv on and make normal noises, we end up creeping round in silence (DD seems to need it to be really quiet and dark to sleep, she has previously been sleeping on us in the evening but we are trying to get out of that habit) Do you put your baby to sleep upstairs for their evening sleep before you go to bed? Do you constantly stare at the monitor checking that they are ok? Thank you for any insights- really don't know what to do!

[Runningupthathill82]

"I would be really worried about this. The NHS advice to always be in the room when they are sleeping is totally unworkable by the time they are a few months old. They would never learn to sleep properly in cot..."

Ha ha! I'm sure you don't realise quite how pfb this sounds at the moment, but how do you think parents with children sharing a room do it?
You do realise millions of children go from sleeping in the same room as their parents to sleeping with siblings? Surely you don't think that all babies - or even the majority - get their own room?!

With my pfb we had a bedtime routine in place from very early on, with specific bedtime music (I'm cringing at the memory), stories, massage, all that jazz.

Baby DD, however, just fits in around her older brother's bath and bedtime, usually napping on his bed while we do stories etc. No prizes for guessing which one is the good sleeper (clue - it's not the one that was tiptoed around from birth).