11 week old Baby in own room

[Rockelburger]

So I want to put her in her own room as she is so noisy! but am concerned. She sleeps through from about 9/10 pm - 6/7 am. But around 3/4 starts making noises and shuffling around. She doesn't have a funny yo get to sleep but does seem to need one to settle down again at 3/4.

Am I encouraging her behaviour? If I put her in her own room will she just settle herself or will she fully wake up?

I don't want to spoil a good routine but she is keeping me awake even though she is not awake herself. I just worry at every little noise and think I might intervene too soon?

art mine too - sleep in sling or buggy at 1 so I can move them around at will!

Both mine stayed in our room for about 1 week. Then into their own room.

It is completely up to you but you really have to be informed before you make the decision. Have a look at the SIDS guidelines. Don't ignore the guidelines just because a stranger on the Internet said her baby didn't die so it must be ok

All mine were out of my bedroom after a week or two so we could all get some sleep. So glad it was before all this six months nonsense.

But why a sling or buggy? Why not their own cot to encourage good sleeping habits? I don't understand why some parents seem to go out of their way to encourage their babies to form poor routines then complain when their baby does not sleep.

Cath I assume you've been blessed with babies that will happily be put down to sleep, because if you had one that won't you wouldn't make a comment like that

It's taken 6 months for my baby to finally go to sleep in his cot at night. His day naps are in my arms but we are working on that.
He had a very traumatic birth and I will never know if that's been a factor of it.

My sister had 2 kids, werent always great sleepers but always went to slep in moses basket / crib / cot etc.

She was like you - "I don't understand why you do that" blah.
Then her third came along. She thought she knew it all and realised quite quickly she didn't.
He would not be put down. In fact he spent 7 months bedsharing as he would happily stay up and scream all night if she tried to put him down.
Then around 7 months he started getting easier to put down, now age 3 he's a brilliant sleeper and she definitely did not encourage 'bad habits '.

Cath - I didn't create bad sleeping habits. I created flexible ones. They needed to be as we travel the world pretty much. They will sleep anywhere.
At 1 year they would maybe have a morning nap on the sofa, an afternoon nap in sling whilst I was shopping , an evening nap in pram whilst Dh enjoyed a glass of wine outside a restaurant on terrace. Then happily go to bed when we went home and sleep 10pm-8.30am.
The next day they might have a nap in car seat on way to airport, a long snooze on plane seat later, then sleep in a different bed in a different time zone that night.

That is creating perfectly good sleeping to me. Not only being able to sleep in their own bed with black out curtains

Artandco this sounds fabulous! I think my baby will sleep anywhere too. Lucky us

Thank you all for the advice and sorry for delay getting back.

I had not ever heard of sids risk due to regulating their breathing against ours, now I've heard that there is no way I'll move her. She is staying put!

She doesn't wake to feed, just stirs and moans which wakes me. It's not that j mind being woken, I just wondered if I was actively encouraging it by always putting a dummy in when she does.

I also hadn't heard about this sleep regression thing, not looking forward to that!!!

Spent the best part of a decade of miss carriages and IVF getting her, i will not be risking a single thing I can assure you

Thank you all for the advice and sorry for delay getting back.

I had not ever heard of sids risk due to regulating their breathing against ours, now I've heard that there is no way I'll move her. She is staying put!

She doesn't wake to feed, just stirs and moans which wakes me. It's not that j mind being woken, I just wondered if I was actively encouraging it by always putting a dummy in when she does.

I also hadn't heard about this sleep regression thing, not looking forward to that!!!

Spent the best part of a decade of miss carriages and IVF getting her, i will not be risking a single thing I can assure you

The evidence about room sharing is (as best we understand it at the moment) to do with baby hearing the parents breathing.

You could do a reverse monitor which you turn on when you go to bed, so baby can hear you breathing.

I kept my eldest in our room until 7months so not suggesting it's the safest plan but equally I make risk assessments all the time and if none of you are getting sleep, you've got to weigh it all up and make the best decision for you all.

Hope you find a solution.