When did you move your baby to their own room?

[Njh1986]

As the title really! Have taken the decision to move my 4.5 month old to her own room as she’s struggling to sleep through our night noises (both OH and I snore, sleep talk and toss and turn a lot). Didn’t know how badly it was affecting her until she slept 12 hours solid when she stayed at the in laws this weekend!

She was a bit upset but soon settled (we moved her Sleepyhead and MyHummy too, and kept the whole night routine exactly the same). I plan to sleep in there for a few nights to ease the transition.

However, my OH is convinced she’s too little and has been making me worry all evening by Googling statisticians and saying that no one he knows has moved their babies out before a year old....does this make me a terrible parent? Should I move her back?

3 months when I had a cough and kept her up all night. Then she slept better so she stayed there. I don't miss listening to her farting and snoring!

3 days. I slept in the nursery too for as long as there were night feeds

I moved my little one for exactly the same reasons at 4 months - she's now 6 months and sleeps 11 hours straight whereas before she was waking every few hours for a cuddle/feed.

They do say wait until 6 months for a reason and I do find myself going into her room every few hours to check she's ok (!) so hasn't helped my sleep 😂 it helps she's literally just across the hall from us and we have the doors open so the slightest squeak from her and we're up but nah, go with your gut I think! X

I was thinking it was about 6 months with both of mine - when their noises were disturbing me but didn't always warrant immediate attention. But on further thought, we moved when my youngest was about 4.5 months and I'm pretty sure we ended up putting him in with his sister straight away at that point.

Six months. Guidelines say to keep baby in your room until 6 months to help reduce SIDS risk. We struggled to sleep too but I wasn't willing to take any unnecessary risks for an extra couple of months.

8 months.

DD is still with us at 6 months. Won't move her until she out grows her next2me

2 weeks and 10 weeks (only because we didn't have a room before then)

DD1 4 years old- still in my bed. DD2 1 year old- still in my bed

A week after I took him home

5 months old x

Wow, there’s a lot of variation! I should point out that I’ve not moved her because she’s disturbing me - I barely sleep anyway due to insomnia, been the same for years and I can function well on a few couple of hour stretches a night. It’s becuase she was sooooo happy and sunny on Sunday after her long sleep, rather than being ratty and sleep deprived by the evening as she normally is.

Am tempted to buy one of those Snuza Hero things to monitor her breathing now she won’t be next to me. Anyone have any experience of those?

5 weeks and 18 weeks

My husband snores loudly and my babies both grunt/snort in their sleep. They were asking each other up and I was getting no sleep at all.

Once ds reaches 5 weeks I'd had enough, moved him and spent 2 weeks watching a monitor overnight whilst he slept more than ever before...

Moving before six months and using a sleepy head are both SIDS risks. I do t understand why you would risk that?

Midwives and health visitor say the baby should be in your room for a minimum of up to 6 months. By that time they tend to outgrow their moses basket and there's a risk of crawling out/rollling out of a next to me crib so they then recommend moving into proper cot.

It's personal choice of course

@EmmaJR1 then you dh should have been the one too move!

I was in my own room from the get go apparently

9 weeks. He was getting too big for his basket, so put him in his cot. Slept all night since about 5 months. He's now 13 months and sleeps 6:30/7pm - 6/6:30am.

The Sleepyhead is because she had horrendous silent reflux as a baby, and would wriggle around so much at night she’d bang her head on the side of the crib. Our paed recommended it off the record, after I was hurriedly explaining the bruises on her head in case they thought we were hurting her. We felt it was the lesser of two evils between that or trying to wedge her in position with some other, less breathable, sleep positioner/blankets/towels. With the next to me crib, we had to stop having the side down as at two weeks she wriggled right onto our mattress and scared us.

*as a newborn

4 months. I had severe PND and being kept awake all night by a barnyard baby was making it a million times worse. My medical team had been begging me to do it for weeks and eventually persuaded me by showing me that the SIDs stats drop dramatically by 4 months. Cried all the first night and watched her on the monitor. She was totally fine and has slept straight through pretty much every night since. Next time I won't feel as much guilt!

A Sleepyhead is not a SIDs risk. It's not recommended by the Lullaby Trust but that doesn't make it a SIDs risk.

Dd 6.5 months, ds is 7.5 months and will be in there soon. ..

Peach green putting anything in a cot other than sheets and blankets is a SIDS risk.

The Lullaby Trust has warned that some popular sleeping products for babies do not conform to safer sleep guidelines. Items such as cushioned sleeping pods, nests, baby hammocks, cot bumpers, pillows, duvets and anything that wedges or straps a baby in place can pose a risk to babies under 12 months. Evidence shows that sleeping a baby on anything but a firm, flat surface, or using soft, heavy bedding, can increase the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). They can lead overheating or potentially obstruct a baby’s airway if they roll or their face becomes covered by loose bedding.