Sharing a room with baby and we all disturb each other

[Mazarati]

We share a room with our seven month old baby boy, who now sleeps from 7pm until around 5.30-6am ish. He wakes and stirs around 4.30am and is awake and asleep from then until 6am when we get him. He sometimes wakes through the night if he hears noise, especially in the early hours of the morning. We have noisy floorboards and the bed creaks. We creep into the bedroom to go to bed later than him - around 9.30pm and this sometimes wakes him. My partner is a big guy who is a light sleeper, tosses and turns in the creaky bed, occasionally snores, and gets up in the night to use the loo. We have white noise going but it only helps to a certain degree.

The whole thing is making us both very on edge during sleep time and my partner often feels it's just easier for him to sleep on a blow up bed in his work studio, which gets him down a bit.

Does anyone have any tips to reduce noise/all sleep soundly when sharing a room with a baby?

Do you have another room available? If you do I would say it is time to move your DS to his own room.

7 montha was my lovely DD was turfed out to another bedroom. I’m a light sleeper, it wasn't working anymore. Can’t you put a cot in the room where your DP sleeps?

This was the point that we moved DS out into his own room. If you have the space I would say that's the best solution.

If you don't have the space then maybe try a white noise machine tuned up fairly loud (near his head) to mask the other noises in the night.

Sorry just reread that you've got a white noise machine, maybe crank it up extra loud

You’ve done the recommended 6 months, it sounds like it’s definitely time to move your DS to his own room. If you’re in a one bed and can’t move anytime soon then I’d do a sofa bed for your DH as he sounds like most of the problem. And a new bed for you that isn’t as noisy- if money is really tight then ditch the dodgy frame and put the mattress straight on the floor.

Could the cot go in your DH’s work studio if you don’t have another bedroom?
We were disturbing DS at around the 6-7 month mark so we moved him into his own room at that point (he’s up 3 or 4 times a night now at 8 months though 😩)