<6 month old sleeping with baby monitor?

[Stephaniesays1]

I’m sorry if this is a bit of a long story or sounds a little ridiculous! Basically I want to know what time people put their babies (0-6 months) to sleep when they’re still in the same room.

My daughter has just turned 3 months. She sleeps well at night... usually 5-6 hours then up for a feed then down again for 2-3 hours. We’re usually quite late in getting her down for the night though (anywhere between 11pm and midnight) to match our bedtime. However I want to start putting her down earlier. I’m struggling to see how I can do this without making my bed time earlier! A few people I’ve spoken to have said they put the baby to sleep in their Moses basket etc in their room and use a baby monitor. Then they’ll have an hour or so to have a cuppa/get ready for bed etc. I’m not sure how I feel leaving her alone in a room yet, even though we’d have the baby monitor.

My daughter doesn’t sleep for long in her Moses basket in the livingroom (usually 30 mins) so it’s not like we can ‘put her to bed’ in the livingroom then move the basket to our room when we’re ready.

I hope this makes sense and would really appreciate some help with this 😊

Just to be clear, the official advice is that all sleep should be in the same room as you for the first 6 months at least.

However, that just didn’t work for us. Until about 3 months we did what you are doing now, then she started to get really fussy in the evenings, I think because she was just really tired and wanted to go to bed but couldn’t settle downstairs. From about 3 months, I started putting her down in the evening about 8 or 9 and just going to bed at the same time and reading a book. Then at 4 months I felt comfortable enough to put her upstairs at bedtime (around 7:30 at that point I think) and come back down for a few hours with the monitor. We have a pretty good video monitor so I can literally see her breathing. She then went into her nursery at 5 1/2 months.

I think you just have to go with what you’re comfortable with though. But whatever you decide, I’d suggest starting to get into a good evening wind down routine as this will serve you well when you do want to establish a proper bedtime.