When did you put your baby in their own room?

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I was just wondering at what age parents moved their baby into their own room and why?

I know the advice is for little ones to stay in the same room as you until they are 6 months but wanted to hear from others.

Thanks x

@Summerwetordry @MolliciousIntent I’d always been the only person amongst other mums complaining about a noisy sleeper. You don’t know how happy your posts have made me.

But so many naps take place in prams outside. And lots of babies sleep with loud white noise on when in their cot. I don't get this "being in the same room to regulate breathing" thing when the baby is unable to hear the breathing of the adult. Are there any proper peer reviewed studies that this same room until six months recommendation is based on? Has anyone come across any?

@Wallywobbles At birth. It was the norm 17 years ago. it wasn’t!
Two and a half years. Not really ever understood why people move their babies out so young. Had three at once when ds 2 was born just before my twins turned one.

2/3 weeks both times. Couldn't sleep with them in the room.

9 years of age now and still stuck to my pillow like a feckin limpet. At this rate he still won't be in his own room at 18.

A few days before he turned 6 months, it's been great. He sleeps so much better in his own space and my husband and I aren't tiptoeing around.

Around 2-3 weeks for both DD14 and DS12.

DD was sleeping well & DS was noisy and snuffly & was much more settled in his cot.

I don't think I would have coped for 6 months with them right next to me 24/7. I was back at work when DD was 4 months anyway.

I would be interested to know statistics on baby with parents 24/7 vs baby in own room - in context of babies who die due to parent being so tired they fall asleep & smother baby. I personally think own room might be safer & quieter so they get better deep sleep & parents can have better sleep as a result.

I wasn't on internet really 14 years ago & it was probably in a leaflet I was given - but I was pretty much left to it after both. Had health visitor perhaps twice after I came home. So the thing about being with me for 6 months wasn't at forefront of my mind. I think it's different now with more internet access & FB groups etc

DD17 went into her own room at about 8 weeks. ExH snored terribly and was disturbing her, and he wouldn't sleep elsewhere so I had to move her to the cot in her room sooner than I really wanted.
With DD11, I coslept (had a cot in our room, but she hardly used it) and she didn't move into the room she shared with her sister until she was nearly 3. Although she still used to make her way back into our bed most nights until she was 5 or 6.

2ish for each of them. We bed shared so it's what seamed to work for us

@dementedpixie it certainly wasn't the advice in France.

I dont live in France. UK advice was to keep them in the same room until 6 months old

Three years. Now she is fast approaching teenhood and I still miss the snuggles.

It's the deep sleep that's the problem! SIDS generally occurs when a baby falls into a very deep sleep and then stops breathing. Preventing deep sleep prevents SIDS. Suffocation deaths are not SIDS, they don't count in the same stats.

There are multiple reasons, it's not just to regulate breathing, it's also to prevent such a deep sleep that the baby stops breathing.

Yes are lot of them.

It took me 30 seconds to find these
www.lullabytrust.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Evidence-base-2019.pdf

www.basisonline.org.uk/research-evidence/

Around 7-8 months, I think.

First 4 months he slept in a moses basket downstairs whenever we were awake, taken up after night feed around 12am and slept next to me. Then we started putting him straight into the cot at "bedtime" with an Angelcare monitor and would then sleep by him.

7-8 months I realised he was a noisy sleeper and was being woken by my ex snoring, so we moved the cot into his room and he slept there with the monitor. Didn't start sleeping through until 10(ish) months, monitor and cot were used until 2.5 years and then he transitioned to a bed, which incidentally, was when he stopped sleeping through. Still comes into my bed at some point during the night at 5yr!

Ds1 18 months as we were in my parents box room together till then!
Ds2 is 16 months and still in with me as sharing a room with his brother will mean a room swap and I'm putting it off 😂

About 3 months for our first - he slept 12 hrs uninterrupted and we were just waking each other up. Our second from 1 or 2 months. We had two under two and necessarily had her down for the night by 7pm so we could get the toddler to bed by 7.30pm, sort the house for the next day, eat and get to bed ourselves. They've both always been great sleepers who love their cots so no regrets.

4 months & 2 months with my 2