What age did baby go into own room?

[monstera16]

We are focusing on getting my 6 week old DS to sleep in his cot (in our room) 7pm-7am and was wondering at what ages did people move their baby to their own rooms?

DS is a very noisy sleeper and he moves a lot in his sleep, often rotating 90 degrees or more and ending up sideways. Currently the next to me is an okay size where he doesn't get stuck, but he will soon be to long and get stuck.

Added to this I struggle to sleep and then keep waking up at every noise. DH can work from home and is able to take the baby for a sling nap while he works, so I can get a nap in if I am completely exhausted - so its not the end of the world, but its not ideal.

Thinking about moving him into his own room in a couple of weeks, but I am very aware the guidelines recommend 6 months and wondered if anyone has any thoughts/comments on when they moved baby into their own room.

We moved DD into her own room about a week before she turned 6 months. She was waking a lot and I wondered if it's because we were disturbing her being so close and after we moved her we all slept a lot better. That said, she's 16 months now and has always been a good sleeper bar the odd regression and illness.

4 months, and I felt really guilty about doing it before the recommended 6 months. 6 weeks is so early!

We moved DS at 8 weeks. We were very aware of the risks and guidance, however, similar to you, I was not getting any sleep due to being disturbed by every little snuffly noise he made. We did all we could to make the cot safe in his room including use of sleeping bags when he was big enough. In fact, I would still hear the snuffling noises all night over the baby monitor but it was the right choice for us. DS settled instantly into his room so I guess he didn't want to share our small bedroom with us either!

6 months and 8 months. Wouldn't have considered doing it earlier

DS was 11 when he decided to move

Ours was about 6 months just so I could get some sleep. She might have been asleep but my goodness she was noisy!!

Yes 6 weeks is to early!! I'm wondering if maybe 12 weeks would be okay, but even now I am feeling guilty about even thinking about it!

I did end up using 1 earplug as dh snored at the time too and it blanked out some noise from him and the baby

Around 4 months, but we had a decent sleep monitor. Everyone got better night sleep once we moved him, he went straight into a cot. He was too big for the mosey basket/crib thing we had and slept much better when he went into the cot, he was a big baby though

Is there anything else you did to make his cot safe? DS already sleeps in a love to dream swaddle bag so he should be okay from that point of view?

Baby is still in my bedroom at 11 months! The noisy snuffles do stop eventually… can’t quite remember when exactly but it wasn’t that long.

8 weeks.

Just the usual standard stuff like not having anything else in the cot and putting him down with his feet at the bottom of the cot.
I would also say that I didn't realise at the time but I was slipping into PND and the lack of sleep was a serious contributing factor so moving DS at such a young age benefitted us all in some ways.

About 12 months.

But I am lazy and didn’t move DS out until he was consistently sleeping though the night for a month or so. I can’t think of anything worse then dragging myself out of bed to sit by his cot in another room. Will be the same with DS2.

I don’t think you can plan it at 6 weeks. Sleep might change for the better or for the worse at any moment. Just roll with it and see how things go.

7 months and 5 and a half months. We were disturbing both DC and they both slept better once in their own rooms. 7 months was too long really but I was very nervous about moving him. 8 weeks seems far to little to me, the noises do settle after a while.

All 3 DC were 6 months, as per nhs guidance.

6 weeks is still very tiny, babies are notoriously loud sleepers too. I think I moved both of mine at around 5 months. At 6 weeks their sleep is likely to change a lot too.

7-7 (12 hours sleep) is obviously ideal but not always a reality. DD is 6 (years old) and has never once slept 12 hours in her life. DS is 20 months and has done a couple of times in the past couple of weeks for the first time but I suspect that is a fluke. I'm a believer it's just down to luck, every baby/child is different

We were in a one bed when DD1 was born. She moved into her own room very happily at 18 months.

We have another DD at 6 months and she will be sharing with her sister. DD2 still wakes up occasionally for the odd feed. Once that has stopped and some teeth have came through she will go in. I still think she's too young.

9 months for DD, 14 months for DS. The reason DS was so late was more to do with us reorganising/redecorating the bedrooms than anything he was doing - he’s notably slept better since being in his own room.

Will be moving DC to own room after 6 months. Trying to follow NHS and Lullaby Trust guidelines for safe sleeping and too scared to do it any earlier.

I moved ds into his room at 8.5mths. It did reduce the night wakes but I wanted to follow the guidance from NHS and lullaby Trust around safe sleep and it made life easier for me bf during the night when he was beside me. I know the risks aren't crazy huge by comparison in the grand scheme of things but I figured if the worst did happen I'd rather know I had done what was recommended.

About to move at 14 months! But baby is moving in with an older sibling and I’ve been too lazy to move the room around to accommodate the cot. Eldest moved at six months but I had an Angel care movement monitor as I worried.

6 months and then 7 months. Both times they hated the Moses basket and I set the cot bed up in our room. I followed the guidance in terms of clear cot, feet to foot, back to sleep etc. One has never slept 7-7 and is 6 so unlikely to start now. DS2 didn’t start sleeping 6:30-6:30 until 18 months or so.

I would wait until you past the danger zone for SIDs which is between 2 and 4 months when most of these accidents happen. Especially since your DC is a boy which have a slightly higher in the statistics. Check the lullaby trust.

Thanks all! Just to clarify not expecting DS to actually sleep 7-7, it's more making sure that all sleep between these times is done in the cot and not on one of us!