Baby in separate room

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Exploring the possibility of putting baby in separate room. I've read a lot about the risks of SIDs and that NHS/ AAP recommend first 6-12 months in same room but I have multiple friends who put baby in own room from as early as two weeks old and recommend it as something that worked really well for them, with all their children. The babies are never far away, and always can be heard from parent's bedroom but the slight distance means that every toss and turn isn't waking up baby or parents. Challenge I'm having is I'm struggling to find any books or research that supports separate sleeping. My mother had all four children sleep in separate rooms, as did her mother and so on... and although NHS now recommends against it but they are overly cautious as an institution and I'd really like to have all information for and against it to help make a informed decision.

If they’re waking you up have you tried white noise - I found it helped cover up the little noises baby made so helped me sleep better in the same room

after the first two weeks I slept in a separate room to DS and DH because I literally couldn't mentally switch off to sleep at night with my grunting, active-sleeping baby next to me!! Especially with being at home with him all day, I needed to be able to get a bit of space to switch off to sleep at night. DH didn't mind and was able to sleep with DS in the next to me.

but then when DS got to 10 weeks, we decided it was best for us all as a family for DS to go into his own room with his and our doors open and monitor on. DH had also got the point where DS was so noisy in his sleep, he couldn't sleep properly himself.

It was a big decision and not one we took lightly as obviously aware of the advice, but we decided rested parents were better than non-rested parents. We obviously followed all other safe sleep advice when DS went into his own room, expect the sharing a room bit.