'Sleep in the same room until 6 months'

[Sazzles169]

This may be a daft question from an FTM with a newborn but how seriously are you taking this advice (always having someone in the same room as your sleeping baby until 6+ months) from the NHS for naps?

Do you, for example, set your babies under 6 months down for a nap then leave the room for 10 mins to shower etc? If so, or if you leave the room for longer, do you use a baby monitor?

Tia

So ignore the nhs and sids charities.

I could and did do a couple of nights but we’re away with a large group of family and they’re quite noisy and keep waking poor baby up.

helicopter parenting is definitely not doing something basic thats proven to keep your baby alive

Yes ,this.

Wanting your baby to survive is helicopter parenting now 😂

We lived in a tiny one-bedroom flat when DS was a baby, so there was nowhere else to be, really! He only really slept on me, anyway, so I just went with it.

I'm glad that worked out well for you.

It’s the baby who needs to hear you, not the other way round.

One persons lounge could be larger in size than another person having them in the next room.
its down to personal circumstances really, and what your comfortable with.

At night time in our room I’ll about 6 months. During the day nap in own room in cot from 2 months ish or would never sleep.

It's not helicopter parenting. It's safe sleep guidelines. Things change over the decades when research is done and safer ways are found. This has prevented a lot of deaths from SIDS.

My baby got this sorted by never sleeping in the cot - guess you can’t go to a different room when a baby is asleep on you…

We also had a baby monitor which we still use (no longer cosleeping since 4).