When did you move your baby out of your bedroom?

[MrsPurr]

My 11-wk-old DS is very looooong (99.6th centile for height). He's the length of the average 4-month-old. He's about to grow out of his Moses basket. I am not sure his cot is going to fit in our bedroom. I am wondering whether I can transfer him to his room (next door to ours) with a baby monitor. Unsurprisingly, given that's the current NHS advice, the HV has advised me not to move him out of our room before 6 months.

Can anyone point me to any research about why babies have to stay in the parents' bedroom for 6 months? Surely it's not just so we can hear him -- we could do that just as well with a baby monitor.

Has anyone moved their baby out before 6 months?

DD was 15m. Because it took that long to get the nursery/her bedroom plastered and painted

She still had milk in night/didn't sleep through til 12m though so would have moved her then if we could.

DS 13m and still with me at night, would happily put him in own room if he was a good sleeper.

ds1 7 weeks
ds2 day 2

I can't sleep in the same room as babies.

On the research front, this PDf fsid.org.uk/Document.Doc?id=42 has citations for ther research papers which found the epidemiological link between not sharing and increased risk (refs no 10, 73, 105 and 110). If you put the title and author into google it will bring up a copy of the original paper.