Sleeping in the same room for 6 months

[lucky1979]

DD is 5 months old, and currently sleeping in a moses basket in our bedroom. She sleeps very well, waking up once for a feed at about 3/4AM, but I'm not sleeping well at all as she's so noisy. She snuffles, wuffles, wriggles and snores and it all wakes me up. She has a slight cold at the moment and it sounded like Darth Vader was in the moses basket this morning, I've never heard anything like it!

So ideally, I'd like to move her into her own room. She has all her naps in there already so I'm not too worried about her not feeling settled in there, but all the SIDS guidelines say 6 months minimum in the same room. Everyone I've spoken to about this seems to have moved their babies into their own room within about 6 weeks and nothing has gone wrong for them, but I'm just hesitant. Does anyone have any useful recommendations? Also, is it 6 months, or 26 weeks that they are meant to move?

It is a guideline, if you feel you'd be better rested then your looking at 1 month, it is balancing the guidelines and your feelings.

Do what you feel comfortable with. I'm the worst mummy in the world because I moved DS in to his own room at 8 weeks - he was killing me by grunting/shuffling/groaning all night and I couldn't cope with lack of sleep any more. He slept much better (as did I) when he went in his own room. All my NCT friends did the same thing and all our babies were as happy as Larry in their own room.

I was appalling my eldest and youngest never slept in the same room as me, no. 2 lasted about 2 weeks no. 3 about 3 nights.

I just couldn't sleep through them breathing let alone snoring. Every snuffly my milk let down etc etc etc.

You could use a baby monitor in reverse so they can hear you breathing which is what helps them regulate their breathing?

I didn't even use a baby monitor, small house, paper thin doors I heard them at the first wail let alone a cry!

Mine all stayed for a lot longer but I am very cautious as my cousin died of SIDS at three months and so it was always on my mind. Do whatever you feel comfortable with, although if you're sleeping and they are why change it?

I kept my first 2 in with me for 6 months and am up to month 5 with number 3, but to be honest I think it would've been of more benefit for number 1 to be in his own room earlier as he didn't actually sleep through the night until he was in his own room.

Even when I moved them into their own rooms, I kept a baby listener in there, so any snuffles, sneezes, etc could be heard anyway.

I do know of a friend who woke up when her baby wasn't breathing and rescusitated (sp???) the baby, who is now a happy 6 year old, and wouldn't even like to think what would've happened if she hadn't been in the same room as the baby; apparently the doctors told her that the baby had just forgot to breathe and would've been a cot death.

I also know of friends who have moved their babies in to their own rooms within a few weeks of birth with no ill effects.