When did you move baby to their own room?
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Anonymous
| Around 1.5 years for #1. I didn’t know any better. At 6 months for the rest. Everyone slept better once we made the move. |
Anonymous
| The AAP recommends a year, if you want to avoid SIDS risks. But, our pediatrician recommended we move our first child at 7 months since no one was sleeping well and lack-of—sleep was starting to create it’s own health problems. It took about a week but the switch flipped and our LO started sleeping 12 hours a night, no interruptions. |
Anonymous
| Day 1 for kid 1. Around 4 months for kid 2 (mainly because of the logistics of shuffling rooms around). Kid 2, now 6 months old, is a noisy sleeper, so we're all sleeping much better! |
Anonymous
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Day one for both kids.
Yes aids risk is real but if you take all the other factors into consideration, room sharing is just one factor. My kids also never slept with a pacifier which is shown to reduce risk. But we swaddled, laid on back, kept the room chillier, no smoking, breastfeeding, no blankets etc. The risk is minimal and the risk of me or dh getting into a car collision from not sleeping is much higher. |
Anonymous
| 3 months for both kids. They just got too noisy after that, and it seemed like it was distracting for them to be in a room with us. |
Anonymous
+1. Although waiting until a year with #2, as we need to sleep train him and get him to sleep through the night before he can share a room with his older brother. |
Anonymous
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Night 1, both kids. DS 1 had some bad upper respiratory issues as a baby and spent a few nights in the pack and play in our room so we could keep a closer eye on him, but that was it.
The absolute best thing you can do to reduce SIDS risk is alone, back, crib. That’s like 99% of reduction right there. |
Anonymous
| DB 1, four months. I'm pregnant now and am planning on keeping the baby in it's own room from night one, but DH and I will take turns sleeping on the twin bed in the nursery for a few months. I'd rather us be able to retreat to our own room for a break (we switch off nights and the first time we took turns in the guest room) and also get baby used to their own room from the start. |
Anonymous
| 14 or 15 months. Which did not fix our sleep issues at all. |
Anonymous
| Around 3 months, and pretty much on accident. We used to put her down for naps in her room and overnight in the bassinet in ours. Her "through the night" stretch started around 10:30-11. One night we put her down for her last nap around 9 and she woke up at 5am. I realized she couldn't get that long stretch sleeping in our room, because if she woke up or fussed I jumped up to settle her (bc DH was back at work so I didn't want him to have to wake up), whereas in her own crib she was fussing a little and then settling back down. |
Anonymous
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Like by night 3. No one was sleeping with him in the room.
I did sleep the first two weeks in his room on a day bed. |
Anonymous
Like they were sleeping with you in the same room? |
Anonymous
Something similar to PP, just after 4 months. We had her sleeping in pack and play bassinet, and she slept through the night like a champ. One night she woke up with inconsolable screaming that lasted over an hour in the middle of the night. At some point she spit up all over, so I put her down in her crib while getting new clothes out of the drawer. Go figure, all of a sudden she settled down and was all smiley. Once she was changed, I put her back in the crib to wash my hands. By the time I was back, she was pretty much back to sleep. We decided to leave her there for the rest of the night. She didn't seem to notice that she never went back to the pack and play after that night. |
Anonymous
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We did 6 months with our first, and will probably do about the same with the next one. We do not bed share. The risk of SIDS decreases pretty dramatically after 6 months, and the AAP recommendation is at least 6 months, but preferably a year. I've read a lot of articles from pediatricians that moving babies into their own room between 4-6 months helps produce better sleep habits.
Sometime around 5 months, our DD would wake up and fuss a couple of times a night because we were waking her up. We'd just pop her pacifier back in and she'd fall right back asleep. That's when we decided it was time to make the move, and she's been sleeping soundly ever since. |
Anonymous
| 11 months. I was aiming for a year because of the new recommendations but we were ready and had a window so just went for it. |