When did you move baby to their own room?
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Anonymous
| Almost immediately -- like week 2. My kid was a loud sleeper, making all kinds of noises in his sleep that kept me up. |
Anonymous
| 5 months but not in our bed; we had a small crib in our bedroom. We probably would have moved her out earlier but at the time we were living in a house with one bedroom upstairs and one on the ground floor, so going back and forth when she woke up was not appealing. |
Anonymous
| Day 1 |
Anonymous
| 5 months. Sleep trained then too. Life changer. |
Anonymous
| 6 months but there's a bed in there and I often fall asleep in it or migrate to it during the night if she wakes. |
Anonymous
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Immediately for child #1
Later for child #2. Set up a crib in the living room and I slept on the sofa nearby, for maybe 3 months. The kids were sharing a room so didn't want child #2 waking child #1. |
Anonymous
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AAP says to roomshare until 12 months because roomsharing is a protective factor against SIDS. But if there are no risk factors (e.g. loose blankets in the crib, parent smoking, medical conditions) for SIDS, the chances of SIDS are very, very low. Especially after 4 months.
I stopped sleeping in the nursery at 4 months. I think that might be part of the reason DH and I are still married. |
Anonymous
Also, if you are concerned about safe sleep, I highly recommend the Safe Infant Sleep Support Group on Facebook. They do a really great job explaining why moving baby to their own room when it works for your family (whether that be at 2 weeks or 12 months) is totally ok. https://www.facebook.com/groups/SafeInfantSleep/ |
Anonymous
Day 1 |
Anonymous
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10 months, when he started to want to play with us when he woke up at night. Was always in a cosleeper or crib.
Was a great independent sleeper pretty much from birth. Until 3.5, when he now finds his way into our bed more nights than not. |
Anonymous
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I don’t know why people have this badge of pride over starting them in their own room from day 1. That sounds miserable. I can’t imagine having to get out of bed and walk to a different room 5x a night. SO much easier to literally just sit up, grab the baby out of the Halo, feed him with my eyes closed, plop him back in and lay down again.
With each kid we’ve moved them between 4-6 months when they started to wake less frequently. |
Anonymous
I am petite and, though always had a plentiful supply and big fat ebf babies, I also have small breasts. Nursing lying down never worked for me because it physically wasn’t comfortable, but also I was terrified that I would accidentally suffocate the baby if I fell asleep with them lying down. everyone is totally exhausted when there is a baby in the house, one wrong move in a middle of the night feeding and you are Rolling over on the baby, or you forget the baby is in bed with you, they fall out, or get trapped under the covers. Waking up with a baby is pretty miserable anyway you arrange it. Again, I don’t understand how the above poster’s approach would lessen SIDS risk. She is essentially sleeping with the baby, what if she falls asleep During one of those feeds? Or smooshes the baby with a drowsy roll the wrong way during a feeding? I just can’t imagine how nursing a baby in your bed is safer than picking up the baby, sitting in a chair, then placing the baby back into their safe sleeping area. |
Anonymous
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Both kids were in an arms-reach until about six months and then in their cribs in our room until a year old. Then we moved them to their own room.
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Anonymous
I mostly agree with you. Bedsharing is not safe. But if you sit in the chair the danger is if you fall asleep there, that is more dangerous than falling asleep with the baby in the bed. You have to keep yourself awake. |
Anonymous
| 8 weeks and then 10 weeks. They were mostly sttn and when I moved them they really sttn. I was sad to see my last baby move to the nursery. But I had to go back to work and needed sleep |