I planned to keep my first in our room for at least the first six months and was open to the idea of co-sleeping. Ended up moving him to his own room and crib at about 4 months and we all slept much better. With my second and third, we moved that at about 4 months. I think 4 months is a pretty important age for sleep--they develop more adult-like sleep cycles and it's really important to establish routine then. It worked out great for all.

When transitioned when our son began sleeping for longer stretches (3-4 hours) and I no longer needed the convenience of him being right there to BF every 1.5 to 2 hours.

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Anonymous wrote:Day 1.

The baby won't know any different and neither you nor the baby will wake up with every stir and whimper.

This is not true. The baby knows when you're not around.

OP, my both kids were sleeping through the night at 6 weeks and I blame it on the co-sleeping + EBF on demand combo.

Those darn hormones are powerful and they pick up on your breathing pattern, heartbeat, etc so they'll get sleepy when you're sleepy.

Poster you quoted: all 3 of my kids STTN between 5 -8 weeks and all were in their own cribs in their own rooms. Child #4 (4 weeks old) is in her own room and crib and has already had a few nights of STTN.
Perhaps STTN has nothing to do with it.

Maybe they're sleeping in exhaustion after puking from so much crying you could not hear from your room.

Wow. You and the person who posted that sleeping in their own room "has been proven to cause SIDS" are FUCKING CRAZY. I have seen a lot of psycho blather on this board but these two posts take the cake. Are you really so lacking in confidence about your own parenting choices that you need to resort to lies and hysterics? OP, my advice to you is to view this board as entertainment only (it's a freak show!!) and seek parenting advice from sane people you know in your day to day life.

Of course you know more than the AAP:

http://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/pages/AAP-Expands-Guidelines-for-Infant-Sleep-Safety-and-SIDS-Risk-Reduction.aspx?nfstatus=401&nftoken=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000&nfstatusdescription=ERROR%3a+No+local+token

I think you are referring to me. Actually, it appears YOU think you know more than the AAP, since you mischaracterize their suggestions. But honestly, i think that's goving you too much credit. I don't think you understand the difference between the fact that sleeping in the same room may reduce the risk of SIDS and the utterly stupid suggestion that sleeping in a different room CAUSES SIDS. You should let your kids sleep wherever. They are doomed if they are being raised by such a crazy ignorant moron.

There is no right or wrong time.

For us they shared our room until about 4-5 months.

DS from day 1, but his room was next to ours in a house where we were living while we waited for our house to be finished. The room we were in barely fit a double bed with room for us to walk around it. We could not even fit a cradle in the room.

With DD it was 6 weeks. She was a noisy sleeper.

When they get home from the hospital.

Anonymous wrote:Day 1 for us but that's what worked best for us. I know many people who coslept, etc. and it worked great for them. In the long term (like 1 year) it really doesn't matter.

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Day 1 for us but that's what worked best for us. I know many people who coslept, etc. and it worked great for them. In the long term (like 1 year) it really doesn't matter.

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Anonymous wrote:Day 1.

The baby won't know any different and neither you nor the baby will wake up with every stir and whimper.

Why on earth would you recommend something to a (I assume) new mom that has been proven to cause SIDS??? Come on, PP, not cool.

For the love of Pete, correlation does NOT equal causation! Jeez! Why on earth would you post something you clearly know nothing about? Good lord.

Sleeping in their own room causes SIDS? Who knew? What an idiot you are PP.

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Anonymous wrote:Day 1.

The baby won't know any different and neither you nor the baby will wake up with every stir and whimper.

Why on earth would you recommend something to a (I assume) new mom that has been proven to cause SIDS??? Come on, PP, not cool.

For the love of Pete, correlation does NOT equal causation! Jeez! Why on earth would you post something you clearly know nothing about? Good lord.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Day 1.

The baby won't know any different and neither you nor the baby will wake up with every stir and whimper.

This is not true. The baby knows when you're not around.

OP, my both kids were sleeping through the night at 6 weeks and I blame it on the co-sleeping + EBF on demand combo.

Those darn hormones are powerful and they pick up on your breathing pattern, heartbeat, etc so they'll get sleepy when you're sleepy.

Poster you quoted: all 3 of my kids STTN between 5 -8 weeks and all were in their own cribs in their own rooms. Child #4 (4 weeks old) is in her own room and crib and has already had a few nights of STTN.
Perhaps STTN has nothing to do with it.

Maybe they're sleeping in exhaustion after puking from so much crying you could not hear from your room.

Ha ha! If you could see how tiny my house is, you would giggle at the ridculousness of your blather. "In his own room" is basically our room. Seriously, from our bed to his crib, eight feet. Ah, for the life a wealthy woman whose home is so big she can't imagine hearing her baby's cry from his own room.

OP, we put our baby in his own crib from the first night he got home, which worked for all three of us. I worried incessantly about SIDS, but he'd had some lung problems at birth, and I would have worried more about smothering him if we'd co slept. Both situations, while heartbreaking, are very rare. Babies make soooo much noise in their sleep. Grunts and erggs and little one-off dream cries... We still got woken up plenty, but I would not have been able to sleep with him in bed as I'm a pretty light sleeper. Two years on, he's happy as a clam, and coincidentally, an excellent sleeper.

we moved DS around 5 months, when he got his first cold. we needed to elevate his head, and there was no way to do that with the pack n' play we had in our room. he did end up going through a pretty bad sleep regression about 2 months later, and ended up back in our room for part of the night every night, but always started out in his crib. now, at 18 months, he sleeps in his crib in his own room every night.

Whatever works for your family - and be flexible. We planned on moving DD into her room at 6 months. One night, around 12 weeks, we put her to bed in her own room because we didn't want to disturb her while we packed for a trip. She fell asleep easily and we didn't want to wake her - she ended up sleeping a lot better that night. After that we kept her in her own room; we realized that we were really disturbing her when we were up and about at night and in the morning even though we were making an effort to be quiet and speak in whispers.

And no, my daughter did not sleep will because she was puking and crying. Maybe that PP has some palatial house too big for baby monitors? In our more modest home, we can hear my daughter just fine even without a baby monitor (though we did keep the baby monitor on...just in case).

Kept DS in our room in a co-sleeper for the first 6 weeks. Booted his tiny ass to the nursery and all three of us got better sleep. Whatever works for you.

my baby was a noisy sleeper. I had him in a bassinet until about 4 weeks and then moved him to his crib in the next room. I was able to sleep better and made no difference to him