i plan on having bubs sleep in their own room from get go. my reasons are a little different, and many people (my parents) don't understand or think i will change my mind at least for the early months - we'll see.

basically we have two 'babies' already - my cats, sam and kah. they sleep with us and i don't really feel it would be fair to kick them out of 'their' bedroom, particularly as i am already worried they might get jealous of a new addition to the family (and they are completely indoor cats). we hav already shut off the 'baby's' room, and my boys know that they are not allowed in there - they will now no longer even enter if the door is left open.

we have a spare bed in the baby's room so if the newborn is feeding really regularly i may just crash in there - and DH and i have pretty much decided that i will express some milk so he can get up and feed bubs during the middle of the night as well.

basically we want to keep our room as 'ours' (and the cats, who already use it as a sanctuary when we have visitors).