where does baby sleep after getting home?

[puppies]

Is there anything wrong with having your new born go straight into its cot and in its own room straight out of the hospital?
We only have a small master bedroom and there is no room for cot, bassinet or cradle in there. Plus we are getting a good baby monitor. Is there anything bad about doing this? Plus I do want my DH to get as much sleep as he can as he will still be working. And I will need him strong and well slept to help me out when I am tired.

[Muffy]

i personally dont have a prob with putting them in their own room,
it just depends on how u feel
i think most people with the first child are paranoid about them 'not breathing' etc..... and like to have them close

[visitor1]

DD1 went straight from hospital toher own cot and bedroom

DD2 went into our room in a cradle..BIG MISTAKE!...All her noises kept me awake all night and was horrid..

DD3 will be going straight to her own room from day 1!!!

[Phteven]

Another option is to pop bubs into your bed and co-sleep. Nothing so nice as snuggling up to your baby and drifting off to sleep.

[2CheekyMonkeys]

yeah thats fine. that is my plan this time round. i found that having DD in my room in basinette was too distracting for me. every noise or movement she would make i woke up just to check on her. i figure if she is in the other room i will hear her when she needs me not when she is just dozing.

[BellyBelly]

Co-slept with both of mine and loved in. In cultures that co-sleep, SIDS is unheard of.

[Butterfly Dawn]

B1 went into a bassinette and then a cot in his own room, and we battled every night for almost a year to get him to sleep. Poor dear would fall asleep from exhausted crying about 11pm- we tried everything, then put him into bed with us and hes great, hes now 2.5 and wanting his own bed- which is great because we have B2 now, B2 has a basinnette and sleeps in it in daytime, but at night hes in with us, we have our bed against a wall and have baby next to wall, adult, baby, adult on the outside. Soon B1 will move into his own bed and room- but at his pace. This is the way we work. My husbands chinese and most chinese co-sleep with their babys

[tenar]

I tried to quickly check up on the Sids and co-sleeping thing. As far as I could see in searching online through a few articles,

- the jury is out as to whether it really helps, because the data collection has been dodgy in the studies - there are too many variables, and not enough detail gathered when anyone has actually tried to study it. (maybe this has changed this the articles I read were written, though)

- one theory as to why it might help is that the baby sleeps more lightly when co-sleeping as compared to on their own, so they don't get into the deep sleep that can (apparently) result in breathing failures (I know nothing about the mechanism of this).

- another theory is that it has to do with the improved temperature regulation that sleeping by a larger body (the parent) provides.

[~Jo~]

For us...we sleep better having bubs in our room with us. This means we have a bassinette set up for the first 3 months, then sidecar a cot as an extension of our bed. Most often bubs will be in bed with us but it gives us that privacy and space when we feel we may need it.

I know when i first had dd I had her in a seperate room for the first few months and omg it was doing my head in continually checking her. I much rather just being able to feel, hear etc how bubby is doing.

Jo

[babidevil]

With my 3 girls they all slept in the basinette (which is still have and am going to use for this bubs) and it was next to my bed until bubs moved around a bit too much for my liking then moved into a cot. Maddi (my 2yo) is going into her own bed today because she has worked out how to climb out!

[Toomanytoomany]

Is there anything wrong with having your new born go straight into its cot and in its own room straight out of the hospital?
We only have a small master bedroom and there is no room for cot, bassinet or cradle in there. Plus we are getting a good baby monitor. Is there anything bad about doing this? Plus I do want my DH to get as much sleep as he can as he will still be working. And I will need him strong and well slept to help me out when I am tired.

It's really differed for me from baby to baby. A couple of them have slept in their own room or just outside my room because they just wouldn't sleep in with me - just having me there kept them wide awake and disturbed us all!

The others have sort of alternated between a bassinette next to the bed and sleeping with us in our bed - that's always an alternative if the cot isn't working out. Sometimes the babe would sleep in the cot and then if she woke up during the night, would migrate to our bed and stay there. If you're demand feeding and the baby wakes up frequently at night, it can be more restful for everyone just to have the baby right there to whack on the boob!

[Cally]

DD had a bassinet that was able to be connected to the pram. She slept in that in our room for about 6 weeks, then she was in the lounge room (outside our room) until about 3 months when we moved her into the cot in her own room.