How long did bubs sleep in your room for?

Hi Everyone!

Just wondering how long you had your bubs in your bedroom for before moving them to their own room?

DD is now 8.5months and she's still in our room! I'm ready to move her out but DH wants her to stay. She sleeps on her tummy (she rolls herself onto her tummy) and he's worried that she might suffocate (we have an Angelcare monitor) by sleeping face down into the mattress. I think she's at a stage where she would move her head if she couldn't breath.

Just interested on what other people did/do for their sleeping arrangements in their room! :)

xoxox

With Chelsea she went straight to her own room the minute we got home from hospital. I used to be worried when she learnt to roll as well....but things were ok...id check before going to bed, if i got up for the loo...and every time she was peacefully sleeping.

Jasmine is still in our room, she is 6 weeks old and im ready to move her next week.

We've just moved DS into the nursery and he is 3 months tomorrow. I wanted to keep him in our room longer, but he has out grown the basinette we can't possibly fit the cot in our room. I slept on the sofa bed in the nursery for the first few nights because I was constantly getting up to check on him. We have an Angel Care monitor also which makes me feel a bit more at ease.

He is sleeping so much better now he is in his own room. I think he was glad to get away from DH's snoring (lol)

Springxx

Jovie stayed in our room until she was 9 months? Even then she would go to sleep in the cot but come in whenever she wakes up... and then co-sleep for the rest of the night.

The SIDs recommendation is 6 months.

My DD still sleeps in our room and she's 7,almost 8 months. She's in her own cot. I like having her close to me. I can hear her and see her and when she wakes in the night it's easy to get her up and feed her and put her straight back to bed. I have no plans of putting her into her own romm yet. Maybe when she's sleeping through the night...or when we have no 2, LOL!

Both our boys still spend nights in our bed and if they're not in our bed we're in theirs.
I'm in no rush for them to sleep in their own room on their own full-time. I love hearing them near me in the night and they seem to sleep so much better when we're near them.

my DD is still in our bed at 16 months!

Ethan was moved out 13 months
Isaac was moved out at 16 months
Jacob was moved out at 11 months

We have an angelcare monitor as well but still we both preferred them in our room till we felt ready. Olivia is in our room of course . who knows when she will move out.. When we feel the time is right I guess.

I think we moved cody into her room when she was around 18 months.... even then i didnt want to move her because her cot was right next to our bed.... and i just liked her being there so i could see her during the night .... she never slept in our bed tho

Emily moved into her cot in her room just before she was 3 months - when she looked to big for the basinette (sp)

Great post, I was wondering this myself! DS is almost 8 weeks and I am ready now for a number of reasons. We have a 3 story house (spiral stair case) with our room at the top. Therefore bub sleeps in our room at night, and the bottom floor during the day. I think he would sleep better if he was in his own room, without me hanging around listening to his every murmur. He might be more settled and go to sleep better.

With the tummy sleep thing, the risk is minimal when they can roll over by themselves, which is usually after 6 months.

DD was 8 weeks when i moved her into her own room, im a light sleeper and any move she made i would wake up and to add DP snoring i didnt get much sleep, so made the big move and out she went to her big cot! it was also very upsetting! LOL!!

My 19 month old is still sleeping in my bed, it's wonderful. Although I have always said that I'll start transitioning him to his own bed once he's sleeping through the night, and last night he did :( :( but I want him to stay in with me. I love that he shuffles over towards me in his sleep, when I hop into bed, and snuggles into me, so cuddly and loverly *SIGH* oh i love that boy :D

with Shelby we moved her at 3 months, but Sammie will probably stay in our room for a while longer yet. He is in a hammock now, so I am a bit worried if he is at the other end of the house Shelby may get to him before I do.

My bub went straight into his own room. I am a light sleeper so I can hear him in the room next door when he wakes. I didn't see any benefit to putting him in our room.

We moved Aricyn into his own bedroom at 2 weeks - he grunted and snorted, and snored and wailed, and was so bloody noisy he kept us awake!! plus the light flickering from the breathing alarm kept us awake. :-) Now with the new baby on the way, he gets to move into the other bedroom.... haven't quite gotten used to that idea - got lots of time to think about it though!!!!

Scarlet went straight to her nursery when we got home from hospital - It never even occured to me to do it any other way - She comes and sleeps in bed with me after DF goes to work but that's more for me because i want cuddles, lol... She'd be happy to sleep in her cot all day if i let her.

Also - i think because of that i've never had any problems with getting her to self settle, She gets a bath, feed, kisses, cuddles, goes to bed and then puts herself to sleep and has done that since birth.

DD was about 5 months when she moved into her own room overnight. Day sleeps where in her cot from about 3 months I think?

I think DS will be in his room earlier though. We have a different bassinet this time and I have a feeling he doesn't like it! He settles so much better in his own room (which is a lot darker than ours too) in his cot than he does in the bassinet.

He will stay with us overnight for a while longer yet. I'm not ready for him to be so far away yet, his room is at the other end of the house.

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Also - i think because of that i've never had any problems with getting her to self settle, She gets a bath, feed, kisses, cuddles, goes to bed and then puts herself to sleep and has done that since birth.

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Personally, I just think you were lucky and got a baby that could self settle very easily! I don't think it makes a difference where they sleep, some babies can self settle pretty much from birth, others need a lot more help.

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The SIDs recommendation is 6 months.

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Christy - sorry, bit slow, but does that mean they recommend babies sleep in your room till they're six months?

Hi-

Jordan stayed in our room till bout 4 months. I brough these little cousion things that go aroung the tummy to stop them rolling over but when he got to the age where he would roll over the did nothing. ever since he could roll he has slept on his tummy. (which i do aswell)

I just made sure i didnt have any heavy blankets and just uses a sheet and a light waffle blanket and made sure they were tucked in well away from his face. Appart from that i would get up and check him if i went to the toilet etc but found he was much more comfortable and slept longer in his own room.

DH works rotating roster so we thought it was better to have ds in his own room from the start so he wouldn't get disturbed at weird times of night. We always used the anglecare monitor though which is great for peace of mind.

Both of ours stayed in our room until around the 6 month mark.

Both girls went straight into their own rooms, I couldnt sleep with all the noise they make, however Indah was still her cot when Zy arrived so he's in a hammock in our room still, even though Indahs in the bottom bunk... lol

Maya moved into her own room a few days before her first birthday, that was my 'mark' to mover her, DP didnt want to, he would of had her in our room for who knows how long! I was ready though and it has been a good transition, she took a little longer to settle the first two nights but now she goes straight to sleep like she did when she was in our room.

After 5 months. She still woke for a 5am feed, and slept in with me after that, until 8am when we got up, until 7 months. We both slept better with her in her own room.

Bx

We put Blake into his room at 8 weeks, still in his cradle though. He was then in a cot from around 16 weeks. He still co-sleeps for a few hours a night for the most part, but I find I get a better sleep if he isn't in the same room.

we moved house when krystal was 6 months old, and when we moved, we didnt set up the cradle in our room.

but before we moved, krystal had her daytime naps in her cot in her bedroom, and sleot in her cradle in our room overnight.

DS slept in his bassinette next to our bed till 4 months old. I could have done longer from an emotional point of view coz I just loved having him there and sometimes miss him, but he was starting to get a bit big for the bassinette so I wanted to get him good at sleeping in his cot at night before he totally didn't fit the bassinette, just in case it took a bit of work.

The days sleeps were horrendous at first, but he did the night sleeps great as soon as we put him in his own bed.

And I am now sleeping much better. I am a light sleeper and at first woke up to everything but he must have trained me to ignore a lot of it because now I am a much heavier sleeper.

Or maybe it is just the exhaustion that has done it? :lol:

Willow...to answer your question - yes, it is my understanding that they recommend that the baby sleeps in your room till they are 6 months.

I think we lasted about a week or two before we moved DS (in his basinette) outside our bedroom door...I just couldn't sleep with him grunting all night... But we had the Angelcare monitor from the start and it was a HUGE peace of mind thing for me!!! DS finally moved up to his bedroom when he was about 3.5 months old because he outgrew the basinette... ;)

Oh wow a real mixed bag! I read a few posts out to DH to try and convince him that everyone else moved them earlier - but it didn't really work! I think this will be a work in progress!

It's really interesting to read everyone's own experiences!!

Oscar was put in his own room straight off - due to the layour of the house he was only a few metres away from me and with the door open we could hear everything.

Will, on the other hand is still with us!!! - he's 18 months old. Only with us as we don't have any more space but come friday when we move into our new place he will go straight in to his own room - can't wait - oh to be able to put lights on at night and not have to get dressed in the ensuite and tiptoe around! and we'll actually be able to read in bed again! joy - and maybe other thinsg too heheheh!

Julie x

Strait into his own room and in a cot, no bassinet. However we did do the occasional co-sleeping in the first 2 weeks for our own sanity, however once he started extending his sleep patterns that was it. Now fingers crossed he stays in his own room all the time and never wants to sleep with us :)

DS will be 2 years old in Feb and still sleeps in our room. This is mainly due to the fact that the spare room is in such a shape that it isn't suitable for him. However, we will be TTC #2 in Feb/Mar and DH said when the time comes for #2 then the spare room will get fixed up for DS (we live in my FILS house and he controls what happens to the spare room - LONG story there) or we will find someplace else to live. While I would LOVE to have our room back so I could read before bed or enjoy private time with DH I do enjoy the fact that DS is close by. He doesn't sleep through the night yet so it is SO much easier to re-settle him with him right there rather then having to go into another room! We co-sleep as well (have since DS was 8 weeks old) so that is easier with him in our room as well.

I have to be honest and say that with my next one i might move bubs sooner if it's affecting my sex life. With DD i was single and then not having sex until she was already in her own room, but also with a 1st kid you can put them to bed and DTD in another room. But with a toddler roaming the house at night and a baby in the bedroom with us...hmmm. Maybe it'd be better to set the bedroom aside for DP and I to have our time alone. ;) Although that said i know one woman who co-sleeps with her 3 kids, all under 5 and is PG again so they obviously find time/space. :) She told me when the bubs she's having was concieved the younger 2 were sleeping already, and she got really fiddly PJ's for the oldest one and they DTD on the kitchen table while DD#1 was in the bathroom doing up all the buttons on the PJ's. ROFL!

Bx

Oskar is still in with us.... we moved the bed over and squished the cot in...lol. He's 8 1/2 months and at this stage I have no intention of moving him out any time soon. I love having him next to me :D

LMAO Hoobley - What brilliant time management skills they must have!

My girl at 20months is still in my roon.
However I sleep on the couch, and go out to the bungalow to DTD........