New Baby Sleeping: In Own Room or In Your Room???

patchwork_cat

Mine were in with us for 2 nights, but it wasn't so much him waking us that was the reason for us moving him to his own room it was us waking him! If he snuffled we were checking on him and waking him! The first night home we didn't get any sleep all night. We moved him into his own room then and I remember saying, the next night,oh he was good he only woke 5 times!

Do what suits you and rooming in may not be for you it wasn't for us!

Kaz2904

DD was put into her own bedroom at about 9 weeks because she was so noisy. Unfortunately we had noisy people living below us. We would finally get her down at about 10pm or whatever it was they did at about 11, 12, or 1 and then wake her up. They would then give us about 20 minutes to settle her and then start hammering on our front door (so hard that the first time it happened and I was up with DD, DH thought we were being burgled and leapt out of bed to batter the burglar! The next time it happened, the door actually opened ) :eek:.

I must say though that despite them being totoaly anti child, when DD fell down the stairs (very loudly) when I was very very pregnant, I could hear him running towards his front door (right next to ours and where DD landed) I heard his door yank open and when he heard my voice, the door very quietly closed again.
We didn't have the option with DS as we sill lived in a 2 bed flat. DD knew that the cot was babies bed, so if she woke p and there was no baby, she would scream her head off-
"Where's my baby!"- D'ya know, they're still the same now!

beccam

DD was in our room until around 6mths as per the guidelines about risk of sudden infant death being doubled if baby is sleeping alone.

It was also because she was breastfed and much easier to do when I could just lift her into bed and also because she had reflux so screamed alot (glad twentypence isn't our neighbour!) plus I was even more concerned about her as she had a tendency to choke on her own vomit!

skintsaver_2

my dd is still in with me and she is 3, she also suffered from reflux as a baby and i was so sacred about her choking on her vomit that i had to have her in with me for my own sanity, trying to get her in her own bedroom is a nightmare now lol

JoJoB

twentypenceoff wrote: »

just asking people to be considerate It was so bad being woken up all night and working all day that i thought about leaving work, and cried the whole time it went on.

Earplugs are a marvellous invention

liney

DS was about 4 months old, sleeping through the night, had a dummy for teething, and a baby monitor.

We actually moved back out of his bedroom into the bigger front bedroom. It was always the plan so that we didn't unsettle him by moving him into another room.

liney

twentypenceoff wrote: »

just asking people to be considerate It was so bad being woken up all night and working all day that i thought about leaving work, and cried the whole time it went on.

When my son was screaming the place down, i was fast asleep. I often just watched him scream blue murder whilst thinking "Woo Hoo, this'll really Xiss off the neighbours!":rolleyes:

Babies cry. Sometimes for hours. That's what they do. Nothing to do with poor parenting. I have to say i'd have not shrugged my shoulders at you; i'd have found something far more colourful to say.

fernliebee

My DD went into her room at 5 months. She was breastfed so easier for me when she was in her moses basket next to me. She was a very noisy, snuffly snoring baby, and the first few nights I couldn't sleep at all! My mum gave me some good advice that really helped, she said when I hear those noises I need to put them on an 'amber light' in my head rather than a 'red light' ie don't jump up and check on her etc if she is just snuffling, wait for her to be awake and to cry out, then go to her. This seemed to solve it for me, and I could then sleep through her noisy grunts! No- one tells you your baby might sound like a wild animal while she was sleeping!

At 2 1/2 months she went into her cot in our room, so she got used to it before going in to her own room at 5 months. She is a very good girly though and slept for 5-7 hours a night from birth, and then for 12 hours a night from about 9 weeks, so I wasn't worried about her being in on her own (though I did cry a bit! ) Also our house is very small and so I could still hear her snuffles anyway!!

As far as being considerate of neighbours what planet are you on 20p? Try telling a new born they need to be quiet because of the neighbour because if you can tell us all how then you would be rich! Sometimes babies cry even when you are cuddling them, giving them milk, pacing the room at 3 in the morning etc- some babies cry more than others, but even my DD who was really placid would sometimes cry and nothing would settle her. We did used to apologise to the neighbour but he said he could never hear her cries.
If you are that stressed out by somebody else's crying baby and other noises of the world you should invest in some soundproofing or white noise headphones, as your quality of life would be improved, failing that why not move to the middle of the sahara or something, though you would prob find something else to moan about, oh the heat, or the sand, or the howling winds! Get a grip, and understand that everything is not about you.

moiramber

twentypenceoff wrote: »

just asking people to be considerate It was so bad being woken up all night and working all day that i thought about leaving work, and cried the whole time it went on.

All us parents must be forgetting to switch our babies cries off at night! :rolleyes: How inconsiderate of us! I must remember to tell my son to be more considerate of the neighbours and not cry EVER!

How about neighbours who are really noisey and keep our babies awake??

Anyway, my son is still in our room only as we live in a 1 bed flat. We are moving next week and he will have his own room so I will be getting him used to it as soon as I can as he sleeps better when we are not in the room. He is 4 months old. I have a angel care monitor with motion sensor or I wouldn't be able to move him into his own room ever!

pinkpig08

twentypenceoff wrote: »

good attitude.
wake up your next door neighbour every few hours for months at a time with a screaming baby then shrug your shoulders.However, if your neighbour woke YOU up by making noise you can bet you wouldn't be shrugging your shoulders, you'd be complaining.

You must have been one of those babies that didn't cry. Please share your secret - you'd make a fortune!