How long before you moved your newborn into his/her own room on nighttime?

lynneee

1st baby was in with us until 5 months, 2nd baby about 4 months, baby number 3 is only 10weeks old and will be in with us for a while yet. Its all personal choice of what works best for you

stiltwalker

DD was in our room for 9 weeks but like Mysk_girl's no 1 she was a noisy sleeper plus where we were living at the time we had a tiny room which the moses basket barely squeezed into and DD's new room was right next door. DS is currently 14 weeks and still in our room but will be going into the cot his sister has not long vacated in the same room as her to start with in the next few weeks as he'll not fit in the moses basket for much longer. Although in the new house his cot would just about fit in our room it would be cramped for all of us.

DS would have ended up in his own room earlier if he'd been a noisy sleeper like sis but I would have been slightly more reluctant in this house as the kids room across a landing not right next door. DD is going up into the attic just as soon as I've had chance to do her new room out but my dad didn't get round to painting it until DS was due so not had time to do the murals and curtains. If she'd gone up earlier then DS would probably have moved earlier - must get a round tuit!!!

grey_lady

Guidelines these days say 6 months - ideally a year. I agree that its personal choice but i think that a lot of research goes into these things.

74jax

eeeek how bad a mother am I!!!!!!! My DD went into her right from day 1. tbh I didn't know it wasn't the 'norm' not to do that. It was 13 years ago, maybe things changed.................

flipper_72

DD (1st baby) 3 weeks - as soon as the HV signed us off I moved her cot into her own room and we all slept much better onle fed during night til 6 weeks so 3 weeks in a chair, DS 5 months - quieter sleeper, fed in our bed (DD was bottle fed as couldn't/wouldn't BF) and cot was pushed up to side of bed to make it easier. Go with what works for you they are all individuals.

moomoomama27

74jax wrote: »

eeeek how bad a mother am I!!!!!!! My DD went into her right from day 1. tbh I didn't know it wasn't the 'norm' not to do that. It was 13 years ago, maybe things changed.................

I don't think it's changed, although I think the guidelines have become more ingrained in HV's to pass on!

erdd2

May be an age thing but as the babies were taken out of the ward at night, we put our in their own room at night from day one, there were no affordable "monotors" back then, all doors were left wide open....there does appear to be too much gadgets/books/rules/info now...must seem quite scary, especially with a first born.

Spendless

I stuck to the FSID guidelines which were at the time 6 months. Reason being we had lost our 1st child in pregnancy when a routine scan revealed he wouldn't survive. Pregnant less than a year after this, I couldn't bear the thought of anything going wrong, and knew if it did and was aware if somewhere had said x, and I'd done y, that I would spend a lot of time blaming myself. I think once we got to that 6 month mark,we then decorated the nursery so it would be slightly longer than this before they went in their own rooms.

CH27

Son went in his own room at 12 weeks.
We seemed to be disturbing him when we went to bed so moved him. He was fine.

ETanny

We moved my DD into her own room at 9 weeks old, She would have been older if we could have fit the cot into our room.