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

The_Next_Verse

4 months here and he slept so much better than he ever did in our room.

money_honey

4 months for us too, and again she slept much better than she did in our room, plus we slept better too!

rachbc

ds -2 years, dd 3 months - she snored so much it kept us awake!

hayleyc_2

My son was about 18months, and my daughter was about 13 months although she still comes in with us when she wakes in the night (she's 14months old now). We've recently moved so the kids have their own rooms but we often wake up with all 4 of us squashed in the bed

meritaten

make_me_wise wrote: »

Do you sleep differently once you have had a baby? I dont mean lack of sleep rather than having it, lol. More to do with did you find you slept lighter and kind of instinctively woke over night when baby made the slightest move or noise?

This is going to sound stupid but dh and I are very heavy sleepers. Literally nothing wakes us up. We have 2 alarm clocks set at full volume. We sleep through thunder storms, car alarms etc. I am expecting twins in Jan and though we could just about fit them both in our room it would be a squeeze. We are telling ourselves that when they start screaming and crying we will hear them.

Ive had advice on here previously that its best to keep twins together but there is no way we could fit a cot in our room. Its a big room but an odd shape and has fitted wardrobes etc so dont have the option of moving things around or out to make space. Once they are out of moses baskets we would have to transfer them to the nursery, which is just next to our room.

Reading all this has made me think one might need to be in with dh in the spare room (good luck baby trying to wake daddy up!) and I would have to crash in the nursery. Is this really necessary though as hardly ideal.

first of all - my mum always complained I could sleep through anything! I didnt just sleep I went into a deep coma!
after baby no1 was born I still slept through thunderstorms, street noise (even one memorable occasion when the police had a neighbours house surrounding and were yelling through bullhorns for him to come out). But, at the first cry I would be out of bed and heading for the baby!

as for twins - yes its important (actually, I would say vital) that they be kept together for the first year or two (same cot) and then gently weaned into their own beds. I have experience with a few sets of twins in the family and know that closeness to each other is just as important (if not more) than being close to parents! Good luck with them by the way - and when they are born be prepared to be treated like minor celebrities when you are out and about with them! and DO smile nicely when people ask 'Are they twins'?

pigpen

make_me_wise wrote: »

Do you sleep differently once you have had a baby? I dont mean lack of sleep rather than having it, lol. More to do with did you find you slept lighter and kind of instinctively woke over night when baby made the slightest move or noise?

No.. I sleep like the dead! NOTHING wakes me.

Sometimes it took OH 45 minutes+ to wake me to feed Squeak and I was no better with any of the others either..

vroombroom

You can sleep 45 mins through a bairn crying, PP? Immense.

We're going to try our littlun in his room in October when he will be 6 months. He sleeps right through x

Js_Other_Half

DS was 7 months when he moved into his own bedroom.

GemmaE

mysk_girl wrote: »

10 days for number 1. Way earlier than I wanted too, but she was a cracking sleeper, was already going 5 hours BUT would kick, wriggle, snore and shout in her sleep. So I was getting no sleep at all and was practically psychotic by the time OH suggested trying putting her in her own room. Instant success, happy mummy happy baby. Second baby, not until 4 months - he was a much more peaceful sleeper! I am a very light sleeper, which is probably what caused the issues with number 1...

I think you definitely have to make it up as you go along - if baby is happy, mummy is happy then it is a good result :-) I definitely got some flak for putting DD alone at 10 days, but I was in a complete state after 10 days with minimal sleep... Don't let anyone give you hard and fast rules about babies, they are all different :-)

Ditto for us, although I cried as felt too early but DH insisted, afterall we had both room doors open and rooms less than 1meter apart so no further really, just helped. DH is a big snorer too so he was interupting her sleep as much as she was with us

But having said that all babies are different, next time will definitely play it by ear

skintchick

clw1 wrote: »

I asked 2 HV's about this and was told by both that "officially I have to say 6 months but I put mine in their own rooms within 2 weeks". We put our Lo in his own room at 11wks as he was too big for the moses basket and it would have been a squash to fit the cot into our room. Once he was in his own room we all slept better and I think we disturbed him when we rolled over etc and vice-versa.

We kept both doors open and as his bedroom was right next door to ours he was only about 15ft from us but if he hadn't been next door I would have kept him with us longer.

Right, so if they said 'officially I have to say don't smack them but I used to regularly beat mine' would you hit your kids?

The guidelines are based on RESEARCH, your two health visitors' actions were based on what was convenient for them and their non-evidence-based OPINIONS, with nothing to back it up. Just because someone is a health visitor doesn't mean what they did/do is correct.