What age did your baby sleep in their own room?
How old was your baby when you started to put them in their own room? My son is 4.5months and I want to put him in his own room but am still a little scared. What age does the risk of SIDS go down most? We have a camera monitor so I would be able to watch his every move, but i’m still worried. How old was your baby?
My daughter was 1 year old when she started sleeping in her own room. But that is only because we didn’t have our house yet, so we had to share a room for the first year living with family.
Right now my son sleeps in his playpen right next to my bed. He does still wake up at night. Mostly just whing and stuff. I guess I am worried because we have a split bedroom layout in or home. So he would be on the other side of the house. (It’s not a HUGE house 1800sq ft) but it’s far enough for me to worry, lol. It’s not like his room is right next to us. As for the SIDS thing, I know risk of SIDDS doesn’t matter whether he is right next to me or in his own room. But when he is right next to me I can just sit up and check on him several times a night. I think I am going to start transitioning him to his own room this week. Start putting him for naps in his room until I feel comfy enough for him to sleep in his own room all night 
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When they started sleeping through the night, well like mostly, and i only had to go in there a few times at most.
We put our daughter in her own room when she was about 3 weeks old. We moved bedrooms so we could be close to her and hear her if she needed us. She’s done great in there, sleeping through the night and she is now 7 months old. SIDS risk is greatest between 2-4 months I believe. Don’t keep the room too warm and don’t put any toys or pillows in his crib and he will be fine. As parents, we’ll never stop worrying about our children. But in reality, things will work out.
My daughter started sleeping in her crib at about 2 months. I use a monitor and frequently check on her.
Five days, as soon as we came home from hospital. I had a baby monitor, and slept far better because I wasn’t permanently worried about either myself or my husband waking them up. In any case baby was only about four feet from my head on the other side of the partition wall – closer than he/she would have been at the other end of our bedroom.
I don’t understand the big issue here, I really don’t. Babies sleep around 12 hours at night (with waking for feeds). Surely you don’t sleep that long yourself? If not, baby is already spending a significant amount of time asleep in a room that you are not in – so what possible difference can it make whether it’s your bedroom or not?
My first son was about 10 months when I moved him into his own room. And my second son just turned 7 months and we moved him into his own room. And I’m pretty sure the risk of SIDS goes down after the baby can roll from yummy to back… but even when the baby is in your bedroom, he has the risk of SIDS… it’s not because of being a bad parent, or putting him his own room too early.
It’ll be hard at first to get used to it,,, but I think if he sleeps through the night there is no reason not to… unless you like having him in your room =)
My daughter is 6 months this week and we just put her in her own room. I was scared as well but realized that it was mostly me keeping her in our room. She’s so happy to be in her own crib now.
Sids drops to 10% at 6 months and almost nothing at 1 year.
we will be putting our daughter in her own room at 2 yrs .
maybe sooner but it depends on a lot of things.
she is on an apnea monitor now and the room she will be in we have to change over, and will take time.
My son was about 3 weeks old when we moved him to his crib, though that was not our original plan. However, his bedroom has connecting door to ours, so we left that open for the first few months. Now we close it and use a monitor (he’s 7 months). I do check on him fairly frequently, even now that’s he’s sleeping through the night more reliably.
The risk of SIDS goes down mostly around one year.
My 16-month-old daughter has been in her own room for two months. I believe in keeping babies as close as possible for bonding, security, etc. I would have preferred co-sleeping, but my husband wasn’t for that. It was great because I was right next to her at all times, there wasn’t much disruption for night nursings, etc. I am for attachment parenting and do regret not getting a sling for her, but it’s one of those lessons learned for the next baby. Also, I would reach my arm in to the crib (it was parallel to my side of the bed) and stroke her cheek to help her calm down when she really didn’t want to get up or was just fussing in her sleep.
My daughter was about five months when she started to sleep for five hours at a stretch. Of course, I still woke up every couple of hours to make sure she was okay, but it was instinct. When we moved into our house, she woke up at least once a night for the first couple of weeks. I expected it, as she always wakes up in new/different places. (Last week we were at my in-laws’ for a couple of nights. We lived with them for four months until my husband got a church. She still woke up twice both nights and didn’t go down easily when she did.)
When my daughter was about nine or ten months old, I read “Nighttime Parenting” by Dr. Benjamin Spock. Several of his suggestions I had already been doing instinctively. Other things in the book, I wish I had done and will reread the book if there is another baby.
Yes, my daughter is quite independent. She knows that if she is with somebody (i.e., my sister, or grandparents) Mommy and Daddy will come back) She also plays fine by herself while I get housework done and there are times when she doesn’t even want us to play with her. I think attachment parenting is a great thing and definitely wouldn’t want to have a baby to force him into independence before he is even a year old, or before he is ready.
When my baby was 8 weeks old he was too big for the moses basket so we thought we would try putting him in his cot in the nursery I was certainly scared so I slept on the floor in their with him for the first few nights, but he actually took to it really well and slept so much better (as did I eventually!) And he sleeps in a grobag so no risk of getting lost under any blankets so I feel 100 % confident with him being in his own room now