What age do you think your baby should be in their own room?

[Londoner Claire]

With Ryan, he wasn't in his own room until he was in a bed at 22 months but I was on my own with him, I think I'd have been different if I hadn't been.

The social worker told me that the recommendation is that they are in your room for at least the first year.

I think I'd agree although I don't know the reason, I would because of the risk of cot death and would feel safer. I don't want to keep Jade in with me though until she's in a bed as I think I did that wrong with Ryan, it was really hard for both of us. This time around I plan in Jade having the cot in her room for a few months so she gets used to sleeping in their before she's in a bed.

 

[jennywren]

The social worker told me that the recommendation is that they are in your room for at least the first year.

That sounds very strange - Ive never heard such a long recommendation before!

Were going to take it as it comes but 6-12 weeks I would expect

 

Lennon is in his own room and he's 6 weeks old and he's been in there for 2 weeks now. He's happy in there and we are happy

 

[treena9673]

My Daughter (who is 8yrs) was in her own room at 5 weeks.
Obviously we had monitors , but I was getting soo tired with the night time feeds that i knew if i didnt have to physically get up and go to her then I would end up with her in our bed.
So in she went at 5 weeks, had to get up for another 4weeks for feeds and then he slept rite through.
Different this time though cos we dont have a spare room now!!
will have to see what kind of sleeper this one is cos our room is big enough for 2 children so if he/she is a good sleeper in a few months them we may put DD and LO in together and we will move into smaller room.
but on the whole DD was fine being in her own room so soon and TBH it was only this time that I read the recommendations that they should be in with you for thre first 6 months at least

 

[Minxy]

I believe the recommendations are 6 months, but think that's probably quite a new-ish guideline?

Stanley's still in with us (and does end up in bed with me more often than not ) but I really should start moving him over as I'd like him settled in his own room when I go back to work in February.

 

[Alfiesmummy]

since aboooout 2 weeks? he was actually sleeping all night in his room from about five weeks but we decided that we wanted him to be used to his so we'd take him up bath him etc feed him and put him down in his mosis basket in his bedroom then we would go up to bed take him in with us then because we were waking him up in the morning moving him back into his room and then getting him up ... completely unnecessary probably but thats what we did and he started sleeping through the night at 8 weeks old, he was always more settled in there than our room anyway i think its because of Ians snoring

 

[kellie80]

Both of mine have gone in their own rooms when they have started to out grow thier moses baskets which i guess was about 6 weeks, maybe younger. This one is gonna have to stay in our room for at least 6 months or untill Aimee is ready to share a bedroom with Jessica cos I don't have anymore rooms.

 

[Nic'n'Keeley]

keeley's still in my room and its gonna stay like that until we get housed
unless i send her to boarding school...was doing my job centre interview over the phone...she was like is keeley at boarding school i was like she's 17 weeks lol

 

[Lyn_no3]

i think ryan was in his own room once he outgrw his swingin crib so about 6 months, i think i would of had him in our room longer but we didnt have the room for a cot in our room

the older two were in my room a lot longer but i had a bigger bedroom then and it did mean they ended up in my bed at night quite often where ryan never has

 

[skatty]

Leorah was quite unwell as a newborn so we co slept until 6 weeks. At this stage I really wasn't getting much sleep and as soon as I put her in her own room she woke less and less and by 10 weeks has been sleeping through. I have a Tommee Tippee breathing moniter that clicks with every breath that I can hear from my room which is next to hers. Its reassurring when I hear it when I stir in the night.

I do think the right time is when you think its the right time for you and your baby. If it was working for us I would have probably carried on co sleeping longer.

 

[hev&madi]

madi will have her own room when we move

im scared of her having her own room incase something happens

 

[Dee1985]

Dior shared our room untill she was about 7months that was because our room was in the atic and her nursery was on the middlefloor and i felt she was to far away. and up and down thestairs was a killer.
Harley went in his room at about 8weeks he slept through as soon as he went in his own room we both slept much better but i really did miss him

 

[foxymum]

Louie is still in our room & will continue to do so until we hopefully have an extension in the summer!!!
my other 2 were in with us till at least a yr old coz we didn't have the room for them to have there own rooms!!

now we have 4 kids in 2.5 rooms!!! (georgias room is a box room & cannot be shared i call it half a room !!!) dean & josh share bunks in there room & then Louie with us.

if you have the room i would say 6 mths is nice to have the baby in its own room, but then i'm a worrier so i like them in with us (not in the same bed though)

 

[swan1]

Charlie went in to his own room at 7 weeks, he slept much better without us moving around and we slept better as we didnt hear every grunt and groan he made. I do have one of the monitors with the sensor pad which an alarm goes off if he stops moving so that gives me peace of mind.

 

[Alfiesmummy]

i think you do sleep better because every noise they make when they r in wiv u you jump up to see whats wrong

 

[mummykay]

jamie will b in with us until we either move into the flat FIL is building or find a nice place from the council!!

i like havin him in bed with me tho, OH is worried he will squash him one night lol!!

 

[Londoner Claire]

Wow, some of you if was really early, just a few weeks. My parents did the same with all of us, just a couple of weeks then kicked out.

I'm gonna have to stick with what the SS say but otherwise I would say 4-6 months I think.

 

[cassi]

Jakob is still in with us and will be untill i introduce pu/pd and E.A.S.Y and get hium getting himself to sleep sorted..

 

[Icecream]

I'm thinking 3-6months, but OH seems to think a lot longer. He says that kids who get left in their own rooms early become clingy and withdrawn later in life. What do Mums with older children think of this?

 

[Londoner Claire]

I'm thinking 3-6months, but OH seems to think a lot longer. He says that kids who get left in their own rooms early become clingy and withdrawn later in life. What do Mums with older children think of this?

I disagree, Ryan's 7 and always been very clingy, he won't sleep on his own without me now and I didn't put him in his own room until he was nearly two.