I see that the AAP is now recommending room-sharing with an infant for six months? Is that correct? It seems like most of my friends with babies only had them in their rooms for 4-8 weeks. What did you do?
Post by dcrunnergirl52 on Jul 23, 2014 10:28:02 GMT -5
We had DD and DS1 in our room until 4 months.
DS2 was in our room until 6.5 months, partially b/c of that recommendation but also b/c we hadn't finished converting DD's room into his nursery and were lazy about getting it done.
Both boys moved out at 4 months. We ALL slept better in our own rooms!
I guess I don't understand how sleeping in the same room is really safer? More convenient, obviously. But, if the worst is going to happen, it's going to happen if I'm in the same room...and I can't hear when a baby stops breathing.
With DD about 3.5 hours after we got home. We couldn't take the noise and she wasn't sleeping well at all. With DS since he was on a different floor and slept fine it was about a week. Then he got noisy and unsettled too.
I get the reasoning but I also feel like there's 34634643 other things that "prevent" SIDS risk better than room sharing.
Both of my kids liked the crib though so it was NBD in this house.
Post by Velar Fricative on Jul 23, 2014 10:30:11 GMT -5
4.5 months. This was during a pause in her sleep regression (sadly, we did not realize it was a pause at the time!) and it was also right before DH's week-long school break and a three-day weekend for me so we figured that would be a good time to move her into her crib.
We had initially planned on doing it right before I returned to work at 3 months but she had been sleeping pretty well and we didn't want to disrupt that. Ha!
We had DD in an Arms' Reach Co-Sleeper in our room until about 4 or 5 months. Once she was rolling back to front and front to back, the Co-Sleeper seemed small for her. She was also sleeping much longer stretches at that point, so it seemed like a good time to move her. There were a lot of times, though, that she woke up at 5am or so after STTN and I would bring her in bed with us until a more reasonable time to be awake.
I anticipate we'll room share for at least 3 or 4 months this time, but we'll play it by ear.
Post by scribellesam on Jul 23, 2014 10:35:11 GMT -5
Four weeks. We moved him right before DH went back to work. I was barely getting any sleep at all with him in the room, every noise put me wide awake.
Not sure what we'll do with this one. I'd prefer to room share for longer because the nursery is all the way across the house now instead of just across the hall at our old place.
Post by UnderProtest on Jul 23, 2014 10:35:40 GMT -5
ZERO. I don't know how anyone gets any sleep in the same room! I can barely sleep with my husband in the same room. Okay, so I'm weird, but both kids are healthy and happy.
about 8 months. We got good sleep* until about 5.5 months. He was in a bassinet by our bedside until about 5 months, which worked great. At 5 months he got sick, things got a little worse; moved to a non-rocking crib, things got a lot worse; then various gross motor sleep regressions plus starting solids plus being near mommy and daddy but not near enough seemed to make sleep hard. Average of 2 wakeups per night plus "up for the day" around 4:45-5:30. Lots of bedsharing was involved, I would sometimes sleep in a sleeping bag on the floor in another room because I really didn't enjoy bedsharing. Once he moved out, he STTN on like the second night.
If we had it to do all over again, I think we'd still room share for a while, but put the crib on the other side of the room, maybe that would help baby sleep during the 5-7 month age.
* for a kid that young. Starting at like 3 weeks he'd sleep from bedtime until 2-3am, we'd put the pacifier back in and rock him, and he'd fall back asleep. Easy peasy when the bassinet is right there.
Until 3 months and that was plenty. Then again 8-10 months because we lived so far north so it didn't get dark until at least 11pm and couldn't get her room dark enough for her to want to go to sleep. Our room was very dark so she sleep in our room during those summer months.
ZERO. I don't know how anyone gets any sleep in the same room! I can barely sleep with my husband in the same room. Okay, so I'm weird, but both kids are healthy and happy.
Same here. DD was in her crib in her own room from the first night onward.
We're still room sharing at a little over 6 month. We were going to put her in her own room at 6 months but we bought a house and didn't feel like dealing with tracking apart the crib twice within a month's time. So it'll be around 7 months total by the time we move.
We still have N in our room; he is 4 months old. He's still in the Rock N Play- we wanted to try to transition him to the Pack n Play that is also in our room and then to the crib but he's had a cold for three weeks and seems to sleep better on the incline with it. Sooo..hopefully by 6 months.
About 4 months. At that point it became clear that 1) he was uncomfortable in the RNP and 2) we were waking him up from moving around in bed, H snoring, etc.
Post by karinothing on Jul 23, 2014 10:44:38 GMT -5
WE did 5 months. I wanted him to transition before I went back to work at 6 months. DS was a silent sleeper though. My friends babies were so freaken noisy I would never have been able to room share with them lol. THey sounded like baby raptors in their sleep!
Post by purplecow0206 on Jul 23, 2014 10:44:39 GMT -5
We moved her over at right around 3 months. We'd planned to wait a little longer, but she was moving around so much that she was waking herself up in the bassinet of the PnP, and we didn't want to have her down in the lower level yet (we're both short) so it made sense to move her.
Post by catsarecute on Jul 23, 2014 10:45:16 GMT -5
Still room sharing. I think we are going to transition to the crib this weekend. DD is 3.5 months old. She was a loud sleeper but has since stopped her grunting and groaning throughout the night. Thinking about her in her room by herself makes me nervous but we have to do it eventually.
ZERO. I don't know how anyone gets any sleep in the same room! I can barely sleep with my husband in the same room. Okay, so I'm weird, but both kids are healthy and happy.
Same here. DD was in her crib in her own room from the first night onward.
I am in the same boat. She was in our room for about 2 nights. That was it.
DD was in rnp in our room for 4-5 weeks, pnp in our room until 3 months, and then the crib in her room.
When I had to get up for work, she would wake up when my alarm went off and that was bad because then I had to deal with her and get ready at the same time. It worked out great because she was much more alert at 3 months and we were tired of tiptoeing around our room.