Tinkleberry is 4 months old now. He has been sleeping in a crib in our bedroom. Sometimes it’s conveinent. However, as he gets older and sleeps through the night more, it is becoming a bit of a hassle. He wakes when Daddy snores. We can’t have, uh, couple time without having to be super super quiet and risk waking him.
We are thinking of putting his crib in his nursery (about 10 feet down the hall). Then we’d leave the doors open so we could hear him PLUS use baby monitors to be double sure Prince Tinkle’s dulcent tones would never fall on deaf ears.
What do you think? When did your kid go into their nursery? Is this too young, or is it a good age to try?
I’d say it’s about the right time. Some people like to keep their babies close for longer, but if he’s waking up because of snoring or couple time maybe it would work for you guys. He’s already used to the crib since you’ll just be moving it, so that won’t be a problem. He’d probably settle in just fine.
The 'raptor slept in the same room as me until he was 6 months old because we didn’t have the space to put him in his own room until then. He adapted pretty quickly when we did switch him and things are fine.
Nyeh. Baby Gwen is 8 months and still shares space with us a big chunk of the time. But she spends a lot of time in her crib in her room, too (she’s there right this very minute).
It varies by kids and parents and comfort levels. At four months he could certainly be in his own room. Give it a go and see what happens.
We kept our daughter in our bedroom for about two nights after she got home. She was a real tosser and turner and snorter and snorer so that we couldn’t get much sleep and we moved her into her own room. Never had a problem.
Don’t sweat the timing. If the baby cries, you can hear it, believe me.
Oh, oh yes. He is very figetey in his sleep. He also makes LOUD sucking sounds with his fingers. We’ve also had the nursery set up since I was 6 months pregnant. Right now it is just a very fancy diaper changing room. I’d like it to, uh, be where he lives and stuff.
Don’t have kids, but I had my own room from the time I was brought home from the hospital. My parents just left both our doors open, and they could hear if I so much as whimpered at night. Not to mention the fact that Dad was paranoid about Cot-death (24 years ago there was a LOT of warnings and so on given to new parents), so if I didn’t grizzle every half-hour he’d get up and check on me. I was ALWAYS fine.
Just make sure you can hear the baby grizzle from your bedroom and it should be perfectly safe.
I always wondered what point “couple-time” became inappropriate if you had children in the room. Somehow I always imagined it would be when the child was, say, no more than six months old, but then my friend horrified me by telling me they were no longer having couple-time in front of their daughter because she jumped on Daddy and started bouncing up and down. She was two! Am I abnormal in thinking they let this go on WAY too long? Or am I just being overly prudish? Having no children of my own I’m not really able to make an educated guess on the subject.
Our daughter also lasted two nights. She had what my peditrician said was very common newborn sleep apenea. She sounded like a leafblower when she breathed, and then she’d stop - for maybe five seconds, not long, but long enough that if I weren’t complete asleep I’d wake completely up convinced she had died.
Emma (3 months) has been in her own room from Week 2. Of course, her mother often used to sleep in there with her, to give her her early-morning feed. Now she’s sleeping through.
We moved Fang to his own room at two months. I think we were lucky, as he slept through the night pretty early. Except for the night terrors, which are finally subsiding, it worked out rather well.
Here’s the system employed by FaerieBeth and myself. Bear in mind, it was the result mostly of my pathological fear of going sleepless, coupled with the fear that I might roll over on him if we were sleeping in the same bed. I deduced that it was not the lack of sleep that gets you, it’s the constant getting up and shallow sleeping.
Son of stonebow has his own room, prepped and ready well before his arrival. He’s a breastfed baby, so he’s feeding frequently at the start.
I slept on the couch from 10pm-2am, while FB slept with him in our bed, sleeping and nursing him. His last feeding was at 2am, and then I was roused. I took him to his room, where he he slept on and off while I read/slept/ surfed the net from my comfy chair, brought in from the living room. This went on till 6am, when he got taken back to mom, and I got ready for work.
So both parents were guaranteed at least 4 hours of uninterrupted sleep per night, often 6+, he was able to nurse, and we didn’t go mad.
He transitioned well into his own bed, and after a couple of months, I rejoined my lovely wife in bed, and he began to sleep though the night in his own room.
I think the Right Time is whenever you think it is.
My daughter was in a bassinet in our room until she was 7 weeks old. At that point, we weren’t getting any sleep and neither was she, so we put her in her own room and started sleep training her - it took about two or three days before we could put her down at bedtime and have her go to sleep. It was the first time since she’d been born that we were able to get a whole 3 or 4 hours of sleep at a time. Heaven!
Now she’s 13 months old and we’re trying to wean ourselves off of the sleep monitor (but we’re not trying too hard - we get such a kick out of hearing her sing and talk to herself before she falls asleep)
I moved my son after a month. We had a small one-bedroom place, so I moved him into the kitchen. It worked out well. I slept better. Nothing worse than waking up every time the kid makes the slightest peep (which is what I did).