Do you think it's better for a newborn to sleep in your room (not in your bed) or their own room?

Question

Just for a short period of time?

Answer 1

According to that latest information on how to help prevent SIDS it is best for your child to sleep in your room (not your bed) until 6 months. Parents tend to be lighter sleepers when the baby is in the room with them and will wake up if they hear breathing problems. I let all my children (3 so far with #4 due in January) sleep in my room in a cradle/bassinet until 6 months and they had no problems adjusting to a crib in their own room. It took 2 nights and that was it.

Answer 2

In their own room if you have a baby monitor and could hear them breathe. If not, then I'd probably be a worrywart and have them sleep with me. But that is because my baby (13 years ago) would quit breathing periodically and had to be put on an apnea monitor. So I probably worry about it more than most. If it wasn't for that I think it's best to have them sleep in their own room because I had a heck of a time trying to get her to sleep in a room by herself again. Go with what you think though.

Answer 3

This is really up to you and what you feel comfortable with. I have 4 boys...12, 10, 7, and 7 months. The older boys slept in their crib in my room for a year... my 7 month old sleeps in his crib in my room also. I won't let him sleep with me... I made that mistake with the older boys. However, I find this the most convenient having him in my room. He sleeps through the night sometimes ...about 80%. They don't stay babies long you really need to enjoy every minute. Good luck, whatever you decide it will be right for you.

Answer 4

I posed this same question before, so be prepared for many advocates on both sides. Personally, my husband and I had our daughter sleep in the elevated part of her pack-n-play with an incline pad with sides to keep her on her back. She was in our room for the first 2 - 2 1/2 months. She napped there and she slept there, 2 feet away from me. I wasn't going to start the bad habit of getting her use to sleeping with us, thus kept her in the pack-n-play.

At about 2 months, I started her sleeping in her crib in her room during naps. This was hard for me as I worried a lot about SIDS. I must have checked on her about 20 times each nap. Once I got use to her taking naps, I moved her into her room for sleeping at night. She had no problems with it. By 2 1/2 months old, she was no longer in our room for anything other than convenience for me.

It has worked out really well for us, doing it this way.
Good Luck.

Answer 5

In their own room...I put my son in his own room after a few days at home. He started sleeping through the night at 2-1/2 weeks, and I don't have the fight with him to go in his own bed now (he's 2) he has and still is slept throuhg the night since then

Answer 6

despite works best for you. you may locate that television and having the gentle on wakes him up, no longer plenty as a newborn, yet as quickly as he gets to be some months previous. i won't have the ability to think of why you will possibly have him sleep on your room and then take him right into a distinctive room to feed and alter him. enable me inform you presently - it won't take place. no longer 5 circumstances a evening, because it's going to be while he's tiny. Have your kit the place toddler is drowsing. in my opinion I plenty favored having toddler of their very very own room so shall we pull the door close to maintain it quiet and non violent in there on an identical time as we had the gentle on in our room, and then open it up as quickly as we settled right down to sleep. We had a video demonstrate too, even nonetheless it relatively wasn't mandatory different than while toddler became into older and upstairs asleep in the previous we had long previous to mattress.

Answer 7

Definatley in your room until there at LEAST 6 months old.
Thge reason being that you can get to them faster if they need you.
My son is 7 weeks old and his cot in in my room at the end of my bed. I leave a dim lamplight on all night, so i can check he`s still breathing from my bed. Also, he can hear me talking and it soothes him into going back to sleep.
Otherwise you will have to keep getting up and checking on him in a different room.
Now, as he knows im there, he sleeps from 11pm - 6am and we BOTH are getting lots of sleep!

Answer 8

My daughter spent seven weeks in crib in our room, we then moved her into her own room accross the hall with a baby monitor. If I had known how easy it was I would have done it earlier like my parents had with me. As long as you can get to baby quickly then there is no reason not to give her a room of her own.
It may take a few days/weeks to get her to sleep through, but in my experience, it is worth the extr few yards walk to her new room.

enjoy the peace

Answer 9

It is much easier on you to have the baby in a basinet in your room in the beginning. You can respond faster and while you are recovering it is much easier to deal with them several times a night if you dont have to go down the hall . On the other hand if you get them use to their own room right away they do sleep better. You don't disturb them and you don't jump up and end up waking them up every time they make the littlest noise. .... I swore I wouldn't have my baby in my room. The day he was born I asked my mom to go pick up a basinet b/c I suddenly felt I needed him in my room. I have 3 and each ended up in my room for 12 weeks.

Answer 10

It is best for the baby to sleep in your room, until about 5 months old.