5 month old son still sleeping in my room. Is this bad?

Question

Lately i've been thinking that I really need to make the change and move him to his room but every time I think about it I'm nearly in tears, I don't know if i can handle him not being so close. Is there anything I can do to make this easier for me?

Answer 1

With eight kids I could not afford a monitor, so my babies slept in my bed. And when they wanted to get their own bed , I was more than than happy to comply. They say I can change a diaper in my sleep.

Answer 2

I feel similar to you... My son is a little over 3 months and I keep putting off moving him to his room. He doesn't sleep with us in our bed or anything, just in his bassinet. Originally I kept him in our room for convinience/my sleep. When they spit out the binky every 5 minutes til they fall asleep who wants to get out of bed and walk into the next room??? But I have to admit that I have become so used to him being in there and I like having him close by. He has slept in his room a few times and I was always up checking on him. My common sense tells me that it's time tho. Glad to hear I'm not the only person with this issue. Good luck to you .

Answer 3

I had my son sleep in my room until he was 2. I had both of my kids sleep in my room. They had their own bed and they slept in it but i just had them close to me to watch them and I felt the sameway as u that it was too soon and i needed to always be next to him. But I did moved him out of the room and i fixed up his room with the stuff he liked to make him feel more comfortable and easier for him to get use to it and it worked out fine. My daughter has everything disney princess and my son has everything spider man and it worked out great. Don't worry when it is time u will know as long as the baby is not sleeping in ur bed I don't see it as a problem. A good luck.

Answer 4

No it won't hurt the baby to sleep in the parents room and it does make it more convenient for you. The only bad thing that might happen is you put him in your bed, he becomes use to it and doesn't want to sleep alone when He is older. I feel that a young should be out of the parents room between 18 months and 2 years.

Answer 5

You dont HAVE to move your baby out of your room. If you dont want to, dont. No one is going to give you a bad parent award. My almost 3 year old still sleeps in our room from time to time because our baby sleeps in our room. Our son is almost 7 months old I have no plans of moving him into his own room until hes over a year, if not 2. Its just easier, especially since he wakes up every 3-4 hours a night.

Answer 6

There is nothing wrong with your child sleeping in your room at 5 months old. My daughter slept in my room until she was about 10 months old. I see nothing wrong with it. As long as you mover him to his room before he turns a year old, you should be fine and the transition won't be hard on him at all. If you are comfortable with him sleeping in your room, then let him sleep in your room. Listen to your heart and your own instincts. If you want to move him to his own room, make sure you have a baby monitor. That will help to ease yourself into it as well. Knowing you can still hear your baby helps. So if he wakes up you can still hear him and get to him. If you spend more on the monitor, you can actually get one of the ones witht he video camera on it, so you can also see him sleeping if you are worried.

You will be fine.

Answer 7

I agree with what twincerel and Lost My Identity answered. My kids are now 33, 31 and 28. We all co-family slept, and they turned out great. I think we had a 'family' bed til the youngest was about 4.
I remember reading that human babies are born totally helpless. They can't walk OR talk for about a year. There's a reason for our gut feeling that we ought to keep them close! Most young animals are born able to stand immediately, AND able to feed themselves. The first year of a human baby's life is kind of like an extended gestational period!

Answer 8

5 months isn't really too old to sleep be sleeping in your room, although you should really at least get him in his own bassinet or crib. Try that and then in a month or two try moving him to his own room. You really want to do it while he's young enough not to care where he's sleeping vs. old enough to argue with you about it.

Do it now rather than later. I promise you'll all sleep better and be happier in the long run.

Answer 9

well, its a tough one. My daughter was born at 27weeks and had breathing problems etc. so I found comfort in her being within arms reach of me while she slept. I dont think its a terrible thing, and people will say your son will be clingy and not sleep once you move him, blah blah blah... its not necessarily true.

My daughter slept in my room until she was 8months old, and she transitioned just fine! I think we were both ready. And you both have to be ready for something to work right. She was tired of hearing me get up to go pee at night (im pregnant again) and tired of hearing daddy's snoring, and I was comfortable with using a monitor finally. It took 8 months but I realized that she was ready, and that made me feel better.

she transitioned great, slept better, and knows all she needs to do is give a little wimper in the morning when she's ready to get up, and I will be there.

Answer 10

know were you are coming from... The first time I had my son sleep byhimself in his room was when he was 6 mo. He is going on 8 mo. now. It was very hard, I would get up at least twice a night just to make sure he was alright... I didn't feel safe having him sleep alone... They will get used to it... Although I think its harder for the parent to get used it... I still have him sleep with us off and on....