I live with my cousin, and I just started letting my 8 month old son sleep in his own room. She has a baby boy who is turning 5 months old and wants to put him in his own room as well. Is this too early or not?
2006-11-15 05:16:00 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
the problem is that her son will be in the same room as my son, who just began sleeping there 3 days ago.He isn't even used to it yet, and she yells at me when he wakes up and cries...
2006-11-16 02:21:37 · update #1
I put my daughter in her own bed starting when she was a week old. They are never too young for it. Some people don't believe in putting a baby in their own bed, but I don't believe in having a family bed. It's really up to you and your cousin when ever she decides to do it. If she's going to, it's better to do it earlier than later, it's harder for them to adjust as they get older. Not impossible, just harder.
2006-11-15 06:37:00 · answer #1 · answered by disneychick 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it's not too early, it just depends on the parents and what feels comfortable to them. My babies slept in their own rooms after they were three months old. The best thing to do is make sure that the parents have a working baby monitor and will wake up to it. As long as the parents feel comfortable about putting their baby in their own rooms and have a working baby monitor, everything will be fine. Personally, I feel it is better to put them in their own rooms when they are younger, it tends to help with the seperation anxiety problems that could occur later on if the baby is still sleeping with mom and dad. But each parent has different opinions as to what is best for their children. So just make sure your cousin has a monitor and support her decision to put her five month old in their own room. As long as she is comfortable doing that, then let her, she has a different parenting style than you do and that's ok as long as the baby is happy, healthy and well cared for by mom.
2006-11-15 05:24:40 · answer #2 · answered by masmalan2004 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not at all. My son had his own room the first day he was brought home from the hospital. I was always there within seconds of him starting to be fussy and he's grown into an independent, wonderful little toddler with no problems going to sleep by himself. I think the longer you keep the child in the same room as you, the harder it'll be to get them adjusted to their own room.
2006-11-15 05:42:33 · answer #3 · answered by chicchick 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My son was a very easy going baby, and started spending the night in his own room at 6 weeks. My daughter was a little higher need, and even though she had her own room she didn't start spending the night in it til she was about 18 months.
Each baby is different! Good luck!
2006-11-15 05:20:03 · answer #4 · answered by soleilshewitch 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is no set age at all.
Some parents like to have their baby in the same room (if you are breast feeding this will make it easier), but others will give their kid their own room from day 1.
Whatever makes her happy really, she can always invest in one of those baby monitor things.
Moving to your own room (from the child's point of view) can often be really disruptive, so perhaps it is better earlier than later before you get into a set routine, which you will then have to break.
2006-11-15 05:20:36 · answer #5 · answered by HP 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no time is too early my son is two months and has slept in his own room since he was 1 month the only reason, he didn't like sleeping in a crib was because of all the wide open room, so I had to put his bassinet carrier inside his crib now he loves it, so the answer to your question would be no, 5 months is not too early.
2006-11-15 05:19:46 · answer #6 · answered by sweetme 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Many people never have a child sleep in the same room with them. I.e. they are in a room by themselves from day one.
This just depends on personal preference.
2006-11-15 05:17:58 · answer #7 · answered by Phoenix, Wise Guru 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My oldest was in his own room at 3 months because he outgrew the bassinet. My youngest was out in a week because he was such a loud sleeper, we didn't get any sleep.
2006-11-15 05:20:49 · answer #8 · answered by TRUE PATRIOT 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i trust that is better once you imagine that is better. besides the undeniable fact that, some options might want to be even as she starts slumbering by the nighttime, that is a very good time, besides the undeniable fact that of route save a toddler computer screen interior of sight purely in case. that you're doing...you've gotten a mild case of submit pardum. you may want to favor to look into it. it type of feels that you won't be able to enable flow. not that you're the purely one....all moms were there, highly on your first toddler, yet in case you save them contained in the room, and they grow old, and understand, that is going to likely be VERY complicated to get them to ween themselves from you. a lot extra problematical then that you'll do it. you do not favor a 5 three hundred and sixty 5 days previous slumbering contained in the mattress with you and your husband each and every nighttime do you? i don't believe of so, not in case you want the marriage to very last. i might want to sit down with your husband and settle on, are you holding her in there, because you want her close, purely to be close? Or because you're afraid she will be able to't make it by the nighttime. it type of appears like she is making it by the nighttime purely high-quality, and that is ideal next door to you, you've the toddler computer screen, and he or she looks purely high-quality in there by herself. i might want to enable her be in there.
2016-11-29 04:10:08 · answer #9 · answered by broadway 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's perfectly fine at 5 months. Tell her to go for it :-)
2006-11-15 05:18:02 · answer #10 · answered by CelebrateMeHome 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋