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Alexisj15 
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Posted: 23 January 2012 at 11:43am |
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We are moving house before the baby is born and having trouble deciding how the rooms are all going to work.
Any advice on how long the baby stays in your room for or if you put them straight into their own room?
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MrsJMcD
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Posted: 23 January 2012 at 11:58am |
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Our DS was in our room until 11 or 12 weeks and then he went in to his own room as he was sleeping well, waking only once a night...which stopped when we put him in his own room.
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Posted: 23 January 2012 at 12:39pm |
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Ds has never slept in our room (except when we're on holiday). He's always slept well overnight, since 12 weeks only waking once and has slept through since bout 11ish months. Did sleep through the night from 12 weeks- bout 5/6 months. I've never regretted having him in his own room and neither has dh.
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Posted: 23 January 2012 at 12:49pm |
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I've been wondering this too, so thanks for posting!
We plan to keep bubs in our room until the house cools down a bit, as our room is cooler than baby's room.
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Posted: 23 January 2012 at 1:00pm |
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We kept DS in until about 4months, when we started putting him down earlier. he would wake 1-2 times a night. Slept through at 7months when we moved house (think it might have been a bit too cold in the old house).
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Posted: 23 January 2012 at 5:21pm |
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We kept our girls in with us until they were 9 weeks. I thought it was better for DH when he went back to work if I did the feeds in their room and figured they would hear each other's sleep noises. They slept through from 12 weeks so wasn't long doing that.
If I did it again with a singleton I would keep them in our room longer I think. I beleive the current SIDS guidelines suggests till they are 6 months.
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Posted: 23 January 2012 at 5:47pm |
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Im pretty sure plunket currently recommends keeping baby in the parents room til 6 months old to reduce risk of SIDS.
We moved DD into her own room at 12 weeks and DS at 5 weeks.
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Posted: 23 January 2012 at 6:41pm |
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I think my kids stay in with us til over 6 months? I think possibly even older with #2, #3 is going to share a bedroom with #2 so it'll probably be in with us til a year.
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Posted: 23 January 2012 at 7:05pm |
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Nine weeks for me ... then gradually moved to own room - day sleeps at first and then after a week or so overnight too.
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Posted: 23 January 2012 at 8:47pm |
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I think it depends on how comfortable you are with or without them near you, and how noisy they are at night.
I found both my kids were/are really noisy at night, they snort, snuffle and moan. Every time I would think they were waking up, I would go to the bassinet pick them up, try to feed, upset them, end up with an overtired baby. If their own rooms, they can snort, snuffle and moan all they like to settle themselves, and silly old mum won't interfere! I can still hear them cry from my room, and use an angelcare monitor for my peace of mind. My 10 week old has been sleeping 7pm-7am from xmas with only a dreamfeed, so it doesn't seem to bother him at all :-)
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Posted: 23 January 2012 at 8:51pm |
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I put DS straight into his own room, but he was a winter baby and his room was the warmest in the house. Will do same with this baby.
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Posted: 23 January 2012 at 10:46pm |
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With DS it was 3 months. With DD we had moved house and had a much smaller room, so after a few days it was either DH move into her room or she did! So she did, and I slept in the spare bed in there until after the early morning feed. DH needed his sleep if he was to function at work at all. And we used monitors for ages after they were in their own rooms.
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Posted: 24 January 2012 at 10:50am |
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Our DS went into his own room at about 10 weeks old. He was still waking once and then once he was in his own room he started sleeping through, was heavenly but sad at the same time!!!
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Posted: 24 January 2012 at 5:55pm |
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We moved DD into her own room around 4 months when she stopped night feeding and she grew out of her bassinet. I found it ewasier to BF in bed and less disturbance for her, but everyone is different. I think I would of been too worried ot put her in her own room before then, as it is now sometimes I wake up randomly in the middle of the night and check shes ok lol
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Posted: 24 January 2012 at 10:32pm |
As soon as we were home from hospital (4 days) DD was in her own room - DH and I couldn't sleep with all her noises, it was much better having her own room for all of us. When she woke for night feeds DH could then stay asleep while I snuck out 
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Posted: 25 January 2012 at 1:47pm |
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I think DD was just over 6 months.
She was in her bassinet beside my side of the bed then in her cot at the other end of our room (we have a long narrow room)
I don't think I would have been able to sleep with her not in our room.
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Posted: 31 January 2012 at 8:57pm |
DS is still in our room and he's 8.5months, but then we only have two rooms at the moment and DD is in the other one. I don't want to put them in together while he is still waking up a million times a night  When we move into our new house in March he will have his own room but I don't know if he will sleep in there or not, will have to see what happens!
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Posted: 31 January 2012 at 9:49pm |
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Our bubs was in our room until he was about 8 weeks old then we had to put him in his own room as he was keeping us up all night making noises. We all get a much better sleep now and beccause I'm not waking up everytime he makes noises he is actually sleeping through the night! We put him in his cot at about 8 weeks too as he was out growing his bassinet!
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Posted: 01 February 2012 at 1:20pm |
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I kept Seth in our room until he was about four months old, but I think that had more to do with the fact that we were moving house around then and I shifted him into his cot at the same time.
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Posted: 01 February 2012 at 10:21pm |
Our first daughter was in our room for 4 weeks, but she was a really noisy sleeper so we transferred her into her own cot.
Our second was quiet as a mouse. She ended up in our room for 5 months.
Both girls transfered to their own rooms without any problems.
Just give it a go and see how it works for you
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