The recommentation in the UK is that they sleep in the same room as you for the first 6 months to reduce the risk of SIDS (cot death). We kept our baby in our room until she was jut over 6 months but ny then we were all desperate to get her in to her own room, but I still feel better having had her in with us until then, although I couldn't have coped with her in the bed with us, she was and still is too much of a wriggler!
Where does your newborn sleep?
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They each slept in their own room in a cot from day one. Everyone has a different view on it so you should do what feels right for you. Personally, I am not a fan of co-sleeping (as in having the baby in bed with you) for fear of rolling on them and suffocating them. I had enough crazy post-delivery dreams of the baby being in bed with us and suffocating under the blankets and neither of them ever slept there!
PS I took a lot of comfort in having a motion sensitive baby monitor. When I had my crazy "baby in bed with us" dreams, I could look at the light on the monitor and see if flash every time the baby moved/breathed. Ours was a Tomy Tippee one and it was excellent.
PS I took a lot of comfort in having a motion sensitive baby monitor. When I had my crazy "baby in bed with us" dreams, I could look at the light on the monitor and see if flash every time the baby moved/breathed. Ours was a Tomy Tippee one and it was excellent.
Our baby slept in the room with us in a bassinet nearby our bed for the first 6 weeks. We weren't living in our own house but staying with friends and family. When we came back to Hong Kong, our son ended up sleeping our bed with us for about 3-4 weeks because the weather was so cold and we only had one heater to keep us all warm. But, we then discovered that the child is an absolute bed hog--even at only about 3 months old he had both of us pushed to the corner of the bed and about to roll off onto the floor! He also kicks and flails while he sleeps. So, we just couldn't sleep all together. He moved to his own bed and I had to get up to feed him (partially breastfeeding, partially feeding breastmilk by bottle and then much later formula) every 2 hours or less all night long and it was awful because I really didn't get any quality sleep for about 5 1/2 months--that's when my son started sleeping through the night. But, anyway, my son has slept in his own room, in his own crib/bed since he was 3-months-old with few exceptions and it works really well for us. We never used a baby monitor as my son's room was so close to ours and with the doors open we could hear him well.
My son slept in the carrycot in our room for the first 4 weeks and then in the carrycot in his own room for another 2 weeks, and then in the cot in his own room.
When we have the next one I'll do own room from Day 1 I think as we all sleep much better and it instantly lengthened the time he'd go before a night feed by an hour.
The theory behind having baby in your room is that the baby regulates it's own breathing from yours and therefore reduces the risk of SIDS. However, it is just a theory and not sure it would work in HK with air con and dehumidifiers running all the time
If you're really worried, you can get a baby monitor with a mattress sensor which detects breathing and sets off an alarm if it cant detect it.
When we have the next one I'll do own room from Day 1 I think as we all sleep much better and it instantly lengthened the time he'd go before a night feed by an hour.
The theory behind having baby in your room is that the baby regulates it's own breathing from yours and therefore reduces the risk of SIDS. However, it is just a theory and not sure it would work in HK with air con and dehumidifiers running all the time
If you're really worried, you can get a baby monitor with a mattress sensor which detects breathing and sets off an alarm if it cant detect it.