I tried having my middle daughter sleeping in the room with us but she was so noisy that we couldnt sleep. I think she was disturbing us and we were disturbing her.

We moved our son into his own room when he was 9 months old because he was waking every time we moved at all. Our 6 month old is in our room, mostly in our bed, and when she is ready we will have to move her. Her bedroom is too far away for my liking so I would prefer it if she stayed with us for a lot longer. Have to just follow her lead though.

Advise is always changing. It must be hard for young mums and dads nowadays to keep abreast of things !

Guidelines and information does indeed get updated and it is so important to keep abreast of the most current information and also seek the support of professionals.

SIDS recommendations seem pretty wise to me.

My boys never slept in our room but as the house is so small we set them up in our loungeroom, which is just outside our door, until they were old enough to sleep in their own room. SIDS was never talked about in those days.

It’s not uncommon for a SIDS problem to occur during the day, and no one can be 24/7 awake with the child. Can understand the problems if you have had a SIDS death, but we all have to live our own lives sometime. I just managed to save my baby and it was mid-morning when she stopped breathing.

I suppose our mothers did things differently and we turned out ok

I think SIDS recommendations are based on research and long-term study and I was happy to base my decisions on those.

I worked with an Ambulance Volunteer. He was upset as he had been out to a SIDS case the night before. He told us that each one he had been to the baby had a strong ammonia smell, usually from a wet nappy.

I think it is all dependent on the baby. My first was a premmie baby and a horrible sleeper. To be fair she suffered silent reflux, so that didn’t help. As such, we co room slept until she was 22 months (a month after she finally started to sleep through) so I could quickly resettle her for us all to sleep better. My second, no reflux and she consistently sleeps better from birth than my first did. She may leave our room sooner than our first did, but probably wont be in the first year still.

My youngest has been in her own room (of course with baby monitors) since the day she came home from hospital. She has been the best sleeper of all. With my others I co-slept.

my youngest has just moved into the room with his brother because he is a horrible sleeper, he is 3 next month and still both are bad sleepers

We’ve always co slept with all our bubs. As much as I’d love my own space to stretch out and sleep babies literally spend their entire development in pregnancy with mum. Always being “held”, hearing your voice and being warm, imagine how distressing it would be to go from so much contact and comfort to none during sleep? Once I looked at it from that perspective a little lost sleep on my part is nothing. I’m always careful to make sure babies are safe and can breathe easily during sleep.

My son was in his own room from the first night we came home from hospital. But it was a tiny house and he was in the room next to ours. He was sleeping through the night at 10 weeks and sleeping 13 hours straight at 6 months. The first year was so easy. I miss that.

I breastfeed and safely co-sleep. I wouldn’t move my child out of our room just for an extra .75 of sleep.

SIDS is a hard one – not enough is known as to the causes but taking precautions may reduce the risk. I didn’t follow all the guidelines and was lucky – but I think any concern they should follow recommendations even if experts disagree and it’s not too out of the box.

We followed all the guidelines, but my husband snores and was keeping bubs awake, so we moved him into his own room at around 2 months old.

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  • • mom93821 replied
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  Snoring really does change the dynamic for everyone; it is so disruptive and exhausting for the family.

It is a tricky one – but I don’t know anyone who wouldn’t err on the side of safety.

More research is always needed until we get down to zero but definitely makes some good points.