Baby in your room?

yellingbanana

A lot of us have nursery plans, with images of your baby sleeping soundly in their crib. But when I tried to put my newborn into their crib, it just seemed so big for them. So both of my DD's ended up in a bassinet right next to my bed until about 6 months. I can't even tell you how many times the baby ended up in bed with me while nursing! 
So...
What are your baby-sleeping plans?

ALM2016

Our nursery is upstairs at the far corner of the house, so I think our plan is to have him sleep in our room the first few months until we're comfortable putting him in the nursery (a.k.a., when we're cool with walking up and down the stairs eleventy billion times during the night).

leksiL

My friend just gave me her bassinet so I'm psyched to have room for baby to sleep in my room, but I always pictured myself as a cosleeper. DH isn't super into it I think he's scared to squash Baby Bells. So I picked play it by ear. Once I go back to work we will probably try to use the nursery so we can "take turns" sleeping. 

Lisa3379

I picked play it by ear, but honestly, we'll probably have him sleep in a bassinet-type thing in our room for a couple months or so. His room is right next to ours, but a friend of mine (who's dad was a pediatrician) had told her that having a newborn sleep in your room for the first few months cuts down on the possibility of SIDS by a considerable amount, so we'll probably take that advice. 

mysteryship

We're moving (hopefully) to a drafty old house before baby comes, so we're planning to sleep all in one room near the wood stove for as long as possible. Most of the real bedrooms are upstairs anyway and I definitely don't want to be doing stairs all night if I can help it...it's going to be interesting. 

Gizmo1231

The best advice our pediatrician gave us was to transition to the crib early so we did when DS1 was 1 week old. It worked for us and we, to this day,  have a really good sleeper so we will try again with this LO. 

SmashJam

DS was in a room attached to ours through a bathroom so putting him in the nursery wasn't a big deal because he was like, 10 ft away and I could hear everything.

This was after 4 weeks of him sleeping in the swing in our room because of reflux and some bf issues. 

This time around we will not have the attached room, so I don't know what I'll do-playing it by ear!

cgss11

I'm planning on our room in a pack n play right away. After the holidays and visitors are gone and DH is back to work, I think I'll try the crib and nursery then, or maybe around 6 weeks or so?

ve304856

LO will be in our room in a bassinet for the first 3 or 4 months. DS stayed in our room until I went back to work. DD stayed in our room a little longer. I will move the baby to the nursery (which is right across the hall) when the baby is only waking up maybe once or twice a night.

dmontgo

The Master is downstairs in our house and the other bedrooms are upstairs, and since I'm a n00b at all things baby, we are keeping A in our room for at least a month before we switch him to his nursery. If that month turns into 6 months, that's ok too. But I think a month is a good start since H will be starting school a month from A's appearance. So we'd all get in the groove. We'll have a rock'n'play in our room, but will switch to a pack'n'play if we need to.

ErikandAfton

We have a cradle for our room which he will probably be in for the first few weeks. I want to transition him to his crib in his room across the hall before I go back to work. 

ashleaf2018

I definitely don't judge anyone else for co sleeping, but I just don't think it's for us. That being said, our plan is to put baby down for naps in whatever room we're in whether that's in his crib, a cradle in our room, or a pack n play in the living room. Again, whatever room we sleep in for the night is where he'll sleep. I just want him within arm's reach for breast feeding/safety reasons.

jptrumptone

Like many others, we are planning to have her in our room for a month or so, in a pack & play with an infant sleeper. We might move to the nursery sooner than that depending on how disruptive things are for DH (who probably won't get paternity leave)

jennbaylor12

We kept DS in our room in a RnP for the first 6mths for nursing and then SIDS reasons and then moved him upstairs at 6mths. We will do the same with this LO

penelope4612

We will have baby in our room in a bassinet for an unknown/not yet determined amount of time, but will hopefully transition to the nursery before I go back to work.  I am a light sleeper and have problems with insomnia so I imagine having to physically get out of bed and go in another room to breastfeed will be enough to keep me up for several hours - so trying to avoid that at least initially when baby is feeding multiple times per night.

BabyRobbinsAdventure

Our nursery is basically attached to our bedroom. So playing everything by ear. We have a rock n play for sleep by our bed, but crib is close by if we go that route 

1MommyRunner

DS was in our room in a cradle for the first 2 months. We may transition a little earlier, but she'll definitely be in our room for at least a little while. 

brittnic86

There's no room for a bassinet, especially not two of them, in our room lol. But both of the other bedrooms are not even three feet from our door. I don't see us doing co sleeping. I'd be worried about either us or the dogs squishing the babies. 

princesslockness

We still have L in our bed, so I'm going with cosleeping. It is really nice to just snuggle LO in and go to sleep while nursing.

Mamax2

We won't have a "nursery" for about 3-6 after Mikey is born. So, we will set up the crib in our room, and he'll sleep in it from the day we get home. It's the same way we did DD. Now, when it comes to naps, he will just sleep in whatever room I'm in.

sourlemon

DD was in our room for 2.5 or 3 months. She started in  a pack n play and wound up in a rock n play with the reflux issues. However she napped in her crib from day 1. 

I voted for nursery because I hope after a month this kiddo will go into it at night...but we will just wait and see. 

Dd1 has never slept in our bed at home...and no one sleeps well if she's in our bed at a hotel...so cosleeping will not be happening over here. 

sheshae

I'm with @ashleaf2018 I know people who co sleep and those who do not. To me it's whatever but I'm a horrible sleeper and I move around so much and my little min pin sleeps right beside me each who will probably not give up her spot lol. We got a bassinet and will use that for some time then move him to the nursery 

silverfrost

I'll at least have tiny one in my bedroom with me. Ideally, we will have him sleep in the Rock 'N Play Sleeper right next to me. If he ends up snuggling in bed and that's what works for us, then that's what we'll do, I suppose.

cjt121413

LO will be in our room in a PNP for as long as it feels right. With DS I ended up Co sleeping and I'm not up opposed to that either. I'm hoping this little girl is a better sleeper than DS, but who knows. 

bakerstreetboys

Kai will be in our room for at least the first several months.  When we need to move him out, we'll have to decide how to shuffle the other kids!  When he moves out of our room, we will no longer have a guest room.

Austenista

I put in the room with mommy because we're just going to see what happens with that organically. If he's in a pack'n play, bassinet, one of those little bed things in the bed with us, etc. I really just want to see how he and (us) do best together. As long as I'm exclusively breastfeeding and getting up with him, he'll probably be with me. It gives me the best chance for getting back to sleep. 

Kacie209

As a FTM, I wasn't really sure. But, since his room is in the basement, and we're upstairs (that's how this twinhome is designed), we'll keep him in our room, or even the living room, until we feel comfortable moving him completely to his room. I have read that it's easier to just get a PNP and use that, since it can be used later on versus buying a separate bassinet/co-sleeper. We don't have much space in our room, though, so I am not sure where he will even go, so it may be living room. I still voted Momma's Room.

tinattt23

He'all start out in our room at night in a bassinet. Hopefully we'll move him to his own room after a couple months, but we'll play it by ear. My guess is well move him once night feedings are cut down/gone. 

jandd2014

I picked nursery because its just across the hall from our room and I'm a light sleeper so it shouldn't be a problem to hear when Baby really needs me. Plus, my mom said they tried to have me in their room, but I was such a noisy sleeper that she didnt get any sleep because she always thought I was about to wake up. 

SarahF8611

With my first, I had every intention of having him in our room with us. But, after the first time, we realized he was an adorably noisy sleeper (which is actually pretty common for newborns) so into the nursery he went. He did great in there and we never had any terrible transititions I've heard to so much about. I did nurse so it was SLIGHTLY annoying to get up and go into his room multiple times a night but it was fine. I probably will try again to have the baby in our room with us this time so she doesn't want our DS up but we will play it by ear.

phoebecar

I was so freaked out about SIDS and baby not breathing with my DD, I couldn't even put her in her nursery which was less than 10 feet away because I was constantly waking up putting my hands on her to see if she was breathing.  So she slept in the PnP for a few months.  I got no sleep (even when she was inches away from me).  My DH thought I was a crazy.

With my DS- we had moved to a bigger house where the master was downstairs and the other bedrooms upstairs- so he also slept in our room in the PnP for the first few months. We are still in the same house, so I have no reason to believe that anything will be different this time around.

With us, it just made life a little easier with DS being right there beside our bed when I was nursing rather than getting up, trekking upstairs and then back down- only to have to do that again in another hour or two.

PensiveCrayon

So, our situation is a bit different: we live in a hip open floor-plan apartment, which means no walls. We use bookshelves as partitions, but still, the whole place is open.

That said, we have two sleeping areas, and since H is a pilot and needs his sleep during the weekdays, we normally sleep separately. When baby comes, it won't be any different -- I'll sleep in the queen bed with the baby close by in a moses basket, and H will sleep in the king, with ear plugs and an eye mask. He's promised to wake up with baby during the weekends, but I'm not sure how that will work out during those initial weeks when I'm establishing my milk supply. I'm guessing I'll end up being the sole waker-upper, at least until the baby gets a bit bigger.

fauxpa-2

We are going the nursery route pretty much right off the bat.  We have too many animals that sleep with us, and I move way too much in my sleep to comfortably co-sleep.  We can't really go the bassinet route either because the cats are big cuddlers and I'd be too nervous about them smothering him accidentally.  The nursery is thankfully attached to our bedroom, and we can shut out the animals to keep my peace of mind at night.   

Lisa3379

jandd2014 said:

I picked nursery because its just across the hall from our room and I'm a light sleeper so it shouldn't be a problem to hear when Baby really needs me. Plus, my mom said they tried to have me in their room, but I was such a noisy sleeper that she didnt get any sleep because she always thought I was about to wake up. 

This is what I am worried about. I have two dogs, and one of them had digestive issues for awhile, so every time he started moving around, I'd immediately wake up to listen to hear if he was going to throw up on the floor or run to the door because he had to go potty. I'm still like this - super in tune to these dogs and any sound they make at night. I'm sure it will be amplified with the baby, which is not necessarily a terrible thing I suppose, but doesn't bode well for me getting any sleep. We will see!

Morgan400

With our first we had him sleep in his crib during his first night stretch from like 7pm till he woke up for his first feed usually around 1am. Then after that he would sleep in our room in the rock n play as he was up every few hours. It worked well for us so I hope it works out again, but will defiantly adjust to find what works best.

Blockfour

I plan to have Spencer in the nursery from the start but part of me likes the idea of him being near for the first few weeks (his room is right across the hall).  The problem with that is we have a cat who sleeps with us.  Samia is a very loud cat so if I tried to keep her out she would be meowing all night and a good probability she would scratch up the floor.  I don't trust the cat sleeping in the same room as the baby.

This is our first child so who knows what will happen in the end... We might decide it is worth fighting with the cat, lol.  Samia has us well trained.

swhiddon33

We will have him in our room for the first couple of months probably (the exact timeframe is what we will play by ear) before moving him to his nursery and crib. I've got a couple of sleep spots in mind: a rock n play and a pack n play with a sleeper. We will see what works best and go from there!

Toller

When we moved DD to her own room around 5 months- it was terrible having to actually get UP and walk allllllll the way (its not far in our house, but felt like a mile) to her room to feed her a few times a night.......we used a bedside cosleeper- you don't even have to fully wake up to feed them!!

We didnt' officially "co sleep" but she was super needy at first, so we got one of those "in the bed bassinet" things for the first week or so (doesnt work super great unless you have a king size bed!!), and occasionally I fell asleep nursing too.

jenlynne0624

Hopefully doing what we did with ds and that's keep baby in our room in the pnp until about 6 weeks and milk is established and stuff. We would put baby in the nursery, but that shares a wall with ds's room and we don't need two kids up at a time. I'll probably end up co sleeping int he morning when ds gets up to snuggle too, but the cat and the dog sleep with dh and I and I roll a lot, so full time co sleeping isn't ok. DH is very anti that anyway.

maamawaabangi

Usually this is what happens for us...
birth to week 6-8 baby is in bed with me/us (they start in their bassinet by our bed and move over or back and forth at night)
8 weeks to 4 to 6 months they sleep in our room in their own bed, nurse at night and go back to their bed
once night feeds are over they move into a room with an older sibling

It works for us. 

JEM525

Baby's Nursary is upstairs but he won't be sleeping in there until 5/6months. I have a strong healthy fear of SUIDS and I like to keep my little one close by for as long as I can. This LO will be sleeping in a pack n play next to our bed. It has a bassinet insert and a higher level insert for when baby is little and not rolling over.