When is your LO going into the crib?

cherylnicole · June 2010

We initially were thinking of moving DS to his crib at 3 months (in about a month) but i've been reading a lot of different things talking about the benefits of keeping your baby with you until up to 6 months of age...

When is your LO moving into their own room?

D.Smith · June 2010

I DID IT AT 8 WEEKS

Molly Jean · June 2010

nicole4312:

but i've been reading a lot of different things talking about the benefits of keeping your baby with you until up to 6 months of age...

Really? I've never heard that. I guess it depends what they mean by 'keeping your baby with you'. Is this for co-sleepers? Or just in your room via bassinet/pack and play?

Our babe sleeps in his pack and play at night right now. However, we move to our new house this weekend and will be setting up his crib in his new room. We are going to put him in it and see how he does (and how we feel) after the first night. We will probably keep the pack and play in our room as a back up...

lildevil968 · June 2010

We did it at 3 wks because LO could not get to sleep in our room.

earthyaky · June 2010

We figure when she's 21 - ish

Stick out tongue

BabyLove987 · June 2010

We moved LO to her own room at 1 week.

cherylnicole · June 2010

Molly Jean:
nicole4312:

but i've been reading a lot of different things talking about the benefits of keeping your baby with you until up to 6 months of age...

Really? I've never heard that. I guess it depends what they mean by 'keeping your baby with you'. Is this for co-sleepers? Or just in your room via bassinet/pack and play?

Our babe sleeps in his pack and play at night right now. However, we move to our new house this weekend and will be setting up his crib in his new room. We are going to put him in it and see how he does (and how we feel) after the first night. We will probably keep the pack and play in our room as a back up...

Right now he's in a bassinet right next to the bed but I was thinking about moving him from the bassinet into our bed at 3 months-the stuff I've found/read is similar to this excerpt here:

"In 1992 we set up equipment in our bedroom to study eight-week-old Lauren's breathing while she slept in two different arrangements. One night Lauren and Martha slept together in the same bed, as they were used to doing. The next night, Lauren slept alone in our bed and Martha slept in an adjacent room. Lauren was wired (see figure) to a computer that recorded her electrocardiogram, her breathing movements, the airflow from her nose, and her blood oxygen level. The instrumentation was painless and didn't appear to disturb her sleep. Martha nursed Lauren down to sleep in both arrangements and sensitively responded to her during the nighttime as needed. (The equipment was designed to detect only Lauren's physiologic changes during sleep. The equipment did not pick up Martha's signals.) Martha nursed Lauren down to sleep in both arrangements and sensitively responded to Lauren's nighttime needs. A technician and I observed and recorded the information. The data was analyzed by computer and interpreted by a pediatric pulmonologist who was "blind" to the situation?that is, he didn't know whether the data he was analyzing came from the shared-sleeping or the solo-sleeping arrangement.

Our study revealed that Lauren breathed better when sleeping next to Martha than when sleeping alone. Her breathing and her heart rate were more regular during shared sleep, and there were fewer "dips," low points in respiration and blood oxygen from stop-breathing episodes. On the night Lauren slept with Martha, there were no dips in her blood oxygen. On the night Lauren slept alone, there were 132 dips. The results were similar in a second infant, whose parents generously allowed us into their bedroom."

Like I said, i'm still unsure about the whole idea but wanted to see everyone's opinion!

SoCaliAli · June 2010

once he is too heavy for the PNP, probably in a few weeks. He is 13 pounds, I think the limit on ours is 15 pounds.

cherylnicole · June 2010

oops I cut off the part where it said they performed this study up until 5 months age

Go_Dawgs · June 2010

Since we formula feed, DH and I take turns with feedings, and having LO in his own room helps the other person get a lot more sleep. He slept in our bedroom for the first 4.5 weeks, and then we recently moved him into his own bedroom. However, right now he's sleeping in his swing in the nursery. He's a fussy baby and the constant motion calms him. We're hoping to transition him to the crib very soon.

Flowr4246 · June 2010

She's been sleeping the majority of the night in her crib since she was about 3w. We tried to put her in there from day 1, but it was more a laziness thing on our part that brought her into our room. I was too sore to keep walking down the hall to get her when she cried and DH had to get up for work every morning around 4:30, so we put her in the RNP for starters. Now she's in the RNP only for the time between her early morning feeding (around 5:30) and when I leave for work (around 7). Again, it's a laziness thing - I'd rather plop her in the RNP and get another 20 minute catnap, than have to take her back to her room and get her fully settled in there before I can head back to sleep myself.

ErinRC · June 2010

my baby sleeps in bed w/ me & SO at night and in her PNP in our room during the day. she has a crib and her own room, but we have no idea when she'll even sleep in the PNP at night, let alone the crib. We actually didn't plan on bed-sharing, but it seems to work best as I can get to her easily and check on her w/o disturbing her. I've read that there's nothing wrong w/ bed-sharing, but not sure up to what age. (my baby's 3 weeks)

IrishBrideND · June 2010

Since the SIDS risk is at the highest around 4 months, we want to wait until at least then.

But we don't have plans set in stone. We will play it by ear.

babyinhbg · June 2010

He sleeps in his crib at night since 2 weeks. We are formula feeding and sleeping in a craddle in the living room during the day and early evening. (i dont move him if hubby fell asleep on the sofa and hes sleeping in the craddle. Hubby wakes and feeds hims and then puts him in the crib)

nestinginjapan · June 2010

I think our bassinet is only good until he reaches 15 lbs (he's about 12 now) ... so he'll transition to the crib soon!

Dawley82 · June 2010

nicole4312:
Molly Jean:
nicole4312:

but i've been reading a lot of different things talking about the benefits of keeping your baby with you until up to 6 months of age...

Really? I've never heard that. I guess it depends what they mean by 'keeping your baby with you'. Is this for co-sleepers? Or just in your room via bassinet/pack and play?

Our babe sleeps in his pack and play at night right now. However, we move to our new house this weekend and will be setting up his crib in his new room. We are going to put him in it and see how he does (and how we feel) after the first night. We will probably keep the pack and play in our room as a back up...

Right now he's in a bassinet right next to the bed but I was thinking about moving him from the bassinet into our bed at 3 months-the stuff I've found/read is similar to this excerpt here:

"In 1992 we set up equipment in our bedroom to study eight-week-old Lauren's breathing while she slept in two different arrangements. One night Lauren and Martha slept together in the same bed, as they were used to doing. The next night, Lauren slept alone in our bed and Martha slept in an adjacent room. Lauren was wired (see figure) to a computer that recorded her electrocardiogram, her breathing movements, the airflow from her nose, and her blood oxygen level. The instrumentation was painless and didn't appear to disturb her sleep. Martha nursed Lauren down to sleep in both arrangements and sensitively responded to her during the nighttime as needed. (The equipment was designed to detect only Lauren's physiologic changes during sleep. The equipment did not pick up Martha's signals.) Martha nursed Lauren down to sleep in both arrangements and sensitively responded to Lauren's nighttime needs. A technician and I observed and recorded the information. The data was analyzed by computer and interpreted by a pediatric pulmonologist who was "blind" to the situation?that is, he didn't know whether the data he was analyzing came from the shared-sleeping or the solo-sleeping arrangement.
Our study revealed that Lauren breathed better when sleeping next to Martha than when sleeping alone. Her breathing and her heart rate were more regular during shared sleep, and there were fewer "dips," low points in respiration and blood oxygen from stop-breathing episodes. On the night Lauren slept with Martha, there were no dips in her blood oxygen. On the night Lauren slept alone, there were 132 dips. The results were similar in a second infant, whose parents generously allowed us into their bedroom."

Like I said, i'm still unsure about the whole idea but wanted to see everyone's opinion!

I have the "Baby Sleep Book" too!!:) I love Dr. Sears. I don't have a set time for when we will move Ella into her crib. I think we are just waiting until it feels right. My DH and I are not ready for her to be in a different room and I don't feel that Ella is ready either. Now that I am returning to work next week, I feel that it's even more important to have her with us as she will probably deal with anxiety from being away from me. I truly believe that babies benefit from sleeping near their parents when they are very young. I think you should do it for as long as it feels right for you. Don't let anyone make you feel bad about your choice (and a lot of people will). Your LO will not end up scarred for life or sleep in your bed forever because he stayed in your room longer than someone else thinks is right. Enjoy the extra closeness with your LO while you can!! Smile

melpiii · June 2010

we put him in the crib at about 6 weeks. up until then, he was sleeping in a bassinet next to my side of the bed. he never seemed really comfortable in the bassinet even though we tried to "beef" up its comfortability. plus he started waking up in the morning a little early when my husband would wake up to get ready for work...so...we put him in his crib like a big boy last week and he is doing really really well. sleep is now in longer sessions and he seems to be well rested in the morning.

we never really did the whole co-sleeping thing. i sleep too hard and roll around alot and never really felt safe with having him in the bed with us. we do take naps in the bed together during the day when the hubs is away though. we have more room and i don't sleep as hard during naps.

hope this helped!

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