Anyone not planning on baby sleeping in your room?

mcla22011 · August 2012

I don't think we'll have baby in our room at all. We have a pretty small house, every single noise can be heard no matter where you're at. His room is right down the hall, like 15 ft from our room and we'll sleep with doors open. I just don't think it's necessary to go get a bassinet for him to sleep in our room for a couple weeks. All my friends think I am crazy as one still keeps her 2 month old in her room and another didn't make her son stay in his own room until he was 3 years old.

thebanich · August 2012

You are braver than I! DD slept in a bassinet until she was about 6 months old. It does make middle of the night feedings a lot easier.

tinyhumantoe · August 2012

My "plan" is to let LO sleep in her crib, but I have a PNP with bassinet/changing station set up in my room. If we're successful with Plan A, then the PNP will eventually move downstairs.

melody921 · August 2012

schiggins:
You are braver than I! DD slept in a bassinet until she was about 6 months old. It does make middle of the night feedings a lot easier.

DS never nursed well lying down, so I had to get him out of the bassinet and take him across the hall to the glider anyway. We all slept much better when he just stayed in the crib, so we're starting DD down the hall right away. OP, we're in the same boat as you. The upstairs isn't that big, and we can hear everything. And, we have a video monitor.

MomtobeNJ · August 2012

I have a bassinet in our room because it was handed down to me. We have a small house too, and LO's room is literally 10 steps away. The rocker is also in her room, so I would imagine we'll be in there for most longer feedings and stretches of awake time in the middle of the night.

I'm just going to play it by ear and see how it goes.

Sage4200 · August 2012

I dont plan on keeping him in our room too long, maybe just a few weeks. His room is right across the hall. Our bed to his crib is maybe 10 feet.

Jeberg · August 2012

Our little one really doesn't have a choice at this point (she doesn't have a room yet), but we would have kept her in our room regardless for a few months anyway. Like PP said it's easier for night time feedings. DS had his own room which he used for naps, but he slept in our room at night for about 6-7 months.

numb3rMel · August 2012

Nope! Everyone I know, except family, thinks I'm nuts. Even H thought we'd set up the crib in our room first. But when he heard both our parents started us all out in our crib from day 1, he's more on board with the idea. Its our friends who don't comprehend that our kid can sleep in her crib from day one. But! to each their own. What works for one doesn't work for another.

TAGSL710 · August 2012

We will have him in our room because his nursery is on a different floor but even if it was right next door I think that having to get up and walk rather than lift him out of the rock n play would really cramp my style.

MarisaKathleen · August 2012

No, we're not having LO in our room.

Everyone says it makes night time feedings easier, but the way I figure, you still have to get up and change their diaper, so there's still going to be walking around involved.

mcla22011 · August 2012

schiggins:
You are braver than I!

I don't think it has anything to do with being brave, it's basically lack of space in our room. Our room is pretty small and has a goofy set up, mix that with a big bed, dresser and tv stand, there's really no place for a PNP or bassinet to go where it wouldn't need to be moved often, like every time I needed to get up and pee in the middle of the night.

Baby's room is/was the guest bedroom, so if i get to exhausted i can just crash on the guest bed. My husband thinks everything will be fine with our set up, so I guess we'll find out soon enough!

noloveintennis · August 2012

We have the pack in play with newborn napper in our room. I only plan on him sleeping in it for the first week. When DH goes back to work I will move him into his crib so that I can get up and change/feed him without waking DH too much every time. I go to bed earlier than DH, so I should be able to get a few hours sleep before DH goes to bed.

Sage4200 · August 2012

numb3rMel:
Nope! Everyone I know, except family, thinks I'm nuts. Even H thought we'd set up the crib in our room first. But when he heard both our parents started us all out in our crib from day 1, he's more on board with the idea. Its our friends who don't comprehend that our kid can sleep in her crib from day one. But! to each their own. What works for one doesn't work for another.

My BFF is a huge propontent of AP so she cringes when I tell her things like this. We have to go with what makes sense to us. I personally think co cleeping is not safe but I dont side eye her.

Demedoll · August 2012

We didn't have DD sleep in our room so we plan to keep this one it it's own room as well.

There will be times when the baby wakes up and comforts itself and goes back to sleep. It is so important that kids learn to do that rather than being picked up or tended to immediately.

cmumama · August 2012

I never had DS1 sleep in our room and I don't plan on having DS2 sleep in there either. It's just a personal preference. I wouldn't get ANY sleep if he was in there with me. The rooms are close together, so I don't mind getting up to go feed him. It's just what works for us.

kelbel527 · August 2012

numb3rMel:
friends who don't comprehend that our kid can sleep in her crib from day one. But! to each their own. What works for one doesn't work for another.

For us, it's not that I don't think he can sleep in his room from day 1 - it's more of a selfish reason that we're keeping him in our room.

It was really convenient for me to roll out of bed, feed DS, change him and fall back asleep without too much work or commotion. Plus, I was a worry-wart and wanted to be able to wake up and hear him breathing.

DH can sleep through anything, so it never woke him up and was a lot more convenient for me.

gingerfamily · August 2012

DD slept in her room from the beginning and this baby will as well. I honestly don't see a reason for her to sleep in our room. I'll be getting up either way to nurse/feed her. Why should both of us be awake when H has to go to work the next day?

Dncr251 · August 2012

We plan on having DD sleep in her crib from night one at home. We did the same with DS. You can hear a baby cry from anywhere in our home, and our bedrooms upstairs are really close, plus the monitor.

VanessaB24 · August 2012

We're having her sleep in her crib in her room. Our house isn't huge and her room is across from ours.

MrsAB1316 · August 2012

Baby will be sleeping in his own room from day one. We had always planned it that way, but the house we moved into is tiny and our king size bed takes up our entire room. Like, literally no room for anything but the bed and one nightstand. There is about an 8 inch clearance on my side between the bed and the wall. Even if we wanted to have LO sleep in our room, we couldn't. We also have a 75lb lab/shepard that sleeps in our bed, so baby can't sleep in the bed with us, either.

mcla22011 · August 2012

Glad to see I'm not the only one who will put baby in his own room. Seriously, everyone but my parents were giving us crap for not having him in our room for the first few months.

sweetiebird726 · August 2012

We aren't planning on doing it for long, since I will have to go back to work after 6 weeks for financial reasons (completely unpaid leave). We were given a secondhand bassinet from a good friend of mine, and were gifted the PNP and a RNP at the shower.

We're going to start out with DS in the room with us, and then see how it goes while DH is home with us. Once he goes back to work, we will play it by ear and see how it goes. If he's not getting any sleep, or if neither of us are from the beginning, we will switch to DS in his crib.

We do have enough space in our bedroom for both the bassinet and the rocking chair we have, so that's not an issue. We would just have to move the rocking chair in order for me to access my closet - but it's not a big deal.

Sage4200 · August 2012

mcla22011:
Glad to see I'm not the only one who will put baby in his own room. Seriously, everyone but my parents were giving us crap for not having him in our room for the first few months.

I asked my friend who questioned me why she felt so strongly about it and she told me that it reduces the risk of sids but when I asked the pediatrician, he said that is not true.

mrs.kapow · August 2012

MH and I got no sleep when DD was in our room as a newborn. She liked noise and was a noisy sleeper herself.

We lasted about a week sharing a room with her (just in her PnP, so I don't see a need for a bassinet either way) and moved her to her crib. This baby will probably be in her crib from day one as long as I'm ok to move around for night feedings.

kbradshaw9 · August 2012

We are going to start with LO in the crib. DS was in our room in a RNP till he was about 2 months. I don't care to go through the transition again if I don't have to.

juliane2004 · August 2012

melody921:
schiggins:
You are braver than I! DD slept in a bassinet until she was about 6 months old. It does make middle of the night feedings a lot easier.

DS never nursed well lying down, so I had to get him out of the bassinet and take him across the hall to the glider anyway. We all slept much better when he just stayed in the crib, so we're starting DD down the hall right away. OP, we're in the same boat as you. The upstairs isn't that big, and we can hear everything. And, we have a video monitor.

This. Except we are FFing so I have to get up to get the bottle anyway.

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