After a stressful day at work and afterwork with showings of the apartment, I felt like pancakes for dinner instead of leftovers. DH is now frying them up while I'm resting on the couch. I am so grateful.
From what I recall reading, the SIDS risk decreases because the baby can hear your breathing and regulates their own breathing with yours, so it decreases the chance of breathing problems? I think? I think the most important SIDS prevention fact is that you are supposed to put them on their back when you lay them down.
My anecdote is that we room-shared up until LO was about 15 months old, since we lived in a one-bedroom apartment at the time. He was in a PnP bassinet and then just the regular PnP after he outgrew that. It wasn't ideal, but at the same time, I would not have been emotionally ready for him to be out of our room until he was like 6 months. By 15 months, we were like HALLELU, HE'S GETTING HIS OWN ROOM!!! He is 18 months now.
In the FIRST WEEK of moving into our new house, with his own bedroom finally, he began STTN. It was like magic.
DD was in our room in a RnP for about 3 months. When I went back to work, I wanted her outta there.
DH woke the same with/without her because of our monitor. He did soothing and replacing pacifier in her room and I did nursing. If she smelled milk she wanted it, even if that wasn't why she was fussing.
This time DD1 and New DD will have to share a room. Not sure of transition plan. Baby might sleep in our walk in closet after a few months?
Re: SIDs risk. From what I can remember, room sharing helped reduce the risk for a number of reasons including learning to regulate breathing by hearing mom and dad's breathing rhythms, less deep sleep, and the correlation with breastfeeding and its associated risk reduction. For us, DS slept in our room full time until 8 months in a bassinet at first then a crib when he could roll. We did a co-sleeping combo though where he would start the night in his bed then come into our bed after his first nursing wake up. This continued even after he was in his own room until he started STTN around a year. We'll probably do something similar for this baby.
Post by kristhegirl on Oct 24, 2016 21:41:06 GMT -5
I'm sure I ruined the benefits of room sharing by having a fan running and white noise going. Oops.
Elena was good at night sleep kind of from the jump (sorry for the humble brag, I'm sure it was all her and nothing we did as bumbling parents) and we moved her to her room when she was about 8 weeks old. She definitely still woke up to nurse, but i never did like side-lying nursing so sitting up in my room or in the nursery really didn't make a difference.
We do have an Angelcare monitor which I'm sure helped ease both of our minds when putting our tiny baby across the house from us all night, but it all worked out.
There's no wrong time, really. We all slept so much better when she moved out of our room.
Post by erinshelley21 on Oct 25, 2016 6:38:40 GMT -5
We kept ds in our room until 3 months old. He was sleeping 6 hour stretches and almost as soon as we moved him and his rock n play in his room he started sttn. He was still bf'ing, but I was pumping and bottle feeding so where he slept didn't matter.
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