When is a good time to have your baby sleep in their own room?

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As a first time mom, I'm trying to get everything I need to to know figured out before baby gets here.  I know I'm not going to co sleep and I know I want baby I  their own room as soon as possible to help with getting baby used to falling asleep without us there. When did you start having baby sleep in their own room? What was the hardest part and what was the easiest part? any tips or tricks you did to help them sleep?

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I planned on my daughter spending at least 6 months but hopefully a year in my bedroom in the pack n play next to me.. we made it 5 months before my husband "wanted our room back" 😒  so I told him we had to make it to at least 6 months and he reluctantly agreed. 6 months came around and I said we needed 3 more weeks bc she was born early 😅 and the week after that we were going to go camping so I said well, why don't we have just this week and then when we get home she'll go in her room at night. soooo 7 months. and I liked having the fresh start of coming home from a big trip so she was already used to not being in my room. she did just fine and I slept on her floor the first night (for myself, she didn't care 🙄) the cat even jumped in her bed and I was SO mad but she didn't even wake up!       you could do daytime naps in there from the beginning though. I was a bad mama and let my daughter sleep in her bouncy chair during the day, I liked toting her around the house wth me. and the transition to the crib from the chair for naps was not fun. and congratulations! safe and speedy delivery to you 💕

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The AAP suggestion is having child sleep on their back (until the child is able to roll
Over on their own), in their own crib/bassinet for the first 6 months- a year. 
  Maybe move them to their own room
At around 6-7 months?! 
https://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/pages/american-academy-of-pediatrics-announces-new-safe-sleep-recommendations-to-protect-against-sids.aspx

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We had our son in a rock n play sleeper in our room till he was 2 months. At 2 months he started sleeping for longer stretches so I asked the doctor about putting him in his crib in his own room. She said it sounded like a good idea, easier sooner than later for him to handle the transition easier. He slept great and seemed to enjoy the extra space. Everyone slept so much better in their own rooms (after I stopped looking at the monitor every 5 min to make sure he was ok lol, and he was fine!)

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I absolutely planned on our daughter sleeping in her nursery right from day one for the same reason you have: independence. We did and that she did excellent! But I ended up wanting her closer to me after about a week. And the AAP actually recommends they sleep in your room until they're 6-12 months old. So that's what we'll be doing. She sleeps in a pack n play next to my side of the bed and I feel that it's helped a lot in helping her sleep at night. I had her sleeping trough the night by 5 weeks old (9-12 hours straight). She was only right down the hall before but it made it more challenging to tend to her if she needed me. By the time I woke up and got to her room, she'd be screaming and crying whereas having her next to our bed, I'm awake within a minute or so of her getting restless so I'm better able to put her right back down before she starts crying. Even having her in our room, she's very independent with sleeping. She's never slept in our bed. Always in her own space. I put her down for naps in her nursery with zero issues. She's awesome! So I don't feel that having her in our room has hindered her independence at all 😊

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I believe the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends they sleep in your room until 6 months of age, we had our girl in a rock n play in our room for the 1st couple of months before she got too long for it, then she was in a cosleeper used bassinet style (meaning not attached to our bed) for another couple of months, she hit the 4 month sleep regression & it seemed like we were maybe waking her up w/ our moving around in bed, snoring, coughing etc. so at almost 5 months old we made the decision to move her into her own room, our room shares a wall w/ her room & we got a video monitor, I cried the 1st night but she was fine :) I usually go in her room & turn on her sound machine, change her diaper, put her in her sleep sack & then nurse her & rock her, once she's drowsy I put her in her crib, pop her pacifier in her mouth & leave the room (I do all this w/ the lights off or w/ only a small dim light on)

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We moved our LO into her own room almost immediately. Neither of us could sleep with her in our room. We used a swaddle from the beginning

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The first 3 months our son slept in his bassinet beside my side of the bed. At 3 months, I made a pact to allow him to sleep in his crib in his own room. We did not use blankets or pillows, but we did have a bumper as he was not moving around much yet and it was fine. He is now 15 months and has slept through the night since being in his own room. It was scary the first few nights but we have a baby video monitor that we can zoom in to check on him and his breathing. It really helped ease my stresses and I am so glad we switched to his own room when we did.

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We kept our son in bedroom with us for about 6 weeks  in bassinet.  We moved him to his crib after that and he started sleeping through the night starting at 2 months. ..Amazing.   Hes slept through the night ever since.

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Just start as soon as possible 
People say you can't sleep train .. 
I feel it all depends on what you call "sleep train " 
Sleep training for me was basically singing to my baby putting her on my chest and rocking her once she got sleepy I just put her in her crib .. but now we co sleep sometimes

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As a first time mom I put my son in a swing next to our bed for the first week, the second week I slept with him on my chest, and then the third week I moved him into his room in the swing. I found he slept the same in the swing no matter where he was, it was just physically painful for me to wake up every 2-3 hours to feed him. It was easier when he was close because I could quickly grab him but I REALLY wanted him to get used to his own room. I found him sleeping in the rocker in his room did the trick. We actually did a method where from 8pm-8am we kept him in his room and never turned the lights on and would only whisper hoping he'd get used to "night time." Sure enough he got used to it and slept best in that environment. We moved him to his crib at 7 weeks and BAM he slept 8 hours! I couldn't believe it. I've been made fun of because when traveling he doesn't sleep well unless he's in the dark and it's quiet (we play white noise in his room), but I like the fact he sleeps like this. He's a great independent sleeper. It's just rough in the beginning when you're so physically exhausted it's difficult to get up. I pushed out his feedings to three hours (mainly because I had to at the hospital so I knew he could do it) and that helped a lot because he tended to eat more in one sitting. Once he hit the 7 week mark he ate a little bit more and was able to go through the night. I suggested all these methods to a friend and it worked for her baby. She still woke at 1am and 5am at 3 months but started sleeping through the night soon after and still sleeps amazing in her own crib.