https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:22:40 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/new-recommendations-to-prevent-sids/page/2#post-2642011 Tue, 25 Oct 2016 14:23:22 +0000 Smurfette 2642011@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Tanjowen: my question to DH last night when talking about this was, do the babies actually gasp for breathe? Otherwise even if she is in our room, and I am dead asleep, I don't see myself waking up. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/new-recommendations-to-prevent-sids/page/2#post-2642005 Tue, 25 Oct 2016 14:15:27 +0000 KT326 2642005@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our first was only in our room for the first 5 weeks. We just kept waking each other up and he was so noisy. </p> <p>But our second will be in our room much longer. We only have a two bedroom house so until the baby is sleeping consistently he will be in our room. But at least now I know about white noise machines! I'm really hoping that along with a soft light will help. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/new-recommendations-to-prevent-sids/page/2#post-2641996 Tue, 25 Oct 2016 13:54:08 +0000 Tanjowen 2641996@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I serve on an infant fatality board for 5 counties in my state. In 10 years I have seen multiple SIDS deaths, but never one yet that didn't have some underlying health factor, such as heart problems or environmental problems. I know SIDS is presented as such an "unknown" but from my experience and what our panel receives, it is mostly related to health and sleeping environment.</p> <p>Obviously I am not a doctor, but I find it hard to believe there is a lot of risk in putting my healthy, normal weight baby in his own crib with the safety recommendations of no blanket,pillow, etc. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/new-recommendations-to-prevent-sids/page/2#post-2641993 Tue, 25 Oct 2016 13:49:51 +0000 petitenoisette 2641993@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO slept in our room for 8 months. We would have moved her at 6 but we were renovating our house and her room wasn't ready until then. She slept in a RNP for about 3 months and then a pack n play. We are in a bigger bedroom now so I imagine baby number 2 we will set up a crib in our room so it's more comfy. </p> <p>Now nobody was sleeping super great for many of those months but I simply cannot imagine putting my young infant in a different room to sleep. And I think we would have just been sleeping worse if I was constantly going back and forth between our room and hers. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/new-recommendations-to-prevent-sids/page/2#post-2641883 Tue, 25 Oct 2016 11:13:21 +0000 looch 2641883@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wanted to create a safe sleeping environment, but at the same time, I needed to be realistic...I looked at all of the risk factors that contribute to SIDS and then made my decisions from there. What worked out best for us was to have a crib in the nursery as well as a futon where an adult could lay down.</p> <p>I know a lot of people thought this was a terrible idea, but it worked for us. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/new-recommendations-to-prevent-sids/page/2#post-2641879 Tue, 25 Oct 2016 11:07:17 +0000 californiadreams 2641879@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS1 and DS2 were in their cribs by 5 and 6.5 months, respectively. However i've had beds in their rooms as well that i end up spending a lot of time sleeping on with them or with them in their crib, so i guess we are still partially room sharing for part of the night for at least a year, basically until they stop waking me up during the night! For DS1, that was around 13 months. DS2 is almost 9 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/new-recommendations-to-prevent-sids/page/2#post-2641876 Tue, 25 Oct 2016 11:04:09 +0000 nana87 2641876@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>There was no way this would have worked in our last apartment--our bedroom was about 6 inches wider than our bed, and having a bassinet at the foot of the bed meant that you couldn't open the closet door. We spent the first 2 weeks of lo1's life sleeping on the pullout couch in our living room, and then about 2 weeks with the bassinet in our room blocking the closet, but I would nurse motn in her nursery bc it was more spacious and she would wake up every time I walked her down the hallway back to our room. She was in the crib in her own room starting around 1 month. Between a monitor and being so close by anyway, it was fine.</p> <p>With lo2, we have room for a bassinet now to be in our room for longer, and since the kiddos will share a room we definitely will want her to stay in with us for awhile, but 6 months-1year is a long time! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/new-recommendations-to-prevent-sids/page/2#post-2641864 Tue, 25 Oct 2016 10:45:07 +0000 MrsLonghorn 2641864@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>honestly, my first thought was "thank goodness DS is over a year old, and we're not planning to have another". We ALL (DS included!) slept so much better when DS moved to his crib full time at 7 weeks. I can't imagine sharing a room for a full year.<br /> I understand why they recommend it, and am glad if it works for other families, but it would have been a disaster in our house and knowing I was going against the recommendation would have just made my PPA even worse. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/new-recommendations-to-prevent-sids/page/2#post-2641859 Tue, 25 Oct 2016 10:30:54 +0000 avivoca 2641859@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Anagram: My newborn is currently bedsharing with me because that is the only way any of us get sleep. I put her in the PNP some but it is a nusance to keep getting up to get her for feedings. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/new-recommendations-to-prevent-sids/page/2#post-2641849 Tue, 25 Oct 2016 10:17:26 +0000 Ginabean3 2641849@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>With #1, she slept in a pack n play next to our bed for 8 months (until we moved into a house where she had her own room haha) and with #2, she slept IN the bed with us until about 7 months! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/new-recommendations-to-prevent-sids/page/2#post-2641817 Tue, 25 Oct 2016 09:36:41 +0000 Foodnerd81 2641817@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Anagram: yes! But then there will be an article about the risks associated with baby not getting enough sleep... meanwhile there have been plenty of times I should not have been behind the wheel because I was just so tired it wasn't safe. </p> <p>I can remember the recommendation to room share until 6 months when my 3 year old was born. We lasted 6 weeks because we were waking each other up too much. Our younger was in our room much longer, then we had to move her into the master bathroom because she was waking me all night and a mom that tired is a biggger risk than the extra few feet separating us. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/new-recommendations-to-prevent-sids/page/2#post-2641791 Tue, 25 Oct 2016 09:11:02 +0000 Anagram 2641791@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I read an article somewhere that was so true---it seems like the "recommendations" are soon going to be to only lay your infant down on a bare wooden floor, in a room with no furniture or bedding, with only a diaper on them.</p> <p>Of course, the baby won't ever sleep--but then no risk of SIDS, right? And mommies don't need sleep, right? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/new-recommendations-to-prevent-sids#post-2641789 Tue, 25 Oct 2016 09:08:40 +0000 Anagram 2641789@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Well, our 14 months old still sleeps in a crib in our room, so yay, I guess? JK I'm sure all the on-and-off cosleeping we did, with our pillow and everything cancelled out the benefits, risk wise. =) =) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/new-recommendations-to-prevent-sids#post-2641765 Tue, 25 Oct 2016 08:49:28 +0000 littlebug 2641765@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>D was in his own room at 5 days. A was in her own room at 10 days. It was what worked best for us. I'm not sure I'd change that, even with the new recommendations? But we're done having kids, so luckily I don't need to decide. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/new-recommendations-to-prevent-sids#post-2641738 Tue, 25 Oct 2016 07:49:13 +0000 misolee 2641738@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So with my first we lived in a townhouse with an unnecessarily big master bedroom and just set up her nursery in there bc our only other bedroom was my office and I didn't want to give it up. She slept in the big crib since day one bc I didn't know there were other options. The room was big enough that we weren't tiptoeing across or anything like that. It also helped she was a great sleeper. My pediatrician at the time did not mention anything. (4 years ago)</p> <p>With my 8 month old, we had a separate nursery set up and planned to put him in the crib. After couple of nights, walking back and forth and back and forth, I had my husband set up the pack n play in our masters. He slept there until about six months and I started putting him in the crib. My pediatrician also kept asking where he was sleeping at every check up and reminded us to keep him in our room. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/new-recommendations-to-prevent-sids#post-2641690 Tue, 25 Oct 2016 00:17:16 +0000 Kemma 2641690@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@catomd00: yup, the majority of "SIDS" deaths in New Zealand generally involve several other risk factors such as smoking, drugs or alcohol, formula feeding (purely from a risk perspective) or a prem baby. Very rarely do we hear about deaths where the parents are following safe bedsharing guidelines. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/new-recommendations-to-prevent-sids#post-2641680 Mon, 24 Oct 2016 22:35:30 +0000 Coffee-lover 2641680@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I thought that babies were already supposed to sleep in your room for the first year. My daughter slept in her crib pushed up against our bed for the first 8 months, and we have been bedsharing ever since (she is 18 months old now).</p> <p>@pachamama: There are plenty of other rooms to have sex in other than in the bedroom! There is no need for lack of sex just because there is a sleeping baby in your room at night </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/new-recommendations-to-prevent-sids#post-2641677 Mon, 24 Oct 2016 22:27:31 +0000 Coffee-lover 2641677@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@catomd00: I agree completley! Suffocation from unsafe bedsharing has nothing to do with sids! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/new-recommendations-to-prevent-sids#post-2641655 Mon, 24 Oct 2016 21:22:33 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 2641655@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For the sake of not starting a bad habit with DS thinking he can join in a bed time slumber party, I plan to perfect what I did with him if we have another baby. He slept in his crib in his own room around 2.5 months. I am okay with camping out in my LO's room, but I wanted him to get to know his space rightaway. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/new-recommendations-to-prevent-sids#post-2641642 Mon, 24 Oct 2016 20:39:32 +0000 wrkbrk 2641642@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@raspberries: I'll admit I was happy to see this today! </p> <p>We still room share (DS is 11 months) and I get a lot of grief about it IRL. Everyoneeeee has an opinion when they find out. But I do feel that it's contributed to his safety, my peace of mind, our family bonding, and DS's foundation of security. He's happy in his pnp (used to be a halo bassinet until he got too big). We bed share on and off but he's truly safer where he can't roll and fall off the bed! </p> <p>Btw we converse normally with him sleeping next to us, read, watch Netflix, etc. If he's tired he doesn't even stir. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/new-recommendations-to-prevent-sids#post-2641603 Mon, 24 Oct 2016 19:17:51 +0000 dc yoga bee 2641603@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I thought this was already the recommendation. Our pediatrician asked us at our first apt if DD was sleeping in our room, and that she should sleep in her crib or bassinet in our room the first six months. She slept in the crib in our room the first 8 months, and has been co-sleeping from 8 months-17 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/new-recommendations-to-prevent-sids#post-2641593 Mon, 24 Oct 2016 18:49:11 +0000 DesertDreams88 2641593@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For night, we did RnP until 4m and then PnP until 7m, in our room. Now he's in a crib in his room.</p> <p>For naps, we did a bouncer in our room until 4m, then PnP in our room until 5m, then crib in his room for naps.</p> <p>I lIke how we did it and I think it was a good balance of safety and everyone getting as much sleep as possible </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/new-recommendations-to-prevent-sids#post-2641576 Mon, 24 Oct 2016 17:39:06 +0000 littlecasita1122 2641576@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>In our townhouse, our two bedrooms were so close together I didn't feel the need to room share. He was sleeping in the crib in his own room from the day we brought him home. I was more concerned with no blankets, no bumpers, flat surface, etc. I'm pregnant now with twins and there's no way we can even fit one pack n play in our room in our new house. You have to do what works best for your situation. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/new-recommendations-to-prevent-sids#post-2641573 Mon, 24 Oct 2016 17:31:06 +0000 delight 2641573@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Like others said, I am pretty sure health Canada recommends 6 months already. When we had our hospital orientation and birth plan set-up, our nurse told us the 6 month guideline. I am not sure if this will change anything for us. I really wanted to have DD sleep with us for that long, but I just wasn't sleeping at all with her in the room. She only stayed with us for 3 weeks. I was planning on doing the same for LO#2. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/new-recommendations-to-prevent-sids#post-2641565 Mon, 24 Oct 2016 17:10:41 +0000 autumnleaves 2641565@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If this came out before we had LO1, I'd be stressed to find the space for a crib in our master bedroom. We tried the pack n play for a night but it blocked the way for one of us to get out of bed and LO1 kept us awake. I think we all slept better with LO1 right across the hall in his own room. LO2 is 6 months and has been sleeping in his own room since his first day home from the hospital.<br /> I'd like to know more about the study(ies) that they got these results from. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/new-recommendations-to-prevent-sids#post-2641560 Mon, 24 Oct 2016 16:29:16 +0000 catomd00 2641560@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm glad they de-demonized bed sharing a bit, but I don't love the connection to SIDS. Suffocation from improper cosleeping is not the same as SIDS. I think they still missed the opportunity to educate fully on safe bed sharing. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/new-recommendations-to-prevent-sids#post-2641554 Mon, 24 Oct 2016 16:23:12 +0000 oliviaoblivia 2641554@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our nursery is attached to our master so close enough.<br /> They're in a co-sleeper until they start crawling. They've all moved into the crib by five months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/new-recommendations-to-prevent-sids#post-2641550 Mon, 24 Oct 2016 16:15:57 +0000 mrsrain 2641550@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I thought that was the recommendation already... I know that SIDS research has shown this to be the safest arrangement for SIDS prevention, and it's what we chose to do with both of our kids. We moved them into the crib in the nursery at 6 months both times. Before that they each slept in the pack n play in our room. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/new-recommendations-to-prevent-sids#post-2641541 Mon, 24 Oct 2016 16:06:26 +0000 cascademom 2641541@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I slept in the family room with both of my kids for the first few months until we did the crib transition. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/new-recommendations-to-prevent-sids#post-2641531 Mon, 24 Oct 2016 15:45:21 +0000 runnerd 2641531@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mfa_lady: haha yea, #1 was actually in his room by Day 2 because that's what worked for us, but since he is 2 now, no residual guilt on that one :P </p>