Putting baby upstairs to bed?

[Bun87]

DD is 7 weeks old and at the moment we take her up for a bath with DS, stories and milk in the bedroom and then lie on the bed with them both until they are asleep. We then leave DS upstairs and bring DD down with us until we go to bed. What age did you start leaving little one upstairs in bed instead of bringing them downstairs with youyou? DD is pretty much asleep every night by 8pm, sometimes earlier but i feel like it's a little bit too soon at the moment to be leaving her upstairs. I know that by 12 weeks we definitely had DS in the room at night, so maybe we'll aim for then?! Thanks! X

 

[jodilee6]

DS is 12 weeks and it's been the last week or so I've actually taken him upstairs when he's fallen asleep. That's only because he's become more consistent with the time he's falling asleep for the night, before then he could still be wide awake when we wanted to go to bed!

 

[londonangel]

We put ours in her bed in our room upstairs from birth but had the monitor on downstairs.

 

[xprincessx]

DD is 9 weeks on Sunday and for the past couple of weeks we put her upstairs to bed with her dummy, cover her with her blanket and come downstairs. We have baby monitor on and when she loses her dummy we go upstairs, give it back to her and leave again. She doesn't cry and falls asleep within 15 minutes.

My DS was a terrible sleeper because I held him whenever he went to sleep. We ended up co-sleeping until he was 3.5 years old and then he had to go into his own bedroom and it took another year before he'd sleep alone (without someone cuddling him to sleep). He is 5 now and only the past few months he has gone to sleep alone, I did not want to make the same mistake again.

 

[MindUtopia]

For us, I think it was about 4 months? Before that, she slept on our chests or in the wrap with us downstairs. We'd give her her early evening feed when she was ready, pop her in the wrap while we ate dinner and watched tv or did whatever in the evening, then she went to bed when we did, often when she woke for her next feed, which was usually around 10-11pm. That worked really well and it was an easy transition to sleeping alone upstairs when the time came because she was already used to going to sleep at that time. Then we did exactly what you do now, bath, book, milk, lie down on the bed with her (in her co-sleeping cot) until she went to sleep, then sneak back downstairs.

 

[k4th]

About 6 weeks. I'd have kept him downstairs longer but he's a really light sleeper. Oh & I had turned the telly right down & wouldn't speak to each other because otherwise he's wake & be really unhappy. He settles much better now he's upstairs. I check on him every 30 mins or so & we have a monitor.

 

[SarahBear]

We were in an apartment when Violet was a baby and we now live in a single story house. Very few people around here have a two story house. I guess if the baby is safe and settled and you can hear them if they wake, it doesn't really matter. As far as what to "aim" for, I'd just follow your baby's lead.

 

[_Meep_]

12 months!!! She naturally transitioned from finally falling asleep for the night around 10/11pm (ugh!) to 9, then 8, and now around 7:30. Took ages but it's good now we have our evenings back.

 

[Bing28]

We started from 2 weeks old - bath at 6pm, massage, feed, story, listen to lullaby music then have her fall asleep in our arms and put to sleep in her crib in our room around 7.30pm. She usually sleeps until around 11pm when I feed her again before I go to bed. X

 

[CaptainMummy]

My youngest two were about 6 weeks when I would leave them upstairs. This was about when they would reliably sleep for a few hours before waking x

 

[iiTTCii]

We started putting DD upstairs to bed at 7 in her Moses basket in our room at 7 weeks and we had a monitor and used to check on her. We put her in her own room around 5 months.