One of the key questions when a baby begins to turn a few months is related to the time to pass the baby to his room.
During pregnancy it is usual to dedicate one of the rooms in the house to the future baby. There are several magazines and movies that teach us parents decorating the room and there are several alternatives when it comes to putting it to our liking.
Paint, valance, teddy bears, the crib, the closet, the chest of drawers, the changing table and a long etcetera happen to form the set of the future room of the baby.
However, when the long-awaited son arrives in the world, you realize that he will still not be able to open his room (at least not at night), because it often requires attention and food.
The months pass and the alarm voices begin to warn that he is already beginning to be older to be with you. There are people who say it when they are two months old, others when they turn four and others when they are six or older.
Some personal experiences
I still remember a mom in the office asking me wistfully if she had to keep moving her baby's crib away. When I was in doubt, he explained to me that a pediatrician had recommended, in the two-month review, that he gradually move the crib away from the parents' bed. I don't know if that bit by bit included the corridor until one day the crib ended up in the girl's room, but evidently I replied that, if that made him feel bad, he didn't.
This Christmas, an acquaintance of ours put his hands to his head when we told him that our two children, aged five and two respectively, slept with us in our room and in our bed: “But they do recommend that at six months of age take out !! ”
Well, it depends. Some people recommend that you take it out early because children need their space and some people recommend that they stay with their parents for at least five years.
So when to pass the baby to his room?
So much word and I still haven't responded. A baby should go to the room when the father, mother and baby want to do it (Although the parents' decision usually weighs more than the baby's decision to propose it and the baby's decision to maintain it).
I say when they all want to because There is no psychological disorder or psychiatric illness that arises from the fact of sleeping with parents for several months or years (or at least there is no evidence of that). If so, the world would be full of psychopaths and disturbed, because there are many children who sleep with parents, although there are few parents who verbalize it.
Without going any further, in Babies and more We explained a while ago, in the words of Rosa Jové, that 80% of children sleep in the company of their parents.
In addition there is the "parents' dream" factor. Most babies and children wake up at night, so the fact of passing them to the room makes parents have to take more walks on the floor to go when the baby demands them, to reveal more (parents) for this reason and that it costs the baby more to fall asleep again for the simple fact of having spent more time calling (or crying), than the one who would have been sleeping closer to the parents.
Your house is yours and mine is mine
When some parents tell me what to do at night, I simply tell them to do what makes them feel better: “There is no evidence about what is better, so do what you want. It is your house, it is your nights and it is your son, so you lock the door, you go to sleep and do what seems best to you ”(and ball point).
