Dr. Rachel Y. Moon, MD, studies factors affecting sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and other sleep-related infant deaths, including accidental suffocation, asphyxia, and ill-defined deaths at the University of Virginia. Dr. Moon is an internationally recognized expert in SIDS and post-neonatal infant mortality and currently serves as Division Head of General Pediatrics at the University of Virginia.
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I am going crazy trying to get to sleep with my 2 month old in the same room. She babbles and gurgles pretty much all the time in her sleep and every snuffle has me bolting out of bed to check on her. We are considering putting her in a separate room with a baby monitor. But I read somewhere that the chance of SIDS increases by 50% if a parent does not sleep in the same room as the baby. Why is that? Does anyone have any thoughts that may help?
I sympathise! We had the exact same problem and we put our daughter in her own room at 6 weeks. We bought a monitor that had a sensor breathing mat. Maybe that will help?
Movement and breathing monitor have worked great for us! We had to move our premie to another room at 12 weeks because of all the racket he made! It worked out great. He’s a healthy 2 year old now!
Our baby monitor has a sensor too. For breathing and movement. It sets off an alarm if the baby’s breath slows down too much. One thing to remember is that the risk of SIDS, however small, is always there. The reccos, IMO, are there to guide. I have not read or heard of any definitive causal link between SIDS and the baby sleeping in a separate room. So, as long as you have eliminated all the other causal factors like smoking etc., I’d say, go for a separate room but with the appropriate monitor.