Rooming in?

I've heard people talking about rooming in with the new bubs but I'm not really sure why or what advantages it has other than not having to walk so far for those many night feeds. I slept with Chloe in my room for the first 4months and I found it hard emotionally when I finally had to move her into her own room.
Does anybody know why rooming in is so important and how long should I do it for?

Everyone / everywhere does it diffrently. I agree with Angelnz - do it how you feel best with. In Sweden the baby stays with Mum and Dad in the same room up to 1 year - Swedish Friends of mine tell me thats it works out just fine..goodness knows you had better not be loud love makers!!!

What ever you decide will be best, and you will know if its not - the maternal instinct if very strong. Just believe in in yourself.

Maya shared a room with me out of neccesity when she was tiny (we didn't have a spare room) but when I moved when she was 5 mths she went into her own room without any probs. Next time round bubs would probably go straight into his/her own room as we have plenty of space where we are now.

I only had Alex in our room for a week or two and the only reason was so I didn't have to go far to feed him at night. After that I put him in his own room because I found that I was waking up to every little noise he made even though he wasn't waking up. So off he went so I could get proper sleep. He also started sleeping through the night at 6 weeks old which was awesome

We had paris in with us till she was 7 months old - simply because i kept pushing the date back and back that i would move her - i liked the idea that she was close to me and apparently it does help the bonding process.. and as Maria said baby may wake more often for feeds - helping breastfeeding, lol or hindering your sleep - whichever way you see it. Hospitals use it as a way to facilitate the bonding process and help breastfeeding but i think it is probably most important in those first few days and weeks and once things have settled into a nice pattern then i see no reason that it would make any difference where baby is.. for most it's because it's easier to heat one room only instead of two - others do it for reassurance that baby's fine. Some babys sleep more soundly with mum near, or some just wake constantly because parents might be noisy sleepers.   Ayja will be in with us for possibly longer than Paris simply because there is no room in paris's bedroom to put a cot and we aren't moving any time soon - unless a gorgeous cheap bigger house becomes available (lolol, do they even exist?) I think at least until Ayja is sleeping reasonable hours through the night consistantly she will stay in our room - one child to deal with in the middle of the night is more than enough for me. i certainly don't need Ayja waking up paris or vice versa

Edited by mum2paris

Thanks for the advice, after reading all that I think I'll have bubs in my room a least for the first week before putting him/her into the room next to ours. Chloe didn't sleep very well for a long time and thinking back I was probably getting up to every little noise.

Roksana, I am just going to see how I feel when we come home. I think at the moment I want it in its own room - just down the hall - but we'll see how things go.

Oh yeah and on the news the other day it said babys that sleep in parents room but not in the same bed have a smaller chance of cot death but I don't know how long they r spose to sleep in the same room for

as for sex, the baby honestly won't care or notice, but it is a little off-putting. baby watching won't hurt them, but may make things a little uncomfortable for you!!

if you want bubs to have their own room, but are really worried about cot death, there are special baby monitors you can get that monitor breathing i think. i never had one, but i think others on the site may have.

You just have to do what feels right for you as far as your room or its own room. I was positive that we were going to have Alex in our room for about 6 months but once he was at home it was not ideal hence why he ended up in his own room.
In saying that, he wasn't in his room every night, when he was going through growth spurts & teething he wouldn't sleep unless he was in with us & we had him in bed with us. My doctor said as long as I was comfortable doing that then it was fine because I'm not a smoker, and Alex always slept on my side.
As for "relations" (as Roksana so nicely put it! ) well we were back into that after a couple of weeks.
We have done it when Alex was there in the room but most of the time tried to avoid it. It was really weird having our son in the room while doing the deed. Spencer used to laugh & say "he has to learn how to do it sometime so he might as well learn from a pro!"