Fern
When bb sleep of cos you sleep!! If bb sleep you watch, then bb wake up, can't be watching you sleep right? Initially he prob sleep and wake up at odd hours, ard 3 mths old, most pple will start to tune their bb to suit our timing.
Depends you wan to follow Singaporean way or Western way. Singaporean way, baby sleeps with us, bb cry, we attend. Western way, baby might sleep in the same room for 3 mths and out they go. Bb cry, bb will learn to soothe himself. Oso, depends on the character of your child, and how "worried" kind you are.
It is idealistic to say, we wan bb in another room, cry himself to sleep blah blah... end up your bb super stubborn, then you see who can last longer lor. For me, my girl slept in my room, now still here! Can't get her out liao. PD advised me to put her in another room at 6 mths. I was not getting good sleep, cos my girl light sleeper, put her down, she cry, wan me to carry. PD say I put her in her bed, in another room, say "go to sleep", if in the middle of the night she cry, go to her say " shut up". Well, din work for me. PD ask if I wan to be the boss or my girl. End up she is the boss lor. By 1 yr old he told me, too late liao. I am at the back and call of my girl now, in the middle of the night she will "mommy, mommy" and I have to go to her mattress. Heee... at first tot I can be close to her, attend to her needs, soon I became a slave. But well, if you get bb like my newphews then v good, anywhere oso sleep, change into PJ oso dun wake up.
If you worried bb in another room, you can put a baby monitor to hear his cries. For SIDS, get safer mattress, dun put blanket on his bed, or too much stuffed toys. YOu cant' be watching him sleep all the time, or having someone watch over him.
Maybe you learn from the confinement lady. Dun just let her do everything, you dun learn, when she leave, good luck liao. Oos get your maid to learn. This time ard, I am gg to let the CL and maid and bb sleep tog, so tat when the CL wake up, my maid is "trained" to wake up and attend to bb. Cos my maid is the kind ah, thunderstorm oso dunno.