It's been 15 years ago, but I was told not to sleep in the same room with my child also and also, don't use one of those monitors unless you're too far away to not hear a real cry. The small noises a baby makes, the normal ones, are enough to disturb your sleep if you sleep in the same room or if you use a monitor. If your baby really needs you, you will hear the cry even if you are in your room. This is assuming you are not taking a sleep aid.

Now.....the OTC sleep aids eventually do not work and eventuall will have the opposite effect if you use them consistently. So you don't want to take them every night. This includes Benadryl, Tylenol PM, Advil PM, etc. They all have the same ingredient, an antihistamine. If your sleep is suffering, you are either entering hypomania or depression. Only you and your nurse can decide this. Since you have a little one, you might want to make adjustments in your regular meds and not take a rx sleep med like Ambien or the like. I take Ambien and last year had to care for my mother who had terminal cancer and I didn't hear her calling me once and she got up and had a fall. I felt terrible. So, I quit taking it while caring for her. Is there anyone that could relieve you a couple nights a week? If so, you could take a rx sleep aid and catch up. I feel for you. Lack of sleep sucks. I hope you get it straighted out.