Advice

Well we spent all sunday trying to set up the babies room and finally came up with a way we like it, only to be told that you need the baby away from the window by 1 metre.

Ahhh is this true. the room is quite small and every other way did not look right - advice please

Never heard of it, we have the end of the cot almost up to the window. The biggest concern for me was that it wasn't too draughty for baby, especially over winter. How warm is the baby's room?

Ours has one end of it at the window end of the room. I'm not going to change it, it isn't drafty at all and has really good curtains and it is the only place the cot can actually go in the room.

We have other walls to put it on but it means our other furnture wont fit and it looks stupid.

It sounds like an old wives tale. but it got me worried all the same

People have so much advice - it is when to know when to take it

I think it's an old fashioned opinion.
We moved Ella into a bigger room downstairs a few months ago and after spending hours setting it up the only thing Hubby's grandma had to say about it was "Oh I wouldn't have her bed next to the window like that, she'll get sick"
Well she hasn't gotten sick and no one else has agreed with that comment.
Like everyone else has said, I'd only change it if the window is drafty or gets damp and mould around it.

The only thing that I know to keep a cot away from windows for is if you have linds that have a circular pull chain as babies, once they can pull themselves up have 'hung' themselves on the pull chain thing and died. If you don't have that then it would depend on how drafty the windows were I guess.