How and when did you move your child(ren) into their own room? Is this too soon?

Both were around 2.5 years.

Both great sleepers.

I just went with what worked for us at the time, no pressure.

My first went into her room at 6 months exactly.
My second went into her room at around 9 months.

Both were absolutely fine!

No she won't feel abandoned. Make her room nice and continue whatever comforting bedtime routine you already have or add a new step if you want to.

Go to her if she wakes in the night.

You'll probably all sleep loads better and wonder why you didn't do it sooner!

We had a few false starts, did about 10 months first, then regressed and did about 15 months, then regressed again at nearly 5 years old.
He was waking a few days in a row every couple of weeks, minimum, and since moving his bed in with us he wakes about 1 day in a fortnight and goes back to sleep easily.
You've got to parent your child not the person who wrote the books child.

It was around the 12 month mark for ours, slightly older for our first I think. She still comes into bed with us some nights at 5 years old but we don’t discourage her from it. Youngest has always been a better sleeper and sleeps well in his own room.

3 months. It was 25 years ago, though. I’d probably do 6 now.

It was 20 and 16 years ago but I'd do the same again - mine were in their own rooms (with a baby monitor) from day one. Of course I was there as soon as they needed anything, and have been a light sleeper since becoming a parent anyway. In the same room we'd have all been awake every time one of us turned over, so this was our choice and was fine. Both girls always came into our bed for cuddles in the morning but overnight were always in their own room. Dd1 went through a phase of sleeping really poorly for a couple of years and during that period I tried everything, incl sleeping in the same room next to her in case she felt abandoned. In fact that made her worse, so I gave up in the end and stuck to plan A.

Decades ago but my first went in her own room after 1 night in mine( so 6 days old). I couldn't stand the crinkling of her nappy and the snuffling, her room was next door and we left the door open a bit to hear her. My second stayed in my room for about a week. They were both breastfed and slept through from 8 and 10 weeks.
There was no guidance about babies sleeping in parents' room then, everyone I knew put their babies in their own room from birth. Guidance was to not sleep in the same bed as your baby and to swaddle and put the baby to sleep on its side.

And well rested mum too .

At last, some sense! Not only does the baby sleep better but also the parents. Guidance is just that, guidance, it's not infallible, the guidance used to be for babies to sleep on their front and look how well that turned out.

We co-sleep still at three - ideally we’ll go till five at least because it’s better for brain development (children sleep better when with a safe carer - it’s a biological function from when we were still in threat situations - and this deeper sleep allows for all the early development learning to settle better. I think even as adults we’re the same ! ) also I love the cuddles and we live in a listed ice box so the shared body warmth is needed/i don’t want to leave my snuggly nest if she needs me in the night

Due a baby in march and I’m not sure how it’ll all work- I have a HUGE amount of guilt about the thought of my moving her into her own room knowing it’s not what what’s best for her just because a new baby is coming….

Me too. Well-rested baby = happy baby.

Wtf?

Same here, but my babies were more recently than that. I followed my instincts instead of the ’rules’.

It’s not a coincidence that babies in their own rooms sleep better!

Forgot to say my first was in our room for about a month before I moved her to her room and my second was in his room from day one. They both had baby monitors that monitored breathing so I felt they were safe.

Well you were likely in your own room much before that, did you feel abandoned?

Come on. It's fine.

OP it's totally normal to worry they'd feel abandoned and you may find you have a few disturbed nights while they get used to their new sleeping arrangements but they will get used to it. Stick to your normal routine just in the new room and it'll be fine. I used to love listening to them babbling away in the mornings when mine would wake up after a decent night sleep all round. It was the best feeling going in first thing to a beaming smile. Good luck.

Obviously OP all of this is completely against SIDS guidance. We want young babies to be disturbed in the night be us so they don't sleep too deeply and die.

I must be a real outlier but I never did get the rush to move babies to their own room! Hence DC1 was nearly 2 moving out to make room for DC2, and DC2 was 4 and moved out to make space for DC3 who was a fixture until about 4.5!

I had a friend who kept giving me all these dire warnings about how they'd never move out - they did and never looked back!

I loved snuggling up with them at night!

It’s a long time ago but I moved mine when they stopped breastfeeding and were sleeping through over 6 hours
With DD it was 10-11 months with DS it was 8-9 months

dS1 now 24 - in his own room at 6 weeks. dS2 now 16 - in his own room at 6 months.

DS2 was a winter baby and had a few colds in his first few months and our HV was strict on the 6 month rule - I wouldn’t have moved him anyway.

But - DS1 slept far better in his own room than DS2 did, and our first HV said this would happen as by 6 months baby is aware and can have separation anxiety. I think she was right.

You are my kind of mum! Teeth, story, hug and kiss, lights out (don’t want to see you until the morning unless you’re ill 🤣)

By 7 months my LO was too mobile and standing up in the next 2 me crib! So it was time to move to the cot in the nursery and we’ve all had peaceful sleeps ever since! 🙃

10 weeks and 8 weeks but it was 25 years ago, so not much use. They were both very good sleepers though.