Baby in own room

[mylittlesandwich]

DS is 9 months old. He has his cot in our room still. He sleeps well in it and we don't often disturb each other. Recently DH has had some early shifts at work. He is quiet but I'm a poor sleeper so I usually wake. DS normally sleeps like a log but this morning he woke too and it took an hour to get him to dose off for a bit.

It's got me thinking about when to put him in his own room. He has a room which we decorated before he was born but I've commandeered it as a home office at the moment due to COVID working from home. We have a 3rd bedroom which could be used as a home office but it's small and doesn't have as much light. I'm not sure what to do. I'll be working from home until at least the new year. I quite like having DS in with us but I'm not sure if he'd get more peace in his own room?

Could ds go into the third bedroom for the time being? As he will be there to sleep, it won't matter if the light is poor.

I found that mine slept fine in with us until they got to about 7 months, and then we disturbed them and they disturbed us, so we put them in their own room. But if he is mostly fine in with you, there is also no rush.
he has only woken one morning?

You can always put him in the 3rd room without much light. Remember nothing is permanent and you can always change things back if it’s not working. Or DH can sleep in the third room when he has to get up early.

I'd feel really mean putting him in the 3rd room lol. It's small and hasn't been decorated since we bought the house. His room is freshly painted and has nice curtains. I wish I knew if my employer intended to keep WFH. If they do I could just bite the bullet and set up a more permanent office in the 3rd room.

Can you not get DH to put everything he needs in to the spare room the night before (clothes, toiletries etc) then just get up really quietly and leave the room? That's what I used to do when I worked shifts.

He does, everything is in another room, he doesn't even put a light on just creeps out with his phone but I am the worst sleeper ever. I don't really know how he woke DS this morning. I think it was a squeaky floorboard on the landing.

Its just DD and I here and she has the smallest bedroom as her room.

Good thing about a small room is that you could decorate it in a day! Coat of paint first thing in the morning; let it dry; second coat in the afternoon = job done!

I moved DD out at 12 months purely because I was pretty sure that we were both disturbing each other's sleep.

Have you tried playing white noise while DS sleeps if you’re not keen to move him? Then your DH might not disturb him.

Having said that we moved DS to his own room at 7 months and never looked back. He settled better in his own space and it was nice to have our room back to ourselves. If you want to move him I would put him in the 3rd bedroom as a temporary measure and see what happens with your job in the new year.

I might try white noise. In my head I had kind of set myself up to move him out at a year. I know he'll be fine and we have a monitor but I like having him next to us. I like hearing his little noises etc. I don't think we'd sleep any better with him in another room so it's just if it would benefit him.