To ask when you put your baby in their own room & why

[vampirina]

I know the guidelines are 6 months but don't know anyone in real life who moved them at precisely 6 months. We are at 5 and DD has started waking up (she's slept from 7-7 since she was 8w of her own accord) when we go to bed or move around. I'm wondering if she would sleep better in her own room soon, or if it would be more hassle for me as id have to get up and go to her rather than reach across.

So I'm curious, when did yours make the move and what was the catalyst?

8 months when they were sleeping through

5.5 months. She was literally round the corner, but I found it too hard to sleep with her snuffling. She still woke to feed regularly.

At 7 months. Twins and we wanted our bedroom space back. They were sleeping 7-7.

We moved DS at 7 months because I felt that when we came to bed or got up in the morning was disturbing and waking DS. My cousins DS is 18 months and still cosleeping so whatever works for you!

4 months with my first. We were all waking each other up (baby stirs...husband half wakes and starts snoring...baby wakes up...I get him back to sleep...baby stirs...husband snores...you get the idea!). He slept through once he moved.
5 months for my second but we slept in the spare room so there was less disruption with oh’s snoring. She slept through from about 7 months x

Ds 13mths
Dd1 9mths
Dd2 3yrs
Dd3 is 15mths still with us. Funnily enough dd1 is worst sleeper now she is 12.

It was different with all of mine. Dc1 was about 18 months and it was because we moved house. Dc2 was 2 and a bit and because she stopped breastfeeding dc3 was almost 2 and it was because I was pregnant and dc4 needs to stay in with us for as long as possible because I don't have anywhere to put him.

We moved DS at 6 weeks as he would wake me up with his nighttime grunting. Also I had a cold and constantly was blowing my nose which was waking him up!

I think it helped him sleep better by moving him

DC1 was 13 months, he was having a very short-lived spell of sleeping through so we decided to put him in his own room.
DC2 once he was sleeping through, at 9 months.

I'm too lazy to get up and traipse to another room during the night, which is why I waited for them to sleep through.

Child #1 was 6 months. She was sleeping through from quite early on so we did it according to the guidelines. I wasn't ready and sobbed and sobbed walking into my bedroom and seeing the empty space next to my bed.
Child #2 was 9 months. We put it off because he didn't sleep through at all and I thought I'd rather put up with the agony from my bedside than have to traipse into another room to settle him. We bit the bullet one day and guess what happened?
Yep, he slept through from that night onwards!

I put DD1 in own bedroom at 3 weeks old as I kept waking to check she was breathing, I got up in the night to feed and had no issues, when had DD2 she went straight into her own room with no problems and she slept through the night at 7 weeks.

DS1 2 1/2 years as we had a bedroom for him
DS2. Around 2 I guess??? Can’t remember.
We co slept and I fed through the night and could not be stars to get out of bed

2 months with the first and just under 4 months with the second (when we managed to move the first out of the cotbed! Most friends are surprised I moved them so early because I also did the breastfeeding to term and babywearing thing but basically I just did what worked for us!

Dd1 was 7 months as she slept through and that's when I felt ready.

Dd2 is 16 months and is still in our room. She doesn't sleep through the night and I'm worried about her waking up the older one if they shared a room as she is a light sleeper.

DD (now 9) moved into her own room at six months when we moved house. DS (now 7) was moved into an adjoining room (typical terrace set up) at five weeks because he sounded like a cage of hamsters when he slept. (For the record, he was six feet away from us but in a different room with the door open so we could hear him cry easily, just not the shuffling, snoring and wriggling).

Both were good sleepers which we are eternally grateful for which made moving them pretty easy.

4 weeks - I wish I'd done it sooner as both of us slept much better! He was sooooo noisy when he slept; I had a video baby monitor that reduced the volume of his grunts and general 'sleep-chatting' which solved the problem...

4 months
She was already sleeping through but all of us slept so much better once she’d moved 👍

We started the transition about 4.5 months. DD has never slept in her side cot as she hated it, only in our bed which I loved but as she got bigger she was becoming more wriggly and rolling over which meant none of us got any sleep. Started her off doing day naps in her own room at 4.5m, then at 5m she was in there until first wake up, and then by 6m she was doing full nights in there.

To be honest I prefered co-sleeping as she wakes up 2x a night and I find it takes me ages to get back to sleep after sitting up feeding her for 45 mins so I'm only getting about 5 hours sleep now which is all broken up. Hopefully it'll get better.

16 months once I stopped breastfeeding through the night. Dp did all the night shifts for about two months until ds got used to not having milk at night.

Until then he co slept till a year and then gradually got used to a cot in our room before moving.

DS 4.5 months with an angelcare movement mat as I was waking him up with my snoring and fidgeting in bed and he'd outgrown his moses basket and his cot didn't fit in our bedroom.
Still done night feeds just had to get out of bed instead, works really well for us.

3 months

4.5 months

7 months - when she grew out of the moses basket, and we couldn’t fit the cot in our room. i missed her afterwards! i left her in the moses basket that long as she was such a good sleeper i was scared to ruin it (and it did all go tits up when she moved to the cot)

DD 2 years, when her sleep improved. We didn’t have a separate bedroom for her anyway until she was 18 months and we moved house though.

Dd1 - about 4 months. She just wouldn’t settle with us in the room. She is one of those children that needs to be left on her own to go to sleep. Took us too long to work that out.

Dds 2 & 3 (twins) - four weeks. We didn’t have room for two cots and they had started thrashing around and waking each other up sharing. Plus they were so unbelievably noisy!

In both cases we were well aware of the SIDs guidance but did what we felt was right for our particular children and our particular circumstances.