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?

Not yet, we’ll. do it when we move house (he’ll be 2 and a big) and give him a big boy bedroom. I think it’s partly cultural as well, my English friends tend to do it between 5-12m and my not English friends tend to wait till 2/3/4 when they want their own room.

13 months, I was worried I'd left it late and was preparing myself for sleepless nights again but he slept absolutely fine!

Ds was 3 months. He’d almost grown out of his Moses basket and the cot doesn’t fit in our room. We out his basket inside the cot to get him used to it then when he was too big for the basket he went in the cot. He’s 6 months now and sleeps fine on his own.

From birth. I used to put them in a Moses basket which I then placed into their cot. Didn't have any monitors etc.

When she got too big for her Moses basket, so before 6 months but after 4 months. Our bedroom was tiny and there was no space for a proper cot.
She was sleeping through, luckily, despite being EBF. She was just across the landing from us with both doors open. She was a bugger for not sleeping during the day though, from being tiny. I kept reading the baby book chapters on newborns in disbelief as I stared into her wide open eyes. My house was a tip.

DS - 2 days
DD - 1 day

Both babies grunted and snuffled and DD snored from birth. I needed some sleep to cope with night feeds.

Around 3-4 months with both - they’d outgrown the Moses basket and slept much better in a cot

6 months ish in a vain attempt to get DD to sleep, she still returned to my bed in the middle of the night for the next 4 years

6 months and it was because he kept waking up. He was being disrupted by us. He now sleeps better - 6.30pm to 6.30am, only waking for one feed.

6 months. He'd gotten too big for the bedside cot and his cotbed would have been a squeeze in our room. He was sleeping through.

Ten months with my first dc as i was pregnant again and jue within a month. It didnt bother her in the slightest as she was already starting to sleep through.

DD went in her own room from her first night home. She was fine. I had a plug in listening device, so we could hear her, but she couldn't hear us. I really don't understand the guidelines of six months when you can hear them perfectly well and be there in a flash if there are any problems.

DD1 moves at 6 months and 1 day because I thought that was what everyone did.

DD2 was 2 years old because I followed my own parenting instinct. She was breastfeeding on demand until she was 2 and I didn't fancy getting up 5-6 times a night!

DD1 7 months. Should have done it sooner as we were waking each other up and the sleep deprivation was horrific. Took a very kind HV to convince me it was ok. Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

DC2 due soon and I'll put them in before 6 months if the same happens!

All 4, as soon as we got home from the hospital. I was awake at every peep and would have got no sleep with them in our room. I also worried about falling asleep and rolling on them if I fed lying down, so I preferred to get up and feed in a comfy chair. They self settled and slept pretty well most of the time so I wasnt out of bed much in the night

6 months and 1 day. DP wanted to move DC earlier but i wanted to wait until 6 months. DC more or less slept through from 3 months I just wasn't ready for him to move and also really worried still am about SIDS.

4.5 months when I moved into my own house. He’s not quite sleeping through but only wakes once or twice for milk now at 6 months, and it’s super fast and I’m back in bed.
We do sleep a lot better now.

Think about 7 months? It was to try and get him to sleep better and because I had drifted towards co-sleeping for most of the night, which wasn’t what I wanted long term. Also, we wanted our own space back. I felt bereft the first night but soon got used to being able to talk in bed again without whispering!

Mums who have a toddler and a baby, ehen did you put them in together?

4 weeks for DC1, 1 week for DC2 both slept better once they were in their own room.

6 weeks

Forgot to say why!
Because we all slept better.

Around 5 months when they didn't need to be fed in the night anymore.

So many of you have babies that slept through from such a young age!! I can't ever see that happening with my DS (5months)
No plans to move him in to his own room any time soon. He woke up about 5 or 6 times last night to feed so I just brought him in to bed with me!

20 months but we just cosleep in her room.

Some organisations suggest ‘rooming in’ for the first year to reduce SIDS. We were cosleeping because DD needs some of us to be close by.