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Should we move DD 20 weeks to her own room?

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smoggii · 23/05/2011 15:35

1st time parents, done everything by the book as best we could so the plan was to keep DD (20 weeks tomorrow) in our room until 6 months. She goes up at 7.45pm and sleeps through until about 5ish. But the past couple of weeks we have noticed that when we go to bed at around 10ish it really disturbs her.

From what i've read her sleep cycles are starting to change at this age so it may be that she's sleeping lighter.

Should we move her to her own room now? She is already in her cot as she grew out of her crib over a month ago so it won't be a massive change. Her room is directly next door to ours (ave size 3 bed semi).

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5inthebed · 23/05/2011 15:41

I would move her into her own room. She is sleeping beautifully, so no harm in doing it.

purpleturtle · 23/05/2011 15:43

I would move her too.

worldgonecrazy · 23/05/2011 15:47

What do you want to do? Are you planning on moving her because the books tell you to, or because you want to?
Personally I think it's a bit weird to have children sleeping in a separate from us at a young age, though I realise that in the UK that viewpoint is a minority.

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smoggii · 23/05/2011 16:30

Honestly, i'd keep her with us forever

I was going by the six months because of SIDS guidelines but I don't like that i'm disturbing her, but5 maybe that bothers me more than it bothers her...

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firstsupermum · 23/05/2011 16:43

I have my DS 2yrs 2months still sleeping with me in my bedroom, but just because i dont have spear room for him, just 1bedroom, i will love too, but he still weak up in the night and jump into my bed. I think just the mother how will decide this. are u ready for it? is you're baby ready too, try and find out.

worldgonecrazy · 23/05/2011 16:46

smoggi my husband is the same. He started off saying we would cosleep for a year, then it was two years, and now it's 'maybe when she's five'. I suspect once she is old enough to be able to discuss these things she will want her own room anyway, so I treasure every snuggle with her. They are young for such a brief time, and in no time at all they will be teenagers and be far too cool to want hugs from their parents.

sweetuphoria · 23/05/2011 16:48

When we moved DD over to her own room she slept much better (we didn't want to but she had outgrown her basket and we couldn't fit the cot in our room). although I still have the monitor on all night and probably go in twice a night to see her so am not sure that I sleep any better :)

WowOoo · 23/05/2011 16:52

I'm sure both ds1 and 2, dh and I might have slept better if we'd moved them but i couldn't.

I sleep better myself knowing they were sleeping well and safely as babies IYSWIM.

Octaviapink · 23/05/2011 19:22

DD was in our room until she was sleeping through at about 10 months - frankly I was going to go as few steps as possible if I had to get up three times a night! DS will stay in with us until he's done with night feeds too.

ledkr · 23/05/2011 19:40

Its hard isnt it?Dd 16wks is fast outgrowing her basket and i wont be able to fit big cot in,she sleeps well but does get disturbed by our noises a bit,I am reluctant to move her cos of the sids advice as i tend to be a bit paranoid,i was thinking maybe use the travel cot but am worried about getting her used to that and then another move to her cot.

sweetuphoria · 23/05/2011 20:53

ledkr when DD outgrow her Moses basket I put her in a travel cot for 4 weeks before she went over onto her own room. I put her in her own cot for daytime naps so she wouldn't get too used to the travel cot.

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smoggii · 23/05/2011 20:56

I've chatted to DH about it and he thinks i'll never sleep properly if we move her before the six months because i've got it in my head (my brother died due to SIDS at 8 weeks old so I barely slept at night for the first 8 weeks watching her - it was some sort of mental block thing!) and he's probably right!

I'll think about it again at 6 months.

Thank you for all your advice

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Rubyabcd · 24/05/2011 20:36

My baby never seemed to sleep in her Moses basket, she hated it, and was a very gristly sleeper which kept my husband and I awake so she went into big cot (in her room) which wouldn't fit in our room at eight weeks. Our house is small so only a couple of steps away really and I always left both doors open!!

A lot of people say this may be why she's such a good sleeper, I was paranoid though and checked on her several times a night. You have to do what you are most happy with.

ninipops · 25/05/2011 21:18

I second what Rubyabcd said - my DD was sleeping 7 - 8 hrs at night from 8 weeks but only because she was in her own room. She was a v noisy sleeper and I would frequently pick her out of her basket thinking she wanted a feed only to find she was actually fast asleep!

ledkr · 25/05/2011 22:40

my room will be on a different floor to baby tho,that puts me off a bit, we do have one of those monitors with a sensor pad tho.

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