Moving 6 month old to her own bed.....

[Lucy10]

My DD will be 6 months next month. At the minute she is in bed with us but we are hoping to move her into her own bed when she reaches 6 months. She also has absolutely no routine to speak of and I'm hoping to start her on solids when she turns 5 months next week. Was hoping someone had tips on how to establish a routine and what's the best way to move her into her own room?

TIA

Anyone??

not to sure my ds was around 6 mths when moved into his own room he settled down fine

i didnt start my ds on solids untill 6 mths so not sure about the 5 mths start although wouldnt imagine much difference

i found just trial and error worked with my ds regarding routine as you will find it will change as she gets older they need less naps so no late naps

my ds routine was

6-7am milk
8am weetabix or porridge

10 am snack fruit pureed apple and pear breadstick

12pm lunch sandwich or jar of food

1pm nap

2-3 up biscuit

5.30pm dinner mash veg and fish or a jar of food

7pm milk and bed

was ages ago but i'm sure that was along the lines not sure if had as much food that young but thats all i'm remembering

sometimes he had nap before lunch around 10.30 then i would put down at 2-3

as dont want to much sleep before bedtime although would move bed up 30 mins if napped longer

also had quiet time just the two of us at around 6.30 if in bed at 7 or 7 if 7.30

i would put moisturiser on him and massage him and just play and sing to him always found he needed quiet time before bed even now 2.10

Thanks for the tips bubblagirl. At the minute I'm trying to get DD into some kind of pattern in the evenings, she has a vague one in the mornings. Sometimes she takes a nap late afternoon, sometimes it's early evening, sometimes she sleeps through, sometimes she's up several times. I would like to start bathing her to get a routine sorted but her irregular naps don't really help this. Am suspecting I need to introduce solids before I can even think about sorting a routine.

i would cut out evening naps otherwise your setting yourself up for a restless night

my ds was better with a bath before dinner as he was always even now such a sweaty baby an dwakes continuously if bathed before bed

you can get routine done without being on solids

my ds was 8 weeks when i started nightitme routine same time to bed every night

by 4 mths he had his milks throughout day and naps no naps later than 3 bed at 8 but at 7 pm gave baby rice to help fill him up and he slept well just one waking for milk and i started doing dream feed when i went to bed he eventually went through

i didnt put my ds on full time solids untill he was 7 mths i introduced solids at 6 but didnt do the whole routine till 7 mths

then he just had his 2 bottles of milk a day

im forgot always put him down for afternoon nap with a milk

but not when on solids bottle of water instead

The thing is she sleeps really well during the night (although have probably shot myself in the foot by saying that) and I know it has a lot to do with co-sleeping. Would like to establish a regular bedtime but as her feeding times are so irregular it's hard to know where to start.

Re Sleep; Can only tell you my experience, not to everyones liking but here goes...

He slept in own room from day one,...I slept in there with him for a week or two. Breastfed till about 5/6 months but once he was getting a decent night sleep at 10-12 weeks I always fedhim at 6.30pm and put him down at 7pm. If he cried for more than ten mins I went to comfort him briefly,...very rarely did he cry for more than a minute or two and for more than ten minutes only ever probably half a dozen times....

He still goes at 7pm and at 17mths has never ever resisted or had any problem in going down at that time. Even if he is not obviously sleepy I take him up and he chats to his cot toys for a little while then drops off.

A friend of mine, has 3, suggested that if I "trained" DS with a similar routine every night it would work,...it did for me.

Re Feeding: I wlawys give DS a bit of supper with some milk at about 6pm, eg shreddies or some porrige or some toast etc. Sometimes he wants it sometimes not. But the reason for this is that at about 6mths he was waking in the early hours hungry. Growth spurt? So I aways now give him the option of food an hour or so before bed.

Take or leave any of that...and good luck!!