DD will be 9 months old in a few days and still wakes varying amounts of times through the night. (BF) I'm happy to see to her needs, but I don't deny I'd like her to sleep through if possible. She has slept through the odd night for 12 hours, but not many nights and never more than two in a row.
She hasn't been napping much in the day recently either. Today I really needed a nap myself, so when I put DD down I went in the spare room and decided not to take the baby monitor on the basis that if she woke and really needed me, I would hear her. That was at 12pm, I've been up an hour and not a peep out of her yet.
So, I'm wondering whether to try a couple of nights sleeping in the spare room with no monitor on. It's just across and down the hall. We have to keep both doors shut because of the cat, but I know I could hear her quickly if she really cried and probably quite quickly if she just cried a bit. I just think I have a habit of jumping up the second she stirs usually and maybe she doesn't always need me at all. Sometimes recently at nights after a feed she can't settle (we usually cosleep after her first feed) but if I try her back in her cot she just turns over and goes to sleep.
It probably won't even work, but I am thinking it might be a gentle way to try. I don't want to leave her to cry or anything like that.
Are there any negatives to doing this?