Your LO's transition to their own room: how did you feel?

[matana]

So my DS is almost 6 months old and tonight is the first time he's been in his cot in his own room at night instead of in ours. Of course i'm pleased to have our bedroom back and plan to watch a film in bed tonight. But i've had many tears too because he's growing up so quickly and i'm going to miss him being there! It seems like it was literally yesterday when we had to pad out his moses basket because he was so tiny and lost in it.

How did you feel? How long did the sadness last?

I waited until 15/16 months I just couldn't do it, that was with DS1 (13yrs), DD (3.4yrs) and I have DS2 (almost 15months), he is moving out on Friday... it is sad for a few days but being able to watch tv, read or just generally have the light on after 7pm in your own room helps you get over it :o)

Ds has just gone in his at 7.5m. I?d been putting it off for ages, kept saying ?next week? and then finding another excuse. I was worried that I would really miss him. Actually I am sleeping so much better it?s lovely! But I don?t like having to get out of bed to see to him rather than just reaching over for him. However, he is waking up less as he?s not being disturbed by us. Also DH is doing more of the wakeups as he?s not just next to me any more.

Heartbroken

Now I can't be doing with her being in the bed with us, and it's quite nice not having to worry about waking her up

Thanks for the replies.

Well, we had good intentions of watching the film in bed.... and ended up falling asleep at 10 instead because we were so shattered from the extended bank holiday weekend!

I didn't sleep well, he's got a bad cough so whereas before i could just lean over to check he was ok i had to traipse across the landing a dozen times instead. At one point i even contemplated bringing him in bed with us but knew in my heart this would have been for me and not for him - as he was fast asleep at the time and not the least bothered!

He looked so small in his huge cot, it broke my heart. Nice not to worry about us waking him though!

DD is nearly 9 months and still in bed with us. Not sure how we're going to transition it to be honest!

Ninky - ours is the same age, and I just yesterday bought a cot and put him in for the first bit of the night.

I decided it was time because he'd dropped to only a couple of proper feeds overnight, and my DH's fidgeting seemed to be waking him up. Plus we'd moved from a mattress on the floor to a low bed so I had to be quick when he woke from naps to make sure he didn't start clambering off (I had cushions all over the floor, and it's a one-room flat where I can see him from my desk so it wasn't totally irresponsible)

He is sleeping so much better (I couldn't believe a 6 hour stretch last night!) but I kept waking up and panicking for a moment because the baby was missing before I realised he was in the cot (next to the bed, all of 18 inches away..)

When DH came in after work one night, red eyed and dragged the cot out of our room whilst mumbling and swearing something like "every fecking hour, bloody ridiculous, she's 6 months FFS" I sttod in the hall weeping.

My second and probably last baby, being tossed out our room by her own dad - shocking.

The she slept a full 12 hours without a peep . I never looked back!

DD slept in my bed with me until she was 4. We both slept better that way, then one day we decided together that we'd get her a new bed and she could start sleeping in her own room. It was the right time for us and we were both happy with it, never had any problems.

That's 4 YEARS old, by the way!