Moving 10 month old DD to her own room, BUT...

[dandeloin]

Morning All,

hoping for some words of wisdom please: our 10 mo DD is still in our room. Shes our 3rd child and the other 2 were moved out a lot sooner than this, but they were sleeping through the night from a much younger age. No sign of DD going through the night without at least one bottle. So while I would love to move her to her own room (which is next to ours), and get some space back in our room with the cot gone etc, I'm not sure of the practicalities of it. When in with us, she's back down in the cot within 15 mins: feed, change, cot. We don't have changing facilities in her own room (other than putting a changing mat on the floor which is not ideal with my bad back), so would have to come back to our room anyway to change her on the bed, or go downstairs to the changing unit. Any suggestions as to what might work for this situation, or should I keep her with us until she starts sleeping better? Thanks!!

Does she really need changing? I have to say I didn't change mine in the night beyond the first few months unless they really needed it doing.

Does dream feeding work? DS is huge and hungry. If we wait for him to wake up in the night, it tends to be 1-2am. However, we dream feed him at 10.30-11pm and that lasts him till the morning most nights. It means we get a good night's sleep in our room and he's in his room.

I'd echo what a PP has said - does she definitely need changing at night if she's only got a wet nappy? You can get the changing tables that got over the top of a cot, maybe that could be a solution so you don't have to go downstairs to the changing unit/lay a changing mat on the floor?

Something like this: www.mothercare.com/cot-top-changers-and-underdrawers/mothercare-universal-cot-top-changer/957651.html?cgid=nursery_cottopchangers#start=4

I don’t change my DD overnight if only wet. If she’s awake and upset/teething etc then I do but mainly just for something to do until the calpol kicks in she mostly sleeps through so it obviously doesn’t bother her and it’s never leaked.

We were the opposite way around, the changing table has always been in DS's room, so when he was in with us we'd take him through to his room to change him (even in the billions of times a night it needed done when he was a newborn). It was fine. Do you have a perfect prep in your room? Otherwise you'd need to leave to get a bottle anyway.

However, does she still need changing? I don't think that I've changed him overnight (unless he's done a poo or had a nappy leak) since he was about 4 months old.

Thanks All for your suggestions. In my sea of tiredness it never even dawned on me that she may not need changing, shes never sopping wet, bu I guess changing after a night feed is just something we've always done for our 3 DC. So it never occurred to me to do anything but that. Food for thought - thanks again!