Moving baby to own room! Tips??

[Zaplolly]

Hello everyone!
My son is coming up for 9 months and is growing out of his 'Chico next to me', but either way (rather than bring cot into our room) I think it's time he goes into his own room :''-(
Any tips for how you transitioned yours?
Do you put them in there asleep or just tired at bedtime?
Shall I wait until he can hold his own bottle? Do I give him his last bottle with me and save some in end for him to have in bed?
He usually has his last bottle with me in our bed and then I will lift him into his Next2Me when he's asleep.....
Thanks in advance! X

I'm following with interest!

My dd was 9 months when she got her own room. I'd always fed her to sleep then put her in her cot once asleep.

If you haven't already done so, get a cot with different height sleep positions or lowering your growing child in to the bigger cot may be challenging. We got an extra sprung mattress to make the lowest setting a bit more reachable too.

We used a sheepskin in the smaller cot first so it smelled like dd, then moved it to her bigger cot so she already felt it was hers when she moved. Putting something that smells of you will be comforting too if they're used to being so close to you.

Something that makes some sort of noise - lullabies, white noise, anything really to mask the noise of you leaving the room and closing the door! (A closed door for fire protection).

We have just moved baby to his own room, no real tips other than to say the first night he took 2 hours to settle and after that he went down fine, so don't be disheartened if it's a struggle at first!

It might not be a struggle! DS was in his next to me until eight and a bit months, then he tried to climb over the top of it. I BF so slightly different, but I essentially kept his routine exactly the same, bath, PJs, grobag, BF, bed, but instead of putting him in the next to me I put him in his room in his cot, usually almost asleep but sometimes falls asleep feeding and I just put him down. Been nearly a month and he's actually sleeping better for having more space to roll around.

Oh and the lullabies, white noise etc don't work for DS he thinks it's party time. We've also had to drop to lowest level pretty much straight away as he tries to climb out when he wakes up in the morning, he still tries but can't. He does switch his mobile on though! We've also used his cot for a while as somewhere safe to put him while we're going to the toilet, putting his laundry away etc, so he already felt it was his space

We put DD in her own room at 6 months with no issues. We started a few weeks before by spending some more time in her room, changing, stories, playing etc she also started having naps in there so was used to it. We have a white noise sheep which seems to help, we didn't use it in our room. We didn't change routine at all - bath, pj's, bottle then bed. She is usually awake when we put her down and self settles within 10 mins without any tears. I think we've been quite lucky as she loves her sleep but try not to make too much of a fuss, our DD is so much more relaxed when we are. Good luck!

We just put DS in his own room. He was fine! It might not be as hard as you think.

Thanks everyone, this is great! I've chickened out before since last post as he's been poorly and wanted him with me but tonight's the night! Eeeek!
Ooooh also another question- where do you give them their last fees just out of interest before you put them down? Their room/your room/living room etc? At the moment I do in our bed then put him down in he Next2Me