moving baby into their own room

[lockdownmumma123]

Any tips on moving baby into her own room, she's 7 months old, I have started back work and need to get up at 5am I've found when I'm waking up and coming to bed at night even if I don't speak to my partner she wakes up and finds it hard to settle again, is moving her into her own room at 7 months to early? Any tips on doing the transition
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Thank you

They advise keeping baby in the same room until 6 months, so 7 months is absolutely fine - not too early if you want to do it. We did it at 6m for similar reasons, husband gets up early for work and was waking DS. We didn't do a major transition, just had a bit of playtime in his room to get him comfortable in there, then tried daytime naps for a week or so in there, and then just moved him in! Try and keep everything the same, rest of the routine etc. You might find she sleeps better, our DS did!

We did it at 6 months because that's what the guidance said, and my mum was coming to look after him for a weekend and we didn't want him in our room. We just decided literally before bedtime one night that we'd try him for a few hours until we went to bed - over one year later he is still there. As others have said, he slept really well in the bigger cotbed which made sense as we had started to feel we were disturbing eachother.

Prior to sleeping in his room, he'd not really spent that much time there beyond nappy changes but again, he still doesn't aside from sleeping, getting dressed, nappy changes etc. We don't play in his room as it's on the 3rd floor of the house.

@hodgepodge21

They advise keeping baby in the same room until 6 months, so 7 months is absolutely fine - not too early if you want to do it. We did it at 6m for similar reasons, husband gets up early for work and was waking DS. We didn't do a major transition, just had a bit of playtime in his room to get him comfortable in there, then tried daytime naps for a week or so in there, and then just moved him in! Try and keep everything the same, rest of the routine etc. You might find she sleeps better, our DS did!

We did exactly the same, and DD sleeps much better not being in the same room as us.

I realise this when I tiptoe in to the room to check radiators / turn the white noise up etc and she stirs. Yet the fire alarm will go off and she stays deeply asleep.

We just moved DS to his own room (6.5m). We were waking him going to bed and if we got up during the night to DD, and in the mornings.
Thought I would give it a go to see how he went one night and we haven't looked back! I was expecting it to be more of a process but I was probably overthinking it.
Kept the rest of his routine the same and he goes down better now it's a quiet place with less disruption for him.
If he does wake during the night it's a lot easier to resettle him too.
Good luck!

It's a good solution. It was difficult for us because when a child is near, it's more convenient to watch him. When we were preparing the child's room, we were warned that the child may feel that no one is around and cry. But if we continue the same routine, the baby will adapt quickly. Don't worry!

We did this at 5m (early, i know) as none of us were getting any sleep. Zero transition, just put her cot in her room, and her in it at bedtime. She woke every 4 hours, rather than every 40minutes.

Dd is 11 months and has luckily slept through since 3mo for the most part. I kept her and her brother in with us until 9mo, not for any reason other than there was no need to move them. we started disturbing them when we went to bed so put their cotbed up in with us for a week or two and then moved into their own room. We got them ready for bed and played in their bedrooms with them in the weeks leading up to it though so they were used to being in there etc.

I moved mine about that time with zero issues, in fact we all slept better. A mobile with lights etc to soothe if you feel they need it.

We just put baby in one night and that was it - no transition - thankfully it worked. I think they were happy to be out of the next to me and into a bigger cot - so much more room for them to roll about in.