How to go about moving DD into her own room

[rhaenyra01]

DD will be six months in a couple of weeks so we are thinking about moving her into her own room. She has slept in her Next 2 Me crib since she was born but we seem to be disturbing her now. We’ve noticed over the past couple of weeks, that she sleeps like a log between us putting her down, but when we come to bed at night she starts tossing and turning. Through the night the rustling of the duvet, or if one of us gets up and leave the room to go to the bathroom, DP snoring, etc., seem to be disturbing her and she’ll jump in her sleep, sometimes she wakes up a little bit but not fully, but does need settling back down.

So my question is this - when I move her into her own room, should I stay in there with her for the first few nights, or just let her be in there on her own? There’s a day bed in her room, so I was thinking of sleeping in there with her to keep an eye on her, or is it best to just go cold turkey as it were? We have a monitor etc and are only in the next room.

I’m just not sure how to go about it! Anyone with any tips or recommendations, it would be really appreciated!

I started with the daytime naps to see if he cared. He didn't seem to notice at all so I just started putting him in there by himself at night too. It was much easier than I has expected thankfully.

When we moved DS just over 6 months there was no room to physically stay with him but he was absolutely fine. I think we had him do some of his naps in there for a few days leading up to the move so he would be used to sleeping in there. We also tried to keep the conditions similar, white noise machine, night light, sleeping bag etc
We had an angel care mat which has an alarm go off if baby stops breathing but don't think this is necessary it was a gift.
It was so lovely having our room back, enjoy

We moved DT’s into separate bedrooms when they were six months as they were disturbing each other. Didn’t stay there with them or use any devices. They actually slept better once we’d moved them out of our room. Bottle at about 10.30pm and they slept through until morning. We had already done sleep training.

I won't stay with her. She either will be fine sleeping alone or she won't but that will happen as soon as you stop sleeping there anyways.

We moved our daughter into her own room as soon she turned 6 months old. She started to have her daytime naps there a few weeks beforehand.
I've never used noise machines and lights. They get used to what you give them.

I moved my daughter at 9 months and for the first few nights I put her in the next to me, in the cot. That way, she got used to the feel/sights/smells in the new room but still had the feel and security of the next to me. The transition worked well - until the next sleep regression kicked in.

Thank you everyone! DD already has her daytime naps in her own room so hopefully it won’t be too big of a change anyway. Fingers crossed we all get a better nights’ sleep!

We’ve just been through the same thing - DS2 is 7 months (tomorrow!) and we moved him into his own room a fortnight ago. He had been in the next to me until then and in the last month or so his sleep had been getting worse and I wondered if we were disturbing him. He also started to look really big in it and didn’t have much room.

There was no process really - we put up a black out blind and bought the tommee tippee dream maker/sleep aid thing, and one night just gave him his bottle in the rocking chair in his room rather than in my bed, then put him down in the cot, he took to it fine! I watch him on the monitor and he rolls around all over the place now so he must be enjoying have more space to get himself into a comfy position - he also prefers to sleep on his front and now he can roll both ways I leave him to it. His sleep has definitely improved since he was evicted.

Don’t over think it I’m sure she’ll be fine 😊

@Tisfortired thank you, that’s very reassuring! I’m glad you have had a good experience with your DS and all’s going well, hopefully it’ll go the same way for us! 🤞🏻