How to get 10 month old out of our bedroom and into her own with out any fuss??!!!!

[Alexo]

Haha I know there will be a certain amount of fuss but minimal would be great.
My 10 month old baby has been in our room since birth - she has always taken her naps in her cot and been put into the cot when she goes to bed at night - cot is pushed right up to our bed - she is used to the cot.
She invariably wakes up in the middle of the night and ends up in our bed - she doesn't wake for food at all through the night.
I want to get her into her own room asap but not really sure how to make the transition easy for us all! Any suggestions would be gratefully received!
Thanks
Alex

can't really speak from experience cos we put DS in his own room at 3 weeks but I would imagine it would be a good idea to move the cot away from the bed in the first instance. when she wakes in the night do you always just bring her in with you? Perhaps try and settle her back to sleep in her cot and don't give in. One of my friends had a similar thing and managed it by keeping count of the number of time she had to settle her DD> the 1st night was 53 times and the 2nd was 20, still a lot but so much less and it took about 4-5 nights to get down to zero. Once she sleeps through in her own cot you can maybe move it further away. Once its in her own room, you might need to sit in with her until she goes to sleep.
just some ideas anyway, as I said, no firsthand experience but good luck

i moved ds into his own room at about the same age, and i really can't remember any fuss at all. how peculiar! it was only 8 months ago. i found that as soon as he was in his own room he slept better. in terms of putting him down in his own room for the first time - i can't remember! just follow your normal bedtime routine but change the room. dd may surprise you.

We had a bit the same experience as Stainesmassif. I moved our son (now 16 months) into his sister's room when he was 14 months. I expected it to be a real struggle, but it was just the same as putting him to bed in our room.
I lie down next to him and sing him to sleep and that works well as long as he's tired. If he's wide awake, I just get him up again and let him play more until he's ready for sleep.
We had lots of struggles with his sister because I was trying to follow other people's ideas about sleep (controlled crying etc.). With my son it worked out infinitely better because I just ignore what anyone else thinks or says. I don't like controlled crying and so I'm not doing it. I don't have a problem with his sleepiness determining bedtime, so I choose to let it. I enjoy singing him to sleep so I do. I have heard so many criticisms from different people about this or that thing that I'm doing wrong and I think since I've stopped listening to them and just done what feels right to me (with my son) everything has been SO MUCH simpler and happier!
My daughter (aged 4) still gets up and comes into our bed about 4am some (quite a lot of) nights - it also doesn't bother anyone, so fine!

Sorry, me again. I just wanted to add that my son, who slept in a baby bay directly onto our bed until he was 14 months rarely wakes in the middle of the night unlike his sister. It probably depends on the child - being used to sleeping in our bed has not made our son more likely to come into our bed in the night at all.

yes, simic, i agree, you get what you're given. is a baby bay like a sidecar cot? i want to get one for the next baby, i loved cosleeping with ds, but if i had a pound for every time i wished i had a sidecar i would have about two hundred pounds....

I don't know what a sidecar cot is but it sounds the same... basically a "balcony" which fits on the side of the parent's bed, so that the baby has his own space and bars to stop him/her falling out, but they are still pretty much in the parent's bed.
We also wanted to get one with my daughter but thought it was too expensive. But then with my son we thought we couldn't do without it as my daughter was still coming into our bed in the night and we didn't want either for my daughter to feel "replaced" in our bed by her new brother, or for it to be unsafe for the baby with four of us in a double bed!!! And, I wanted to cosleep.

yes, i wanted to get one with ds, but thought it was too expensive. nothing's too expensive if everyone gets the maximum amount of sleep! sorry for the hijack, hope all goes well for you, alexo.

We moved DS into his own room whan he was about 18 months. We co-slept for the first year and then he slept in a cot next to our bed.
We had bought a new cot-bed for the new room and I involved DS in setting up his bedroom and let him help me build the cot-bed. He was really excited and went in no problem.
When he woke up during the night the first week I remember settling him then hanging around in the hallway really concerned about whether he'd go back to sleep - at which point he called out 'night-night mummy'. He was fine - it took me longer to get used to it.