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Did moving your DC to their own room improve their sleep...

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RufflesKerfluffles · 06/05/2011 10:59

... and if so, how long did it take?

My DS, 9mo, is currently still sleeping in our room. He's generally waking 2-3 times a night and as I'm BFing (and feed him back to sleep at night), it seemed easier to keep him close by. My DM is convinced we are disturbing him, and he'd sleep better in his own room (and sometimes I have wondered the same, e.g. when he wakes up shortly after DH gets up). We did try this last weekend; the number of wakings stayed the same but he 'pinged' awake several times (normally he goes straight back to sleep) so not a great success. However, in retrospect it was a bad time to try it as he wasn't 100%.

I wondered if anyone had any tales of success (or failure) to convince me whether this is worth another try, and any advice on how long we should give it if we do?

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IMissSleep · 06/05/2011 11:04

DS has been in his own room since 3 months, it helped at first but he's started waking up a lot again!

IMissSleep · 06/05/2011 11:05

He is 8.5 months btw and is nearly crawling so I suspect thats got a lot to do with it!

sweetuphoria · 06/05/2011 11:38

DD was in her own room from 12wks - I didn't Want to but she outgrew Moses basket and we couldn't fit the cot in our room. I would say she has definitely slept better and DHs alarm doesn't wake her up at 6am so I usually get a sleep in til 7am, bliss

OneLittleHopper · 06/05/2011 11:44

We moved DS to his own room when he was 5mo and have never looked back! We basically spent all night disturbing each other and I'm sure that because we would respond to every little cry as he was so close by we quite often ended up waking him up properly at times when otherwise he would have settled back to sleep on his own. The final straw came when DH coughed and woke DS up just as we had resettled him! Now he usually sleeps through, as do we. So I would say definitely worth another try, and hopefully your sleep will improve too.

StrawberriesAndScream · 06/05/2011 11:47

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aquavit · 06/05/2011 12:00

We moved dd much earlier than we had intended, she was about 11 weeks: one night we put her moses basket into the cot in the nursery en route to our room, then she was sleeping so peacefully that we thought we'd leave her there and see how it went. She slept much better, and even better when we put her into the cot as she was getting too big for the basket. So we went along with it. This is contrary to advice re SIDS, but it worked for us.

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RufflesKerfluffles · 06/05/2011 17:41

Thanks for all your replies. Those who found it made a difference, did it help straight away, or did it take a few days?+

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Woodlands · 06/05/2011 20:16

We're in almost exactly the same situation OP - DS is 9.5 months and still in a co-sleeper cot next to our bed. I'm desperate to move him and get our bedroom back and I have this idealistic vision of him sleeping through immediately. However DH is more pragmatic and is putting off moving him as he says it will be hell. At the moment I don't need to get out of bed to feed him/soothe him, and if I have to go down to the other end of the flat each time it will be a pain. The other problem is that DH works from home and DS's bedroom is currently his study, so we'll have to move some furniture around/suffer some inconvenience. So that's why he's still in with us.

am desperate to hear that people have moved their children to their own rooms and the DC have immediately slept through!

TittyBojangles · 07/05/2011 09:32

I moved my DS reluctantly at about 5 months as felt I had tried everything else and that was last on my list (he was waking every 45 mins at the time). I figured if it didn't work then I could always move him back. Like you I am bf and thought it would be too much faff to be back and forth to his room (in our giant mansion house ) to feed him when he woke. The first night he slept til 5.30am!!! I realised this was probably a fluke but tbh since we moved him he sleeps from 7pm to around 3.30am ish, feeds then back to sleep til 6-7am. It could of course be coincidence, but if you're comfortable with it then I'd give it a go knowing you can always put him back in with you if it hasn't worked after a few days or it's too much hassle for you.

matana · 07/05/2011 20:14

DS, 6 months, moved into his own room 3 nights ago and his night waking has been worse than in a long time, but i think that has more to do with it coinciding with a growth spurt and weaning so he needs more comfort at the moment.

LeMousquetaireAnonyme · 07/05/2011 20:17

No, it improved MY sleep!
DD1 never really woke up though , DD2 is still with me

thisisyesterday · 07/05/2011 20:22

no, it didn't change any of my lots sleep habits. just meant I had further to walk in the middle of the night when they woke up

notenoughsocks · 07/05/2011 22:37

OP, in answer to your question about a few days or immediately?
I moved (out of my DS's room) at 6 months. At that point my own sleeping patterns were shot to pieces anyhow and I used to wake up even without DS waking up.
I couldn't face CC, so everytime I heard my DS wake up I went in to just sit with him, or pat and shush, or feed - depending where we were at. It took about a month before both we both started sleeping for the desired eight hours or so. It was a very difficult time, and there were relapses, but I think it has done us both good really.
PS - at fourteen months it is not uncommon for him to sleep for twelvel hours. He does wake up sometimes, but most of the time he is perfectly content to 'self-settle' (I hate that phrase for some reason). I think there will always be the odd relapse however and I panic less about them now.
Good luck OP.

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