Moving 5 month old into own room - Better or Worse?

[EmmaKB]

My DS has started waking up during the night. He is currently sleeping in our bedroom. I was thinking of moving him into his own room before I go back to work. Don't know if this will cure the problem or make it worse.

Anyone else had good or bad results?

My baby has slept in his cot in his own room since 2 months old and has slept from 6pm - 6am without waking - maybe we are just lucky? I admit that I was very nervous about it at first, but since he's slept so well there was no going back.

Loads better - he may go back to sleep on his own - put him in a nther room and SHUT the door - no monitor wither.

Definitely better.

Recently ds2 has been waking every 2-3 hours for a breastfeed. When he was next to me in a crib and made a murmur, I would put him in bed with me and feed him pretty much straight away. Now he is in his own room I am more inclined to leave it a few minutes when he starts grisling (sp?). Guess what? More often than not he goes back to sleep and now only wakes up once, complains (not distressed, just grumpy?) for a few minutes and then goes back to sleep. He is 5 months. I now get 7-7 out of him!!
PS I cannot make a complete 'break' - I do have my baby monitor 10cm from my head!!!!

EmmaKB, I would agree with the others here and say definitely time to put him in his own room.
We moved DS into his own room very early as he was a particularly noisy sleeper and he was keeping me awake so I cant comment from that perspective but if your ds wakes up and sees you then sure he'll want to stay awake but if he wakes up and there's nothing to see that interests him much then hopefully he'll go back to sleep. Are there blackouts in his own room?

as a complete wuss I am very pleased with myself that I have managed to get ds into his own room from about 4 weeks (I had to as my c-scar was awful - infected etc yuk and I was making it much worse by constantly leaning over to the mosey to see how ds was). DS at 14 weeks now very contentedly (well mostly) occupying his very own cotbed to the extent that tonight (Big night) I took out the moses basket (it had been in the big cot) and put him in the cot itself. Not a peep so far.

At 5 months DS was starting to stir when we went to bed so we put him in his own room then.

He was absolutely fine and it was great to be able to finally put the light on and not whisper anymore.

The thing I found hard was the avoiding cot death advice says for them to be in their parents room until 6 months.

EmmaKB, it really depends on the child. And the wonderful thing is that you can try it for a week and if it doesn't work, switch him back to your bedroom. We moved our ds into his own room at 6 mo. and he went from feeding every 2 hours to sleeping 8 hours straight within the week. However, although our dd is a little better out of our room than in it (wakes up when dh snores), she is 16 mo. and still wakes up severa times during the night.