Did your baby sleep better after going in their own room?

[WhizzPopBang]

DD is nearly 9 months, has never slept through the night, best we've ever had is the occasional 8pm - 4am stretch. She doesn't need feeding every time she wakes, can often go til 4-5am without milk, she just wakes frequently, and settles quickly with my help.

Her cot is in our room, she never wakes and cries before we come to bed (can see her on the monitor waking and settling fine), but a couple of hours after we come to bed she wakes and cries out a few times across the night, sometimes every hour.

Am wondering whether it'll help if she sleeps alone? Did it help with your DC?

Mine did, after a few nights of being outraged! I was going from co-sleeping to cot in room next door though, so a slightly bigger change. He was barely sleeping at all in bed with me, we were both miserable, and after about a week in his cot he was sleeping longer than he ever had. I sleep much better alone too! DS was nine months then. He didn't start sleeping through till 13 months though.

Yes loads better. DD was waking up between 12-20 yes I counted times a night before we moved her into her own room.

She slept through the night within a week. We didn't do anything differently and didn't bother with sleep training, so we must have been disturbing her when she was with us.

DS didn't sleep for more than a couple of hours at a time until he went into his own room. Less than a week later he slept through the night!

Im so hoping it'll help! It's a bit of a palaver because we don't have a lot of space but I really think we disturb her, and she definitely wakes me when she cries out and goes straight back to sleep

I guess I'm unlucky. DS got worse when he went into his own room at 6 months.

I also hoped he would get better, as I thought noises DH and I made in the night might be bothering him. Instead, DS seems to wake just as much and be harder to re-settle.

I think the problem is that when we were in the same room, I heard DS every time he started waking and in the interest of everyone staying asleep as much as possible, I always rushed to help him settle. Now that I'm not there to hear and help quickly, and since he didn't get a chance to try learning to settle on his own, it's worse. Or at least that's my theory.

Nope, made no difference to either of them. Moving out of my bed and into a cot meant less feeding, but cot in my room vs. cot in another room = no difference.

Our DD slept better too. She likes to thrash about a bit and she kept waking herself up in the Moses basket.

We all slept a lot better. I think DH's snoring was waking our DC!

Yes, we were cosleeping and I think she could smell the milk so kept snacking. Combined moving her with stopping bfeeding (she was 10mo) she is in her cot in her room, she wakes up anywhere between 2am and 5am and comes in with us but only wants a bottle maybe 2 nights in 7?

Yes, still didn't sleep through for quite a while, but it certainly helped.

Yes, it made all the difference. Took a week or two to settle in, but then dc went from waking every hour or two, to sleeping right through. They were both around 11 months.

Quick update - we tried this for first time last night... (We moved out of our own room rather than move her out - we only have a one bed flat!) so nothing was different from her POV. Anyway it was a good start! Will try for a week and see how it goes. She only woke 3 times as opposed to every hour or so, and didn't need any milk til 4am. Plus with the monitor turned down low it was far less disruptive when she did wake, and I didn't hear every rustle and noise. Won't get my hopes up just yet though!

Glad you had a better night. I moved my DS into his own room at 17 weeks because the swinging cot in our room was getting small for him and the cotbed was too big to move into our bedroom. He's basically slept through ever since (10-5/6ish) but in all honesty he was a pretty good sleeper anyway - the move gained us about an hour and a half more sleep each night.

Good luck whizz! We did similar when DD was about 23 weeks, we moved out into the living room and from waking 4 times or more a night she woke once the first night, once the second then slept through the third. it was amazing! I hope you have similar.

Kiki I dream that might happen!

Update a week later: it's working! DD has a cold and is a bit off her food so I wasn't expecting too much, but she sleeps through til 3ish, has a decent milk feed and then goes back to sleep easily til the morning... Amazing! Think this is the best sleep we've all had since she was born.

She also works her way into the weirdest positions overnight, usually curled up and pressed into the bottom corner of the cot, obviously she feels cosy down there

Yay. Getting some sleep makes all the difference.

Hooray! It worked for us too, put him in his own room and he started sleeping through immediately.

Yes, DD1 particularly was a real fidget. She'd wake me and I'd wake her.

DD2 was still BFing and still co slept bits of the night, but she kept still. I haven't the foggiest idea when she slept through because she was so little bother.

BF, snooze, wake up and calmly go back to cot or bed. (She BF for years and appeared in the night occasionally)