Did your baby sleep better in their own room?

[SexPond]

DS2 is a spectacularly shite sleeper. We're putting him in his own bedroom when he hits six months next week.

Obviously I'm holding this up as the thing that is going to completely revolutionise his sleep yeah right

What happened when you put your DC in their own room? Did they sleep better? I'm hoping for good stories here (obviously) but feel free to hit me with the negative ones too.

Yes I think in most cases it's the fact that you're not waking the baby through just turning over in bed, God forbid you cough etc (it's all coming back to me now) and the baby isn't waking you sniffling. I was all set the first night in her own room for her to wake up more and was terrified when I woke up the next morning I ran in to check she was breathing good luck op hope it all went well

Following this post with interest! Really considering moving 5 mo DS to own room as sleep is getting ridiculous now. My concern is he is waking frequently and I think we probably disturb him, but he also needs the boob or lots of rocking to get back to sleep each time. We bed share a lot but I can't sleep through all the shuffling and latching on. Does moving him mean I am just going to be in and out of bed like a yoyo all night?

Feeling your pain OP, we're having a fucking nightmare too and feel like I'm losing my mind. Sending hugs and xx

Just to manage your expectations a bit OP, it has made not a jot of difference to us.

We moved dd at 6 months as she was too big for her bedside crib, and we don't have enough space for a cot in our room.

She still wakes as frequently as she did when in with us. And getting up to feed or resettle is more annoying and more wakeful for me. Sometimes I used to be able to resettle her just with a hand on her tummy when I heard her stirring, but now by the time I get down the hall to her room she's already too awake for that.

On the up side, it has made bedtime for me and dh a bit more relaxing. As we don't have to creep around in the dark!

Hopefully it will be better for you. But don't necessarily expect it to immediately solve all your sleep problems.

Nope. I just had to get out of my bed and walk further. DC3 is spending at least half the night actually in my bed because I can't be arsed with that again. In my defence I work full time and I quite like sleep.

She'll be in her own bed eventually like the other two. .

Putting in his own room was a revelation! I love that bones of that boy but I also like sleeping and we used to wake each other up, I used to hate tip toeing round the bedroom in the dark and just waiting for DP to inevitably walk into something and wake DS up.

He's 2 next month and some weekends we have to have him in a travel cot in our room when DSC are here whilst we wait for the builders to finish our new house and I spend pretty much all night panicking DP and I are going to wake him

Envious of you all!

Didn't make any difference here just meant I had to go to their room whrn waking and then bring them in bed with me by 3am when I'd had enough.

No wonder my experiences were so different to many. Lack of sleep for years socks.

We've moved DS a week and a half ago at 5 months (doctor actually told me to as I was so sleep deprived he said on this occasion ignore the guidelines).
His sleep has improved beyond belief in that time and he's so much happier in the day now too. He's still waking up once or twice but that's a huge improvement on what he was like previously!

Yep another one here in favour of moving to own room! We moved DS last week at 4 months because he'd grown out of the Moses basket and cot bed too big for our room. He's taken to it like a dream and we are both sleeping amazingly well. We've had 2 nights where I've had to get up to settle him but both times it was quick. The other night so far he's slept through. We were keeping each other up (well mainly he was keeping me up with his grunting, thrashing around and snuffling)

DD got kicked out to her own room at 4 weeks! Much better sleep for all of us.