Did your baby sleep better in their own room?

[gigi556]

At what age did you move your baby into their own room and did their sleep improve?

I'm aware SIDS guidelines are room sharing until 6 months but know some babies move before and some after. I'm curious to hear positive and negative stories.

No their sleep didn't improve.

Yes both theirs and ours! From about 8 weeks

Sorry meant both theirs and ours sleep was better!

About 9 months and no not really. My sleep improved a bit because he was quite noisy

Yes. Ds1 was moved into his own room at 5 weeks ds2 at 6 weeks. We all slept better (they are 6 and 3 now, so same SIDS guidance. I followed most of them, but it is just guidance).

Ds1 slept 7-7 from 14 weeks, ds2 needed a quick feed or two until almost 6 months. Both formula fed (I'm yet to meet a bf baby who has slept this well, so thought I'd mention that's how mine were fed in case it was relevant).

Yes! DD was fine in our room until about 8mnths then started to awake really frequently again and when we finally moved her to her own room at 10months she went back to being generally a very good sleeper again so I think we were probably disturbing her!

Yes, put ds in his own room at six weeks and he slept much better (but not sure if that was because my dp snores).

DC1 - moved 9 months. Not sleeping through. Baby's sleep the same, mine worse because of having to get up every wake

DC2 - sleeping through inconsistantly from 6 months, own room at 9 months, when sleeping through consistently. Therefore no positive or negative effect on sleep

DC3 - sleeping through consistantly from 7 weeks. Moved cot away from my bed but not out of room by 2 months. Own room 6 months as per SIDS recommendations. Already sleeping through so no positive or negative effect on sleep.

DC4 - sleeping through inconsistantly from 9 months, own room at 12 months, when sleeping through consistently. Therefore no positive or negative effect on sleep

We waited until 6 months to move her into her own room - she went to bed in the evenings between 3-4 months.
She initially slept better (we were waking her when we went to bed) but we've had ups and downs (just like when she was in our room). She didn't start sleeping through regularly (12 hours in my eyes) until about 13 months.

We moved our twins at 7 months. Their overnight sleep wasn't better but they slept longer in the morning because they weren't disturbed by their Dad getting up for work.

That helped me because I could mostly get my shower before they woke up.

hahahahaha no!

We only moved her into her own room as we could put an aircon unit in it too (wouldn't fit in our room with the cot) and it was a hot summer - DD copes very badly with heat.

We put a bed for one of us in there too - it has been well used. DD sometimes sleeps through the night now. She's 4.5 (years, not months!).

I moved DS into his own room at 12 weeks & he slept much better as did I, as any movement from him would wake me up.

Moved at about 3 months and was supposed to be a temporary measure due to illness but decided to keep it like that as everyone slept so much better.