Moving baby into own room?

[Daisym45]

My DS is 6 1/2 months and starting to think about moving him into his own room.

He’s breastfed on demand and currently still wakes 1-2 times a night but ends up in our bed early hours.

I don’t want to make things harder for myself having to get up and go to another room etc. But I think moving him may be a step towards him sleeping through. I’m thinking if I don’t hear every little stir then he might just learn to settle himself better rather than me responding to him all the time. Obviously I don’t want to ignore him if he’s hungry or let him get upset.

What are your experiences? Did you regret the move?

He also might sleep better without being disturbed by myself and partner (although I don’t think this is a big problem as a play white noise all night).

I haven’t moved my 10 month old but know people who did and regretted it. I think whether baby sleeps through or not is a lottery and not circumstantial x

I have 3 little ones and moved them all at 7 months. At around 6 months I noticed cosleeping stopped working well as we started disturbing each other as baby became more alert. I'd have moved them at 6 months but it always takes me a month to be brave enough as they were all waking between 4-8 times a night in bed with me. I always though NO WAY will they not wake me over and over from their own room but once I bit the bullet, shockingly all three went to sleeping through the night (or one wake at most) from the second night in their own room. I think 6-7 months is the perfect time to move them out as by 9 months they know too much and will refuse consciously to stay in their own room.

Give it a try. You only got a few nights sleep to lose but so so much to gain.

Oh and for the record all 3 of mine were very different babies and #1 and especially #3 were very tricky sleepers.

We've recently moved our 15 month old into her own room, it was great after the first few nights where I didn't sleep as I was anxiously watching her on the monitor. She started waking less frequently once she had got used to it (1am and 5am), but now she is bloody teething again so I was in and out of her room on an hourly basis last night. The getting out of bed and walking down the hall, settling her and then going back to my bed is a ball ache to be honest, but so was being kicked and punched when she was in our bed. We were disturbing her when she was in our room I think. Starting to do some gentle night weaning after we are back from holiday in a few weeks as I need to get some sleep, didn't sleep well when pregnant due to HG and coped well with the lack of sleep in the early days, but now after 2 years with not a single full nights sleep I am too sleep deprived to function properly and it will be better for Dd to have a fun mummy rather than a dead tired one. Give it a try OP, if it doesn't work then you can try something else, sleep is necessary for a happy family imo.

We moved DS through to his own room at 6 months and all slept better for it. He was a rubbish sleeper until a year old but we had a comfy chair in his room for feeding and it also meant DH could try and settle him back down at times with a cuddle if I wasn't in the room.

Totally echo what everyone is saying. You can only try it!

DS was waking about 4 times untill I moved him into his own room, now it’s down to one, two on a bad night but he’s only 6 months and that’s still totally normal. I think he sleeps much better in his own space.

Yes the actually having to get up out of bed is a bit more of a pain but, I’ve found the sleep I get is much better. I can’t hear all th snuffly little sleep noises or stirs that would normally have woken me right up.

I’d get a cosy feeding chair set up and give it a try. If it doesn’t work you can always go back and re think

Good luck

Thanks everyone. I might give it a go but I’ll have to move the whole cot! Atm we have his cotbed with the side off right next to my bed but we can give it a go and always move back if needs be. With the cold and flu season coming, I think we will both start disturbing him more with coughing etc. Might try for a week and see how it goes.

I waited til 5 months after ds was sleeping through. He was 20 months. No issues at all . I do have a huge bedroom though so his cot bed wasn't in the way.

I’d probably wait until he is sleeping through most nights. Only because I’m lazy and wouldn’t want to get out of bed!

With DS1, he went into his own room around 8 months but I was pregnant with DS2 at the time and didn't want him to think he'd been turfed from our room because of his brother he was still getting up 1 to 2 times a night but I'd just feed him on the couch in his room so didn't find it too much of an issue

DS2 didn't move out of our room until around 12mths - we realised after being on holiday when he was in a different room that he was waking up because we were in the same room - he started sleeping through the night from the first night not in our room

Good luck!!

It's completely different for everyone I think, because every situation is a bit different.
We didn't want to move our son into his own room, so we didn't.
When he was 16 months, we decided that putting him in a toddler bed would be better. But for obvious reasons, our options were put him in his own room, or remove most of our toiletries and such like.
So we put his cot in his own room for a month, so he could get used to it. Then when he was 17 months we put him in his bed.
He loved being in his own room, didn't cry, didn't want to come back in with us at all. We literally took him up to bed that night and put him in his own room (didn't see the need or point of starting with naps).
I hated it at first but he was fine. I have a video monitor on all night by the bed though.

I moved my ds into his own room at 3 months this was because he had outgrown his moses basket so was the next natural step for us

We moved ours at 5 months because we suspected DH’s snoring was disturbing her. We were right. More work for me as I BF but she slept better overal so it was worth it.

Oops DC1 from 2nd night home from hospital (with doors open) and DC2 from 1st night home. Can't sleep with baby in room !

My baby is a light sleeper and often woke up when we went to bed ourselves or rolled over in the night.
I moved her into her own room at 4 months though I did have one of those movement sensor pads and it her room is right next to our room with both doors open. She slept much better straight away.
She was pretty cramped in the Moses basket (she likes to starfish) and there wasn’t enough space in our room anyway so it made the decision for us really.

Moved our baby into her own room when she was 7 weeks old. She is a loud grunty sleeper and our bed is a creaky metal one, nobody was getting any sleep. She’s a good sleeper, 1-2 quick feeds between 7 and 7, and her room is directly opposite ours so wasn’t too worried. Working well, liked the idea of moving her well before she is aware of being moved.

We moved our dc into own room at 4 months as we were disturbing him with coughing and my husbands snoring! We have a movement sensor pad and a video monitor by the bedside. He slept much much better after that.

We moved both of ours into their own room at about 6 months for the same reasons. Difficult in the short term having to get up and feed (agree comfy feeding chair is a good idea) but I def think we all slept better in the longer term. I also liked being able to potter about in the bedroom of an evening without fear of waking them up.