We are thinking about trying to move DD into her own room after Easter, she will be about 10 months old. Possibly might get delayed a bit though as she's been quite unwell for most of the last month (started nursery!) so obviously we will wait til she's 100% better.
I don't really know where to start though. It feels like it should be a simple thing but I think I've missed the boat age-wise for it to be simple, as she clearly has good understanding of her surroundings now. She still wakes in the night sometimes, especially when she's unwell etc which I know is normal, until very recently she was waking many times a night needing help to find her dummy hence why we've kept her in our room (she sleeps in a cotbed at the head of our bed). However before she got ill, she has got pretty good at finding the dummies on her sleepytot bunny now, so she only needs help maybe once in the night or sometimes not at all. It will be a pain for us going into and out of her bedroom but it will probably be better for her because she gets disturbed by us a lot at the moment as she's such a light sleeper generally.
So...how do I do this? Just stick her in it one night and keep at it? How long should I stick with it before giving up if it's awful (I'm not wedded to the idea so I was thinking of giving it a fortnight or so?)? At the moment also she falls asleep with her dummy on either me or DH and then we transfer her to bed on a night, sometimes she wakes briefly when being put down but goes back off as she's in familiar surroundings, other times she doesn't wake at all, occasionally she has a little cry and needs patting/rocking for a bit in her bed. Should I tackle the going-to-bed-awake thing first before trying to move her into her own room or just continue as we have been doing? Should I try and get her familiarised with her own room before putting her to sleep in it e.g. playing in it, naps maybe? And for how long?