First night of baby in his own room!

[littleindi]

Just looking for a bit of reassurance/advice/company...

My baby is six months and tonight is his first night in his own room - he’s been in a next to me crib (or in bed with me) since he was born. Those of you who have moved your babies - how do you get over the anxiety!? I want to get up every five seconds to check on him! I know it’s hormonal but I’ve been so emotional about this move and now I feel like I’m going to be sat up all night on the stairs...

Hi @littleindi are you sure that you feel ready to have your DS in the other room yet? What prompted the move? Do you have a monitor set up?

The anxiety is normal though. I remember leaving DS to nap in our room but himself for the first time and worrying about him a lot! I used to check if he was breathing.

I can't offer any personal advice as my DS is still in our room and he's 20 months old!

Hello @FlatPackPat - thanks for your kind message! Mm - honestly I don’t feel ready, but I’m going back to work in a few weeks and DH is starting his shared parental leave so kind of thought it was a sensible thing to do now. My work can be quite full on with long hours and DS wakes a lot so it would be good to have some slightly longer blocks of sleep... (though maybe not tonight)

I have got a monitor set up but it’s bizarre, it picks up random noises in the house! Must get a better one.

I know it’s a fortunate situation really but I’m finding the whole thing hard...

We moved ours three weeks ago and use a video monitor so I can keep an eye on him. I thought it would be horrible but it’s fantastic!

He’s gone from sleeping an average total of 9 hours a night to 10.5 hours, waking at around 7:30 instead of 6. I also sleep better because I’m not waking every time he stirs and it’s lovely to have our room back and be able to snuggle up and watch tv, put the light on, not have to climb round the crib to get out of bed etc.

That’s so good to hear @Darkstar4855. I did sit up fretting a lot but actually he slept reasonably well (he’s not a great sleeper anyway and it was hot last night) - he actually only woke for milk twice when more often than not it’s 4-5 times! So I’m hopeful! Night two approaches...

And I am so confused by being able to get out of bed on my side now the crib has been moved

Keep me updated on how it goes? My little guy is 7 months now and still in our room... I negotiated extra time

He doesn’t wake for milk often now though but he does wake every hour lately crying because he has lost his blanket or dummy ... I worry this will be harder to deal with having to get out of bed every night rather than crawl to the bottom of the bed which his big cot is.

But maybe it’s us disturbing him x x x

We put our son in his own room at 4 months and he honestly slept so much better. I just felt the time was right. Swapping our audio monitor for a video monitor really helped with my nervousness. He seemed not to really notice to be honest and is a happy boy when in his cot. Don't do it when teething or poorly, and spend some awake time in their room together so they get familiar with new surroundings. Good luck.

Well, progress update on night 3, he’s not sleeping much better but he’s not sleeping any worse! It feels a bit harder to settle him because I’m used to just pulling him in with me/popping him on the boob. I’m hoping that morning wake ups will change as he used to want to get up for the day when DH got up for work at 5:30 and now he won’t be disturbed - so far so good.

He’s been playing in the cot in the day and seems to like having the space to roll about. I’ll see how it goes...

Good luck! Mine just slept through for the first time 8pm-6:50am after three weeks in his own room so he’s definitely more settled in there than he was with us.

Congratulations on the sleeping through! I’m hopeful