What happens when you move a bad sleeper into their own room?

[Mamabear04]

My DD is 5 and a half months hold and I'm starting to think ahead to move her into her own room. She has never been a fanatic sleeper but she can go 7 hours of uninterrupted sleep on the odd glorious occasion. She is a very restless sleeper and still needs a lot of help to go to sleep. I can now hold her while she sucks on her dummy before putting her in her cot (this has been a major achievement for me!) but I still sometimes have to feed her to sleep or bounce her on an exercise ball for both naps and night time sleep if she is refusing to go to sleep.

I guess my question is how does it work moving a bad sleeper into their own room? I'm worried that I'll be back and forth to her throughout the night and it will be even more tiring than having her next to me. My OH thinks that she will have to learn to self settle because we will only hear her if she cries but I worry that she will lie awake in her cot for hours and miss out on sleep. It's a real point of stress for me and every time I think of it I want to burst into tears. I'm worried it could have a knock on effect and I can't take having an over tired baby again and having to fight to get her to sleep. She went through a period from about 2-4 months where she just wouldn't nap AT ALL and would scream constantly sometimes all day and it was torture. It honestly felt like a fucking war. I've worked so hard to get her past that and I'm so worried that this could mess it all up for her please can someone give me some advice....

We spent a long time with one of us sleeping on the floor near the cot... It did lay the groundwork for sleeping in his own room and for one of us to do shifts and get a bit of uninterrupted sleep while the other was on duty.

Just did this with my 8 month old and he has slept through every night since (11 nights now). He would wake every between 2and 5 times a night before and could take a while to get back to sleep. I think before I picked him up too quickly but now he is in his own room even though I have a monitor I only hear if he is properly awake and he puts himself back to sleep otherwise. I have seen him do this on the video monitor he might be awake for 10 mins then just goes back to sleep with no crying. Before when he was next to my bed he would cry as soon as he woke up, i would pick him up and try to feed him and I think this annoyed him in hindsight so it took longer to get him back to sleep. I also think moving from a crib to a cot has given him more space which he likes.

I worked on settling while still in my room, did lots of patting and shushing, and pushing night feeds later, and then when moved into their own room around 7.5 months, slept SO much better (we must have been disturbing each other) and slept through for the first time not that long afterwards. So it worked for me! How’s night feeding for you?

My DS is the same age and It took a couple of days but he now sleeps through with one wake up. Previously I was up every hour for weeks and it was torture! Since moving to his own room he has started to sleep on his side (something he had no room to do in his Next to Me) and can sleep a solid 6 hours like that. He was also such a light sleeper i would only need to turn over and he would stir! I was anxious to but it helped massively. Good luck. X