Moving baby to her room

[babymumma21]

Hey looking for some help my baby girl is 5 1/2 months old and my partner thinks she is ready and would get a better sleep in her cot and in her own room I don't know if I should try her

All help would be great

SIDS recommendations are that you don't move baby to own room until 6 months old as a minimum.

Personally, I'd move once consistantly sleeping through.

Yeah I know ur meant to wait till 6 months the other reason I am thinking is that when me and my partner go to bed we are disturbing her and she is becoming restless, she sleeps right through she has done from 6 weeks I think it's more me not being ready than her

If you’re not ready don’t move her. There’s no reason a baby HAS to be in their own room.

Interested in this. Our baby girl is 4.5 months and while I’m not ready to move her yet, we are thinking about it

She is a very active sleeper and I wonder if I’m
Waking her up more sometimes. Ie, she stirs and I’ll go to her on my sleep addled state and I think she might resettle herself if I didn’t pick her up

I honestly think I'm being so so clingy,

Cos if I had my way she would be next to me always lol

She is such a sound sleeper until me and my partner go to bed then she starts to stir and is like that till we are in a deep sleep and all is quite I have a baby monitor with camera and my room is right next door I just don't know what is holding me back 😭

You’re biologically programmed to want your baby close to you! It’s normal and natural! What’s weird is our cultures thing of putting tiny babies in other rooms by themselves, no other culture does this. It’s strange how people want to sleep close to their partners at night, two adults who can look after themselves, but somehow think little babies and toddlers shouldn’t need the reassurance of hearing and seeing their parents close by at night. Keep your baby close as long as you want to.

We moved my youngest at 4 months as we were waking her when we came to bed / got up in the morning.

We're non smokers so our SIDS risk is low anyway.

To do the move, we started doing their naps in their cot. Then we'd put them to bed in their cot and move them to the next to me when we came to bed.

When we felt ready we stopped moving them at the 10pm feed

We moved our DS at 4.5 months. He too was stirring in our room. First night in his own room, I didn't sleep a wink and just watched the video monitor. He did stir but just settled back to sleep without me going in. That was the first night he slept through. You are lucky your baby already does as this bodes well for when she goes into her own room.

We had planned to build up to it like a PP by moving the Next to me cot into his room etc but that night just bit the bullet and put him straight into the cot.

The second night, we used a breathing sensor (good old Amazon Prime delivery!) which tells us his breathing rate and sleeping position. It is linked to your phone and does an amazing job at waking you up if breathing drops (never happened for us) or if baby has moved onto their tummy (a frequent thing for my DS). It gives me additional peace of mind along with the video monitor.

Mine all went in their own room just before 6 months I was definitely disturbing them. With doors open and only next room.
I put the moses basket in the cot for a few weeks for them to get used to the new environment but with some thing they knew. And started off with daytime naps. Also started getting them used to being in the room when they were awake to get used to new environment.

I was reluctant too but we all slept so much better when we did as we weren't disturbing each other. Very soon after we moved her to her own room she staying sleeping through.

I moved my first at a similar age, but then he regressed and I found it hard work constantly going through to his room. The others stayed in our room until they were 2+, as happens in many cultures.

Thank you so much everyone,

We decide to give it a go and if I couldn't deal with it would just move her back, I did have a cry for about 10 min but I keep watching the monitor she settled right away see how the rest of the night goes

I think this definitely comes down to personal situations.

DS co slept with us until 12 months.
Our friend moved their little girl into her room at 4 months because of the same reasons as you; she sleeps soundly now.

Do what works best for you but know that no decision is set in stone and you can always change

DS is still with us at 20m. Hope you are ok OP.

So last night we took the jump and moved our little girl into her own room and she slept right through the night was no problem going down she done so well, I never slept so well mind you 😂 hopefully I sleep better tonight!

Thanks so much for all the advice

Well done OP! 1st night is the hardest but good she slept so well 😊