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When to move to ownroom

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Siennabear · 25/02/2021 21:23

My daughter is 2.5, starts the night in her cot next to my bed. She still wakes a fair bit and after the 2nd waking (usually) I just bring her in next to me as I’m too tired to get out of bed and settle her. Husband gets kicked out much to his grumbling.
I am really keen to get her in her own room and big bed. However we are upstairs (attic extension) so she will be on a different floor. I’m not sure if she will sleep better in a big bed or if I’ll just end up going tos,eep in her bed and be squashed together! She wakes regularly coming up for morning.
I was hoping her sleep would improve as her brothers sleep improved massively at 2 and more or less started sleeping through.
How did you find moving from cot in the same room /co sleeping to moving to own room? Did it improve sleep or was it just the same? I don’t want to make things harder and would rather just wait if that is the case.

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Sandrine1982 · 26/02/2021 13:44

I would try it, you won't lose anything by giving it a go. We had a similar situation. Baby in her cot next to our king size bed, husband ended up sleeping in the spare room. When the baby was 12 months, I decided I wasn't going to sleep in the same room anymore. So since that time, she's been sleeping alone, more or less until the first wake up. If that was before 4am, I usually put her back in the cot and left, otherwise I would stay and co-sleep in the big bed until the morning.

She started doing longer stretches of sleep around that time, but that might have coincided with her starting nursery and starting to walk.
She started sleeping through around 14-15 months.

Now at 18 months she sleeps around 9.5 hours in one stretch, alone in the bedroom.

To cut the long story short, I don't regret stopping sleeping in the same room.

We still need our bedroom back though so the next step for us is to move our DD to the other bedroom which was supposed to be hers.
It's a noisier room, so I'm really worried, but we'll see how it goes.
We're doing it next weekend :-D

Good luck - you can at least explain to your daughter that she's going to have her big girl room now, let her decorate it, build it up as something super positive ;)

Hope it goes well Flowers

DemolitionBarbie · 26/02/2021 13:50

You might find she sleeps better in her own room, you disturb her as well as the other way round.

I would move her in her cot to begin with so it's less of a change all at once.

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