Moved 8m old into own room and keeps waking up

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Did anyone’s baby sleep better when they moved into their own room? We’ve recently put our near 8 month old in their own room. They used to sleep fine in our room, maybe waking up once or twice. The past few days it’s been nearly hourly.

Does anyone else have experience of moving their babies into their own room and the sleep got worse? Do they need time to settle in? I honestly feel like we’ve gone backwards to some of the earlier newborn days where they were up regularly! It’s exhausting

I just kept them in my room and very gradually moved them into their own room until they slept better. So I would put my dcs down to nap in their own room in the daytime so the room became familiar.

I personally never felt a rush to move them into their own room and for a while they clearly preferred to sleep at night in the same room as me.

My first slept the same in her own room as she did in ours (neither brilliant, she’s 3.5 and still wakes up once looking for us!)
My 2nd is 11 months and has been horrendous ever since we moved him. He was way too big and mobile for the next to me and we can’t fit a cot in our room so we had no choice. He’s very wriggly and seems to shuffle up the cot and wake up whenever he hits the bars/top of the cot. I’m currently trialling him in his travel cot instead as it’s soft mesh and it does seem to be helping. If the experiment works I’ll actually get rid of the cot as my first was never a lover of it either. I wish I could do cosleeping but I’ve tried and it’s just not for me, it also doesn’t seem to change how often he wakes!

There is an 8month sleep regression, which has maybe coincided with you moving him as well? DD2 is 9months and still in our room, whereas DD1 went into her own at 7months and never looked back. We tried a cot for DD2 and she hated it but we are having more success after we bought a next2me forever (like a normal next2me but supersized so it can be used for much longer and then turned into a standalone cot / floorbed). The plan is then to very gradually move her once she's settled overnight in the new cot. But it's frustrating that it is taking so long as I'm really ready to have some of my own space back overnight now.

Have you got a white noise machine? Was a game changer for us. They are used to hearing you breathe... rustling, turning over etc. Is the light at the same level as in your room? The temperature? All these things can make a difference. Good luck.

We did the same and ours kids transferred to their own bedrooms without issue at 18 months, having napped most days in their bedroom in a travel cot from 12 months.