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When did you move your baby into their own room?

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roseability · 30/09/2009 21:15

Just wondering

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roseability · 30/09/2009 21:52

We can't fit a full size cot in our bedroom

However we could have tried the bedside crib as a seperate crib at the end of our bed I suppose

Selfishly I do like being able to go to bed without creeping about in the dark. I do miss her though

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Squiglet · 30/09/2009 21:53

He's still in our room, 21 months old. Has his own little bed next to ours but clambers in when he needs to. Works fab for us

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roseability · 30/09/2009 21:54

jealous of squiglet

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Squiglet · 30/09/2009 21:54

fishflange i dont think i could have done that.

PacificDogwood · 30/09/2009 21:56

DS1 - never
DS2 - 2 nights
DS3 - 3 months

They all had a crib in their own room were they slept until they piped up for booby, then co-slept with current baby whilst DH was kicked out into spare bed .
I cannot sleep with snoring/grunting/gurgling baby in one room with me - unless I cosleep .

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roseability · 30/09/2009 21:57

okay I am asking the mumsnet jury

should I bring her back into my room (DH saya he is happy for this if it is what I really want)? Or do I leave her sleeping 12-13 hours through the night in her own room?

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Squiglet · 30/09/2009 21:58

roseability, she might decide that she wants to be back in with you when a bit older anyway. Ds2 went through a very snuffley and fidgety stage, round thesame time but think it was because he was having his growh spurt so wanted to nurse all night.

Dp been fab and mostly sleeps on our lovely huge sofa. We are all happy with this because we get our cuddles in the evening Also dp snores so I really dont mind sleeping apart from him.

norktasticninja · 30/09/2009 21:58

We moved DD at 6 months. She'd been napping in her cot for a few weeks and although I'd expected a drama it was fine. I kept the crib in our room for when she was ill/unsettled until she didn't fit into it anymore. I think she was about 9 months.

DS is 16 weeks and still in our room at night, probably will be until +?- 6 months. He naps in his cot goes to bed there too, I move him to our room when we go to bed. I don't foresee any problems with him sleeping the whole night in his room, but who knows

PacificDogwood · 30/09/2009 21:58

No brainer: leave her in her own room!! Anything else, there madness lies !!

Squiglet · 30/09/2009 22:00

Back in with you Your dp can sleep in her room.

Squiglet · 30/09/2009 22:01

Incidentally it was queen victoria who started the whole baby sleeping in a basket thing. The sheepie aristocracy followed suit, then the wanna be aristocracy and then it filtered through. I think i must be a peasant

norktasticninja · 30/09/2009 22:01

Gah. DS distracted me and I forgot to refresh...

If you're happier with her in your room then that's where you should have her IMVHO.

MegBusset · 30/09/2009 22:03

DS1: 6 months but was still a terrible sleeper in his own room and I used to end up bringing him into bed with me most nights.

DS2: 4 months because we went to stay in a caravan and there wasn't room for the travel cot in our bedroom. He slept through every night so when we got home we put him in his own room and he has more or less slept through since then (that was a month ago).

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roseability · 30/09/2009 22:04

I tell you the minute she so much as wimpers, she is straight into my bed!

I must be mad with hormones, I am willing her to have a growth spurt and require my boobs at night again!

Very good point about her waking up at some point. I know she won't sleep through every night for the next few years

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TabithaTwitchet · 30/09/2009 22:06

21 months and counting... We are planning on moving her out when she is 2, ideally when she is able to get excited about being a "big girl", choosing her own bedding, having her own room etc, which I think would go over her head at the moment.
Will miss her when she goes

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roseability · 30/09/2009 22:07

I apologose profusely for sounding ungrateful for such a good sleeper

I am grateful really and have already forgotten why I put her in her own room in the first place. Because I was mad with sleep deprivation from her suckling my boobs half the night!

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roseability · 30/09/2009 22:09

squiglet - wasn't it Queen Vic who introduced the pram as well? She obviously wasn't a babywearer

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greensnail · 30/09/2009 22:09

I'm torn, but probably edging towards leave her in her own room!

PinkyMinxy · 30/09/2009 22:11

Roseability

I've just put DD2, my last baby, into her bedroom, sharing with ther sister. SHe's 11 months now. I think I decided she needed the bigger cot and the logical thing to do was use that transition as the point for her to move ou t of our room. It's a bit of a wrench, though. I've just been sitting in the rocking chair in their room watching them sleep.

DS was in the crib next to me or in our bed until about 9-10 months.

DD1 co slept most of the time until about 10 months though theoretically she had gone into her own room at 6 month-ish, mainly becasue she was rolling and pulling up to standing so couldn't sleep in the crib.

I'm hoping their sharing will help DD1, too, who really doesn't like sleeping on her own. She was very happy tonight.

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roseability · 30/09/2009 22:13

She woke up a bit earlier than normal this morning. great I thought! A wee breastfeed and she will snuggle up to me for a bit

No - she wriggled, shuffled and snorted so I put her back into her cot and she went back to sleep for two hours

She obviously prefers her horrendous, bright mobile buddies to me

Oh dear I need a life when I am jealous of a mobile

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Squiglet · 30/09/2009 22:14

You're right she wasnt exactly the iconic figure of motherhood though was she? Tabitha - i roginally said a year, then 2.. now am saying when he is weaned. Doing blw so that might be another year.. Oh well

PinkyMinxy · 30/09/2009 22:14

lol well that's the thing. I'm off to bed soon to sit up with the light on and Read My Book- what luxury

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roseability · 30/09/2009 22:15

Hi PinkyMinxy! My babies seem to want to sleep on their own

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piprabbit · 30/09/2009 22:15

Like Jojay - at about 4 months when the moses basket seemed close to collapse....

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