If your baby sleeps in your room. . .

shar01 · December 2010

when did (or when are you planning on) transitioning your baby to their own room & crib?
My husband & I are trying to decide when we should put our baby in his own room - he's currently in a bassinet in our room.
I'm a pretty sound sleeper once I finally fall asleep so my only concern with transitioning is that I won't hear him right away (we do have a baby monitor & his room is right next to ours). With him sleeping in our room, I do hear every grunt & groan he makes but it's also much easier for me to get up & feed him during the night. It's been really nice having to only walk 2 steps to check & feed him vs walking down the hallway to his room.

wife1014 · December 2010

the big girl's room is right across from the nursery. I am not moving the baby to her crib/room until she is STTN! I don't need 2 kids up at night.

mle929 · December 2010

We have DD in a cosleeper attached to our bed. Her room is upstairs, so we'll probably transition her some time between 4 and when she starts to crawl. I really like how easy it is to feed her in the night and b/c I can tend to her needs quickly she doesn't get too upset and usually falls back to sleep easily.

mle929 · December 2010

*4 months

SammyJJo · December 2010

Our case is a little different because he sleeps in his crib in his room, so I think (hope) it will be less of an adjustment for him. We were thinking around 6 months. Before he develops a theory of mind, but after the risk of SIDS dramaticaly increases. So far I'm thinking it will be harder on me than him. Across the hall is too far away!

NoCode10 · December 2010

When he is sleeping through the night (at least a 5 or 6 hour stretch consistently). Right now he goes about 3 hours. There was one magical night A went 4, almost 5 hours before waking up to eat. Needless to say that hasn't happened again. lol

MNgirl326 · December 2010

We started the transition at about 8 weeks and LO was fully in the crib by 10 weeks.

heidismith · December 2010

wife1014:
the big girl's room is right across from the nursery. I am not moving the baby to her crib/room until she is STTN! I don't need 2 kids up at night.

This is the same for me.

I did move S to her own room when she was 4 months old, but that is about when she started STTN. I know that Ella will be in my room a lot longer then that though.

OctoberBabyH · December 2010

I plan on moving her to her room (across the hall from our room) when she STTN. (whenever that will be!)

MrsSeli · December 2010

I'm thinking about doing it soon. DD sleeps in a craddle in our room, but it's very narrow and she already manages to wiggle out of her swaddle and sticks her arm between the rails. Then she gets upset because she can't wave her arm around! Once or twice she's even managed to wiggle her whole body over so her head was right against the rail. There's not enough room for her to hurt herself, but it also doesn't exactly help her sleep. So I think it's crib time. She usually has a 5-7 hour stretch of sleep and I don't feed her in bed anyway(we go out to the living room...I need the TV to distract me or I just watch the clock the whole time waiting to go back to sleep), so it won't make much difference to me except that I won't be able to check to make sure she's breathing as easily as I do now.

Rink08 · December 2010

With DS1, we waited until he was 6 months old to move him. We'll probably do the same with DS2. I BF so I just think that it made it easier for us.

brittlandk · December 2010

DS has been sleeping in his crib in a room down the hall since coming home. I am (was) a SUPER heavy sleeper, could sleep through anything, with narcoleptic tendencies. My mother actually expressed concern several times that when I had children I'd be unable to wake up or fall asleep while taking care of them. But... I wake up while DS is still in the grunting phase every time. No monitor even, just have both bedroom doors open.

jim7496 · December 2010

Wesley will be sleeping with me until he either a) starts STTN or b) when he starts crawling. I don't need LO crawling out of bed while I'm still sleeping. LOL

BESkiz · December 2010

My LO is 8 weeks and I think we're going to start putting him in his room soon...we talked about tonight, but I think I'm chickening out:) LO has been STTN since 4 weeks old (after the doc told me I didn't have to set my alarm to feed him at night). It is going to be hard. I've been putting him in his crib for naps during the day to get us both used to it. I have to get used to seeing his little body in such a big crib:)

MMNelly · December 2010

We just started this week, but it is hard. I miss having him so close and seeing his little face first thing when I get up! Also, it is much more difficult to get him to go back to sleep after he is up to BF. I think it'll be alot easier when he is STTN! Right now he does one 4 hr stretch, then one 3. DH is a much bigger propoent of this than I am right now, in case it wasn't obvious...

Kristi221 · December 2010

I almost did tonight! She was crying and crying so one of the things I tried was laying her down in there. I put her on her side so I could rub her back and she calmed down! It lasted about 10 minutes though before the crying started again, so it'll be back to the PnP in our room when she's done with this bottle.

Our room is across the house from her room so I'm pretty nervous about when we do transition her. Might mean me sleeping in the recliner in there for a few nights! Good thing it's comfy!

Carilyn · December 2010

I have no idea! DS slept in our room for a year. I work nights and DH was nervous that he wouldn't hear DS wake up when I was at work, and I cobedded until we quit bfing at 14months. He wasn't STTN until then, anyway. DD will be in our room probably until the same point. They will have to share a room until DS is old enough to move downstairs, so I don't want her in there until she is STTN. THere also isn't really room for a crib in there with the twin bed, so it may be when she is old enough for bunk beds? Or will sleep in a PNP in there.

However, currently, DS has moved back to our room as well. Not sure how it happened, but he started getting up in the middle of the night this summer with night terrors and would climb in bed with us. Once DD was born, he had to get out of our bed (because I co-bed with DD a lot), but I felt like it wasn't the best time to transition him back to his room with the adjustment of a new baby. So, he sleeps on a big dog bed (where he slept in his room anyway, instead of his real bed, because he thinks it is cool to sleep on a doggy bed...it has never been slept on by a dog!) on our floor at the end of our bed. Yes, we have a 4 bedroom house, and we all sleep in one room! But, I kind of like it...they're only this little once and I'm pretty sure 10 years from now he won't still be sleeping on our floor

jerseyjewel716 · December 2010

Right now DS sleeps in his FP rock and play sleeper in our room. We are thinking of moving him once he sleeps through the night or once it starts to get warmer out. Our house is older in parts and while DS and our room is in the newer side we are afraid that he will get too cold in his room. Though after reading everyone elses responses to this it makes me think that moving him will likely be alot harder on DH and I than it is on him.

thatgirl85 · December 2010

The biggest thing I've learned in the past week is not to count on plans. I intended to have LO sleep in his crip in his room from day 1. However, I came home from the hospital and knew that wouldn't be happening. My mom knows me too well- she had a bassinet home waiting for us. DH is ready to move LO to the nursery now, but he's only 8 days old. I'm feeding him every 2-4 hours. I like being able to hear every noise he makes. I'd like to say he'll be in his own room around 8 weeks, but I'm playing it by ear. I'm at least waiting until he's sleeping through the night.

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