Moving into their own room?

That.Just.Happened · March 2011

E is still sleeping in our room, at my husband's insistence. She used to be a great sleeper but it has gone to sh!t in the past several weeks. I think if we put her in her own room we would all sleep better. DH disagrees. Just trying to get a sense of when most people make that move. E will be 5 months old at the end of the week and I would love to make the transition with her then.

Thanks!

A

wanttobeamom · March 2011

We moved DD into her own room at 6 months

remote_girl · March 2011

we moved him to his room around 4 months. i fought it (hubby really pushed for it) but he really did sleep better, as did we.

eta: i did sleep on the floor of his room for the first few nights b/c i had a hard time moving him to his own room. it helped with the transition for both of us....

ally-cat · March 2011

We moved Max at 4 months. It was about a week before he got comfortable with it (moved from bassinet to crib) but afterwards he slept much better.

Mrs.Guz · March 2011

Around 5-6 months when she outgrew her cradle.

MrsBrandiGreene · March 2011

My kids both slept in their own room at 2 weeks old.

GTJess · March 2011

MrsBrandiGreene:
My kids both slept in their own room at 2 weeks old.

ditto this...well, by the time Reese got home she was already almost 3 weeks old. The first week we were home we took turns staying up with her. Then once my husband went back to work, she slept in her crib and I slept in the nursery as well during the week. Once she started sleeping longer than 3 hours at a time, i moved back into our room.

myrall · March 2011

We moved her into her room somewhere between 3.5 and 4 months.

tracigator · March 2011

Both of my boys slept in their own rooms starting the day we got home from the hospital.

amanda_holbird@hotmail.com · March 2011

We moved Ethan to his own room just shy of 4 months and we moved Jack to his room when he was 6 weeks old.

new2atl · March 2011

Around 4-6 weeks old AJ would start out in our room in the PNP but when I got up to feed him in the middle of the night I would then leave him in his crib. This felt like an easy way to transition for both of us.

By about 8 weeks old he was staying the entire night in his crib.

I noticed that he got up much less often once he started sleeping in his crib. I think that I would hear his little squeaks and noises and just get him up to eat. Once he was in his room we didn't hear every little noise and everyone slept much better.

slwprincess · March 2011

Just moving her this week, actually. First night was great. Last night was not so great. She woke up at 2:30 to eat (normal) but then was wide awake and wanting to play (not normal). I even tried putting her in our bed, but she just kept chattering. So I had to take her downstairs and put her in the swing- she fell asleep almost instantly. I spent the rest of the night on the sofa. Hoping that daycare wears her out today and we have better luck tonight.

This is a little later than we did it with Gavin. Not sure why I've had a harder time with it this go round. I think it's b/c she is almost exclusively BF so I know I'm going to have to feed her at some point during the night. With Gavin, if he woke during the night, DH could give him a bottle or I could nurse... so the burden wasn't totally on me.

DzsGirl · March 2011

MrsBrandiGreene:
My kids both slept in their own room at 2 weeks old.

Same here. Boys have pretty much always slept in their rooms, and we have always slept in ours.

MrsKLB · March 2011

Brady started sleeping in his room around 3 weeks old.

Kerrin · March 2011

We made the transition for both kids at 8 weeks. I knew i was going back to work at 12 weeks and wanted to give them plenty of time to get used to their room.

mrsd0907 · March 2011

We moved Derek around 8 weeks. I went back to work at 10 weeks and it was easier with him being in his own room for all of us to sleep better because I wasn't waking up with every little sound he made on top of waking up to feed him.

AugustaBride04 · March 2011

We made the switch at 2 months with no problems. All of us slept so much better after the move.

smynings_bride · March 2011

10 days old (and we spent 4 of those nights at Northside). Neither of us have ever slept in her room.

seansgirl2006 · March 2011

Ethan was about 5 or 6 months when we moved him. I am going to try it out several months earlier next time. He too started regressing and we all slept much better when he moved. He was not sleeping through the night consistently before we moved him. He would hear our every move and I heard his too. I kept not moving him because he was still nursing at night and I wanted him close by. I know that is lazy! When we moved him we were able to easily drop his night feedings too. Good luck!