Own Room

Kristin112181 · November 2013

Hi ladies! My little man is 6 months old and we are trying to decide if we should move his crib to his own room. His crib is currently in our bedroom and his room is only about 10 steps away from ours. Where are your little ones sleeping?

MrsM1111 · November 2013

We have a 6.5 mo old who still bed shares. We keep talking about moving her, but it probably won't happen for another month as she is getting pretty squirmy in bed with us..

Nix55 · November 2013

My LO has been sleeping in her crib in her room since she was 12 weeks. Why the indecision? Is there a reason LO is in your room?

nbatchen · November 2013

LO has been in his own room for a month now. ( he was 5 months when we moved and he got his own room). Never had an issue with the transition.

Kristin112181 · November 2013

I'm one of those overprotective paranoid type A parents lol! That's my downfall!

snowgirl427 · November 2013

LO sleeps in his crib next to my bed. No plans to move him.. As long as I'm nursing and he is getting up in the middle of the night, it's just easier.

CNJ4EVA · November 2013

LO has been in her crib since about 14w when she got too big for the bassinet.

We are in a one bedroom apartment at present so her crib is in our room, but we're moving next month. The plan is that LO will sleep in her own room from night one in the new place, but if there's an adjustment issue we may keep her in the PnP in our room for a little while.

As much as we love LO, DH and I are very much looking forward to having our own space again.

blush64 · November 2013

A sleeps with me and probably will until she is two. Maybe a bit older or younger but she will probably be near two.

There is nothing set in stone but it worked with her brothers so I lean toward the same with her. A lot of people have strange ideas that having her in the room with us will make her less independant or that she will never be able to sleep alone. That is not true.

Lolalipsy · November 2013

We bed shared until Friday then we put her in her cot in our room.......come saturday we were back to bedsharing. The cot isn't working for us and she wants to be close so we will continue bedsharing for a little while until we get through this teething stage.

However, my friend put her LO in his own room at about 6 months and they both benefited massively from it. Both got a better quality and undisturbed night's peace. You can only try it to see if it works for you. I can see how it would be better for everyone because any rustling of sheets or loud coughing can wake my LO up (only when she's in the cot though).

Schell2013 · November 2013

She is in her own room. We used to bed share but transitioned her at 5 months. It's going pretty good but the occasional night she falls asleep from her MOTN nurse in our bed still.

kelly422 · November 2013

She's been in a crib in her own room since about 6 weeks old. The video monitor is key for us

bumpuser3155624 · November 2013

We moved LO into her own room about 2.5 months. We did this the same time we put her into the crib from the rnp. We moved her bacause she was able to roll and so the rnp was no longer safe.

watuzzigal · November 2013

She's still in the room--and often the bed--with us. We are good with this and aren't worried about it.

kmcd23 · November 2013

He's in his crib right next to my bed still. Nights when H isn't home, he starts in his crib and ends up in bed with me because we both sleep easier that way.

I planned to move him to his 'room' (which is really a renovated sleeping porch attached to my room) at six months, but I like being able to see him, and not having to move much for MOTN feedings, which are still frequent.

ALP514 · November 2013

We moved LO into her room at about 3.5 months. She was getting close to the weight limit in her PnP. It was a hard move for me. I slept on the floor in her room for about 3 weeks. However its been almost 3 months and she sleeps wonderfully in her room!

jesselayne8 · November 2013

DS has been in his crib since 3 weeks but I slept in his room until he was 7 weeks old. I dont use a monitor for him because he is so loud. I still use my monitor for my 23 month old though.

KLJ3 · November 2013

C has been in his own room (right across the hall) since he was 2 weeks old.

flyliceandcoffee · November 2013

We're definitely in the minority but S has been in her crib in her own room (with the exception of when family is visiting since the spare bed is also in her room) since she was a week old. Her room is just across the door from our room so any noises she makes I can hear, especially since I'm a light sleeper. We just leave the doors open. We have a video monitor, but we only use it when we're downstairs and she's sleeping upstairs.

kelseyhh · November 2013

Em has been in his own room for a couple of months now and it has been great! At first I was really nervous so I bought a Snuza breathing monitor and we also have a video monitor. He slept so much better since he didn't hear us moving around and making noise at night. After a few nights I also began to sleep much better.

The transition is the worst part but it gets so much better from there!

AllieAGame · November 2013

crazycoffeegirl said:
We're definitely in the minority but S has been in her crib in her own room (with the exception of when family is visiting since the spare bed is also in her room) since she was a week old. Her room is just across the door from our room so any noises she makes I can hear, especially since I'm a light sleeper. We just leave the doors open. We have a video monitor, but we only use it when we're downstairs and she's sleeping upstairs.

This exactly. Everyone's situation is different, but we are grateful we put Lexie in her own room from the start. We all sleep better (as evidenced by the month we had to share a room while moving). Though I have to admit around 7 am I usually put her in bed with me after H leaves for work and she continues sleeping until around 9.

pnutg · November 2013

He's been in his crib, in his own room since 10 weeks. I sleep with the video monitor. On rough nights we be share.

Revelle99 · November 2013

AllieAGame said:

We're definitely in the minority but S has been in her crib in her own room (with the exception of when family is visiting since the spare bed is also in her room) since she was a week old. Her room is just across the door from our room so any noises she makes I can hear, especially since I'm a light sleeper. We just leave the doors open. We have a video monitor, but we only use it when we're downstairs and she's sleeping upstairs.
This exactly. Everyone's situation is different, but we are grateful we put Lexie in her own room from the start. We all sleep better (as evidenced by the month we had to share a room while moving). Though I have to admit around 7 am I usually put her in bed with me after H leaves for work and she continues sleeping until around 9.

Me three- DS (and DD) were in their cribs from the day we got home. Knock on wood, they are both great sleepers

HZ2012 · November 2013

LO has been in his own room since day 1, with one of us sleeping in there till he was about 4 months and not waking before 5 am. Once he started sleeping later he was alone and we have the video monitor on in our room. We all sleep much better this way.

MAdams728 · November 2013

We moved her into her room at 5 months, because she started waking at every rustle or slight sound. She sleeps well in her room, although I was a wreck for the first week. As soon as I got comfortable, she decided to start sleeping on her stomach, which sent me onto panic mode. I'm okay with it now, though. I bring her into bed with me at 5:45 weekday mornings, when DH gets up, and we sleep until 7:30, when she wants to eat. She hasnt had MOTN feedings in a long time. On the weekends, we usually bedshare.

Kissimi21 · November 2013

Kristin112181 said:

I'm one of those overprotective paranoid type A parents lol! That's my downfall!

I was like that with DS1. He was in our room until he was 10 months old, then I spent weeks hovering over the monitor every night.

My twins have been sleeping in their own room since they were 5 months old. We bought a house so they would have their own room, so there was no way I was convincing DH that we were squeezing two cribs in our room. They end up bed-sharing with us every morning, but they sleep in their own room at night.

Cgoode517 · November 2013

We moved C into his crib in his room at 4 months. We all sleep so much better this way!

LaxMOM44 · November 2013

My sneaky little baby manages to get a terrible cold every time I decide to move her and ends up back in out bed. She always starts the night in her crib but by midnight she wakes up every 45 mins unless I bring her into bed with us. She's a snuggler.

Also we are heading to Australia for the holidays and that will completely F up her sleep so when we get back she'll be so messed up that I think I'll move her and do it all in one terrible day.

MOMama987 · November 2013

We've also had LO in his own room pretty much since day one (Except for the very very beginning, where there was no day / night, and everyone was just kind of catnapping). His room is right next to ours, and our house is small... we use the monitor until we go to bed and his door is closed; when we go to bed, we leave both doors open (but still use the video monitor in case he's making noises but doesn't actually need us - sometimes he makes noises in his sleep.)

jedimindtrick · November 2013

We have never bedshared, but LO slept in a RNP and then a PNP next to my bed til about 3 1/2 months. At that point, we moved him to his crib. We all started getting more sleep then. I use the video monitor to keep an eye on him.

emmy236 · November 2013

2010Bride2be said:
I honestly wish that we had put LO in his crib in his room a long time ago. I believe that he would (will) do fine with the transition. It's me with the issue. I admit, I have an irrational fear of something happening to him and I am petrified of putting him in his own room (which is right next to ours mind you). Every weekend, I say we'll make the transition and I always find a reason not to. I have stressed and cried about this so much, and I know it sounds crazy. He is and will be my only child and I'm just not ready. But I will try again this weekend. I always try and leave the option open...to try.

I honestly know how you feel. I was the same way. I knew R had to go into his own room because DH is a ridiculous sleeper (snores, sleep walks, sleep talks, sleep apnea etc). R needed quiet and I couldn't kick out DH because his sleep issues are worse if he's in a strange environment (even the guest room). I would sit in the rocker in R's room and tears would be streaming down my face. I don't even think I was making crying sounds, just constant tears. Finally our pediatrician said for DH to do the bed time routine. So DH started putting R to bed. It was early so I'd watch in the monitor like a hawk and after a few hours I realized he was ok and I'd try to sleep. Once he woke up I brought him into bed with us again, didn't matter what time. Then after a bit I worked on when he woke up just soothing him in his rocker and putting him back in his crib. Now I'm really ok....sometimes. He just learned he likes sleeping on his tummy so that was a week of nervousness. Then last night he decided sleeping with his tushy in the air was amazing and I couldn't see his face well so I checked like 4 times. I've just come to the conclusion something is always going to make me nervous and I can't project my (using my husbands term) "irrational" fears onto him....because then I'd just be my mother and no one wants that. Just try taking some small baby steps like try napping in there. Somehow it's less scary during the day. I'm not sure if this helps you but I'm a numbers and statistics person so I tell myself the odds of something all the time. Like SIDS risk is the highest at 2-3 months old, we're 6 now. We slept on our bellies with bumpers, blankets, stuffed animals and we're fine.

GraceUponGrace09 · November 2013

My LO is still in our room in a bassinet right beside me. I won't move him out until he is STTN. I actually love to have him there beside me and to listen to him breathing! His bedroom is aaalllllll the way across the house so I'm in no hurry to move him.

littledaisies · November 2013

My son is 6 months and is in his crib but in our room. His room is a little further away and since he's not STTN it doesn't make sense to move him. Once he's sleeping longer or doing one MOTN feeding than I will move him.

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