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i’m just looking for some advice on moving baby in to her own room have read lots of different thing.
at what age should i move her.any words of wisdom will greatly help thanks
Do it when you feel ready to!! She is your baby and only you know when the time is right 🙂
My ds was about 8 months when i moved him into his own room.
My mates son still sleeps in her room…..ehmmmm he is nearly 9 YEARS!!! hahaha sleeps in her bed and all.
To each their own.
Hi Barbara, we were advised to wait a year before leaving ds alone at night. Apparently its been upped from 3 months to 6 months to 12 months to help reduce the possibility of SIDS – the idea being that you will be more perceptive to hearing breath sounds even when asleep if your in the same room and not listening through a monitor.
Wh had ds in the nursery with one of us sleeping in his room by night so at least one of us got a good nights sleep. He now sleeps in his own room alone with no problems.Hi barbara.. its defo a personal choice.. but if you are lookin for advice /opinion’s i moved mine in when they were sleeping fully through the nite..ie.. going down from half 8 or so til morning.. didnt do this wit my 1st daughter and she was a nightmare to move into her own room.. she was 15 months when i moved her.. far to late.. they get too attached and too clever!! 😆 😆
I suppose that we were lucky with twins…funny not often i can say that…but they grew too big for sharing the one cot so are 6-8 weeks they moved into there own room and own cots. The funny thing was and its even the same now, when the wake up in the night, they dont want to come into our bed 😆 😆 So we were really lucky.
To each there own, my friend kept her youngest until he was 3, he was very ill as a child and actually stopped breathing soshe was always afraid to have him out of her sight. It was hard for her to make the move but he loved it
as yummy says when you’re ready i know some people who never had babs in room with them went straight to own room from hospital – for me like sabrina says i moved both mine to own rooms when sleeping through at nite – in both cases was around the 3month mark, i used the big cot for day time naps so was never an issue moving them in at night time
i hadn’t read the guidelines about 12months
i know my sis kept her dd with her for 6 months but couldn’t sleep with newphew in the room so he moved into his own room earlier
Both mine in own room from Day 1 so suppose that’s no help at all!!
Baby Whisperer book might have hints and tips, Tracy Someone, as I recall, is the author.
I was a total Gina Ford Contented Baby head, and loved her routine, worked entirley 4 me. I do remember thinking Baby Whisperer invaluable for just that though, listening to ur baby’s unspoken cues, so might b worth seeing what she says about moving them…
All the best!
I moved ds1 in at 8 weeks and ds2 at about 5 months, two reasons for the difference in age… I love one more (only joking) ds1 was very big and out grew his crib in weeks, ds2 was much smaller and happier in the crib so I left him, also he got very sick at 3/4 months old and I had to sit up all night steaming him and helping him breath, this went on for weeks so when he got better he went into his big cot.
One tip is play in the new room, make it a nice place to be in full of happy positive things, I find use the big cot for daytime naps and put the baby down happy and long before they get over tired, if they arent sleepy they will look around and play thus making their new bedroom a happy place…. you cant just dump them in and leave them, then they will think they will be left alone when in this room..
Good luck its much easier then you think and babys take to it easier then the mammiesHi Barbara,
Here is an article from the Irish Independent about moving baby into their own room. Might be some helpful tips in there for you…
http://www.mumstown.ie/articles/detail?article_id=90
Good luck!
My ds start rocking his mosses basket at 10 weeks, so we moved him into cot in his own room that night.
It was the best for us all, we all slept better. He settled within a couple of nights.
Then, We didnt wake him & he didnt wake us.
His room is right next door to ours, so we could hear him wake even without the monitor but we had that too anyway.
The advice we got was to move baby around 6 months as after this age they are more likely to notice new surroundings and might not be impressed at being moved….
We moved both of our sons around this age, but used the baby monitor to make sure we could hear them. To be honest, I think I heard them more clearly than when they were in our room, so this kind of defeats the purpose if sleep disturbance is an issue!At the end of the day, think it is best to do whatever you feel comfortable with
Hope this helps
Maisy
Again just personal experience and everyone does it differently.
I moved my last little boy into his own room at 6mths as I find they are getting more aware of their surroundings now and wanted him to settle into his new room before he became too familiar with ours and would make strange with a new room again.
I moved his cot into his room but I always, and still do now (he is 17mths now), sleep with baby monitors on so I can hear his breathing. This is the big worry I think when you move them in is that you won’t hear them during the night. But I actually sleep better with the sound of his breathing on the monitor. When he cries I can get to him before he wakes up fully and hopefully settle him back. I usually just check on him before I go to sleep and ensure he is in as good a position as possible but at this age he does the whole upside down, on front, on back thing. He sleeps his own way.
The big plus I found moving him in early at 6mths is that he slept so much better when he didnt have us sharing the room. With the best of intentions to be quiet it would even be the alarm clock that woke him in the morning. Now he sleeps on more.
I didnt move all my children at 6mths and some were older. Depended really on the baby and if they were settled and sleeping most of the night without stirring I moved them in. I didnt see the point in moving a baby who stirred more during the night in if it meant I was up and down all night.
A good tip I find is to have either a spare bed or a put up bed in the baby room so that if the baby is having a difficult night you can be in the room with the baby. Failing that even a travel cot to put up in your room if you need it quickly during the night. Easier to put up a travel cot than move a cot.
Has nobody else put them both in own room from birth?
Just curious!
if I ever get hold of the shock of the all-round madness that is ds and brave it to go once more, i will do the same again. Although thinking about it, will have to get a bigger house to do so, so maybe not a good idea after all!
LOL!
Hi…
I moved our ds into her own room at 6 weeks…i wasn’t getting any sleep..any slight movement from her would wake me up…i did try to move her at 4 weeks but my DH moved her back 😀 But to put our minds at ease we bought the Angle Monitor with the movement pad..it was a lifesaver, otherwise i would have been permanently running in & out of her room. She settled really well, and loves her room..she’s 17 mths now, & doesn’t really like coming into our bed even on a bad night. With my DS who is older I waited till he was 9 mths..and he basciall slept in beside me for years…as ye say all children are different. Anywho hope dat helps.
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