How did you decide to transition baby to own room?

[pugz]

Squirms is really quiet when she sleeps and we run our white noise machine all night. Our plan is to keep her in the bedroom til 6 months at least. Not sure if we will move her RnP to the nursery or just go right to the crib. We'll see.

[Deleted]

DS was a loud sleeper. I started putting him in the rnpin his room for naps at 3 weeks. By 4 weeks we did the same at night. I started getting sleep somete around then.

[chickens987]

honestly I didn't think I'd be ready until 6 months. however, the temperature control in our room was so crappy that it was either too hot or too cold for her throughout the night - the only place for the cosleeper was by the window and I think the temp changes were waking her up more frequently. we moved her 3 weeks ago (on a Sunday, don't recommend that!) and it was actually really easy. she's now sleeping 6-7 hours and back down for another 3 or so. I sleep so much better too - and we can put her down before we're ready for bed and let her sleep in after we've gotten up too since we have the monitor and she's in her crib.

[dcrunnergirl]

We did it at 4 months b/c I read that around 4-5 months is when babies start to form habits, and doing transitions is easier if done before then. Also, the kids were becoming very noisy sleepers and waking each other and DH and me up. And, they were starting to wake up when DH and I snuck in at night. We all slept much better when they went to their own rooms.

[ECB]

We did it at around 6 weeks. I went into it w/ my friends story in my head - she had her DD in her room for a few months. Speaking to the false alarm thing- she would wake up all the time thinking her DD was waking up, and would in turn actually wake her DD up by picking her up/ tending to her.

Once she moved her DD to her own room, they ALL slept much better. And we found the same to be true. We would wake up every time DS grunted, groaned, rolled over, etc. Being in his own room - even w/ a baby monitor - we stopped hearing every little thing.

[drloretta]

We had a sitting room off of our bedroom, and DD was there for about 4-5 months. At that point she was getting more sensitive to us getting up to shower, etc (had to go through the sitting room to get to our bathroom), and we had been considering it anyway. DH picked a random date, and she moved across the hall.

[Saudade]

We always changed middle of the night diapers on the bed. Made it easier.

Starting in August when DS was 6 months we noticed that he wasn't sleeping as well in our room. He would wake up to one of us moving around. So we decided to work on his bedroom, which needed to be painted and put a new ceiling up. We removed to beadboard ceiling and found mold and found out there was a leak in the room. That part of the house was an add on loooong time ago and it has its own roof, which we found out hadn't been built correctly. So we had to figure out what to do. Anyway, this one day project turned into a few weeks.

Then DS got his first cold and I started sleeping on the couch at night because he was so loud at night. DH works nights so he just slept on an air mattress when he got home for a hour before DS woke up. Anyway, project finally finished and DS has been sleeping in his room for a few weeks. It's be awesome.

[bunch]

We did it at a week and then I slept in the nursery for two months. Honestly, it was so much better when I went back to my room. We both slept better.

[Deleted]

We switched him about two weeks after I went back to work (so around 14 weeks) - I was worried about waking him up when I woke up and he was starting to get too big for the co-sleeper (we had the ARC mini). I was really sad the first few nights bc I loved co-sleeping but it ended up being fine, I slept a lot better at night and so did he I think.

[Deleted]

We made the switch on day 2. She is so damn noisy. The few times we've shared a room I slept horribly. I always thought she'd be in our room for a few months. Oh well.

Eta: she also farts all night lol

[dcrunnergirl]

Dec 18, 2012 8:10:34 GMT -5 @msstarry said:

Dec 18, 2012 7:57:57 GMT -5 dcrunnergirl said:

We did it at 4 months b/c I read that around 4-5 months is when babies start to form habits, and doing transitions is easier if done before then. Also, the kids were becoming very noisy sleepers and waking each other and DH and me up. And, they were starting to wake up when DH and I snuck in at night. We all slept much better when they went to their own rooms.

out of curiosity did they each get their own room? I always wonder what people do with boy / girl twins?

Yes, we put them both in their own room. DH and I are both only children, so it never crossed our mind that they should share a room. They'll be in for a surprise when #3 gets here, and we'll be putting them together for a while.

[Brie]

We are going to try to make it as close to the 6 months SIDS recommendation as possible.

[Deleted]

Cora kind of transitioned herself at 3 weeks or so. She was fussy one evening so I rocked her at about 8. She fell asleep so I out her down in her crib. Rather than wake her up to move her to or room, she slept in her crib that night. Until 3:30am! Sold! We all sleep better with her in her room.

[electricmayhem]

I am a very light sleeper and don't do well at all with sleep disruptions--I can literally lay there for hours trying to fall asleep again. For that reason, we didn't move DS out of our room until he had completely dropped all of his night feedings, which wasn't until 8 months. He was not an otherwise noisy sleeper though.

He had been in the PNP since day one in our room, and since he was a bit older / more aware, we just moved the whole thing into his room and let him stay in there for a bit so it wasn't too much change all at once, and then I started putting him in the crib about a week after that.

[knitty]

If you're waking up for false alarms I'd move her further away until you don't wake up for false alarms. But if you love having her near and don't mind waking up, keep her there. Soon enough she'll be embarrassed to have you drop her at school

[hannamaren]

She outgrew the bassinet at about 3 mths and there was no room for a crib in our room.
We started her napping in the crib first and sleeping in our room at night. Probably for about a week. She loved all the room in the crib. She didnt miss us at all.

[Deleted]

We moved him around the 4 month mark. The main reason was due to the fact that he was getting too big for the RNP and the bassinet. Since he was also starting to roll over in his sleep, we unswaddled him when we transitioned to the crib just to do it all at once. I was sad when he had to move to his own room, but I peek at the video monitor constantly to check on him (even now).

[Deleted]

Dec 18, 2012 7:57:57 GMT -5 dcrunnergirl said:

We did it at 4 months b/c I read that around 4-5 months is when babies start to form habits, and doing transitions is easier if done before then. Also, the kids were becoming very noisy sleepers and waking each other and DH and me up. And, they were starting to wake up when DH and I snuck in at night. We all slept much better when they went to their own rooms.

This is what we did too. At about 5 months DS was waking us up with his sleep noises, and we were waking him up when we snuck in at night. DS had always been in his crib, so we just moved the crib next door to the nursery. It was pretty easy.

[vanillacourage]

Impetus: DS2 started snoring louder than DH.

[dcn]

We've talked about moving the RNP into the nursery, but there are times when he'll stir and start to wake up at night and I like being able to just reach over and rock him a little to get him back to sleep. I'm afraid that I'll be getting up more if he's in the other room. Maybe he'll learn to just go back to sleep on his own though? I don't know. I know DH is more than ready to have him in another room. I nurse him and change him in the nursery anyway, even in the middle of the night (I haven't been able to master nursing in bed at all), so maybe it won't really be a big deal.

He's been sleeping longer the past couple of nights (4+ hours, woohoo!). If that continues maybe we'll try this weekend and see how it goes. He'll be 10 weeks old on Friday.

[jessnpaul]

We just officially moved him into his own room last night at 8 months (6 months adjusted). It just felt like the right time.

He's had a few nights in his own room before in his swing, but now we're keeping him there.

[BAMFMrsB]

Cam haaaaaaaaaated the bassinet (thankfully, it was borrowed!) so from the hospital to his own crib, right away. No co-sleeping. Unless you count the times I had to sleep on the couch and he slept in his RnP in the LR when he was fussy overnight, but that all occurred during my ML.

[honeybadger]

Dec 18, 2012 13:20:08 GMT -5 dcn said:

We've talked about moving the RNP into the nursery, but there are times when he'll stir and start to wake up at night and I like being able to just reach over and rock him a little to get him back to sleep. I'm afraid that I'll be getting up more if he's in the other room. Maybe he'll learn to just go back to sleep on his own though? I don't know. I know DH is more than ready to have him in another room. I nurse him and change him in the nursery anyway, even in the middle of the night (I haven't been able to master nursing in bed at all), so maybe it won't really be a big deal.

He's been sleeping longer the past couple of nights (4+ hours, woohoo!). If that continues maybe we'll try this weekend and see how it goes. He'll be 10 weeks old on Friday.

this is us exactly. Little HB is 9 weeks

[water*drop]

We did it a couple of weeks ago, so just over 6 months. We did it on a whim - we had been trying to transition DD out of the RnP into the bassinet in our room, and it was going SO BADLY. She was up constantly. We thought it was the transition that was doing it, so we put her back in the RnP, but her sleep still sucked. I got frustrated one night and put her in her room but slept on the nursery floor because I felt so bad about it...and realized that night that what she really wanted was space. Lots and lots of space. She moves SOOOOO much in her sleep, and she sleeps all sprawled out. I think she was sleeping like crap in the RnP and the bassinet because she didn't have enough room.

She still had a week or so of less-than-ideal sleep (2-3 hour blocks), but it was better than the 1-2 hour blocks we were getting toward the end of the RnP/bassinet saga. Now she's up to 3-4 hour blocks and actually putting herself to sleep occasionally. For her, this is amazing.

[gibbinator]

We're planning to move him over Christmas vacation so dh will be home to help with night wakings. I don't anticipate too much trouble though. We transitioned him out of the bassinet into the crib in our room with no difference in his sleep. Now we'll just move the crib back to the nursery.

I nurse him to sleep anyway so he won't even know.

Dh is also mainly the one who wants to do this - he's a very light sleeper and I think he's also getting kind of desperate to rekindle our sex life (ds has a tendancy to wake up inconveniently). I myst admit I'm looking forward to getting our room back.