Bub in their own room?

[Cheerio]

:wave: Everyone

Just wondering for those bubs still in parents rooms when are you thinking of moving bubs into their own room?

My DH gets up at 4am for work and seems to wake us both up at the same time :rolleyes:. Maybe I should make DH move to his own room :laughing: But seriously as he is my last bub I think I would be happy for him to stay there for a fair while yet.

So what are you all doing?

[Herchy]

DD is in my room and will be until at least the end of winter. We don't have good enough heating elsewhere in the house ( and BFing is so much easier when I can just grab her out of the bassinette and pull her into bed for me to feed).

[MumsieMel]

Landen has always been in his own room,

I cant sleep properly when my kids sleep with me, i wake at every sniff and snufffle! LOL

But when he turns one he'll share a room with his brother.

[lozie2]

Cassie has been sleeping in her bassinet in the lounge room, right next to our room, the last few nights she has been feeding 7.30 then 2.30 then 7.30 and i said at the start at about 1 month ill put her in her room, so tonight is the 1st night of being in her room, in her bassinet in her cot, then in a few week or months not sure ill put her straight in the cot! ill let you know tomorrow how we go tonight!

[Ushas]

Kian has been in his own room in his cot since day 1. We have a monitor which is in the kitchen, because I can hear it from our bedroom if the door is open, but not if it's closed so I can sleep till hubby comes to bed.

[BI]

I'm interested in this post too, i actually asked the same thing today on a different forum.

DD is 10 weeks old & been sleeping through for just over a week now. DD stirs a bit around 5am still from spitting her dummy & then wanting it again. I think i'm too used to her being next to me at night now to want to move her but i know i need to at some point.

[Cheerio]

Blue Iris, lucky you for sleeping through thats great! Yeah thats the only thing if you take that much longer to get there at 5am to put the dummy back in will she wake right up?

Herchy I was thinking the same sort of thing with the heat factor. We have ducted Gas but it costs a bomb to run so I stick to those oil heaters during the night.

Lozie, hope Cassie sleeps beautifully for you in her own room, let us know how you go.

The good thing about the bubs sleeping in their own rooms already is that they will be well and truly used to it whereas I wonder if I will have trouble for delaying it? DD went into her own room at 14 weeks as she was a nightmare sleeper and woke at every small movement hubby and I made...including hubbys snoring!

[lozie2]

Cassie was fed at 5.30 then 8.30 then 1.30 then 6 so not as good as the 730 til 2.30 til 7.30 but thats still pretty good! i have to get a better monitor because she doesn't get to the crying stage very quickly, and i like to get her b4 she gets to that point!

[Lilahh]

Lincoln is in his cot in our room. He is still feeding every 1-3.5 hours, even through the night, so I wont move him to his own room till things calm down and he settles into a routine and sleeps at least 5 hours through the night. I don't expect that will happen anytime before 8 weeks, and thats probably being hopeful. :wave:

[Herchy]

DS was in our room for 12 months. He didn't have any trouble at all adjusting to being on his own..... still sleeps 12-14 hours a night in there ;)
Our trouble will be getting him out of the cot and into a bed.

[Cheerio]

Herchy I am going to have the same trouble, Olivia loves her cot. She has a toddler bed in her room as well and lately has started asking to sleep in the bed. So, I tuck her in and walk out and she starts screaming to go in the cot. Shall be fun when we actually do it :rolleyes:

Hubby and I were talking about how long Zane will be in our room today and we thought at least 6 months but will probably be longer. I might try him in his cot in his own room for day sleeps cos well he still catnaps all day anyway and at the moment the only place he will sleep during the day is in the bouncer, car or pram.

[waytogo]

Im waiting for Paige to sleep thru the night before i contemplait moving her. Its great having her near my bed makes b/f easier! I was at the library today and saw Gina Fords book, a content baby or something along those lines, It looks interesting and im thinkig of reading it but at the same time im happy to follow paiges lead as she only wakes up once during the night., has anyone else tried the book with any success?

[FussyMum]

My DH gets up at 4am for work and seems to wake us both up at the same time :rolleyes:. Maybe I should make DH move to his own room :laughing:

mine does!:laughing: ... only sometimes tho. Sometimes he feels lonely and comes to snuggle with us but the beds too small so he doesn't stay long

[Lingo]

Belle has been in the cot in her own room from the beginning. We have the monitor set up in our room on my side of the bed as I'm the one who gets up after midnight, hubby does the work from when i go to bed till midnight.


Lillah - You might get more 'sleep hours' before 8 weeks. I don't want to jinx myself but DD has been having sleeps of 7-9 1/2 hrs and she isn't quite 6 weeks old.:fingerscrossed:

[Tegan15]

I think i'm too used to her being next to me at night now to want to move her but i know i need to at some point.

Bue iris - I'm not picking on you but just using you as an example. Just wondering why parents feel they need to move their babies out of their rooms at some point? When do they feel that point is?

Is there anyone co sleeping?

I'm keeping dd with me till I'm no longer breast feeding and if all goes to plan that wont be till she self weens.
I'm not fulltime co-sleeping but we do for at least some of the night and for the day time she sleeps on me in a wrap most of the time.
She's still in her bassinet but we'll be getting a cot soon and it will be set up in our room - I'm actually hoping that I can adjust the hight of the cot so its around the same hight as the bed and then I can take the side off and co-sleep that way :yes: If not I might try and talk dh into buying a new cot that is around the same hight (the cot we're getting is my uncle and aunty's and they don't need it anymore)

waytogo - I haven't read that book but I'm currently reading heart to heart parenting by robin grille and I think its amazing! If you want a how to book its not for you but if you want a book about emotional bond and attachment then its great :)

[Cheerio]

Tegan, I do some co sleeping usually from around 5 or 5.30am and I must say I love those cuddles.

About moving bubs into own rooms I think it is personal preference more than a "feel they have to", mixed with some circumstance. For instance my DD was and still is the lightest sleeper I have come across. She still wakes at the slightest noise. No sleep like a baby in her I tell ya :no:. She would even wake when DH or I rolled over in bed so co sleeping and every other option just didn't work. Also some people just can't fit a cot in their room and prefer not to co sleep. So yeah, depends on the situation and what works for both bubs and parents iykwim ;)

[Opinionated]

We all sleep in the one room. They can have their own room when they ask for it. My partner works nightshift, so l like the security of being able to hear the kids. We all sleep in the one bed. Works for us. It is a bit squishy when everyone is home, but it is also nice all cuddled up together.

[lozie2]

we couldnt co-sleep df and i are both heavy sleepers! cassie has slept in our bed once, i didnt fall asleep i was scared one of us were gonna squash her. in the middle of the night df rolled over and put his elbow on her tummy!

so no co- sleeping here!

[Tegan15]

babe shouldn't be in the middle of the bed ;) babe should sleep on mums side with a rail so they can't roll out. For the exact reason that Lozie said - most fathers don't have the some connection with their babes that mothers do and are more likely to roll on bubs.