View Full Version : what age did ur baby go into their own room?
JLeesmum
27-07-2009, 10:12
and did they sleep better?
DD was around 7 months old, and there was no real change in her sleep. She had started sleeping through the night, most nights, from around 8 weeks and continued to mostly sleep through.
About 6 wks, which was WAY earlier than I had intended, but yes, he slept better. I was sleeping on the couch most nights as I just could not sleep through any of his noises, he and DH were in the bedroom. I could still hear him from the lounge (we have a small house) and noticed that he settled back to sleep much faster when I went to the couch and wasn't lying next to him. He slept much better in his own room, which is also darker and quieter than our room.
~BEXTER~
27-07-2009, 10:34
Keiara was 7 months, but that is because I was living with my Grandparents when she was born.
If I had my own house I would have out her in the around 3 months, when she couldn't fit in the bassinette.
Her sleeping pattern didn't change she had been sleeping through the night from 2 weeks.
Seacretsquirrel
27-07-2009, 10:41
DD was 3 months and yes she slept better. DS has been in his cot/room since about 8 weeks and yep he sleeps better too -I think it is relative though I am still getting up a few times to him but I am not as disturbed but his grunts and snuffles.
For both mine I think it was more the extra space in the cot that helped with their sleep as they were not banging hands/heads/feet etc on the sides of the bassinette anymore, and I got more sleep cause they I am not waking at every sound, plus I have to walk down the other end of the house to see to them too so that gives them time to resettle themselves before I get there too!:thumbsup:
crazymuma
27-07-2009, 10:42
Hopefully I get them outta my room by the time they are 21 :laughing:
jimmysmummy
27-07-2009, 11:01
10 months, and GOD YES!
He was waking 2-6 times a night for boob when he was in our room.
the first night he was in his own room, he woke crying once. by the time I got to his room, he was asleep again, and slept until 7am.
He sleeps without stirring once pretty much all the time now. I'd say he wakes up maybe one night per fortnight.
About 7 week's i think. She pretty much slept the same but i slept alot better. I couldnt sleep with all her little noises and would wake up everytime she made a peep so we moved her a bit sooner than we thought we would.
BabelFish
27-07-2009, 11:09
Six months, I wasn't going to move her any sooner. And luckily for me I can sleep through anything so it never disturbed me. On the contrary, I LOVED having her next to our bed although DP bore it with gritted teeth because he can't sleep through anything!
She moved without a hitch and she was sleeping through well before six months so it didn't change her sleep at all, thank goodness. I missed her though!
Also, I think the SIDS recommendation is for babies to share their mother's room for at least 6 months.
20 months, and she still sleeps about the same, sometimes sleeps through sometimes wakes up once or a couple of times.
BabelFish
27-07-2009, 12:55
Also, I think the SIDS recommendation is for babies to share their mother's room for at least 6 months.
Yep. That's the pretty much number one reason she didn't go into her own room a second earlier than six months, and nor will any of my other children.
Milktini
27-07-2009, 12:57
DS was in his own room from day 1.. I never knew it was even recommended to keep them in your own bedroom until 6 months. Anyway he is A wonderful sleeper and always has been, most of the time.
DS1 was in our room for three or four months.
DS2 went to his own room at around 4 weeks. I was struggling to sleep through his noises and found I would get him up to feed him and wake him up, thinking he was awake, when he wasn't really!
It's harder going down to his room during winter, but it's definitely been for the best.
Since they came home from the hospital! We never had either of our childtren sleep in our room. I have enough trouble sharing a room with them now when we go on holidays -babies are so noisy!
Bunnyhugs
27-07-2009, 13:34
My DS went straight into his own room as soon as we came home from hospital.
5m and yes! went from waking 5 times a night to 2 times a night and then not at all.
curiousgb
29-07-2009, 19:07
5 months.
BUb has mostly been a nightwaker (every 3 hours). Initially didn't make a lick of difference to her sleeping however i suspect she was cold and was also getting used to a new room. Also was getting used to rolling around in a cot (and sometimes getting stuck with an arm out the side) as opposed to just lying on her back in a bassinette.
She is now almost 7 months and sleeping much better. I find the quality of my sleeping is much better with her out of the room (deeper), even if it does get broken 4 times a night sometimes.
I loved having her in my room, but personally think she likes being in her own room better :confused:.
SmileyBJ
29-07-2009, 19:11
8 months old... only because I didn't have a room for him before then so he slept in his own cot in my room. He usually always slept through however i found we both slept better as you couldn't hear all the small noises, breathing/coughing/rolling over/whimpering in dreams etc.
9 months - specifically in an attempt to get him to sleep better. We did it at the same time as we did several other things.
It has helped me to night wean - he started only to have milk at 3am and 5am and then by 11months only at 5am. And it has had some positive effect on his sleeping, but not heaps he's still very wakeful. I want him back and now that he's nearing 13 months we're going to move him back.:D
lochiebearsmum
29-07-2009, 21:25
he is 2 1/2 and still in my bed!!!
We moved them both at about four months. Both are good sleepers, and were going through without a feed from about 9pm to 6am or so from two months.
However, once we moved them, I slept better, as I wasn't hearing and waking up to every little sniffle, grunt and movement. I only heard the real fussing or crying, which didn't happen that often.
For us, it was a good thing.
he's still in our bed at 10 months. I think we'd all sleep terribly if we moved him. Particularly me as I like to be able to touch him to check he's okay if I wake up at night.
He sleeps like a little rock in our bed. Doesn't move, is silent and just snuffles around for a quick drink once or twice.
BabelFish
30-07-2009, 01:03
My DP always joked that I could sleep through every snort, whimper, sigh, sniff, fart and grunt that DD issued when she was asleep, but the second she made the slightest, teensiest noise that sounded like `I'm gonna need boob in a minute' I was up in a flash :D
It's true, too. She never, ever kept me awake but I was always instantly wide-eyed and ready as soon as she needed a feed. I was lucky - he could never sleep through any of it. He ended up sleeping somewhere else for a while because I refused to put her in her own room before six months (and it was way at the other end of the house) which was fine because then everyone started sleeping better!
Chunkydunks
30-07-2009, 01:10
6 weeks. He just started to hate his cradle so I had to put him in the cot earlier than expected and he did sleep better after that.
But....
From about 20 months he was in our bed (or in his bed in the same room) with a bit of a break hear and there up until a few months ago. He still likes to sleep with us when he can. I wouldn't mind if we had a bigger bed.
battlecrumpet
30-07-2009, 08:14
We co-slept (mainly) with DS till he was a couple of months past 2 years old. He transferred to his own bed pretty easily, but for a few more months he tended to wake up in the early hours and DH would go sit with him till he went back to sleep.
Only in the last month has the night waking started to disappear - now he generally sleeps through till around 5am.
Jeclipse
30-07-2009, 08:16
We've co slept until he was 14 months old.. then he was in his cot.. but he didn't have his own "room" until 21 months due to moving around houses a fair bit
~Temet Nosce~
30-07-2009, 08:25
dd went into her own room at about 3 months.. didn't really sleep any better, she has always been a mostly good sleeper anyway. It just made it harder on me at the times that she did wake up, because I couldn't just reach over and pat her!
Bub 2 will be in my room for longer possibly.. mainly because he will have to share a room with dd so I want to wait until he is sleeping very well at night, which who knows how long that could take! So unless we move before then he will be in with us for awhile.
TripleTime
30-07-2009, 08:37
Kids have always been in their own room, dont have an option for one & DF would get less sleep than he already does if they were in with us.
From about 6 months of age I started to put him to bed in his cot but if he woke up for a feed he would come into bed with me for the rest of the night and have boobie on tap. These days he mostly sleeps in his own bed but some nights he comes into our room to sleep. He's been in his toddler bed since he was 15/6 months so it's easy for him to get up and walk to our bed if he wants a Mumma Dadda cuddle.
We moved DS at 5 weeks, which was much earlier than we had planned but none of us were sleeping.
DS sleeps so much better in his own room. When he was with us I would spend most of the night trying to get him off to sleep, as soon as we put him in his own room he would drop off no problems.
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