Hiya

Ive noticed that smiler has moved her lo into their own room already but I was wondering how we all felt about it and how successfull it was for you smiler?

The reason I ask is that my lo seems to be pretty restless at night and seems to go through stages of light and heavy sleep (which is what my hv told us all babies do) but because I (embarrassingly) snore and my OH is a chronic toilet visitor, im worried that were going to end up annoying grant to the point of grumpiness.

Im worried because regulations now say they should be in your room untill they are a year old but I really dont think I could go that long!!

The other thing is that I am a heavy sleeper and im worried I wont hear him on the monitor. This might sound wierd but I hate going to him when he is screaming for a cuddle in the morning and would much rather he woke up and started the day with as little noise as possible (plus I get more smiles when I catch him before the crying starts)

So what are your suggestions/expeirences?

xx

Posted this in baby too, but thought I'd copy and paste the reply to here!!

Hi Princess!

Yes, moving Bethan to her own room was the best thing we ever did. Her room is right next to ours and we have an amazing baby monitor which we'd tested over and over in the weeks before so we trust it completley (she was sleeping upstairs in our room alone for a few hours every evening before we came up, and the monitor spotted everything!). Granted, I was scared the first night, but she sleeps SO much better. She's always been a visual baby - sound doesn't really bother her all that much generally, and it was when we came up to bed (or more specificially hubby as he's been up late recently finishing some OU course work!) and had to have some sort of light on that she was initially disturbed. So being in her own room eliminated that. Plus the general quietness seems to help as she's not then disturbed during lighter sleep.

She's scared me half to death on at least 3 occasions though when I've woken up at one point in the night, convinced she should have woken for a feed by that time, only to find her perfectly happy snoozing away - the first time I woke her by accident by checking on her! lol oops.

I always hear her - not the little squeaks and snuffles (or dog noises...weird child. lol) - but her 'calling out' as it were. It's weird, but I reckon that because she can't hear our presence, she gets less upset, and literally starts to 'call' instead. I've rarely found her upset, whether it's a middle of the night feed or in the morning! And we obviously have more smiles then!!! lol

She's still in the same bassinette (Graco petite travel cot with bassinette and extra mattress) as she was when in with us - we're hoping to move her to her cot soon, but we need to get a wedge first as she's quite bad with reflux without her head being raised. This way though, she gets used to the noises and sensations of that room.

It suits her, and us. Good luck with whatever you decide to do!!

C & Bethan 10+1

Sorry double post!

[Modified by: Smiler81 on February 26, 2010 11:49 PM]

Hiya!
We have been talking about it this week but don't no when to do it!as heidi is sleeping all night and selfsettles if wakes up I am not worried that al b up n down!I just don't think am ready to wake up n not c her big smile right away!
Heidis room is all ready for her but may leave it a couple of weeks as don't feel am ready just yet!

Heidi n heidi 10weeks 5days x

hi I've been missing in action for ages hed a rough pregnancy and was in and out of hospy for the last trimester. We have just moved our baby girl susanah to her own room this week and we are all sleeping better

Thanks smiler that makes me feel a lot better about my decision. Were moving home at the end of the month so I think I'll concide the move with grants move.

Heidi I completley understand! Grant is starting to sleep through now (hope that hasn't jinxed it!) but I love going over to his cot when he's just shuffling about trying to wake up. X

We moved our LO into his own room and cot a few days ago because he had outgrown the moses basket and we couldn't get the cot in our room. He has slept much better since, I think we used to disturb him when we came to bed, etc.

I didn't want to move him, felt he was far too young but we had little choice. I slept with him for the first night and found it difficult to sleep the next few nights, so invested in an angelcare movement monitor for piece of mind. We already had a good voice monitor but the movement alarm means that I feel reassured!

Wishing you lots of luck xx

Ethan has been in his own room and cotbed since he was about 6 weeks old, he was getting agitated in his pram bed, so we tried and he's had no problems with the move. Its made a couple of differences to us, firstly when ethan goes t be between 7-8pm, we no longer have to tip toe in our room for fear of waking him early, he seemed to sense when we entered the room, secondly he seems to sleep better (tho not through the night just yet) and thirdly when he's in bed feel he's much safer and we get us time. Only downfall and it;s not really one is that we have to get up and go into the nursery to feed him, but thats fine with us

Best of luck.

p.s like with most things guideline are there purely as a guide, you do what you feel is necessary, mum's now best!

thanks ttc, im with you on guidelines being guides. My oh is actually more apprehensive than me about the move. I just kinda woke up one day and said 'hes ready' - must be that motherly instinct kicking in! x

william gets up at between 2.30/3am and we were planning on keeping him in our room in his crib for first 6 months but he's really tall and is very quickly running out of room in his crib so think it will have to be soon!

I think the thing is if you're too quiet around baby then they'll wake up easily and you'll never be able to get any work done or have them in the rm whilst napping and you're watching tv etc. I took my 1st baby to a friends birthday party and he slept through. I don't have a spare room for George but even if I did I would still want him in with us for a while yet. It is easier having him close for night feeds and we have just put the cot bed up and will be swapping from the moses basket soon. When he has grown out of the moses I will leave him upstairs for day naps but he doesn't have any routine yet the hv said it is because although 13 wks yesterday that as he was 3 wks early he is only really 10 wks. I'm wondering whether cos he stopped growing at 33 wks that his actual development is more like that of a 6wk old... who knows! The health professionals all seem to have their own ideas on such things xjx

Lizzie sleeps throught the night but we dont want to move her into her own room just yet. we are buying a monitor this week and are going to put her to bed upstairs on own with monitor on before we go up and see how we get on with that first. Her room is all ready for her but we just have no rush,lol.
Lizzie sleeps in her moses basket in the day downstairs and has a swinging crib in our room at night time so has plenty of room in it still. we did say if we didnt have the swining crib then yes she would be in her own room now as we wouldnt fit her cot in our room.
we are going to see how we are at easter time and go from there. saying that lizzie is one of the youngest in this forum at only 8 weeks :lol:
Wannababy and Lizzie 8 weeks xx

Hi Princess87,

We moved our LO into his own room recently and we all sleep SO much better!! Hubby is a snorer, I'm a very light sleeper and my son is a noisy baby. He's still in his moses basket in the cot however it won't be long before we move him out of there (2 weeks prob) as he is nearly outgrowing it! I've been putting him into his cot for some of the day naps and he seems to like it so when we do put him in there for night time sleep he'll be used to it.

Like a lot of the mummies here, I have a very good monitor at my bedside and the nursery is right next to our bedroom so when he cries I can be there in a shot. It's good as I'm always concious of waking hubby up so feeding in the nursery is ideal. As he is in bed at 7-7.30pm ish it means I can get some sleep in my own bedroom earlier without waking him and my hubby can do the late evening feed whilst I will do the 4-5am feed (which he has dropped a few times but not altogether) and we both get a good amount of sleep. Me and hubby also get to spend a few hours together in the evening. Of course, it is down to each individual in how you feel about sleeping apart from your little one but by doing it this way, for us we're all much happier by not disturbing one another! xx

hey lily is only 8 weeks today (gone so quick!) and is a pretty good sleeper, however she wakes herself up in the moses basket because she moves around in her sleep and hits the side so (guilty confession) she sleeps in our bed where she has more room and seems more comfortable!
We dont have a room for her yet but once we do we are going to try putting her in it straight away

xxx

Bethan has that trouble in her Moses basket during the day for daytime naps! So we're moving her to her cot for at night, and her travel cot bassinette for day time naps, soon.