Did you find your lo sleeping better at night when....

[Layla]

...your lo was out of your room and into his/her own??? My lo is still sharing a room with us but we do have a spare room just for her set out - I just haven't transitioned her there yet. My main concern is that at the moment she wakes anywhere from 3-5 times at night and I am wondering if it might have something to do with being in the same room as dh and I. Do you think it makes a difference? Can she smell/feel me/us? Have you found that once your lo was in his/her own room, they slept much better at night??? Her room is right opposite of dd1's and I just don't want her waking the other up so much. She is still BF so I guess attending to her straight away is convenient (before she wakes dd1 up) and thats why she has been with us. I'd love to have her transition thou cause we aren't able to do anything (like sneeze, for example) before it wakes her up.

Thanks
Layla

[First Time Mom]

No, in our case it didn't make a difference. DD slept through from 4.5 months and we transitioned her at 6 months as I had a hard time putting her in a room so far down the hall from us . Even once she slept through she had the odd nws at certain times ie. 6 month growth spurt and teething. I think all los sleep through when they're good and ready. I know some of my dd's nws were habitual (very specific times) but I did nothing to try to wean her off nws as I fed her whenever she woke.

[avery's momma]

ABSOLUTELY!!!! (for us at least)
i was feeling that same way when avery was sleeping in our room. i remember one night i dropped my watch on the hardwood floors, and it woke her up, and she was sooo sad and hard to get back to sleep.. none of us were sleeping well. it was so hard. and i was sooo touchy/irritable when dh would come in and get ready for bed if i had already df, as i felt like it woke her up.... soo we decided when she was 2 months old, to move her to her own room...
we had already moved her for naptime, but not bedtime (can't remember when),

we decided to move to the guest room for a bit, bc we have a long, narrow house, with avery's room on the far end away from us, and the guest room across the hall from her room...and that worked well for me to feel close to her still in the night, and then we moved back to our room when our backs could no longer handle the guest bed!!! 

hope this helps...  and it was great for us to have our "marriage" back too in the night!... iykwim. 

take care, and let me know how it goes!

[riuliani]

I know for us it was way better when we moved him to his own room.  We slept better for sure.  He also didn't seem to wake as much.  Now that I think about it he probably wasn't waking all along.  However, when he was in the same room as us I was always checking on him.  I would fix his swaddle, turn him so he wouldn't hit his head or I would interpret his tossing and turning as him "waking up" and needing to be fed.  When we moved him to his own room (10 weeks) I realized he wasn't really needing a night feeding anymore.  I was giving it to him because I thought he was waking when he was just fussing in his sleep.  When he moved to his own room he would cry out and it would mean he truly needed something.  Unlike before when every noise meant he needed something in my mind.  I highly suggest moving the little one.  It was better for everyone in the long run.

[rinajack]

It improved for us too.  Zara was sleeping with us and we were disturbing her sleep.  Also, I discovered I was reacting too soon, and that she did know how to self soothe.  She likes her room to be very very dark and very very quiet.  That was not easy to achieve with us in the room with her.

[Messa]

Yes it definetly made a difference to move her into her own room!!

[TJ & Stephy's Mommy]

Definitely helped us sleep better at night  We moved DS right away once he started to sleep through the night when he was about 6 months old.  It was hard at first but it's best for everybody.

[Messa]

Definitely helped us sleep better at night  We moved DS right away once he started to sleep through the night when he was about 6 months old.  It was hard at first but it's best for everybody.

It was quite hard at first but I was so happy after the first few nights because I didn't hear every little movement so I didn't wake up as often either for fear that she was waking KWIM.  Such a vicous cyle 

[Mamalou]

great! wish we HAD a seperate room for our LO. Oh well, we hope to build a house soon someday...

[seaflower]

We moved DD to her own room when she was 11 months and I stopped night breastfeeding. She did sleep better as she was waking up from us walkign around before. I wouldn't have moved her out earlier co-slept) as it was so convenient re. feeding

[Jaime]

YES!!!  with dd, i think she actually found the crib more comfortable (has always been a princess!    ).  with ds, our room was too cold i think.  so at 3 weeks & 2 weeks, respectively, they were out!  i slept better too.

[Layla]

Thank you all sooo much. I think I am just too scared of her waking the other one up (because their rooms are right opposite each others and our room is at the beginning of the hall). This is going to sound crazy but dh and I are thinking of giving our room to her and go to "her" room. At least until she is able to sleep a little better (stop with the 5am wakeups). Our room is massive thou and hers is so small - there would only be space for our bed and not much else  . When dd1 was 9 weeks she also went to her own room and slept really well so I thought maybe with dd2 being in her own room would help as well. I hate having to tiptoe around her and everytime we are ready for bed, she hears us and is up. Its so frustrating cause every time poor dh wants to sneeze or cough, he has to leave the room to do it and when he wakes her up, i just get so p***d off (poor dh).

I think I'll just bite the bullet and do it!!!
Layla

[xxkaty23xx]

Well having their own room worked for both of my kids. They seemed to have a disturbed night when they were in my room then as soon as they went into their own it only took a week or 2 to get them both sleeping through the night. Mikey went in his own room when he was 3weeks old and Jay went into his when he was 3months old

[avery's momma]

have you tried a white noise machine in their rooms to keep them from hearing each other (if you choose to stay in your room, and give dd#2 her own?)

[Layla]

Well having their own room worked for both of my kids. They seemed to have a disturbed night when they were in my room then as soon as they went into their own it only took a week or 2 to get them both sleeping through the night. Mikey went in his own room when he was 3weeks old and Jay went into his when he was 3months old

Wow  ! I just don't see #2 sleeping more than 3 hrs (her current record), let alone the whole night but maybe that has something to do with being in with us?

have you tried a white noise machine in their rooms to keep them from hearing each other (if you choose to stay in your room, and give dd#2 her own?)

Yes, I have and #2 has a fan going in her room but because I've never used anything with #1, I am not really sure if it will work. Do you thing 18 months is too old to try white noise machine on? I just don't want her to be up all night listening to a fan or something. Should I give it a go? Has anyone used a humidifier as white noise? Is it similar to a fan? Maybe I should just go out and buy another fan cause the one I use for #2 for naps works wonders (blocking out Bellas constant happy screaming  )