Did you move baby to their own room at 6 months?

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,,,And did it di anything to improve their sleep?

I always thought I would move R at 6 months as per the guidelines, but now I think to move him is just giving myself more work.  He still wakes frequently at night. A good night he'll wake once - havent had that for a while though!! The last few nights I've been up more than 4 times a night as he's teething, so for now it feels like it makes sense to keep him in with us, but then I wonder if moving him might actually improve his sleep.  I also feel like it might be harder for him to adjust to his own room if he's older when I move him?

I would be interested to hear your experiences!

SS

We did just before 6 months. She was waking at night because she was uncomfortable in her moses basket.

It did help in general - once we'd worked out not to rush in the first time she cried out and to see if she was actually awake. I think we worked this out and now we don't really wake up properly when she does this. But she wasn't really waking properly - not to be fed or anything.

BUT it didn't make any difference during teething - she woke up a lot because she was in discomfort some nights. So if he's teething it might not be the right moment to move him.

On the whole, I think preparing them for the move - familarising them with their new room/bed before hand is the key to it working rather than the age you do it at.  

We moved Zoe at 5 months 1 week because she decided she would not sleep in her crib anymore but did sleep in her cot.  At that point she was sleeping 12 hours a night so we had no problem with it.

Now she is waking every 2/3 hours through the night I wish she was in our room and am seriously considering co-sleeping.

So, I wouldn't move just because he's reached 6 months but more if he is ready to IYSWIM.

With my first I did as she was an awful sleeper.  It didn't help one bit, just meant I had further to go to settle and feed her.  This time round my youngest is still in my room with me and we're cosleeping too and she sleep so much better.  She still wakes up at night but it's a lot easier to feed and just go back to sleep.

If he's teething and needing your comfort then I doubt moving him to another room will help as you'll still end up getting up but having to go to the other room I would have thought.

Thank you all for confirming my gut feeling!  I just don't want to keep him in our room if it might make it harder on him when we do eventually move him.  He's already in his cotbed in our room, so it's not like he'd be moving into a different bed, just further away for me to go.  As it is I lift him in to bed to feed and then put him back in his cot, if I move him I;d have to get a chair in his room(his room isnt really finished ), or take him back to our room for feeds.

We did with Megan - a week or two before 6 months her sleep was dreadful, and part of what was making it so dreadful was that I couldn't ignore her - not that I was leaving her to cry, just that she'd shift about a bit during the night and I'd be on high alert for her 'pre waking' movements and start trying to keep her asleep - which would only wake her up and mean I was awake for long periods of the night. We moved her into her own room (a room she was v familiar with - we'd done all nappy changes & baths in there all the way along) and things got better very quickly - she (unsurprisingly) slept better when she was allowed to drift in and out of light and deep sleep without intervention, and actually within a couple of weeks she stopped waking for a nighttime feed.

However Eli is 6 1/2 months old and still in our room. Partly because there's nowhere really to move him to (we expected we would have moved house by now, so never bothered clearing out the spare/junk room to create a space for him), partly because I can't be bothered to move him, and partly because I rather like having him right next to me. He feeds once or twice a night (twice seems to be the norm at the moment) and often needs a little suck of my finger to get him back to sleep if he stirs in-between - or first thing in the morning when I don't want to get up yet. I'm worried that if we move him then I'll just spend less of the night in my bed and more time in a less comfortable position with my hand through his cot bars.

We'll probably give it a try sometime soon - clear a space in the spare room and hope that he finds the piles of junk interesting. He's right at the limits of being able to fit into the crib, and once we rebuild it as a cot, it's much harder to move between rooms, as it won't fit through the doorway like that. So probably we should put the crib in the other room as a trial - if it works then build the cot in there. If it doesn't then build the cot in our room.

Waking 4x is one of our good nights... so there's no way we'd be in separate rooms   In fact, R (8 months) has been in her own room since 3 days - but I've been in there with her!  She is just as likely to wake between 7pm-11pm (when she's on her own) as she is when I'm in there with her, if anything we get longer intervals after 11pm.  No way am I getting out of bed and padding down the hall! 

superhoop R's cot needs to be taken apart and rebuilt in his room too, so it's not like we could easily try it out and move him back if needbe - I think I'll wait and see how the teething goes for a while.  I am much less attentive than you were with M - R has to go from grumbling in his sleep to full on awake before I go to him, maybe trying to settle him before he wakes would be a better approach for him!

MG - I lost count after 4 times the last few nights, I have no idea how many times I was up with him!  He wasn't looking for a feed though, he was sore with teething, as giving him teething gel and cuddles did the trick on most of the wakings I can't remember how many feeds he had either.  I have total respect for you if this many night wakings is normal for you, I don't know how you function!  I am like a zombie today and was a really moody cow yesterday!

Elliot has been in his own room since 4 months, he grew out of his moses basket (one morning he'd wriggled his legs over the sides, that's the day we moved him!). I wish we had enough room in our bedroom for his cot though as it would be so much easier to lift him out and feed him. I also wonder that if he could see me if he'd sleep better. He comes into bed with me in the mornings when H leaves for work and always sleeps really well. If we had the space I'd keep him in with us.

E (age 8.5 months) is still in our room and probably will be til about 13 months.  This is mainly as her room was / still is H's office and I prefer having her cot and chest of drawers in our room rather than his desk, PC, 3 monitors, boxes of random components.  I think if it wasn't H's office we'd possibly have moved her at about 7 - 7.5 months once I she was well in the swing of weaning, but for the past few weeks her sleep's gone to pot, so it's actually far easier to still have her in our room, though I suspect that that's down to teeth and a bit of a cold, rather than us waking each other up. 

We moved N out at about 10 months. Made no difference to her sleeping I just had further to walk when she woke up. 

Maybe slightly different for us because we were co-sleeping, but we moved Alex at 9m (a couple of weeks ago, in fact). He was waking so much at 6m that it seemed pointless moving him and it didn't feel quite right. I did move him for one night around 7m and it felt so strange that I moved him back in the next day.

I was happy to carry on as we were for as long as I felt it was benefitting us both, but after a particularly heinous night, with him waking every hour for boob, I decided to move him. So far, it's been a good move. He *seems* <touches every bit of wood in sight> to be sleeping better and we've actually had a couple of 9-hour stretches of sleep. Mostly he wakes twice, but I can live with that.

I would agree with what others have said - do it when you feel ready and it feels right.

We moved Abigail at 6 months and I loved having our room back!  Her sleep didn't really improve straight away although we did do ccing at 7m and after that it was great.  However, Lily is a year on tuesday and still in our room, we did move her in with her sister at about 8m but they kept waking each other so we moved her back.  We'll be moving house at the end of Oct so we're waiting till then to try again and hoping by then she'll be sleeping through.

No we kept A in with us until she was too big for the crib and I went back to work, so about 7 months.  I get up at 5.45, shower,d ry hair etc so didnt want her in teh room and H having to get up so early if I woke her!

We moved A just before he hit 6 months & tbh didn't really notice a difference with his sleeping. Something cracked (in a good way) a couple of weeks prior to the move & he went from waking every hour/ 45 minutes to waking twice in the night - I still have no idea what we did o make his sleep improve so drastically - and we stayed at 2 wakings/ night for a month or so after the move when we dropped to one and now we get about one night in every three where he goes right through.

We've moved into the spare room though - our Master Suite (ooh, get us!) is a loft conversion & whilst I am happy for A to be in his own room I don't like the idea of him on his own floor. Plus, the thought of struggling down a flight of stairs to deal with night wakings at stupid o'clock still groggy from sleep doesn't appeal either!