Moving baby to own room/cot
My little one will be 5 months soon, and I am thinking of moving her to her own room and cot. She has outgrown her next to me and there is no space in my room to put a bigger cot in for her and I really struggle to co-sleep with her. Has anyone got any experience of moving baby to their own space earlier than they’re supposed to?
*I am fully aware they are supposed to stay in the room with you until 6 months, so please no comments regarding this, I just want to hear if other people have moved baby early and successfully and how*
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We didn’t move baby early but we did at 6 months. First week we spent a lot of time in her room playing and day time naps only (made sure room is so dark, we placed a black out blind that sticks on). We kept the same sleep routine too such as using her sleeping bag, her comforter and white noise.
Once she was happy with the day time naps we then moved on to night sleep, now this was harder and we had disturbed nights, mainly because it is so new. So in her room, I had a chair and I would cuddle her back to sleep and then place down every time she got upset. After a week of the disturbed nights, the sleep was getting longer and then she absolutely loved her room by week 3 of night sleep.
You may get disturbed sleep, especially at night time but obviously every baby is different, it took us a month to transition so maybe it’s the perfect time to start transitioning x
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