Own room & EBF
I am looking for some advise please, I feel like my baby who’s 7m next week is definitely ready for his own room. He’s getting too big for his bassinet, rolling constantly and on all fours/sitting up etc. But because he’s exclusively breastfed and still waking in the night (a mix, can be once or up to 4 times really depends!) I’m anxious about it.
What if I don’t hear him on the monitor? We don’t have room for a nursing chair in his room so I’m going to have to bring him back to my room to feed and then try and walk/move him back to his cot (he’s fed to sleep, doesn’t like to be rocked etc!) - has anyone has this situation before? I don’t know whether to move things around to see if I can get a small chair to feed in there? I don’t want to unsettle him any further or him thinking it’s time to wake properly.
Do they actually sleep better in their own room? I’m so anxious he won’t be right beside me😩 should I keep the Snuzpod up in my room just in case?
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Is there any way you could put his cot in your room?
My son sleeps a lot better in his own room.. however, sometimes he still wakes up and has to come back in our room/nursed to calm down. We do have a rocking chair in his room so that’s where I nurse him most nights when he wakes up. We have a monitor and I put it on loud right next to the head of the bed and I always hear it when he cries. So I think you’ll be good with a monitor and having him in his own room! It’ll take some getting used to, but you got this!!
I think it’s child dependent tbh. We tried to move our daughter to her own room when she outgrew her next to me around 8 months but it didn’t work out. Breastfeeding was hard work in her room because it required more than lifting her out of the cot, feeding and putting back. She felt it was time to get up.
Shes still in our room but in a travel cot at 14 months as she’s still breastfed. She rarely wakes overnight now and we’re looking to move her out at 18 months as plan on weaning in the next couple of months when I return to work.
She sleeps very well in our room despite my partners snoring.
We moved my son when he was about 5 months and still waking 2-3 times for breastfeeds.
I would just bring him in my bed to feed and then transferred him back to his room. He could settle himself straight back to sleep which made it easier.
Never had any issues waking up with the monitor.
My daughter still wakes 2-4 times a night to feed but has been sleeping a lot better as my husband was waking her with his snoring, if you’d be able to fit a smaller chair in their room I’d recommend that rather than going between them, I wake up pretty much straight away if the monitor goes off so try not to about sleeping through it x
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