Anybody's baby sleep better once moved to new cot or new room?

[colsy]

I know so many people dread the day they have to "upgrade" baby to a bigger cot (from a moses basket or smaller crib) or into the nursery (from parents' room). But I wonder how many people dread it far more than is really necessary? Do some babies actually sleep better once in a new situation? Or do all babies have a bad time after changed sleeping arrangements?

Just wondering what your experiences are, as we've really got to swap our 7-month-old into his cotbed from his Amby hammock, but we keep putting it off, LOL. He'll be staying in our room for a while yet though, as I need him close by while I'm still breastfeeding at night.

 

[rockstar]

we moved our daughter into her own room when she was 5 days old!!our room turned out to be too hot, and every little/big noise she made we were up checking she was ok!

she definalty slept better and by 6 weeks was sleeping 7-7. If we hear her in the night she has learnt to just settle her self, i think if she would still be in our room, we would have been up and feeding etc at every movement!

good luck when your time comes!!!

 

[Lyndz]

Bella slept in her moses basket until she was 6 weeks old, then she was waking herself up cos she was banging her arms etc. Ever since she went into her cotbed, she's only woke up once a night for a feed & sometimes she'll sleep through. She had no problem adjusting to the cot

 

[colsy]

Bella slept in her moses basket until she was 6 weeks old, then she was waking herself up cos she was banging her arms etc. Ever since she went into her cotbed, she's only woke up once a night for a feed & sometimes she'll sleep through. She had no problem adjusting to the cot

Thanks for this. More to the point, I've just seen your ticker - lots of luck and best wishes for your wedding

 

[JShaw]

We're just starting to make the transition from our room to his crib (in his own room) and it's not going too well at the moment. We can get him to sleep and lay him down in the crib, but it only lasts for an hour or two, then he's back up. We do this a few times and by 6am, I bring him into our room and we get some more sleep. I'm breastfeeding still too and I think that's why he's waking up so much still... he's used to moving a bit and finding the 'food' himself normally, except now he has to wake up, and wait for me to offer it to him in his own room. We've only been trying this for about two weeks and just the past couple of nights, he's waking as soon as I lay him down and he starts screaming and working himself up. I'm not sure where I'm going to go from here since I go back to work at the end of June and want to get him into his room settled.

I'm wondering if I try offering him more solids during the day if he'll be satisfied enough at night to not have to breastfeed as much?

 

[// arcadia]

Our bedtime routeen used to always be bath bottle then id rub her tummy on our bed till she went to sleep this worked really well ... but then around 6.5 months she started gettin fussy she'd moan at me and wanna roll over and stuff . . one night i was like ahh ok fine your going in your cot said night night and went downstairs .. i fully expected her to fuss around and proper start crying but she didnt she went to sleep. i was amazed lol.

I was so convinced after doing the rubbing tummy for so long that thats what she needed but she totally didnt - she just wanted me to bugger off and leave her to it lol.

Same with naps after the 2 month mark she always napped in her bouncy chair in living room .. id bounce her to sleep then tip toe around her so as not to wake her up .. if i had friends comin over the hoover would go on so she would have her nap and then not be grumpy when people came round .. i realised this was pretty ridiculous and one day decided put her in her cot for nap (8 months) and again expected it not to work but it did and she napped better then ever .. now i can walk around my house .. and if people come round they can with her still asleep in her cot .. not shoved in the dining room with the door shut and the hoover next to her

 

[colsy]

Thanks Arcadia, you made me laugh

 

[welshwarriors]

I can honetly say that Joe slept waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better in his cotbed in his own room than he ever did in his moses basket in our room.
We moved him when he was about 3 months old cause he was simply too long for his moses basket. He slept straight away longer in between feeds.
And I must say I slept much better as well...when he was in our room I was wide awake with every noise he made.
Simple things would wake him up when he was in our room like us getting to bed, going for a wee in the night, having a drink at night and especially hubby's snoring.
I'm pretty certain that our 2nd child will be in his own room much sooner than 3 months (without any guilt I might add) and I think that the moses basket won't the sleeping place for baby number 2 either.

 

[DaisyBee]

Megan is a light sleeper & when in our room she was waking/stirring at every tiny noise dh & I made. We felt like we couldnt even turn over in bed! LOL

We moved her from her basinnet in our room to her crib (cot uk) in her room at 10 weeks. We should have done it sooner! She still didnt sleep through the night but she now doesnt wake up with every move or sound dh & I make. She can still hear us as she stirs when we go to bed even with her white noise on but I cant imagine how horrible she'd be sleeping if she was still in our room.

She also seems to love her crib - we only realized after we made the switch at how uncomfy she seemed in her basinett.

 

[chuck]

Hell yeah...Dewi was awful in our room I'd be having to get him up to settle him 5 or 6 times a night while he was in with us we just woke each other up!

He still wont go through but until he got his cold he would only wake once at around midnight/1am for a small feed.

Going into his own room is the best thing we've done, we all get a bit more sleep.

Except now he has a cold so is snotty and has a cough so he isn't sleeping so well. boo.

I do still bring him into bed with me every now and then for a cuddle if he wakes too early!

 

[Aunty E]

SO MUCH BETTER! Honestly, Ithought I was going to go mad, she used to sleep fine in our room but when she was about five months old, she just wouldn't settle and kept waking through the night. After a few days of this, my OH suggested we move her into her own room. She slept straight through from 9 until 10am. Of course I wasn't BFing by this point, nor was I doing a night feed. We gave her a dream feed at midnight for another month or so, and then dropped it too.

 

[Rachel S]

Darcey never slept well in our room, she didn't take to the moses basket, so we tried her in the carrycot and that wasn't a hit either, so when her cot finally arrived and we put it up, the first night in her own cot in her room she slept much better, that was at 6 weeks and now she is coming up to 9 weeks and i would never put her back in our room. I bring her in bed with me if she wakes early for a feed, but thats it. Me and hubby get more sleep and so does she.

 

[mumtosam]

Sam was in with us until he was 6 months old because we only had a one bedroomed flat and he slept terribly as did we! But then we moved to a 4 bedroomed house when he was just over 6 months and put him straight into his own room and he has slept brilliantly ever since. I am glad we had him in with us until he was 6 months old as he was breastfed and it made it so much easier for me but I think I would have moved him sooner if we had had another bedroom.

 

[hivechild]

Ronan sleeps so much better in his cot in his own room and so do we. It's win/win for all of us. Because his room is right next to ours, the walls are thin and I leave his door cracked and ours open, I can hear him when he stirs.

 

[jade02]

o yes my baby girl sleeps sooo much better now that she is in her own room in her big cot i too put it off putting her in her own room i was terrible for checking on her all night she went in her own room at about 10 months and i have never looked back i was sad at first as it means she is getting bigger and growing up lol my OH kept waking her up when she was in our room with his snooring lol its best to start a bed time routine as soon as you can really you will know when the time is right to put them in own room good luck

 

[pip holder]

Really really - a million times better, for all of us
I have the monitor on quiet next to my head so OH doesn't get disturbed (only while I'm on mat leave I might add!!!) and when he has a grizzle, if he doesn't settle I go and pat him etc and if really not playing ball - a breastfeed.
Everytime he was having a little sleepy moan in our room I was straight over trying to jam the dummy in so he didn't wake OH or wake himself up but he has learnt (without any cry techniques) to settle himself a bit more by just being in his cotbed and own room.
Only difference is that he does like his lightshow job putting on now though.

 

[Emma1980]

Fin started sleeping thru at 6 weeks, the first night he was in his big cot

 

[loopy_lou]

Once we get her room painted and bed built I would like to move her in. But can't paint till After 2 nd June

 

[Rhiannon]

rhys has slept like a lamb since being in is own room in his cot. good luck xx

 

[SAmummy]

I think babies are quite restless when they sleep so if they are in your room you tend to them more often than they need. As soon as they are out of earshot you only get up when they really need a feed and are yelling ... makes for better sleep all round