How long before you moved your babies out of your room?

I've been really bad and kept my babies in my bedroom for 6 months (well not really, they spent a while in the NICU). They are 6 months old now and I'm planning on moving them to their own bedroom tomorrow. They are going to share a room, but I'm planning on putting them in their own cribs, even though they are still sleeping together now.

I'm just hoping I'm not alone in wanting to keep them in my room for what seems like forever. I'm not ready to move them, but I know I need to. It's only going to get harder for them. It's probably not going to be that traumatic, but I really like being able to open my eyes and just look at them!

How long did you wait?

 

Ours slept together in our room until 3 months.
then at 3 months they went to bed for the night in their room but once they woke up during the night they could come back to our room for the remainder of the night. We allowed that until 6-8 months.
Now they never sleep in our room unless they are sick and inconsolable.

 

QUOTE(ssb2e @ Apr 22 2009, 07:50 PM) [snapback]1284650[/snapback]
I've been really bad

That's not bad, it's what you've decided to do. :hug: We moved our girls into their own cribs at 7 weeks and in retrospect, I wish I would have waited a lot longer.

Good luck with the transition. :hug: Be prepared for them to take some time to get adjusted. This is going to be a whole new world for them. :Clap:

 

I agree with the PP, that's not "bad!" What's right for one family isn't for another--it's all about making it work for you and your babies. There's too much pressure out there to conform to what books say, when really we need to be focusing on our intuition and what works in our own particular situation.

Mine are almost 7 mos now and I'm not planning to move them to their own room for a long time yet. Just to show you how wide the range of "normal" is, my older child didn't move to her own room until 25 months old! We just put her crib in our room and then when she decided she wanted to sleep in her twin bed in her own room, she did. It was actually easier for all of us to have her in our room and it made for an amazingly smooth transition to her big girl bed.

 

I don't think that's bad! I had to move my babies out of my room after their very first night at home and I felt terrible about that! I just moved the bassinet to the wall right on the outside of our room b/c we had help here staying with us and it wasn't as helpful if they had to come in our room to get the babies in the night. It just worked better for us that way b/c I had a hard time sleeping through the noises the make in their sleep. GL with moving them to their room, it will be harder on you than it will on them!

 

Um, I've been sleeping in the babies' room for all this time. Sometimes I sleep in my own bedroom (dh's and mine, of course) but dh snores so loudly I've gotten up and gone back to the babies' room.

So, no, I don't think it's bad that you've had the babies with you all of this time. We do whatever works.

 

QUOTE(ssb2e @ Apr 22 2009, 07:50 PM) [snapback]1284650[/snapback]
I've been really bad and kept my babies in my bedroom for 6 months (well not really, they spent a while in the NICU). They are 6 months old now and I'm planning on moving them to their own bedroom tomorrow. They are going to share a room, but I'm planning on putting them in their own cribs, even though they are still sleeping together now.

I'm just hoping I'm not alone in wanting to keep them in my room for what seems like forever. I'm not ready to move them, but I know I need to. It's only going to get harder for them. It's probably not going to be that traumatic, but I really like being able to open my eyes and just look at them!

How long did you wait?


I moved DS at 8 months and DD at 9 months. I waited WAY too long. Honestly, it was a little nervewracking the first couple nights with both of them. Their room is across the house from us and I hated being that far away. Yes, I'm ridiculous Anyhow, it was such a relief in so many ways at the same time since I waited so long to move them. I loved being able to read a book in bed if I wanted to and having nookie with DH without worrying about waking the babies up or going in the other room. It was just really nice to be able to reclaim my own space in the world. It almost felt freeing in a way. Wishing you a smooth transition!

 

I moved one out at 6 months since he was sleeping really well and the other at 7 months when he started getting up only once a night. GL!

 

QUOTE(ssb2e @ Apr 22 2009, 07:50 PM) [snapback]1284650[/snapback]
I've been really bad and kept my babies in my bedroom for 6 months (well not really, they spent a while in the NICU). They are 6 months old now and I'm planning on moving them to their own bedroom tomorrow. They are going to share a room, but I'm planning on putting them in their own cribs, even though they are still sleeping together now.

I'm just hoping I'm not alone in wanting to keep them in my room for what seems like forever. I'm not ready to move them, but I know I need to. It's only going to get harder for them. It's probably not going to be that traumatic, but I really like being able to open my eyes and just look at them!

How long did you wait?


Our room - 3.5 months
Same crib - lasted like one week
Own cribs - 4 months

 

My ds was in our room for 10 months. My dd was in our room for 6/7 months. I hope we'll have the babies room done by the time they are a year old to move them out! :lol: Seriously though, we are moving the bigger kids into the spare room and the babies into the smaller room, but we have to paint first so hopefully by the end of summer, around 6-7 months, we'll be able to move the babies out.

 

My girls were in our room for about two weeks, then shared a crib for a week and have been in their own ever since. It's the bes thing for me because they are loud sleepers (grunts, whines, etc.). Also, BK will sleep 11 hours and Aurora gets up twice a night, so it makes no sense for them to share a crib.

 

I put my twins in there own crib and room two months ago at a little over eight months. They adjusted fine. My twins have been sleeping through the night since they were four months old. So I guess that is why it was pretty easy for them to adjust.

 

QUOTE(aimeethomp @ Apr 22 2009, 07:52 PM) [snapback]1284749[/snapback]
I don't think that's bad! I had to move my babies out of my room after their very first night at home and I felt terrible about that! I just moved the bassinet to the wall right on the outside of our room b/c we had help here staying with us and it wasn't as helpful if they had to come in our room to get the babies in the night. It just worked better for us that way b/c I had a hard time sleeping through the noises the make in their sleep. GL with moving them to their room, it will be harder on you than it will on them!


We put our twins in their room in their cribs from the very first night. After we had our dd (18 months ago) we learned that we did not sleep very well with her in the room and she hated her bassinet. She would be sound asleep and then the second she hit the bassinet pad, she was wide awake. The first night we put her in her crib she slept for four hours straight!

I think some people feel like they are abandoning their babies by putting them in a room other than theirs but we didn't feel that way. They were in the NICU for 25 days so they weren't by us anyway for all that time. They are both sleeping in blocks of four to five hours at night.

 

My twins slept in their own cribs from 6 weeks. At 5 months, I moved them into their own room and found the transition to be OK. They fussed for an hour or so then went to sleep. I´d do what is best for you as a family. There´s no right or wrong as each baby and family is different. GL!

 

mine were born at 33 wks 5 days. They moved to a seperate room (shared a room and still do) at 2 months old. They shared a crib until one started kicking so much he woke the other. They slept so much better that I wished I did it earlier!

 

My two were 6 months when they stopped sharing a crib. 8 months when I moved them out of our room. They still share a room at almost 3.

 

12 weeks. It was great!

 

We moved ours to their room a few days after we got home. It was either too noisy or too quiet for us to sleep. They stayed in the same crib until about 3 months. Whenever we stopped swaddling.

 

You've been doing nothing wrong. I actually kept our girls in our room until nearly 10 months old. I also worried before the transition to their own room because of everything I'd read about how the move would be traumatizing for them and difficult. But, really, it wasn't. I just did it gradually by moving their beds (they were in pack n plays) across the room first, then moving their beds into their room, and then putting them in their cribs in their room. I love having my babies with me and there's nothing wrong with that as long as it doesn't bother you or keep you from sleeping.

 

we moved our boys to their own room (and separate cribs) a few weeks ago (so around 4 months) but dh sleeps on a mattress on the floor in between the cribs and i sleep in our bedroom with a monitor. i can hear him right now snoring into the monitor....oh well!

 

I agree.. not bad at all. My daughter slept in our room until she was 6 months old. She was strictly breastfed, and it was just so convenient for me to reach over and scoop her out and feed her on the bed and then put her back to sleep. I think with twins it's going to be even more convenient to have them next to me. I'm planning on having them in our room just as long. Atleast until they are down to one feeding a night like my daughter was by the time I moved her.

 

Thanks! Now I don't feel like i kept them in there with me too long. We did move them to their own room last night and it was not bad at all!! They went right to sleep and slept through the night like always. Went down at 7:30 and up at 6:30 like clockwork. Not one tear (not even from me!).

 

I moved them a 6 months and they slept together in my room so I kept them sleeping together when I moved them..I didn't want double shock for them. The first few nights were a little hard on them, but now they sleep way better than before. I think it was harder on me than them LOL

 

Never had them in my room. They have always had their own room. I don't like waking to every little sound, and babies are NOISY! I also never used a monitor

 

they were in the PNP together for the first month and then swings for the next 3 in our room...once we moved them to their room at 4 mos they were in their own cribs - we just separated their rooms when we moved and that was a fairly smooth transition and next is toddler beds (should be in stock next week!)

 

I'm impressed by anyone who can share your room with two babies! We had an Arm's Reach Original Co-sleeper all set up (which went well with our goal of EBFing the first several months) but quickly discovered we would not get any sleep if we tried to sleep in a room with two babies who had their days and nights mixed up! And just with all the grunting, wakings, and random noises, neither of us has ever been able to get much sleep in a room with them, so they've mostly slept in their crib in their nursery.
I think it's great you were able to do it for this long though! I know for SIDS risk it's better for the babies to sleep in the same room as their parents the first six months or so.