When did you move your babies to their own room?

We are moving from a tiny apartment to a house next week. I'm feeling nervous about having the boys in their own room. They sleep in one crib in our room now due to space issues. They are almost 4 months though. It's time, right? Their room is on the 2nd floor and ours is on the 1st, so it's making me even more nervous.

 

Mine have pretty much slept in their own room in their own crib since they were 2 months old. Even when they slept in our room they were in a twin bassinet so they had their own space with a divider between them.

 

I just seperated them into 2 cribs in the same room.

 

We moved all of our kids to their own rooms around 3-4 months. My twins have never shared a crib, I was always afraid of them flopping around and waking each up.

Our house is all on one level because I was always nervous about having a baby(ies) on a different level, but I'm sure they'll be fine.

I hate moving, but how exciting that you'll have more space. That much more exercise for you once they get mobile

 

Congratulations on the house! Would it make you feel better to have them stay together? If they are sleeping fine together, I would put them in the same room in the new house. Maybe just put them in separate cribs? I put my babies in separate cribs in the same room at 6 months. Before that they were in our room in one crib.

 

We moved them to their own cribs at 4 months, but they remained in our rooms. They moved to their separate rooms at 6 months. They adjusted well each time. I don't think they really noticed!

 

With my oldest DD we moved her to her own room at 1 week. I was waking at every noise she made and it drove me crazy. I never thought I'd do that, but it was the best thing for us.

With the twins, we moved them when they were 6 months old. They were in the NICU for the first 2 months and then in our room for 4 months. I was a bit more worried about moving them because they were preemies and I was afraid they would wake up our oldest DD.

I think only you can decide when the time is right to move them to their own room. At 4 months I would say yes they are ready to sleep in their own room, but are you ready for that? You could try it and always move them back to your room if it doesn't work out.

 

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I think only you can decide when the time is right to move them to their own room. At 4 months I would say yes they are ready to sleep in their own room, but are you ready for that? You could try it and always move them back to your room if it doesn't work out.


:good: You have to do what you feel comfy with.

As for us, we never had them share a bassinet/crib. They slept with us in our room until they were 3 months old and then each into their own room. Good luck and congrats on the new house!!

 

They slept in their own room (shared) since the day they came home. DH and I rotated sleeping in their room every 3 hours instead of co-sleeping them in our room. That way, one of us could get some sleep! They shared a crib until 6 weeks old, then in their own cribs. They will be just fine in their own room! Don't worry!

But I must confess that even now I still get up about 5 times night to make sure they are still breathing

 

We moved them into their own room in the same crib the day after their 3 month b-day. Honestly they didn't even notice. It was harder on me then it was on them!

We didn't move them into 2 cribs until they were about 8 months. They weren't rolling around at night or anything but they were getting a little to long!

 

Thanks for your replies, everyone. I think you're right that they won't notice and I'll be the one up worrying! I'm going to try it and see how it goes.
Thanks for the congrats on the house too. We're excited to finally have some space. Right now there are 5 of us living in less than 800 sf and it's way too crowded!

 

We moved ours to their own room at about 2 weeks of age and into their own crib at 2 months. They have been just fine. We're moving in 4 months and will be putting Wes and Leah in their own rooms upstairs and our room will be downstairs . . . YIKES !

Good luck with the move.

 

We moved to a new house when the babies were 6 months and all the kids are now on the upper floor while we are on the main. It took a while for me to get used to that. I went up and down those stairs a lot in the first month but we keep a baby monitor in the room with the receiver in our room and one in the basement. They are loud enough however that we hear them in the night without the monitor. We separated them into 2 cribs shortly after moving and now I have moved them out of eye line (L-shaped room) of each other as they "talk" too much.

 

My girls started out in the same crib, on the second level of our home, our room on the first, and we had a baby monitor. AS they got bigger and more mobile, we had to separate them for sleeping sakes...Now they share the same room, cribs across from each other, and still on the 2 nd level. I would try putting your boys together in their own room, and then gradually separate them into their own beds. As they get bigger, they will start to flip over and it just seems scary having 2 of them sharing the same space.

hope this helps,
steph

 

I moved my girls into their own room at 5 months. They still, to this day, refuse to sleep unless they are in the same crib.

 

We moved ours to their own room at about 4 months. They had been sleeping in the living room till then, and DH and I took turns sleeping on the couch. (That was just what worked for us, in terms of getting some sleep.) It did make me nervous at first. We used the monitor for the first few nights, but then realized that we were hearing every little noise they made, and also that we could hear them just fine without it. (Their bedroom is right across the hall.) Since you're on a different floor, you may wind up using the monitor all the time.

They never slept in the same crib. For the first few months they slept in separate bouncy seats , so when we moved them to cribs, it didn't make sense to put them together, only to have to separate them again when they started moving around.

They slept just fine after we moved them.