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YES. Major yes.

DS started STTN at 5 weeks old when we moved him into his room....before that he was up every 2 hours or so. He is much more comfortable in there and has STTN ever since (he's 18 months now)

Yes, definitely. We ALL slept better when she was in her own room.

Not sure if you are referring to moving them from their own crib in your room to another or to bed-sharing, but a study just released in the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics suggests that at the very least bed-sharing leads to significantly reduced sleep duration and quality. When we moved the baby from the bedside co-sleeper to his own room (at 8.5 weeks) we all slept much, much better.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24906032

"METHODS: Data for this study come from the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study conducted at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. A total of 55,831 mother reports of child sleep were used to estimate the stability and predictors of awakenings and short sleep.

RESULTS: Nocturnal awakenings were frequent among 6-month-old children. Although there was an overall reduction in both sleep duration and nocturnal awakenings from 6 to 18 months, the chronicity of sleep problems was high and impacted by prior sleep behavior and sleeping arrangements. Bedsharing was an independent and graded predictor of nocturnal awakenings and short sleep duration, also after controlling for prior sleep. Breastfeeding was related to concurrent nocturnal awakening but was not negatively related to later nocturnal awakenings.

CONCLUSIONS: Considering the chronicity of nocturnal awakening and its association with bedsharing, our findings support current recommendations of reducing bedsharing to improve sleep among infants."

@Tundra Daisy: I actually do think that a lot of parents inadvertently wake their sleeping babies because they (parents) are responding to every little sound, rather than waiting to see if the baby is really awake or just making the normal sounds that babies make while sleeping.

My LO was about 3 months old when we moved her.

Definitely!

She definitely slept a little better, but *I* slept a lot better! I was pretty good about not picking her up with every grunt and movement when she was in our room, but I would sit up and watch her to see if she was waking up or not. With her in the other room I could stay laying down in bed half asleep and listen or watch through the monitor. Plus I could move around and get comfortable in bed without disrupting her. And my fool of a husband occasionally set an alarm that woke her (I love him but nearly killed him those days!)

So yes it was better but not that dramatically, but still just overall easier for all of us.

My daughter moved into her own room at 9 months, but her sleep was always fine as long as she was in her own space (in the pack n play in our room), other than regressions. I think it helped me and my husband sleep better though since we didn't have to worry about waking her up any time we rolled over on our super creaky bed!

@Tundra Daisy: haha awesome! Hope you all sleep better!

Absolutely, emphatically, yes. She started doing a 7 hour stretch at 2 weeks old after we moved her into her own room.

Yes, despite my efforts and a well intentioned side car LO never fell asleep in our room. We shared the living room for a few weeks and moved her into her own room at three weeks. We would have done it sooner but we didn't have her crib yet.