So we have plans to move our LO to her nursery (finally) this weekend at 5.5 months. We were planning to move her around 12 weeks but then her sleep went to shit and I was up so much with her it was just easier to have her right next to me in her pack n play.

But now it is 5.5 months and her sleep is better(ish) but still kind of sucky but we are just ready to have our room back. I am worried I'll be running up to replace her paci 6-10+ times like I do now and it will net me even less sleep than I'm currently getting, but also slightly hopeful that maybe she'll sleep better in her own room anyways and maybe will wake less.

But here's the thing. I am sort of freaking out about her being so far away! Maybe that isn't rational because I know she is safe in her crib and we have a video monitor that works just fine (we use it every night on mute even though she is in our room so that I can just look at the monitor to see if her eyes are open, because I can't tell in the dark).

But our house is sort of big and has an odd layout, meaning our bedroom is on a different floor at the opposite end of the house from her. We have to keep bedroom doors closed at night because if we don't the cats harass us and won't let us sleep, but with the doors closed there is 0% chance of hearing her cry without the monitor unless/until she started reallllly screaming and even then I'm not sure it would be loud enough for us to hear and wake up.

I just keep worrying the monitor will fail and she'll wake up and cry and I won't hear her. And I know even if that happens, she'll survive. But as the day of her move gets closer I'm just freaking out.

Anyone else go through this? Anyone else's baby sleep far enough away you have to rely solely on a monitor? Does it get easier?