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We moved LO to his own room in his Rock N Play around 4 months or so. It wasn't until 6 months or so that we did CIO. Our pediatrician was concerned that LO wasn't getting enough sleep with the wake ups. Since then, he sleeps in his own crib in his room.

Honestly, I feel like paediatricians make blanket statements on how to deal with infant sleep and they often recommend nightweaning at a super early age.

I will say that moving my LO into his own room helped us sleep better! I wasn't constantly woken up by his grunts and he wasn't woken up by me reacting to his every grunt .

I think the best thing you can do is follow your gut. We moved DD to her own room around 6ish months (which follows along with the Health Canada Guideline for keeping your LO in their parents room!) She was ready, we were ready, and she was finally starting to STTN. We tried at 4.5 months, but it didn't take.

P still sleeps in our room at 16 mths.... oddly sleeping was never something that our pedi really got into. Since we breastfeed, being close & night nursing were really important for me to keep up. More prolactin triggers (what signals to increase supply) are laid during night nursing & it's how we've gotten through nursing strikes.

Our ped says to move LO into her room at every visit! She STTN though, so I'm not in a rush. Honestly it'd be more for us so we can watch tv, read, shower without fear of waking her. I don't see how moving into their own room will make a baby sleep through the night if they are still getting up to eat.

I need to tread lightly here as I've become a little skeptical of general pediatrician advice on sleep at times. My response is, you have to do what's right for your babies... And pediatricians, while they are supposed to be experts on all things baby, many are just muddling through like we are.

At this point I think it is a little unusual to find a pediatrician who is up on the literature, practical personal experience, and tuned into the parents of a given child enough to figure out what each child needs.

Having said that, the suggestion that your pediatrician gave isn't a bad one to try. It did work for M. We moved her at 4 months with great success!

We moved LO to his own room at about 3.5 months and while he didn't come anywhere close to STTN, he definitely went longer between wakings and I slept better too.

We moved baby to his nursery at 5 weeks and we all instantly got better sleep. Not STTN, but definitely less wakeups and more sound sleep for all of us.

I think it helps at that age yes. But if it doesn't help then just go back to having lo in your room. Sttn isn't always permanent. Dd I'd for months then had a one month regression then a month sttn and now one wake up when she moves into our room so we have it to ourselves at first and then the rest of the night share..

We moved L to his room just recently and he seems to sleep just the same as before. He still wakes up once or twice so the only difference is that I have to walk down the hall rather than just stay in bed. It is nice to not have to tip toe around our bedroom when getting ready for bed though.

We moved LO to his own room at 2 months, but we were getting up 5-10 times a night. When I talked to the pediatrician at 6 months about this issue, he recommended teaching him to fall asleep on his own, but that he did not necessarily promote CIO. He said that of course, there would be a little crying, but that we could comfort as we saw fit. We adopted "The Sleep Lady" approach (sit next to crib and move a little farther away every 3 nights) which worked for us. We had him falling asleep on his own within a few days. Things improved dramatically. He still wakes up 2xs a night to nurse.... but it beats 5-10! Oh and PS..... taking the paci away also helped us. He was waking up every time he lost it.