With DD1, we kicked her out of our room and into hers at 3.5 months because we were sleep-training her.
DD2 is now just over 2.5 months (almost 12 weeks) and I'm wanting to kick her out NOW. I don't mind the wakeups but the few hours of sleep I do get is very poor quality (I keep waking up at all her movements and even breathing!) that I'm losing my mind.
How old was your baby when they started sleeping in their own room?
GOLD / coconut / 8266 posts
Almost 6 weeks old. I needed to transition her in her own room because I went back to work when she was 10 weeks old.
cantaloupe / 6730 posts
7.5 weeks old. It was getting too cold in our room without blankets and we knew that her room would be nice and toasty.
cherry / 210 posts
2 months because I wasn't getting any sleep with him in the room with us. It was a good move for our family.
grapefruit / 4187 posts
Immediately! We had a slight interruption when MIL came to stay with us for a week after he was born since he had to stay in our room, but I was adament about getting him in there from the beginning.
grapefruit / 4085 posts
About 3 months - and she started sleeping through the night then too.
wonderful pear / 26210 posts
From 5 weeks until about 20 months, when we moved. He's 3 now and we really need to work on getting him back to sleeping alone.
grapefruit / 4066 posts
I think 8 weeks or so she started sleeping in her room in her crib. She was a very noisy sleeper so we all slept better after
apricot / 469 posts
Immediately, but he was in our living rom in his bassinet which was about 4 feet away on our tiny apartment. I totally get the need for a separate room, when we are traveling and LO is sleeping in our room I sleep so lightly listening to him moving etc.
pomegranate / 3872 posts
6 months. She started sleeping less soundly because of noise from us moving around and the dog. I think she was ready for her more supportive crib mattress as opposed to the p n'p in our room.
honeydew / 7811 posts
I am considering starting tonight! LO is eight months and we have been co sleeping since the four month sleep regression.
persimmon / 1447 posts
6 months when we sleep trained.mlooking back, I wish we would have done it sooner.
GOLD / pomegranate / 3688 posts
Third night home from the hospital. We all slept better.
We are TTCing #2 now, and I really hope we move before he/she arrives. Otherwise, we will have to keep the baby in our room for a while... DD is a fairly light sleeper and I don't want to deal with two babies awake during the night.
persimmon / 1085 posts
About a week! We couldn't sleep with him in the room in his bassinet (all the loud grunts and such), so even though it upset me to move his bassinet to the nursery, it worked out great because my husband and I both slept better. With the video monitor on low volume right next to me, I was able to sleep better but still wake up right away if he cried.
coconut / 8681 posts
We moved #1 into his crib in his own room at 5 weeks.
#2 has been in her crib in her own room since the first night we were home! We have a twin bed in her room also though and for the first 4 weeks I slept mostly in there.
cantaloupe / 6885 posts
A week, lol. We all got a better nights sleep after she went to her own room!
wonderful cherry / 21504 posts
6 weeks. We were waking each other up too much. We had a video monitor that I would obsessively check instead.
Now I can't imagine having her in our room. It's so much nicer to be able to go into our room, get changed, chat before bed. We were sharing a room for Christmas this week and had her pnp in the closet!
pomegranate / 3160 posts
@Grace: @coastmama: @NovBaby1112: @evansjamie: Totally threadjacking, but y'all did it around 2 months...did you just...plop them in their crib one night? LO has been co-sleeping and isn't swaddled, I'm afraid if I just set her in there it might be too much?
papaya / 10570 posts
10 weeks! E is a really light sleeper and we were waking her up when we got into bed or turned over in the night, not to mention DH's snoring!! Actually, DH's snoring still wakes her up from the next room!
pineapple / 12793 posts
Five months when she outgrew her cosleeper and started trying to pull up on the side rails. Not a moment too soon because she was pulling up a few weeks later. That would have been a disaster. DH and I still debate moving her back in....he wants her in our room, I prefer her in her own.
grapefruit / 4066 posts
@ms.janedoe: well, prior to that she had been sleeping in rock and play swaddled next to our bed. Around 8 weeks I moved her to crib in her room, still kept her swaddled, and made sort of a nest with blankets rolled up on each side to keep her feeling "cozy". So it really wasn't that big of a transition for her. But yea, I am not sure how your LO would do going from co-sleeping/no swaddle to the crib on their own. Maybe try it for naps during the day and then move to the night?
pomegranate / 3577 posts
6 1/2 months...it turns out that I was responding to some quiet fusses that would have never woken him up. It was like instant better sleep for the both of us. I still miss him a little, though. 
cantaloupe / 6751 posts
A little over 6 months. I wasn't ready, but she and I were keeping each other up at night so DH firmly (and rightly!) suggested we try moving her out. It was a great decision - we both slept so much better and that's when she started sleeping 8 hour stretches!
coconut / 8861 posts
3-4 months. We put LO in his nursery in his RNP around this time. By the time he was 5 months old, he was outgrowing the RNP, then transitioned to the crib. About a month after that, we sleep trained him.
cantaloupe / 6730 posts
@ms.janedoe: I tried. Worked for a couple of days and then there were tons of night wakings. I ended up making a nest for her of rolled up blankets all around to make it seem like a smaller bed. Totally against the rules and I actively worked to get all that stuff out of her crib again (took about a month of moving blankets farther away and taking one out etc). It made me nervous!
watermelon / 14467 posts
@ms.janedoe: We were co-sleeping as well, and at that point I was having a really hard time. H was fighting naps, only sleeping while being held/being worn/in the car/in the swing, and at night I was having a hard time sleeping because she moves so much in her sleep. I was just really, really touched out and her noises, kicks, and punches were waking me up. So we did a bootcamp of sorts: In order to get her to nap, she took every single nap that weekend in the swing. She was very tired. On Sunday, we were going to move her crib into our room, but it wouldn't fit through the door assembled, so I laid her in the crib for a nap with her Wubbanub, and she went to sleep. She's slept in her crib every night since then, with the exception of a few days at my inlaws house (we coslept there because they don't have a crib/pnp).
I may have to break the paci habit later, but for right now, it totally works for us and I'm okay with that.
persimmon / 1386 posts
My goal was to have DD in her crib by 12 weeks when I go back to work. She is 9 weeks tomorrow. For the past week or so she has been taking some of her naps in her crib and that appears to be going fine.
My concern is we are taking a trip to CA (from VA) in a 10 days and she will be cosleeping during that trip. She currently sleeps in a moses basket in our room and sometimes cosleeps. I am afraid that transitioning her to the crib overnight before our trip will just make her confused when we go back to cosleeping during the trip....
GOLD / wonderful pea / 17697 posts
Right around 6 months. He had been co-bedding with us until then, but our bed just isn't big enough to safely co-sleep long-term. I was too paranoid to move him before that, but D was pretty adamant that he be in his own bed in his own room.
pomelo / 5820 posts
Last night 
He's 6 months! It was a necessity. We kept waking each other up, and his cosleeper was getting too small. I would bring him into our bed every night which isn't the best habit to get into for us. He slept really well last night, I think he likes the softer mattress.
@Espion: I definitely didn't cry when I went to bed and he was asleep in his own room. Nope. I'd never cry over something like that! 
I miss having him there too.
pomelo / 5678 posts
6 months and crib is right next to our bed. I can't imagine her in another room!
pineapple / 12526 posts
2.5 weeks. We all needed her to be in her own room. No regrets, we were all waking each other up all night and it was a mess.
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