So, we brought our baby home from the hospital and went to lay her down for a nap in her crib so we could catch some sleep also, I freaked out. My little six pound baby in a room all by herself?!? Of course since we didn't think she would be sleeping in our room, we had no bassinet or anything besides a crib to let her sleep in. Super daddy Josh spent the next two hours taking apart the crib and moving it into our bedroom. We bought a bassinet two days later to help her transition from womb to the outside world, and since around three weeks old she's been sleeping only in her crib with the occasional mama's lap nap when nothing else worked.
Over the past six months, we've asked each other multiple times if we were ready to move her out of our room, but each time the answer was 'no, not yet.' Honestly, we didn't want to move her out because we liked being able to see her in her crib easily, we also liked having her close, and also we knew the risk of SIDS decreased by having baby sleep in the same room as you. Cora's 6 month birthday fell a few days before Christmas and we did not want to have to move everything around around Christmas so we ended up moving her around 6.5 months.
We also decided to change the room we had set up to be her room (yes, we're crazy, we know!) and switch what was our guest room into her room, and vice versa. We figured in the long run we'd have Cora be in the bigger bedroom when future kids come along and a guest bedroom really doesn't need to be large.
Cora's been sleeping in her own room for a little over a week now and things are going amazingly well. She's been doing 8 to 9 hour straight stretches and 12 hour nights total, which hasn't happened since 4 month sleep regression started. This mama feels like a whole new person after going back to getting up every 3 hours the past 2 months. Would she have been sleeping as good if we had moved her sooner? Would the transition have been harder if she hadn't been sleeping in her crib already?Who knows! Ultimately, I'm glad we kept her in our room as long as we did, I think I would have been more worried way more about her in her own room before 6 months because of SIDS. I do peek my head in her room every night before I go to bed to make sure she's still on her back and doing well, but it's been a great transition for both all of us.
We are still working on getting things hung up in her room but I can just imagine our little babe growing up in this room!
How long did you keep your baby sleeping in your room or what are you planning on doing when your baby arrives? Tell me below, I love knowing what works for other families!
Kayty
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