I moved DD into her cot in her own room when she was 6months.

I did it because i had started seeing DP (her daddy and i had broken up 4 months previously). It wasn't for my sexlife (you can have sex anywhere in a house) but because i didn't want DP and DD to have too much contact until i was sure he and i were going to be long-term. Of course i thought we would be or i wouldn't have been with him but i figured DD deserved more than what i "thought". I kept them apart until DP and i had been together about a year (he saw her three or four times in that first year) and once we began talking about buying a house together and she knew VERY well who Dada was, i gradually introduced him to her.

In the days when i moved her DP was only staying here 1 night a week at most, and not usually when DD was here (when she was with XP) BUT i didn't want her to feel, on those rare occasions when he stayed while she was here, that i'd put her out of the bedroom for him. I wanted her to have her own place no matter what and i realised she needed to be in her own room.

I missed her like crazy at first. Because there were only about 2 days/month when DP was actually here i felt like i was sleeping all alone for mainly no reason. I would check on her once or twice every night at first, but i grew to trust the audio monitor was good enough that i could REALLY hear her quite quickly (I still now check her before i go to bed, and if i feel like it again in the night i do). In addition she was still breastfed for the first month so i'd have to get up and bring her in with me at 5am every day.

BUT from her POV she slept MUCH better as soon as i moved her. I had the baby-monitor right next to my head so even her sighing would wake me, but she was so much less fretful in her own room. She still came in with me from 5am onwards (DP was once there, i lay between them and got us as soon as she woke again at 8am) and even now she will wake up about 7am potter about in her room for a bit and then come and put her cold feet on me. LOL. As soon as i dropped the 5am feed she began sleeping through to 8am (i switched to formula but she never wanted a bottle then) which gave her 12 hours unbroken sleep. She just seems to be the sort of person who settles better in her own peace and quiet.