How to move an 11mth co-sleeper/frequent waker to her own room? I think we snore!

[lady*of*thelake]

I am so over my daughter's night waking - she is 11 months old and has been a kerrrrap sleeper since about 3 months old. Last night she woke every 45 minutes to an hour and was awake from 11-1am

I'm working and DH is a SAHD at the moment, so she cosleeps with him during the week and with me Fridays and Saturdays. I took her last night too as he has a bad cold, but she always seems to sleep worse when with me. I'm still breastfeeding.

Constant waking at night, even three nights in a row, sends me heading down the path back to PND land which I had for about 3 months early in the year, so it's got to the point where I feel like we have to do something. DH is very reluctant to change anything, but we can't afford to have our heads in the sand as he goes back to work in 5 weeks and then we suddenly have to juggle this issue between the two of us.

I am worried that she wakes so often because both DH and I snore. She's never slept in her own room before and I am scared of taking that big step, but by the same token, I wonder if her sleep will get better if she's not woken by snoring!!

Are there any co-sleepers who had the same issue? Did you try bubs in their own room? What happened?

[Phteven]

I only figured out that one (or both) of us snores when Yasin started making snoring sounds when he's pretending to be asleep lol.

Maybe you could start by puttig a mattress on the floor of your room and then when DD is used to sleeping on that alone you could move it to her room. Perhaps for the first few nights she's in her room one of you could sleep on a mattress on the floor in there so that she doesn't feel too alone in there.
Does she have a comfort item? If not maybe you could get her a nice soft teddy and give it to her at bed time each night so she feels like she has a bed-time friend.

Have you made sure it's not other problems - is she too hot or cold? At this time of year whith the night tempratures changing it's easy to misjudge and still have winter bedding on or have them in summer bedding too early.

Good-Luck. Lack of sleep is one of the hardest things about being a parent in the early years ;there's a reason why they use sleep deprivation to torture people

[Yael]

I co-slept with my baby until he was 6 or 7 months old, then we moved him to a cot in our room for like 2 months, and then at 9 months we moved him into his own room.

He was a bad sleeper during the day, but at nights then he was pretty good, i think from memory he would wake once (maybe twice) for a feed and go back to sleep.

It was partly cos when we came to bed we woke him up sometimes, and my DH was getting sick of having to tiptoe around the room etc, so i agreed we could try him in his own room (oh, and my husband has sleep apnoea and snores like anything, which i think affected the quality of my sons sleep).

Basically as soon as he went into his own room his sleep improved out of sight! I was sad not to co-sleep and have him close by, but i think this is what he needed!

But i think we moved him at the right time, before that i think he got comfort from us from being so close, and then around that 9 months stage i think he was ok to move.

Thats just my experience, you can always try it for a week to give it a good chance and move her back if its not working?

Good luck.