We are moving R into her own room this week. We’re starting out slowly, just playing in the room to begin. Her crib isn’t even in it yet, it’s still down attached to our bed. We’re hoping to start making the transition this weekend when Lurline doesn’t have to get up for work in the morning. That way if it’s rough she’s not sleep deprived at work.
What we’ve read is that first you want to get the child used to the new room. Like what we are doing playing in here this week. We’ll spend time in here each day to begin the acclimation process. By the weekend we’ll move her crib up here and start the process. We’re hoping that she’ll start sleeping better when she’s in a, darker room without us making any noise next to her.
Originally we thought we’d move her to the office adjoining our bedroom. The problem with that, though, is that it’s not really its own proper room. The wall of bookshelves dividing it from us does not reach the top of the ceiling, so there’s no real noise barrier. Plus, we’d have to walk through it to get to bed. Not really an ideal place for noise.
So, we decided on converting the guest room into her bedroom. It’s on the north side of the house facing our neighbors, so much less light gets through than our bedroom. It’s upstairs from our room, so no noise will get through from us when we are getting ready for bed. It will mean we can’t really hang out in the living room when she’s sleeping, but we have another room that will let us stay up without bothering her.
The down side to putting her upstairs is that it will mean walking upstairs to check on her when she starts making noise. It will make for a rough start for us of her transitioning, but hopefully that won’t last too long. If our suspicion is right and it is our noise and the light keeping her from sleeping through the night, things will be much better for us. I’m looking forward to when she does.