Hi All,<br><br>
I need to know what you sage mamas would do in this situation...<br><br>
We have a DD who's nearly 8 months old now. We are happily co-sleeping, nursing much of the night, etc. No changes will happen anytime soon, unless she begins crawling to the edges of bed during the night.<br><br>
However, I am trying to think how to plan transitioning babe into her own room in the far future. I'm having trouble because there are a few more variables than usual in our circumstance:<br><br>
-Her crib (which she might play in 5 min a day) is in my at-home office. She's comfortable playing in it, and has slept in it maybe 5-6 times total for naps (many months ago now). It converts to a toddler bed & a full-size bed. It would need to disassemble completely to move into any other room.<br><br>
-Our room is big enough for our queensize bed plus the crib or a twinsize on the floor. Currently babe & I are in our bed and DH is on a twinsize on the floor. So we could move babe to a floor mattress once I know she can get on/off the mattress. We cannot easily move the queensize onto the floor and be comfortable.<br><br>
-DD's room is at the extreme other end of the house, four rooms away, and I am not comfortable putting her down to sleep in there by herself. I am not sure when I ever will be, because there are 3 stairs at the end of her hallway she'd have to take (going down) to get to our room. That makes things tricky. No rails, no walls on the sides of these stairs either.<br><br>
I would be comfortable with putting a twin mattress on the floor in her room, and sleeping the night in there with her, but is that a bad idea? I want her to know where my room is and her room is (eventually).<br><br>
I don't want to make a mistake in schlepping all this stuff around, or in confusing DD. Inevitably we'll change things around more than once, I just don't want to make a step without a larger plan in mind.<br><br>
I think my judgment is a little clouded b/c I have a well-meaning friend who is bit more mainstream than I am, and very indirect about her opinions, but I feel the pressure to "do something" about sleep time. At the very least, I feel I ought to familiarize DD with her own room. She has spent nearly zero time in it since born.<br><br>
What would you do?<br><br>
April
I need to know what you sage mamas would do in this situation...<br><br>
We have a DD who's nearly 8 months old now. We are happily co-sleeping, nursing much of the night, etc. No changes will happen anytime soon, unless she begins crawling to the edges of bed during the night.<br><br>
However, I am trying to think how to plan transitioning babe into her own room in the far future. I'm having trouble because there are a few more variables than usual in our circumstance:<br><br>
-Her crib (which she might play in 5 min a day) is in my at-home office. She's comfortable playing in it, and has slept in it maybe 5-6 times total for naps (many months ago now). It converts to a toddler bed & a full-size bed. It would need to disassemble completely to move into any other room.<br><br>
-Our room is big enough for our queensize bed plus the crib or a twinsize on the floor. Currently babe & I are in our bed and DH is on a twinsize on the floor. So we could move babe to a floor mattress once I know she can get on/off the mattress. We cannot easily move the queensize onto the floor and be comfortable.<br><br>
-DD's room is at the extreme other end of the house, four rooms away, and I am not comfortable putting her down to sleep in there by herself. I am not sure when I ever will be, because there are 3 stairs at the end of her hallway she'd have to take (going down) to get to our room. That makes things tricky. No rails, no walls on the sides of these stairs either.<br><br>
I would be comfortable with putting a twin mattress on the floor in her room, and sleeping the night in there with her, but is that a bad idea? I want her to know where my room is and her room is (eventually).<br><br>
I don't want to make a mistake in schlepping all this stuff around, or in confusing DD. Inevitably we'll change things around more than once, I just don't want to make a step without a larger plan in mind.<br><br>
I think my judgment is a little clouded b/c I have a well-meaning friend who is bit more mainstream than I am, and very indirect about her opinions, but I feel the pressure to "do something" about sleep time. At the very least, I feel I ought to familiarize DD with her own room. She has spent nearly zero time in it since born.<br><br>
What would you do?<br><br>
April
