8 Easy Steps to Transition Baby From Your Room to Nursery

How We Transitioned from Room to Nursery 

Lauren Barrett

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Step 1: Follow @takingcarababies on Instagram or check out her blog.

Cara is amazing! She is a sleep expert and a former nurse. Her tips have helped tremendously. 

Step 2: From Birth-4 months we kept our son in our room in a bassinet next to my side of the bed. 

This was easy for me to grab him whenever I had to breastfeed. 

The Project Nursery Shop

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Step 3: Around 4 months, we got rid of the bassinet and switched to the pack n play portion. 

This is what we used.

Step 4: Around this same time, we moved our son further from away from me but still on the same side as me. 

Step 5: Around 5 months, we moved the pack n play to the opposite side of the room, the farthest away from me. 

Step 6: Around 5 months, we also moved the glider to the nursery. Most of the feedings and bedtime routine now took place in the nursery rather than our room. 

Project Nursery

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Step 7: Around 6 months, we tried to do as many naps as possible in the crib in the nursery instead of our room. Make sure it's dark! 

Recommended by Cara

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Step 8: Around 8 months, we transitioned to the nursery and sleeping in the crib no problem! 

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​Lauren Barrett was born in New Jersey, grew up in West Virginia, went to college in Pennsylvania, and now lives and works in North Carolina. She is a high school teacher of the Deaf and hard-of-hearing by day, a cross country coach by the afternoon, a writer by her son's naptimes, and a full time mom to an amazing toddler. She loves her faith, running, visiting MLB stadiums with her husband, chocolate, scrapbooking, pretending she would actually do well on the Amazing Race, re-watching The Office, listening to Bobby Bones, and helping out all moms. She lives in North Carolina with her husband, James, and son, Henry.