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Originally Posted by esperanza

I'm very slowly starting to think about the idea of transitioning ds to his own room. I'd like him to still have access to our room when he wakes up to come over. His room is right across the hall from our room. But how do you keep them from wandering the house, either on purpose or semi-sleep walking? A baby gate in the hallway makes me nervous in case of an emergency. What do other people do?

Well, we didn't transition to their own room until around age 4 , so they were past the toddler stage (before that they were in their own bed in our room). And we did have a baby gate blocking the hallway from the rest of the house (already set up for other reasons), but I don't remember if we closed it at night or not (it was one of those pass-through ones, that you could open and close without taking it down, so access in case of emergency was pretty straightforward for the adults). Also, none of mine would have come *anywhere* but straight to me, so it wasn't something I thought about much .

I will say that the girls *still* come into our bedroom at night , but idk if it's because of the late transition, or because dd9 has always had anxiety about sleeping away from us (which contributed to our transitioning late in the first place). Dd7 has been able to stay in her bed all night for over a year, but she shares a room with dd9, who can't, and so if dd7 wakes up and notices she's alone, she'll come into our room, too.