DP was banished to an inflatable mattress for the first 9 months of DSs life. It was mostly out of necessity. DP has to be up for work at 4am, and DS was a shocking sleeper. After he realised I was spending the night on the couch after the 1am feed, DP nicely just removed himself from the bedroom so DS and I could just share the big bed. I wasn't doing it so as not to disturb him though, it was more a case of passing out from sheer exhaustion and figuring there's no point getting into bed to have to get up 50 million times....... lol. It was bliss, really once DS and I took over the master suite hehe. I missed snuggling up with DP but we all got a lot more sleep this way.