DD was 9 weeks when she went to her room (right next to ours) as she outgrew the bassinette and her cot wouldn't fit in our room. Also she was (and is) a very light sleeper and we all slept better when she was 5 metres away rather than 1 metre. In saying that will try to keep #2 in our room for as long as poss- it just feels better...
DS is 25 months and DD is 7 months. Both are in our room - either in our bed or in the bed / cot next to our bed. I have no immediate plans to move them out however DS is transitioning from our bed to a single bed next to ours. Both are still frequent night wakers and it is too cold to traipse down the hall to tend to them when they can be just there next to me and we all get to stay warm.
We moved DD into her own room at about 5 months. It was hard the first couple of nights becaue I missed her being close, but it's amazing how much better she sleeps in her own room! I think because she could always see us and smell my milk on me she was waking up a lot more when in our room. Now she sleeps through - or sometimes wakes once for a feed. I still have the monitor on even though I can hear her through our wall - just incase! Oh and she self settles now which she wouldn't do when in our room. Good luck!
DS was in our room (cot next to my side of the bed) until he was 12 months. We then moved and he went into his own room. But our house is very little - essentially our bed is in the dining room and DS' is in his room but there is only one doorway between us. He will be there till we move again in January and will be close to 3 years.
Jazz is still with us and we're thinking of tracitioning her to her room once it warms up, October probably. So she'll be 14 months. Dunno how it'll go. She still co-sleeps part of the night with us.
We co-slept with DD until she was about 24months,then she moved in to her own bed, still in our room. At 3 she went into her own room. DS co-slept with us until 24 months,then he moved in to the bedroom with DD and they share quite happily (for now). DS (4mths) sleeps with us and will probably do so for the next year and a half....
I must say I'm really happy to see there are others like me who have little ones who are 2 or so still in the same room I have plenty of comments from people about how I have to move him out soon or he'll still be there when he's 21... as if! However, we all like it just the way it is for now. It's very cute (most of the time) when Oskar wakes up in the morning and peeks over the top of the cot to see if I'm awake..lol.
DS was in a cot in his own room until about 6 mths.. i got up to him through the night. Then his cot was in our room at about 7mths when we stayed with mum for a few months... and that's when we started co-sleeping. At about 13 mths when we knew he could climb off the bed, he got his own big bed in his room, but it wasn't used regularly for a long time. Sometimes we would start him off in there, but he always brought himself in to us through the night. He started sleeping through at about 2 1/2 and now only comes in in the morning.
DD has been in our room since day 1. Started off in a sidecar kind of cot attached to our bed, and then moved into our bed. She too got her big bed setup at about 13 months and occassionally we start her off in there, but she still brings herself in to us. She's been sick on and off for the last month, so haven't bothered with her own bed.
I dunno.. we just do whatever, figuring they'll sleep in their own room eventually (DS has confirmed that for me, and he is now a fantastic self-settler/sleeper.. no arguments at bedtime!) so I'm just being patient with DD too.
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I have plenty of comments from people about how I have to move him out soon or he'll still be there when he's 21... as if! However, we all like it just the way it is for now. It's very cute (most of the time) when Oskar wakes up in the morning and peeks over the top of the cot to see if I'm awake..lol.
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