Imran is 2 and Yasin is almost 4 and we still co-sleep. They share a double bed so even when they're not in our bed they share.
With winter here and DH working most nights at the moment I wouln't have it any other way - I love snuggling up with my special little guys on a cold night.
Our baby is 4 months and we co-sleep most of the night. He has his day sleeps and first sleep of the night in the cot (next to our bed) and then at his first feed (around 2am) he comes into bed with us.
He generally self settles now. He will usually grunt and wriggle a bit as he's settling but if he cries we don't leave him. We usually stroke him and settle him back down then leave him again to self settle (he generally goes to sleep better without us there) but if he's having a hard time getting off we sometimes put him a baby carrier or cuddle him on the bed to help settle him off to sleep.
I hopped into DS's bed this morning - it was 4.15am and too cold to sit next to him wearing a nightie! He was asleep again quickly and I went back to my bed, but I have stayed in DS's bed all night and I have also had him in with me for quite a few hours. He always starts off alone and most of the time doesn't need me at all in the night, but when he does tbh I secretly like it. I love him sleeping through, but a wake up and back to sleep with him is quite nice.
He stopped co-sleeping on his own at 10m and it's only been this last month that he'll sleep with us again now. I'm not letting it stop this time!
Personally, I wouldn't be happy if DD could ONLY go to sleep with me there. But, if she wakes up during the night I sprint to get her and only need to hear the slightest cry to have an excuse to put her into bed with us. Luckily, DP loves it too. Infact, he was a bigger evangelist for co-sleeping than I was when she was little.
As I said, I would probably worry if that was the only way she could get to sleep because I would find it draining but love actually having her in with us.
She sleeps in a cot in our room and I have been known to make more noise going to bed than is really necessary in the hope that she will stir and then I have a legitimate excuse for putting her in with us. They are really my most precious moments with DD. This morning she was awake from 1am - 3am which she hasn't done since she was a newborn and it was actually lovely even though I had to get up for work at 7am. She was just lying there chattering away, happy as Larry. I wouldn't want her to do that every night mind you!
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