Until she was 6 months. It was taking a long time to get her to sleep in my bed (she was FF) the older she got with rocking, shhhing, patting etc. I put her in a cot next to my bed after 6 months to encourage her to self settle herself, which she did. I did love co-sleeping though
Probably not the answer you wanted but 26months.
He never slept in a cot at all. In the end I moved him because I couldn't stand the constant need to be touching me. And he was starting to wake more frequently again. Since moving to his own bed he's realized he doesn't need to be touching me every second of the day and can for the first time ever, just roll over and go to sleep by himself. I think if I'd have tried earlier it would have been a battle, but he was just ready.
As DS was always an unsettled sleeper we got a king single and moved DS from our bed to that where I would sleep with him there
He turned 3 in march and while he does sleep though occasionaly I sleep in his bed most nights from anywhere from 2am onwards. I am hoping he won't need me when he is at school lol
I sleep between dd 2.5 and ds 12 weeks. Dd has started asking for her own bed so we're about to investigate that. I am so happy to be a cosleeping mumma. It feels right for us. Dh loves it too, although he's in a single next to our queen, he just loves being all together.
Yay for co sleeping! Like you I just sort of fell into co sleeping with an unsettled bub. At 5 months I made more of an effort to put him in his cradle next to our bed if I woke up after he had finished a feed ( I'd often fall asleep feeding him and wake up an hour or so later). At 7 months he went into his cot as I found him too big to co sleep with. I was in alot of pain and found myself almost falling out of bed some nights. He was ready, he went into his cot in his room no worries.
My DD (27months) has her single bed in my bedroom but she usually ends up crawling into my bed when I head to bed. I have thought about moving her bed to her own room (right next door) thinking she might start waking less but then she might still wake and be futher away... so I don't know how long she will still be in my room!
Full-time until 13 weeks.
We moved her because the large volume of night feeds was causing really bad wind and over-fullness as well as hardcore breast refusal in the day, and left both of us crying a lot. We moved her to a cot and all of her feeds improved, as well as her sleeping.
Now, she's in a cot til 2am, then comes into bed after that.
On one side of me in his own co-sleeper cot is DS2weeks. In the middle from his first wake (anywhere from midnight until 4 am) we are joined by DS18 months.
we were fulltime until 5 months. then there were more sleeps in teh cot beside our bed as time wore on. around 6 months we went on holiday and DD1 and DD2 shared a room together (and they both thought it was fab) and from then on she has been falling asleep in there. but come 3-4am i whisk her back in the bed with us until 8ish
We co sleep after 12 most nights, it just works as dd wakes for feeds at least 4 times a night up to 8 times and getting out of bed that much was a real struggle, we put her in her cot to start with but we figure that once she's ready to sleep longer/thru then she won't sleep with us because she wouldnt have got up for feeds so she'd still be in her bed. Sometimes I love it, sometimes I don't because she sleeps like a starfish, but I always love waking up to a smiling one year old patting my face.. <3
I am still co sleeping lol and my DD2 is now over 4. We usually end up with DD2 and DD3 and DD4 in the bed with us every night. Mind you DD4 is only 7 weeks old
Is this why King Size beds were invented? LOL.
My husband see's it as a real burden to bring the kids into bed when we cant get them back to sleep. I really like it
DD1 slept with me until she was about 8 months old and basically objected to being in bed with me by bouncing up and down off my knees. Then transferred her into a cot also in my room until she was 18 months at which point she went into her own room and I've been trying to get her back into my bed ever since
DD2 starts off in a cot and then either co-sleeps with DP or with me when she wakes up around midnight. DP and I generally sleep in separate rooms at the moment because he works late shifts and his snoring seems very effective at re-settling DD2 who often wakes up every 40 mins throughout the night. That makes for a very unsettled sleep for me if she's in my bed but DP barely stirs (I know this from when all three of us have been in the same bed). So for us, it works best if DD2 co-sleeps with DP who actually loves it too.
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How long did you co sleep for?
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