OK, this is what I'd do (keeping in mind I don't co-sleep apart from the first few weeks or so, our babies have always been in a bassinette then to a cot in their own rooms).
When DS wakes at 12-3am I would attempt to resettle him in his own cot - how do you think he'd go with that? It might be tricky for a while, but if you're going to do it, I would start now to save stress on you both when bub arrives. I've experienced co-sleeping with a toddler and a nb in the same room and to be honest, it was 10 days of pure hell for us (we were away from home so sleeping arrangements were pretty restricted). Toddler would wake baby, baby would wake toddler and mummy got very, very little sleep. But that's just our experience, I'm sure others have done it successfully.
I would tend to agree with you and leave him in his own room. We are doing the same with DS even though DH wanted the new baby to have his room and move DS into the spare. No way was I going there.
I think if you're going to get him a toddler bed, then do it all in one swoop - get the toddler bed and start the resettling all at the same time, if you decide that's what you want to do.
The other option is to just leave him in his cot (again, this is what I've decided to do to save the stress on DS) and eventually get the baby a new cot or just wait and see what happens, like you said, bub is likely to be in your room for a while anyway. I'm currently trying to get a second hand cot on ebay for the new bub. DS's cot converts to a toddler bed so he's keeping that and we'll convert it when we think he's ready.
I think the main goal here is to get things in order so that everyone is getting some sleep when bub arrives with as little disruption to DS as possible. It's always tricky trying to make the transition as easy as possible for the toddler but eventually we all get there
Last edited by Willow; April 28th, 2009 at 04:15 PM.
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