Anna,

Charlie and I did not co-sleep and he still woke every few hours when he was young. He only stopped when he was 11 months old. I do believe it very much depends on their personality, and trust me with a baby that wakes often, I think I would definitely have been better off co-sleeping just so I could have a bit of sleep too. And who knows, he may have slept better than in his cot.

I have since seen the cot that allows you to co-sleep with baby in their own cot space and would have given my right arm for something like that back when Charlie was a tiny bub. I do believe from personal experience sometimes putting their tiny little bodies in a massive cot at that young age probably feels more insecure than being next to mummy, too, so try it by all means, but you may end up with no more sleep in the end.