Hey Anna,

It's really hard not to compare your second bub to your first - DS was much more unsettled during his first few weeks than our DD was and so often co slept in those early weeks. We then found though that he started waking more and more frequently. We thought we'd see how he went in his room in his cot and found that he slept much more soundly and woke a lot less frequently. I'm definitely not against co sleeping, DD always slept with us when she woke at night and wouldn't settle back to sleep or was unwell etc, and often she would have her early morning feed in bed with me and then sleep with me after DH went to work (he is a smoker so co sleeping isn't really a great option for us anyway). I'm not sure why, but I guess some babies like to co sleep and others like their own space? I was pretty devastated about moving him out of our room, so we came to a compromise - DH and I are sleeping in the spare room next to his with both doors open, that way I still feel really close to him, it's easy to feed him at night and I can still hear him when he stirs etc. It's working well and he is sleeping a lot better.