I stopped feeding DS at night when he stopped feeding to sleep. Two weeks later when he woke up, I picked him up, my bed, pat to sleep - no dice. Screamed at me instead. So I put him in his bed and patted - back to sleep. Happened a few times. Now he screams blue murder if I get in his bed or try to put him in mine - or he assumes it’s playtime. Not good. When he’s really in pain he snuggles into me and goes back to sleep (I have to pick him up and cuddle him because he’s so upset) so I take him to bed with me and we sleep fine for the rest of the night. But that’s not common; he prefers to be on his own now usually.

DS always started the night in his bed, alone, just so DH and I could get some us-time before we went to bed and he’s so wriggly he would have fallen out of our bed if we’d put him to bed there.

Transitioning. For the first 6m DS was in a moses basket in our room. Then we went on holiday to my mum’s house, cot in our room. Then when we went home we figured we’ve got him in a cot (he was going to sleep in our arms at that point), keep it up. So DS and I moved into the Nursery and DH moved back into our room. When he stopped co-sleeping I started sleeping in the sitting room with the monitor, then after Christmas (we were at my mum’s again and so DH and I had to sleep together due to space) I moved back into our bedroom.

DS has a cot-bed and we’ll be taking the bars down… maybe Easterish. When we KNOW he’s sleeping through properly (so maybe earlier) and so he can get out of bed in the morning and not wake us up. He’s trying to climb INTO bed at night now; he never tries to climb out! We don’t want to do it right now as when we visit Mum she has a cot so that won’t work, but it will have to be before Easter really because then he’ll be too big for her cot and so will be in a bed at her house, we want that OK and normal before we visit. So around his second birthday I suppose.

HTH!