My first part coslept and part in cot in my room till 18months, second same as first but more often my bed her dad left when she was 6 months. Booth own rooms at around 2. Third dd coslept or in hammock/cot in our room till 20 months then her too. When we moved house, she still came into our bed every night till close on three when she stopped bf.
DD1 slept in our room, initially in our bed, later in her cot till she was 18 months old. We just followed her lead. She made it quite clear that she no longer wanted to co-sleep in bed with me at around 6 months. When we transferred her to her own room at 18 months, she was absolutely fine from the first night and I've been using any excuse to try and get her to sleep with me ever since
It's really been musical beds with DD2 (both DP and I have co-slept with her but in different rooms) but now she is in her 'own' room so I start the night in my bedroom then go into her room if she wakes up (which she usually does at some point during the night). I have a double bed in there so transfer her from her cot to the bed and co-sleep with her if and when she wakes. She's 20 months old. DD1 thinks she's missing out and is now insisting on sleeping in the cot with DD2 which, after my initial hesitation, I'm cool with. DD1 could sleep for Australia so I'm hoping that she'll teach DD2 how to sleep. DD2 has been sleeping better (and sometimes right through) with DD1 in with her.
DS slept in our room until 7 or so months (in a portacot or our bed) when he started waking up and deciding if he could see us we should all get up and play... we then moved him to his own room and the proper cot. this time around i think we will do the same, when we start disturbing each other we will put bub in with DS (mainly cos our spare room is DH workshop :LOL bubs in the cot and DS hopefully have already been transitioned into a single....
First one 4 months. Second probably 4 weeks. Both my kids were anti co-sleepers no matter how hard we tried LOL!
But they come in for cuddles now, and both of the kids will happily snuggle up to each other when they can't sleep which is equally cute. So it's all good.
14 weeks in the bassinett next to us but I thought she'd sleep better in her own room, still in the bassinette. Now DD is 4.5 yo and still comes into bed with us most nights. She starts in her room but ends up walking down on her own anytime from midnight. Most times she sleeps through without a problem unless she is unwell then she is a nightmare to sleep with!
With DS we first had him in a bassinett next to our bed, then his cot in our room. At 6.5 months we moved him into his own room. He wasn't sleeping well, and for some reason I thought moving him to his own room would help. Couldn't have been more wrong! DS was a horrid sleeper and I lost a lot of sleep by having him in a separate room. He is in his own room now though, and sleeps through almost every night.
Having learnt what I did from DS, I decided to co-sleep with DD. First she was in a bassinet next to our bed, but she didn't always sleep in it - she often ended up in bed with us. When she got too big for the bassinet we turned the cot into a sidecar cot and it has been wonderful. DD doesn't actually sleep in the cot very much, but it gives us that little bit of extra room and I don't have to worry about DH rolling onto her. DD turns one in a couple of weeks and I can't see her moving into her own room anytime soon. Co-sleeping has saved me a lot of sleep, and until DD is sleeping through (or at least sleeping longer than 3 hour stretches) she'll be staying snuggly close next to me .
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DS was a horrid sleeper and I lost a lot of sleep by having him in a separate room. He is in his own room now though, and sleeps through almost every night.
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