How long did you share a room with your baby/child?

[~Kim~]

With DD it was under 1, because like you, that what we thought people did. It sucked.
DS was 2 but he still comes in regularly at 3.
DD2 has her cradle next to the bed and that's the way it will stay....even though her 'room' is my study that is directly off my room and her cradle would only be maybe 1 metre further away lol.

[Stevie]

DD was in out of the bassinet and into her cot in her room at around 3 months..
Its only been in the last 12 months or so that every now and then she'll end up in our bed at some stage through the night..
but when i broke my arm 2 months ago, she would sleep in my bed (for a few reasons) and now that my arms better and eveything is back to "normal" we are in the process of getting her back in her own bed..

let me add, when DH is away (works FIFO) i LOVE having her in my bed, but when hes home there just isnt enough room lol, plus its hard to have "our" time with a toddler sprawled across your bed..

oh and to answer about lights etc.. no, we have lamps on either side of the bed, will turn one on if we have to (im a master at walking around in the dark.. DH on the other hand though...) we dont yahoo and carry on, its pretty much like normal.. probably used a little more hushed tones than normal, but no lip reading or anything LOL. shes a pretty heavy sleeper like her father..

[KitFaerie]

DS was in our room and we used varying degrees of co-sleeping for 12 months (in our bed/side-cot thingy), now he's in his own room but we co-sleep in our bed from the first/second wake up. It works for us, cos we still get to read in bed at the beginning of the night, and still get family snuggles in the morning

[LuluHB]

DD1 was in a cradle next to our bed for probably 2 months. Then we moved her out into the family room (next door room to ours). She moved upstairs to her own bedroom around a month later. She was sleeping really well through the night and her noises were waking me.

DD2 slept on me in our bed for probably 7 months. Not what I wanted but the only way she, and therefore I, could get any sleep.

This baby we'll play by ear. I plan on having her in a hammock next to our bed for a while at least. I like having them right next to me in the beginning and also want to minimise middle of the night disruptions for DDs 1 and 2. That's the plan anyway - which probably means none of it will happen!

[chody47]

DD slept in our room in her bassinet until about 6 months when we couldn't possibly squeeze her in anymore (it wouldn't have lasted anywhere near that long if her arms weren't kept inside her sleeping bag lol). She then went into her cot in her own room. She was totally fine with it but it took a bit of adjusting for me as I was sooo used to having her right next to me.