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

[~Hestia~]

With my first we shared a room for 6 months before moving him into his own room, many reasons but mostly I thought that was the done thing

This time around, am hoping to keep Buster in with us for as long as we can but am curious as to how this works as they get older? Was there a point where you had to creep around and not make much noise? What age did your kids go into their very own room?

Did they move in with a sibling? How did this work? Hoping the boys might be able to share a room if Buster continues to sleep well.

[onthefly]

With DS it was an on/off thing as we tried not to co-sleep - he was in his own bed by 2
DD is still in with me at 16 months

[Frantelle]

Ds is 17 months and in our room. We have a double bed that dh and ds co sleep in and a single that I sleep in.

We are in the process of transitioning ds into the single and then hopefully into his own room at around Christmas.

[PumpkinZulu]

DD is 10 months and in with me, also in my bed. No idea when she'll move. Maybe when the baby comes, but maybe not. I have no clue, haven't thought that far ahead yet

[~Hestia~]

Thanks for the replies girls, no one I know IRL co sleeps at all so feeling like the odd one out! I'd like him in with us for at least a year, lucky we have a king but don't think I could squeeze a single in here unfortunately!

PZ - you made me lol, I have an awful habit of thinking way too far ahead.

[sweetpea678]

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.

[fionas]

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.

[AngelPants]

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....

[Rouge]

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.

[TeniBear]

We're still bedsharing at 13 months, I don't think that'll ever stop

My parents bedshared with all three of us early on, and I think we had our own beds from about 3ish, but we were always welcome in their bed (with fair warning!) until we grew out of needing help to sleep My mum used to lay next to both my brothers in their beds until they was asleep up until about five or six. She probably did that with me too but I don't remember.

Reading that, it seems like my parents are super-duper AP parents lol - they're not, really, my mum's just a big softy and loves us to death

[BhoysGirl]

my mum's just a big softy and loves us to death

Teni - what a gorgeous way to describe your mum

DS2 - turned 2 last week & still snuggling up every night. He loses it if I'm not there, even if I am there but not holding/feeding him he loses it. I'm just keeping the faith that most 15yo's aren't still snuggling with mum and eventually he'll want his own space. DS1 is with us most nights, and he's going to be 5 soon. DS1 only started to do the co-sleeping thing since DS2 was born though. And now DH has decamped to DS1's bed, to get a better night's sleep. Which secretly works for all of us, cos he can snore like a freight train

[KimB]

We still end up with the 3 youngest DD's in the bed with us most nights. We bought a king size bed but DF still ends up smooshed on the edge of the bed DD4 is nearly 1 and sleeps with us every night

[~TT40~]

bumping this thread.

Spock is 16months, and sleeps in a single bed next to our bed. I'm thinking of moving her into her own room. but I plan on moving the single bed too, so not sure if 16 months is too young to be in a bed... how do you know if they are ready?

[~TT40~]

bumping this thread.

Spock is 16months, and sleeps in a single bed next to our bed. I'm thinking of moving her into her own room. but I plan on moving the single bed too, so not sure if 16 months is too young to be in a bed... how do you know if they are ready?

[briggsy's girl]

Dd stayed on our room til 4y1m ish, in toddler bed, until she moved to her own room and get double bed so I'm not much help.

I would think if you're planning on moving her, keeping "her" bed with her would be a good move so at least some things are familiar kwim?

[little_mrs]

Miss G was in the bassinet next to our bed for about 3 weeks, and her sleep patterns were terrible. Moved her into her cot in her own room and she slept great. Now she sleeps in the portacot next to my bed when dh is on nights or has mates over late but otherwise she has always been happier in her own room! I initially thought 3 weeks was way too young for her to be on her own but that's how she liked it

[Jellyfish]

DD1 was in my bed until 2 and then in her own bed in our room until almost 3 when she got her own bedroom. We never felt we had to creep around, especially when she was in her own bed. Now DD2 is in bed with us and there was a brief overlap of all 4 of us in the bedroom! We moved her to her own bedroom when she started regularly sleeping through and because we wanted to avoid the baby's night stirring, waking up the toddler. Worked brilliantly for us.

We plan to move DD2 in with DD1 when she is sleeping through regularly. I imagine it will go well, DD1 already asks when they can share a room often and I think DD2 will find having DD1 close comforting. I think she will sleep through sooner than DD1 did (already does 7hr stretches which DD1 didn't do till around 2 lol) but still thinking it will be in a year or two.

[No.5]

DS still doesn't sleep in his own room (he's 4). We co-slept for about 3 years and now he likes to sleep on the lounge.. He really doesn't like his room at all (think I know why) but can't change anything around without it being too much of a PITA (SO much stuff in his room and the other room). He may not even sleep in there if we did change it all around anyway so

We're hoping to move this year anyway so once we move, he'll hopefully sleep in his room..