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So I have embraced the fact that I am co-sleeping with DS2 and am really starting to enjoy cuddling up with my snuggly bubba!
Just wondering how long you co-slept with your little ones? And what made you decide it was time for them to move to their own bed/cot?
Until she was 6 months. It was taking a long time to get her to sleep in my bed (she was FF) the older she got with rocking, shhhing, patting etc. I put her in a cot next to my bed after 6 months to encourage her to self settle herself, which she did. I did love co-sleeping though :D
Probably not the answer you wanted but 26months.
He never slept in a cot at all. In the end I moved him because I couldn't stand the constant need to be touching me. And he was starting to wake more frequently again. Since moving to his own bed he's realized he doesn't need to be touching me every second of the day and can for the first time ever, just roll over and go to sleep by himself. I think if I'd have tried earlier it would have been a battle, but he was just ready.
As DS was always an unsettled sleeper we got a king single and moved DS from our bed to that where I would sleep with him there :D
He turned 3 in march and while he does sleep though occasionaly I sleep in his bed most nights from anywhere from 2am onwards. I am hoping he won't need me when he is at school lol
I sleep between dd 2.5 and ds 12 weeks. Dd has started asking for her own bed so we're about to investigate that. I am so happy to be a cosleeping mumma. It feels right for us. Dh loves it too, although he's in a single next to our queen, he just loves being all together.
We'll miss having dd in our room
oh yes... while I hope he is in his own bed for his own sake by the time he is at school, I know I will miss it :D
Mr5 still arrives in my bed between 12 and 3am most nights and Mr6 arrives at 6am about 2 - 4 times a week.
My nearly 5 yo jumps in any time from 4am. Also as DH shift works, he sleeps with me those nights to "look after me." he didn't start getting in with us until he was about 3.5. So never slept with him as a bub
We kind of co-sleep I guess. DD slept in a bassinett beside our bed till 3 months then in a cot on our room till she was nearly 2! The moved her cot into her own room. She still sleeps between us some times if she wakes up or if she is sick - but generally now would rather sleep in her own bed and room. Now we have DS in our room in a cot - he doesnt like sleeping in our bed yet but im sure he will take a turn lol! He will be in our room untill we get a new house as there is no other room for him!!
I love having my babies in my room - I love laying at night listening to DS breath in our room and DD snore over the monitor!
well technically we still are. She's in the cot without the side next to our bed and she sneaks in bed with me. The cots basically there cos DH doesn't want her in bed with us
Yay for co sleeping! Like you I just sort of fell into co sleeping with an unsettled bub. At 5 months I made more of an effort to put him in his cradle next to our bed if I woke up after he had finished a feed ( I'd often fall asleep feeding him and wake up an hour or so later). At 7 months he went into his cot as I found him too big to co sleep with. I was in alot of pain and found myself almost falling out of bed some nights. He was ready, he went into his cot in his room no worries.
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My DD (27months) has her single bed in my bedroom but she usually ends up crawling into my bed when I head to bed. I have thought about moving her bed to her own room (right next door) thinking she might start waking less but then she might still wake and be futher away... so I don't know how long she will still be in my room!
Full-time until 13 weeks.
We moved her because the large volume of night feeds was causing really bad wind and over-fullness as well as hardcore breast refusal in the day, and left both of us crying a lot. We moved her to a cot and all of her feeds improved, as well as her sleeping.
Now, she's in a cot til 2am, then comes into bed after that.
With DD1 until 22 months and then I moved her to her bed because DD2 was coming along. Now DD2 is cosleeping.
On one side of me in his own co-sleeper cot is DS2weeks. In the middle from his first wake (anywhere from midnight until 4 am) we are joined by DS18 months.
we were fulltime until 5 months. then there were more sleeps in teh cot beside our bed as time wore on. around 6 months we went on holiday and DD1 and DD2 shared a room together (and they both thought it was fab) and from then on she has been falling asleep in there. but come 3-4am i whisk her back in the bed with us until 8ish :)
We have our 3 1/2 year old, and our 1 year old in our bed :) I definately recommend a king sized bed for co-sleeping families! A bigger bed would be handy lol
We didn't strictly co-sleep in that DS was in his own cot but his cot was right beside my bed and we were pretty much face to face. We did that until he was 12 months. Then he went into his own room but there was only a doorway between us.