How long did you co sleep for?

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.

With DS I co-slept for most of the time (with short breaks when he was ok on his own) between 7.5 to 20-odd months. DD is currently co-sleeping.

DD1 co-slept until she was 5. I didn't realise that was unusual, but it seems to be! DS didn't want to co-sleep, but if he wakes in the night (maybe once a week) he comes to our bed for a snuggle. DD2 co-sleeps full time and she'll move out when she's ready! DH and I love it and so does DD. Both of the girls have co-slept from our first night in hospital when they wouldn't sleep in their bassinet but settled immediately in my arms. DS likes to spread out when he sleeps and likes his own space in bed.

We co sleep after 12 most nights, it just works as dd wakes for feeds at least 4 times a night up to 8 times and getting out of bed that much was a real struggle, we put her in her cot to start with but we figure that once she's ready to sleep longer/thru then she won't sleep with us because she wouldnt have got up for feeds so she'd still be in her bed. Sometimes I love it, sometimes I don't because she sleeps like a starfish, but I always love waking up to a smiling one year old patting my face.. <3

With DD, on and off until she was about two. With DS1, he's nearly 3 and DH or I still sleep with him. DS2 is also still cosleeping. We will be putting DS1 into his own bed in a few months because we are sick of our sleeping arrangements, as well as the fact that DS1 has no idea how to go to sleep by himself and we think he needs to learn. When DH has a week off work in November, we will be putting both DS1 & 2 their own beds. DS1, just because it's time to do so, and DS2, in the hopes we won't end up with the sort of sleeping arrangements we have now! As well as if he's still sleeping as badly as he does now, maybe sleeping alone might help him sleep better....maybe!

I am still co sleeping lol and my DD2 is now over 4. We usually end up with DD2 and DD3 and DD4 in the bed with us every night. Mind you DD4 is only 7 weeks old

Is this why King Size beds were invented? LOL.
My husband see's it as a real burden to bring the kids into bed when we cant get them back to sleep. I really like it :)

DD1 slept with me until she was about 8 months old and basically objected to being in bed with me by bouncing up and down off my knees. Then transferred her into a cot also in my room until she was 18 months at which point she went into her own room and I've been trying to get her back into my bed ever since :)

DD2 starts off in a cot and then either co-sleeps with DP or with me when she wakes up around midnight. DP and I generally sleep in separate rooms at the moment because he works late shifts and his snoring seems very effective at re-settling DD2 who often wakes up every 40 mins throughout the night. That makes for a very unsettled sleep for me if she's in my bed but DP barely stirs (I know this from when all three of us have been in the same bed). So for us, it works best if DD2 co-sleeps with DP who actually loves it too.

DD1 coslept until 19mths when we moved her to her own bed, own room in which she was fine with it. I was pregnant and we knew it was time.
Although she would wake once a night and walk down to our bed and crawl in with us. So we kinda were still cosleeping still just not full-time lol.

DD2 is in a bassinet next to our bed although cosleeps most of the night. Newborn snuggles :)