Has anyone temporarily co slept?

[Sarah Lou 80]

My newborn us coming in to bed with me part way through the night. We have a co sleeping crib attached to the bed which is great and she starts off in there but when she wakes for a feed in the night, she won't settle back in it. She's asleep when I put her down but she squirms and wriggles as soon as I put her back in.

I think the squirming is given to trapped wind which I just cannot get out of her. I'm going to try some gripe water tonight.

I love waking up to her little face next to me and the night feeds are so much easier when you don't have to move to feed but I don't want it to be long term.

Has anyone just co slept for the early days and gone on to successfully stop? I hate the phrase, but I'm worried I'm making a rod for my own back!

 

[Pielette]

Ds2 slept with us until he was about 3 months old. Then we took the sides of the cot and attached it to our bed so he started sleeping in there and going back and forth. He went into his cot with the sides up at 6 months and then into his own room. No problems at all!

He wouldn't sleep without being snuggled up next to me in the early days and I decided to just go with it, we both loved it and when he was ready we started small steps to transition him. He's a fantastic sleeper now.

 

[hanni]

We co slept every night from about 4/5am from from when he was around 3 weeks old. We moved house 3 weeks ago and went from a king sized with a firm mattress to a double with a super soft one so I don't feel it's safe to co sleep anymore and I won't lie he isn't handling it well.

He's went from sleeping 10-8 with one feed at 4/5am to waking up constantly and not settling back to sleep and then being up for the day between 5&7.
I've stayed at my mums this weekend and shared a bed with him and he's slept from 10-9.30 with a bottle at 7. Amazing! I don't know if it's just a coincidence or because he's next to me again. For us it's became a bit of a pain and a rod for our own backs.

 

[Rainstorm]

I haven't co-slept (except in the mornings now when my toddler wakes up too early and I want to keep sleeping another while lol) but I noticed with him that everything we did after he was 6 months old turned into a habit we had difficulty changing, so if you don't want to make it a habit, make sure you stop before that age would be my advice lol

 

[Bevziibubble]

I started co sleeping at 8 months and wish I had started it sooner as it would have made the newborn stage a lot easier. It was only meant to be temporarily but eventually at just over 3 years old she went into her own bed. She still does bedshare with me when she wakes in the night though.

 

[Button#]

I did for a few weeks around 4 months and a few weeks around 8 months and when I was at my in laws for his first birthday. After that he wouldn't sleep in my bed until this Christmas just gone when he slept in my bed when we were on holiday. Other than that he's slept in his own cot/bed, although he only started sttn at 21 months.

 

[Sqwidge]

We co slept with both - started off unintentionally, not something we planned with either. With both they started in their cot and then would come in after they wake up the first time. Josh stopped coming in around 2 and Amelia stopped regularly coming into bed around 2 months ago - but still ends up in with us a few times.

 

[NickyKB]

I co slept for 2-3weeks when my younger son was a newborn as he just wouldn't sleep more than 20mins anywhere else. I really didn't want to co sleep long term so we got a next2me crib (turned out this wasn't close enough initially he wanted to be on my arm) but over a week or so I would start the night with him on a cocoonababy in the next2me and when he woke I'd have him with me but then I just started making myself put him back after he'd fed and by the time he was 3-4 weeks he was no longer bed sharing. It did take conscious effort to stop though as he slept really well next to me but I just didn't sleep that well plus there was no space for my oh as well and long term I didn't like the idea of not sharing a room with my husband. Lots of people do manage to make it work with 3 people in the bed but we just couldn't...

 

[myra]

I co slept with my daughter from newborn to just after 2 months- not preplanned. It just was easier at night. Now at 3 months, she's been sleeping in her Rock and Play for a month without any transition issues. She actually sleeps better there and usually starts the night with a 5 hour stretch before waking for milk. She has reflux so the incline helps her too. Shes growing fast and has more than doubled her birthweight so she's starting to outgrow the rocker. Currently trying to transition her to the crib.

 

[LilFooshFoosh]

We co-slept with both our kids for the first 6 weeks, then moved them into their own rooms. That was approximately when they started sleeping 8/9 hour stretches. We didn't have any trouble transitioning either of them.

 

[whigfield]

Me! We co-slept for a good 6-7 months just so I could get some sleep. Eventually he got fidgety and annoying at night so I just put him back in his cot and he went straight to sleep anyway, so in my case I feel he grew out of it naturally.