Question about co-sleeping

[KiwiMOM]

Hi everyone,

I'm Olivia, 18 and pregnant with my first and I had a question that I thought you all who have had your babies would be able to answer for me..

For those of you who have co-slept(?) how long did/do you keep doing it for? and how hard was it to have them start sleeping in their own bed for them or you?

 

[Melissa.Feb12]

I still co sleep. My son is 7 months old.
He will sleep on his own in his crib, for naps, and has done so at night before too.
So i dont think it'll be hard to get him going there all the time when i do so
i dont know when i plan on stopping tho, soon tho.

I know many people DO have troubles getting them to sleep alone

 

[vinteenage]

DONT DO IT!

....I'm kidding, kind of.

We started co-sleeping with Finn essentially from the start. From 4-5 months or so we were able to have him CIO and he'd sleep in the crib. Once he was mobile though this all went to hell and we started co-sleeping again and it was the only way he slept. Ever. Including naps.

Now, at 10 months, we've side-carred (took one side off the crib, pushed it against our bed so the mattresses are flush) the crib as none of us were getting much sleep as Finn woke up a bunch for a bottle, fussed, kicked us, etc. The past two nights he's been able to sleep in his crib for a good 8 hours. He's able to nap there by himself, too. We had tried CIO again but it didn't work.

So yeah, we had a hell of time stopping co-sleeping. We're giving him a month of sleeping like this, then a month with the side back on the crib but near us, then we'll move the crib back to it's spot.

Next babies will cosleep for 2 months and then go into their bassinets, then into the crib in another two or so months. I dont want anymore sleeping disasters!

 

[babybaillie]

I wouldnt recommend it. Ive only just got my 6 year old sleeping in her bed, because she co slept. yet her wee sister who will be 2 soon, has slept great in on her own from day 1.

 

[rainbows_x]

We started co-sleeping with Ava when she was 3 weeks old, she just wouldn't settle anywhere else. One night OH broiught her into bed, and from pure exhaustion we all fell asleep, woke up hours later! Did it ever since.

We stopped at 7 months, my dad bought our cot then, we kept her in our room, in the cot for a month, then moved her into her own room. She still sleeps through now.

I will definitley be co-sleeping again, probably for longer as I love it so much.

 

[x__amour]

I co-slept for a few months. When Tori first came home she was in her bassinet but didn't really care for it too much. We started co-sleeping when she was a few weeks old after I couldn't walk from back complications until she was 3 months old when she went into her crib in our room. I didn't mind co-sleeping but I definitely slept worse because I was always aware of everything. Tori sleeps in her crib in her own room now which is good but now she won't cuddle, lol! Sometimes I just miss snuggling but oh well. Maybe she will as a toddler, haha! I may or may not co-sleep for the same amount of time next baby, but we'll see!

 

[Srrme]

I co-sleep with my son, and he's 10 months old. I love it, and wouldn't have it any other way. We both sleep great, and he's been sleeping through the night for quite some time now.

 

[Bexxx]

I've co-slept with Isla since the start.
However, it's only because I'm lazy and can't be bothered getting her to sleep in her basket, so on nights I'm not feeling lazy she goes in there with no problemos. Sooo I can't see a problem when it becomes permanent

I do love co sleeping though
I get some mega lie ins with it too, like if she was in a basket, we'd be up at 7 every morning, but I just lay and feed her off and on 'till like 10am

 

[annawrigley]

I co-slept for between 1-3 months (Can't remember at all lol, but I know he was def sleeping in a cot by 4 months) and the move was fine! I'm guessing about 3 months is when we stopped cos its when he started to move more so it was easier for us both for him to go in his cot. I loved co-sleeping when he was tiny though Was so lovely waking up to him right next to me every morning!

 

[xx~Lor~xx]

I co slept with my daughter up until about 4-5 months, from then on she went to bed in her cot, we didn't really have any problems which was great!!

My son on the other hand.... He's now 8 months, and although I always put him down in his cot at bedtime, he wakes quite frequently in the night and alot of the time, will end up co sleeping in our bed by morning. He seems to be struggling with being apart from me a lot more than my daughter did.

 

[QuintinsMommy]

I co-slept with my son till he was 11 months old, it took a few weeks to make the switch and he had a hard time with it, but we were both no longer sleeping well in bed with each other,anyway I loved co-sleeping, if he takes a quick nap on the couch I can't help but cuddle up to him and take one too

 

[Strawberrymum]

I still cosleep now started at 4months. I love it and we share a room so if she was in her bed it is right next to me anyway not much difference.

 

[17thy]

We tried co-sleeping with my daughter from the moment she came home, because I was breastfeeding so it just made it easier. After 2 days she really just hated it, and would be so restless. Neither of us hardly got any sleep. So she slept in the swing, (and she slept through the night from 6 weeks until 4 months in that swing until we switched her to the crib).

Good luck with your co-sleeping, I really wanted to do it but my daughter just didn't like it.

 

[LovingYou]

I coslept with karinna for a little bit. When she came home from the hospital, she HATED her bassinet and wouldn't go anywhere near it at night lol. So i coslept for about a month and a half and then my husband said enough is enough. She started not sleeping at all unless she was with me, and it was so frustrating! we occasionally pull her in to bed with us for a night if she's sick or super fussy with a fever. But then its hard to get her back in to the crib the next night. They definitely notice that they're in bed with you.

The last thing i want is my child still sleeping in bed with my OH and i when she's 4. NO WAY! lol She sleeps in her crib, in her room.

For the next baby i'm planning on using a bassinet and then straight to the crib when she outgrows the bassinet. I'm not planning on co sleeping unless its by accident (we fall asleep together nursing)

I can't stand it when i go to someone's house and they tell me they're 3 or 4 year old is still sleeping in bed with them. lol

 

[pinkribbon]

Jake sleeps in his own bed apart from when he is ill, and we ill cosleep as it's the only way he will settle. So doesn't really count as cosleeping. But with 3 of us in the bed I don't seem to sleep very well, I'm always worried about Jake's comfort etc and he sprawls too which takes up all the room

 

[fightchick]

i never co-slept!

 

[KiwiMOM]

thanks for all the replies

I'm definitely co-sleeping if LO allows it, I'm breast feeding and it just makes sense to me. BUT I definitely don't want to have a 4yo still in bed with me and OH.. My mother co-slept with my younger siblings and they were in their own rooms by 3 but I don't want to wait that long! I believe I co-slept for a bit or had my crib moved into my parents room when I started walking as I used to "escape" (fall out) of my crib and toddle down the hallway to my parents room every night starting from day 1 of my walking career

 

[wishuwerehere]

We didn't cosleep when she was little because I didn't want to, but as she's got older she went through a patch of sleeping in our bed - and I still personally don't think cosleeping is for us!
Toddlers wriggle, kick, pinch, somersault, pull your hair, sing...I think we all slept worse when she was in with us!
It was easy to stop though, maybe because she didn't come in with us when she was younger - just literally put a blanket ban (pardon the pun) on it and had a couple of hard nights, then she slept fine on her own. She's just gone into her own bed and only gets out and into our bed in the mornings now.

 

[ShelbyLee]

Hi :wave: I'm Shelby and my daughter is 9 months old. We've been co-sleeping since Shiah was born an not get her to sleep in her crib at night what so ever, she has to be rocked to slleep, no just putting her to bed when she is tired. And cio didn't work for us she would just cry and cry and cry! We have to share a room w/her BC we live with OHs family and if she falls asleep usually at 830 she will wake up about 12-1 to come in bed with us. I would only co-sleep while you bf, if you plan on it. I wish I hadn't co-slept when we stopped bf. KILLS me now!!!

 

[KiwiMOM]

my mother is forcing me to breastfeed for at least a year but I think once they can sleep through the night without needing to be fed I'd prefer them to at least be in their own bed. I'm moving into a one bedroom house on my parents property though, so they won't have their own room for a while.