How old were your kids when you could stay in your own bed undisturbed all night?

[CapaldiL]

I'm not asking when your DC slept through as I know children aged five who still don't and it's just depressing. However- I try to console myself with the thought that if a five year old wakes they are self sufficient enough not to scream for their parents in the night? (Maybe.)

How old were your kids when you could go to bed, stay in your own bed and not need to get out until the morning?

My DD is 4 and I couldn’t have written your post better myself. She climbs into bed with me most nights. The only times she’ll sleep in her own bed is if she’s absolutely shattered.

Do you really want to know???
11 and 9..
But they are also now capable of letting us lie in until around 10 at the weekend now, which is a delight!

Around 2.5. DS was an atrocious sleeper as a baby but was fantastic from 2.5ish and rarely needed night attention.
I do feel your pain
We co-slept until he was about 1.5 as it was the only way to get any decent sleep.

DS1 is 7 and sound asleep next to me

Well dd is 2 yrs 8 months and I thought she had got there! A solid 2 weeks of blissful going to bed and settling herself back to sleep if she woke up. Then just as I got used to it - bam - called for me twice in the night last night. I felt more tired today because I’m now not in the routine of waking up in the night! Oh well, I will take those blissful two weeks and hope for a full night in my own bed tonight! I’m about to ruin my sleep again by having another baby anyway!!

Well.... 9, but still comes in for a snuggle at six..

First child = 6 months

Second child = 9 months

He is 12 will let you know when it happens [.

First child - 6 months (and oh how I thought I'd nailed parenting!)

Second child - still waiting, she's 5 🤦🏻‍♀️

Still waiting at 7, nearly 8 years....

After we finished sleep training DS, when he was about 12 months old, he would sleep from bedtime until 5am ish but wouldn't then go back to sleep unless we brought him into bed with us or held him while he slept. He didn't sleep through from bedtime to morning (6.30am or later) without parental intervention until we introduced a gro clock, when he was about 19 months old. Best £20 I ever spent!

Obviously there have been nights since then when he has woken up and needed us in the night (illness and various phases of being anxious etc) but in general we've been enjoying our sleep.

DC2 on the way so we will enjoy it while it lasts

Mine are 10 and 8 and it’s still not guaranteed but we have a big bed and as long as they don’t wriggle they are allowed to sneak in.

I can do that now and DC are 4 and 16mo. First was horrific and up twenty million times a night until around 3 when she nailed it. Or we got tougher on it due to new baby. Probably that actually. And we were so traumatised by our experiences with DD1 that we sleep trained DD2 (you couldn’t have paid me to do that with DD1 but my ideals died alongside my mental well-being) at 10m and she’s slept beautifully ever since. Is partial to waking at 6am which I grumble about but really our situation is very good now.

Erm.....7.....but she gets into bed with us whilst we’re still sleeping and just snuggles down. Much more preferable than having to haul myself out of bed at 1am to carry a child back.

Mine are 4 and 6 and still they still come into us... i Iove it though to be honest!! We do have a super king bed though so I don’t really know they are there until I wake up 🤣🤣

Mine were 3 & 5, they were both absolutely dreadful until that age and I was up anything up to 10 times a night.

They both just grew out of it and now at 6 & 8 they are absolutely amazing and have been for a good couple of years.

I did work out that I didn't have even one full night's sleep for just over 5 years, so I've done my time!

We still have the odd nightmare or illness related wake up at 5 & 8 and n.i they aren't self sufficient enough sometimes to not need me to get up.

However that's not the norm for us and I've been able to stay in my bed all night fairly reliably from before the 12 month mark with both.

About 18 months for both of them. Unless ill.

4.5 year old has just started doing it in the last month or so.

Hang in there!

Think it all calmed down when eldest was 10 and twins were nearly 8.... to be fair eldest was mostly staying in own bed from aged 4, but twins were playing at musical beds for what felt like an eternity, one more so than the other....

DD is 7 and wakes often. And she shouts for us, more specifically me. Occasionally she will come and get me, but I still have to go to her room to settle her.

As soon as they were in beds rather than a cot they came into us so I haven't had to get up since DD2 was about 2. But I can count on one hand the number of nights they have both stayed in their own beds (6yo and 4yo)

Ds is 7 and I only need to get up to him in the night if he’s poorly (so rarely). It’s been like this since he was about 4 or 5. Dd is 4 and very occasionally has a bad dream and cries/calls out for us in the night. This maybe happens every couple of months (definitely no more than once a month).

1st child stopped bedsharing at 6 and then never came in again.
2nd child stopped bedsharing at 6 and still sometimes comes in.
3 yo 3rd child still bedshares and needs.cuddling back to sleep once or twice a night.

DD1 about 5 generally and 8 perhaps when she never woke us and goes down to the loo/ get a drink etc on her own. Still has a bad dream or illness a couple of times a year. DD2 is nearly 3 and still wakes multiple times a night because she's lost teddy or needs a wee or is thirsty or had a bad dream or feels saaaadddd. Could be a while yet I feel...