How do co-sleepers with los under 6mo "do bedtime"?

[badguider]

Hi

Looking for ideas for "doing bedtime" from cosleepers.... I can't see how to work it without them having their own room...

All ideas welcome.. Thanks.

Not sure what you mean, do you mean getting a bedtime routine or being able to put them to sleep on their own in the bed? (Ours is pretty low so no danger of falling out).

I mean if you cosleep do your children go to bed when you do? Or earlier? If earlier where? In your bed alone? Somewhere else?
If they stay up do they nap?
Or do they have their own bed for the first hours then cosleep the rest of the night?

And probably more questions I haven't even thought of :)

before 6 months mine always stayed downstairs with me until I went to bed. once they started getting sleepier in the evenings i would feed to sleep upstairs then go back down

Ours used to stay downstairs until we went to bed I think - first asleep on one of us for the first few weeks when they were tiny, then sleeping in a crib or pushchair downstairs. Eventually they'd go to bed in our bed without us, when they seemed old enough (with lots of bed guards though!).

When very very little they would go to bed when I did, having spent the earlier part of the evening feeding or sleeping on me or in the Moses basket. When they got a bit older and into a more predictable bed time routine, they would sleep in the cot first, then whenever they woke up for a feed I would just bring them into bed with me.

Think advice has changed now to suggest keeping them in same room when sleeping while they're under 6 months - so up to 3 or 4 months DS stayed downstairs in the evening & snoozed in Moses basket. At some point he started getting too easily distracted & then I put him to bed upstairs then stayed up there & read.

DH and I took a evening each. We kept DD downstairs with us until 4 months and then we started a routine and put her upstairs in our bed. Babies shouldn't be sleeping in a room alone until they are older than 6 months.