Co-sleeping to get a lie in?

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I keep hearing how we're going to regret this and how baby has got us wrapped round his little finger etc (don't see how a baby can be manipulative but that's a whole other rant haha) so I'm just wondering if anyone does a similar thing?

6 month old DS has transitioned really well to cot in his own room. He goes to sleep between 6 and 6.30 with no issue at all. He wakes for a bottle at any point between 12 and 3, then again straight back to sleep in his cot. Then like clockwork he wakes between 5 and 5.30, not crying, not hungry or needing changing but just wide awake. No matter what we do he just won't resettle in his cot and it ends up with one of us giving up and accepting an early morning is all part of being a parent and just getting up and going downstairs with him. However not long later he's so grouchy! One morning I decided to bring him into our bed just while I came round myself and to my surprise he fell straight to sleep! The next night I just brought him straight in with no attempt to resettle in cot and he was out like a light within minutes. So we've now got in the pattern of him doing 6pm(ish) to 5am(ish) in his cot and then coming into our bed to co-sleep (safely) and he then wakes up at some point between 7am and 7.30. He's much happier for it, we're appreciating that extra bit of sleep and to be honest it's just really lovely waking up next to him! The only negative I'm finding in the whole situation is feeling judged for it! Yes I accept it might be something he gets used to but it's not like I'm going to have a fifteen year old climbing into my bed at 5am! Surely at some point he will just sleep through to 7am in his own room?

I ended up rambling longer than planned but basically just wanting to know if anyone else does this?

I've given in and co-sleep but it hasn't made a difference to how long he sleeps with multiple night wakings still. I do love the snuggles though.

OP we do this with our baby (5.5 months). She comes in with us sometimes 0430 but normally 0530 or so and falls right back to sleep. Will continue when she goes into her own room rather than wake up at dawn (pre-dawn at the moment!)

Ah I love the erly morning cuddles i get just by doing the exact same thing (comes into our bed around 5:30am). And in case you're worried, my older son has easily learnt that he can come into our bed when his alarm clock lights up, so I am sure we don't need to worry too much about 15 year olds coming in for morning cuddles every day.

It's lovely, and you miss it when it stops! Ds1 fully co slept from bout 7 weeks, them from about 6 months started the night in his cot, woke up in my bed. He was sleeping through in his own cot by 19 months. Ds2 co slept from birth, he's 3.5 now and still has a tendency to appear in my bed at some point in the early hours. It's easy enough to take him back to bed but honestly, I love the cuddles. (And I'm seperated so there's plenty of room)

Everyone told me I’d made a rod for my own back letting our ds come into our bed at 3am. He still does at 4 years old and you know what? I love it. He sleeps. We sleep. I get extra cuddles. Winning all round! Do what works for you. When they’re teenagers and no longer want to cuddle we will miss these days 😢 lap it up whilst you can and get some zzzzzs in mumma 💕 xxx