co-sleepers. At what age did you move your little ones into their own rooms, and why that age?

[LittleMissBliss]

I've posted on advice before on how to create a smooth transaction from your bed to their own. Without much luck.

I tried for a week (maybe less) to get 6m ds into his own room. Resulting in a distressed grumpy ds. And an extremley tired me as ds is still only going around 3 hours at the most between bfeeds. I can cope when he's in my bed. But getting up actually broke me (mentally), I became an uber stressy, snappy cow....poor dp. Resulting in me just having ds back in bed. I don't mind this at all but miss dp in our bed too, it's far too cramped with 3 in a bed. I also think i may be waking ds as i'm a fidged in bed resulting in comfort eating.

I would just like to know what ages you moved your Lo and why you waited, or didn't thankyou.

Have just moved 2 1/2 and nearly 4 year old in to their own beds in our room. Stopped bf-ing youngest and thought it would be a good time for them both to be grown up. (We were either 4 in a bed or daddy in the spare room up until then....). It really helped doing it together - and they sleep right next door to each other.Would put them in own room but now au pair is in it. Neither of mine would have done it at 6 months without some serious crying/waking/etc.

Ps am new to mumsnet and haven't got a clue what all the ds, dp, etc stuff means.....help?

Altho ds (dear son) had a cot bed in his own room we ended up buying abedside cot so we could all fot into bed! Ds is still in there at 22 months.

My friends dd (dear daughter) moved from bedside cot to a bed in her parents room at 2.5 and will go into her own room soon as her sister did at 3 ish in theory. she waited till they were ready.

To be honest i just like my sleep and a happy ds so I'm not rushing it as you can probably tell!

My daughter went into her own bed when she was about two-and-a-half but we would move her back in with us (at her request), when we went up to bed.

By the time she was three she was sleeping in her own bed most of the time, but pottering back into ours if she wanted.

Like onelittlelion we liked unbroken sleep and a happy child.

I'd buy a bigger bed if I were you.

What do you do you all do when no 2 comes along? Presumably the crying for regular feeds would wake up DC1? And you'd need a HUGE bed!

aruond 3 years

I think there is less crying when newborn is in bed with you because they don't have to wait for you to wake up! My eldest ds slept through any crying and if youngest screamed I got up and walked him round away from the bedroom.

If you've got room it might be an idea to buy a spare single bed to go next to your double bed. Then when they are ready you can move the bed and the child into own room.........

The great thing that we've found with co-sleeping is there is no crying. But as soon as i tried to moved ds the crying started, which i found really hard. I dont think i could leave ds in our bed past 2yrs as we are planning to try for number 2 at christmas.

DS has just turned 2 and is in a bed in our room some of the time the rest in with me and am now thinking about putting him and dd in a room together. DD went in her own room on and off from just before 2 and was half and half right up until ds was born and she stopped coming in herself.
The thing about this is that you have to do what is right for your family, dd was a bit younger but she did have a cot in our room before she went into her own and shared her time but she liked her own space, ds would love to stay with me all the time but I am feeling the need for a bit more space now dh is working away from home and I get much less of it now I am on my ownmost of the time.
Do what works for you, you will find a way to muddle through and get it done.