Co-sleeping- at what age did you stop and how did you do it?

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Currently co-sleeping with 10 wk old, not through any attachment parenting-style lifestyle choice but because it is(apart from being rather lovely) the way to get most quality sleepwhile BF ing. DH is not in with us as he's a smoker and it's a bit tight for space. So, I'm not wanting to be still co-sleeping when DS3 is 2 or something like that. I think we could aim for stopping between 6-9 months. Did gina ford with other 2 DS's so have no idea how to change current situ. Is it totally unrealistic to try to end co-sleeping at that stage? Should I just bite the bullet now, rather than prolOng it if I'm not in it for the long haul? Any tips/advice/opinions greatly appreciated.

For what it's worth, my thinking has always been that you should change situations when they stop working for you, not before. If co-sleeping is working now, then fine. It's a godsend when breastfeeding and far more likely that you will all get some sleep. You will need to be feeding in the night for a while yet (I would guess) so you may as well make it easier for yourself.

I co-slept until DS2 was about 14 months. Luckily we had an enormous bed so DH wasn't kicked out. However it got to the point where DS2 was fidgety and restless and neither of us were really getting much sleep any more so he was booted out. Did take about a week or two of him protesting but was not traumatic and he was old enough to know that he wasn't hungry or really devastated