Any Co-Sleepers Tried A Version of CC??

[Highlander]

DS starts the night in his own bed, but usually ends up in ours about midnight. I BF him to sleep, including during the night. Sometimes he sits up, wails then settles himself again. I feel he's showing signs that he's ready to do without my boob!

DH has week off work soon (DS will be nearly 18mo) and I want him to "train" DS (I'm too weak). I think we'll do it in our bed and see how things go. I'll sleep in the spare room for the first couple of nights.

Does anyone have any tips? I'm dreading this, but I'm pregnant and I'm too exahausted to keep waking up in the night!

Will watch with interest. Not exactly co-sleeping but room sharing (with no alternative) and still breastfeeding. Partner got a sleep book from the Millpond Clinic (found it on Amazon). Theories all sound fine and dandy until you realise you don't fit any of the scenarios exactly...

tinker, we won't be starting for another 2 weeks yet, but will keep you posted. Any tips from the book?

highlander - the book is full of teh usual guff - a baby doesn't need night feeds after 6 months old (ha!) since they get all their nutritional needs in the day (fine if you've got one of those babies who "eats everything". Mine does, just not vast quantities), make sure they have regular daytime naps of x hours in total (impossible when you're at work and childminder has other kids to deal with as well), should get all tehir milk during day (again, difficult if still breastfeeding and working and baby won't take ebm)

If you have none of teh above problems, could work. Theories all seem logical but don't seem to take into account the mother working.

must admit, I don't get the prescriptive X hours of napping/day. DS can vary between 1 hour and 3 hours and it makes not one jot of difference to his sleep. yesterday he had a 3 hour nap and slept pretty well last night (7:30pm - 6am, only woke every 2.5 hours).