anyone moved a previously cosleeping 2YO into their own room successfully?!

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DD turned 2 at the end of September and we have coslept pretty much every night from the day she was born. It previously worked well but for the past few weeks it's seemed as if my presence is waking her up, and she is definitely waking me up!

So I'm thinking about moving her into her own room, but all the stuff I've read about cosleeping seems to talk about either moving them into their own room when they are around 12months old, or letting them move on their own when they decide, which seems to be between 3/4. Not sure if I've 'missed the window' and am now going to have to ride it out for another couple of years.

If you successfully moved a previously cosleeping toddler into their own room, how did you do it and has it stuck?

We did it! Moved DD just after her 2nd birthday and made a big deal of "big girl bed". Did gradual retreat to get her off to sleep, and then any pre-2am wake-up were dealt with by DH. After 2am I went in and she asked for BF. From 2y3m she slept through.

It was a wrench but we all sleep better, I get to be alone with DH, and the nights she cones in with me (eg if she is poorly) are that much sweeter.

Good luck!

We ended up buying a double bed for my daughter’s room. She goes to bed in there (unfortunately we still have to cuddle her to sleep and then sneak out) and if she wakes up in the night and won’t settle one of us goes and gets into bed with her. Not ideal, but at least my partner and I get to go to bed together in our own bed each night without company from a little person.

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Yes me 3 weeks ago! Dc4 who was 2 in August has co slept since he was born and he was getting to the stage were he was not sleeeping well with me anymore. I moved him into a bunkbed with his brother, i honestly thought it was going to be dreadful but he has utterly surprised me, i sit at the end of the bed till hes asleep and he has only woken once and come through to me, I did take him back and wait till he fell asleep again and hes stayed put ever since. I think i caught him at a perfect time, any earlier and it would have been a disaster.

We’ve just done this with DD who is nearly 2.
We got a single bed with a guard on the side, its also got another single bed underneath so we’ve just gradually gone from co sleeping in our bed to me and her in a single (not so much sleep for me !) then I moved onto the pull out bed, now she sleeps in her room on her own.
She still occasionally calls out for me in the night but I usually go in and give her a cuddle and she settles again.

Us too! Moved DD when she was 2 years 3 months. Like Chinese Fireball, we made a big deal of it being her own room. Bought a new duvet set, lamp and a few other things to make the room hers. Had a few weeks where some nights she'd sleep through, others she'd want to come into our bed, but she's now doing the full night in her bed and sleeping through. We also did a reward chart thing if she managed to stay in her own bed all night.

Honestly, I thought we'd never crack the co sleeping thing and she'd be in with us forever @

Thanks everyone, you have given me hope! I was considering gradual withdrawal but wasn't sure it if would work with a toddler due, glad to hear some success stories with this though.

Will try the 'big fuss' approach, combined with GW and some weird audio book about a bunny rabbit that someone mentioned on a thread here recently - all bases covered!