Anyone kept baby in their room longer than 6 Months?

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LO room is on a different floor to our bedroom and at the moment our 6 month old is still waking during the night for a bottle and most recently due to teething and colds and coughs 😩
We have the space to put his big cot in our bedroom so are considering doing that for a while at least until he is sleeping through consistently as going up and down every half hour all night to him in his own room is already making me feel exhausted 😂🙈
Anyone else done this? Any advice?
Thanks 😊

My parents kept me and my siblings in their room until we were twelve months old.
My daughter was twelve months when she went in her own room.
My son is five years old and refuses to entertain the idea of sleeping in his own room. He gave his room to the cat. The cat loves it.

We chop and change depending on how well the children are sleeping. DS2 (8mo) is in our room but sometimes I sleep in the spare bedroom at the start of the night if he's sleeping soundly when I go to bed and I don't want to disturb him. Sometimes he co-sleeps in our bed most of the night. I need DS1 to vacate the nursery before DS2 can have a room of his own!

Yes, till they were 4 years old or so, we had four of us in a big family bed for years. Gradual transitions, and lots of bed hopping for years.
None of us have ever been short of sleep.
No bedtime tantrums,
No tears
No sleep training.
We all slept like a pile of puppies and the transitions were easy and relaxed.

No regrets

My dad was 18 months before he got his own room. There was nowhere else for him to go!

My father grew up in a two bedroomed house- there were nine of them.

7 months and still with us in his cotbed with side off pushed next to our bed. I’ve considered moving him but he still wakes 1-2 times.

Mine were all in my room until aged 4. It was cosy and felt safe and happy .

Bed sharing with my little ones are some of my happiest memories.
little warm toes, eyes fast asleep, secure and warm in their slumber,moonlight coming in the window,
Sometimes I would just lie and gaze on such a beautiful sight , just to fix it forever in my memory.

My youngest is 17. Sometimes if the boys are away she will suggest a bunk up night, I bring hot chocolate and we watch a movie in bed then sleep.
Or on a cold morning if OH is away she will make us a coffee and jump into my bed for half an hour to warm her cold feet on my legs.

It's all good.

My baby is 7mo and everyone gets much more sleep when he's in bed with us (and so his cot-bed is side-carred at the moment)

4 years and we all love it.

DS was in his own room (next door to ours) until he was 6 months - he slept fine. DD was in and out of ours (usually ending up co-sleeping) until she was 2.5.

Whatever gets you the most sleep!

Still in our room at 2 years old. No choice though.

Just turned 12 months and still in with us. She sleeps in her cot next to our bed. We aim to move her into her own room in the new year. No rush on it though. She sleeps, we sleep and that's the most important thing. Plus it's nice waking up to her little smiling face.

DS 1 was in my room until he was 18 months, ds 2 was in our room until he was 3 (he had his own room but always ended up coming in with us at some point in the night).
DS 3 had a cot then junior bed in our room until he was 2.
I’m not a fan of getting up out of bed in the middle of the night to settle an upset baby/toddler. I much preferred to have them in our room so I could settle them quickly and get back to sleep without too much fuss.

DD was 2.5 when she got her own room. We co-slept the whole time.

She still comes in now with me about 5 times a week.

We put my son in his cot at 6 months and room by 8 months - he actually slept worse around us - he was a good sleeper and I am a light sleeper so I often disturbed him. We had an Angelcare monitor and if not for that I'd have probably kept him in with us longer but I wasn't sleeping and neither was he.

It's all a matter of how your baby is and how you sleep. I'm an awful sleeper so any noise or cough made me wake. I was running on empty and had PND.

Why did you move your baby out op? Is it something you wanted to do or did you feel pressured by other people/society.

Loads keep babies/little kids in with them, sometimes for years. It's just not fashionable to admit it.

Baby is 8 months and in with us, because I'm lazy, and I like having her near.

Dd1 many years ago was in with us till she was two, no choice because we had a one bed flat.

18 months and counting

Oh @speakout - your post was beautiful and made me cry I watch DS sometimes too

DS and I share a bed, he's one.

DD 18 months and still in our room and often in our bed from around 4am when she wakes up for a bf.

Dc1 was in my room for 12 months until DC2 arrived.

Dc2 was 6 months as we moved house so thought it was the best time.

DC3 was about 15/16 months and only because we woke her up whenever we got into bed.

We were in a similar position to you OP, DS' room is the floor below ours. He stayed in with us until about 9 months and then we moved him.

He was night weaned by that point and I had just stopped BF.

Part of our reason for moving him out was that DP used to wake him up when he came up to bed (unintentionally!) and we thought he'd sleep better with no interruptions (and he does - or at least did until the last couple of weeks)

I want remember exactly when we moved d's to his own room...but he was definitely at school!!

Different scenario though as he had severe health issues. He was also.tiny so.still in a cot bed.

DH and I occasionally spent time in the spare room before returning to our own room

Going to move 17mo DD into her own room next week...