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 😊

Mine was in a cot in my room until some point between 8 and 9 months old. I then moved into her room with her (we have a small double bed in there) and have been in there most nights until recently. We would have a good week or 2 then she would get ill/teething/developmental leap and like you said, it's so much easier to be in the same room if they wake frequently.

She is now coming upto 14 months and I have managed to stay in my room all night for 2 weeks and counting - desperately hoping it lasts this time!

blue2014

That's lovely.

I don't get the rush, the imperative to get children sleeping in their own beds and rooms. There is almost a fear that if we waste time forcing the separation we will be sharing a bed with out 27 year old bearded sons.
Sharing sleep with children is a global practice. Humans have done this for eons.

It is a relatively new fad and localised to Western culture to have babies and toddlers in separate rooms.

In fact we are the odd ones.

My eldest when he was about 2 and my youngest at about 2.5.

Do what works for you as a family not what society tells you to do - our culture is often wrong when it comes to baby stuff anyway. (Wrong as in our cultural norms go against both mothers' instincts and against what science tells us is best).

DS is 14mo and I have no plans to move him any time soon! I can't imagine him being in a different room.

My son is 11 months and still in our room. I love it! His big crib is on my side of the bed and it's a tight squeeze!

Though we are thinking to move him into his own room this week. He's been sleeping so badly we just want to try and see if it actually helps. I suspect he might know I'm there so wakes up as then he can crawl in bed and snuggle up with me.

Personally I don't really mind.

We only moved ds at 16 months because we were putting him in his toddler bed asap. I wasn't ready for it even then.

16 months here with no plans to move yet! Until recently he was sometimes waking every hour, still wakes every 2. I'm not getting out of bed and traipsing next door every time to settle him!

DS1 went into his own room easily at 7m old but was a good sleeper.

DS2 was still in with me until he was 3! He was a terrible sleeper though. Every time I tried to move him he got even worse and I got even less sleep, so I just got on with what worked for me and him. Plus he shares with DS1 so I didn't want DS1 being woken several times a night either. Eventually he was happy to move into new bunk beds in with his brother and has been fine since (though he does still creep through and climb in with me approx once a week but at least he goes straight to sleep when he does).

I was single throughout though - I imagine i may have been much trickier having him in with me for so long if I hadn't split with my ex, as he was very much of the babies should be in their own room by 6m school of thought.

Our DD 22 months still shares a room with us .... as does DS who's 5 weeks old.

DD still wakes during the night (colds / teething / unsettled due to DS's arrival) so don't see the point in moving her to another room until her sleeping has settled down again & don't want her to feel kicked out due to DS's arrival.

10 months and 16 months for my two dc

The 3 and a half year old still bed shares with us. Still breastfeeds at night too. We moved the eldest to his one room at 3 but he still gets into our bed every night aged 8.

What ever works for you and your family

And at 3.5 she’s starting to talk about wanting her own room so we will get that sorted. Not to sleep in (she is clear she wants to be with both parents at night). but just as her space.

Good sleepers here so didn't want to upset anything. Each in our room until around a year.

I rested easier with them close by (not that we live in a mansion but noise I would have been up and out of bed to check).

Yep till he was 3.

Ah thanks for all the replies! So nice to read all the comments about how your Little Ones are still in with you for various reasons it's way more common than I thought!
We moved his cot bed up into our room yesterday and its great plenty of room still and DS js close by 😊 x