How long did you co-sleep for?

[Twinmumessex]

My twins are 8months old (6.5months corrected). They always go down to sleep in their own cots at about 6.30pm, dream feed at about 10.30pm and back to sleep again in their own cots. They used to wake to feed again at about 2am and then go back down, but then wake anytime from 4am for non-hunger reasons, at which time I would take them to bed with me to finish off the night co-sleeping. I'm sure if I persevered I could get them each back off and in their own cots but at 4am and with 2 babies to manage, this is the easy option and means we all get decent sleep!

In the last few weeks they have started refusing their nighttime bottle so the 2am feed has been dropped. However, they still wake anytime from 2am for unknown reasons! They are formula fed so I keep a bottle in their room to offer if I sense they are hungry (if they do drink it's barely an ounce they take), and/or I offer water in case it's thirst. Again, the easiest thing to do is to take them to bed with me as they go off to sleep pretty much immediately and I'm all about getting sleep, ha! I suspect that the reason they are waking is because they want cuddles which at the moment is fine - I figure at 8months old (technically 6mo), if you want a cuddle at 3am, I'll give you a cuddle (also a big fan of cuddles myself 😂).

BUT I also don't want to make even more of a rod for my own back than I already have done, and absolutely don't want to spend the rest of my life fully co-sleeping with them. For those of you that did co-sleep, how long did you do it for and how did you manage the transition to baby sleeping fully in his/her own bed?

Thank you

We moved both of ours at around 6 months from co sleeping. The key was for them to learn to fall asleep on their own rather than by the boob! Although I carried on feeding them in the night and we were lucky that they would generally settle back to sleep.

Both of mine were BF so waking to feed but with DD I moved her into a single bed at 16mo and coslept in that if she woke. DS has gone onto a double mattress floor bed at 12mo and I sleep with him when he wakes. I didn't particularly want to stop cosleeping with either of them but I felt this was the compromise to get our bed back and it now means they never come into us, we always go into them and then escape

We did almost exactly the same as you with our dd, she would sleep fine in her crib/cot until her night feed and from whenever that was she would come in with us. She dropped her night feed at around 9 months and between 9-12 months she would stir but not fully wake up so I would just stroke her back instead of bringing her into our bed. At 12 months she went into her own room and just slept through fine.

We have one child, ff, co-slept until 3.5. I imagine with twins it is a little trickier!

He is now 6 yo and climbs in with us during the night if he has a nightmare (once every 2 months or something), we don't notice him until morning! Miss his little warm wiggling giggleyness!

Still co-sleeping with my 10mo. I love it tbh but the plan is to night wean and get him in his own room at 12mo when I return to work. Not sure how successful we will be....!