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Does anyone else still sleep in the same room?

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archiesmummy · 30/05/2007 13:35

I'm feeling a bit lonely on another thread where "everyone" seemed to have put baby in separate room almost from birth...

Surely it's not so unusual to share room for longer than weeks/months?

We started co sleeping (always shared room) at 10 months and now, at 17 months, I can't imagine putting DS in his own room. It's so nice and reassuring for all of us to share a bed.

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kittypants · 30/05/2007 13:38

we still share room but stopped cosleeping just after 13/14 months i think.

danceswithbaby · 30/05/2007 13:48

We've co-slept from birth, now 15 months. It wasn't planned, but I wouldn't have missed it for the world

Lullabyloo · 30/05/2007 13:50

I couldn't sleep if ds wasn't in the same room.
He has never had to cry in the night to wake me...& I love waking up to his chatter & snuggles.

Mindles · 30/05/2007 13:51

I wish I could co-sleep. Baby disturbs me enough as it is in the crib though, and DP is terrified of squashing poor baby.

rowan1971 · 30/05/2007 13:51

co-slept with ds1 till he was 26mo. Still co-sleeping with ds2 at 26mo, and no intention of stopping. I love it. If it's what you're happy with, don't let other people make you feel weird.

Lullabyloo · 30/05/2007 13:55

Everyone moans & me and says it's damaging ds & that he must learn to go it alone.
But he is a very confident little boy & I think as he does with every other issue...he will tell me when he wants some space.

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archiesmummy · 30/05/2007 14:11

Mindles, we were also terrified of squashing DS, that's why we didn't start co sleeping until 10 months (I fell asleep Bfing a few nights running and realised how much easier it was) but DS is not a noisy baby..

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MaMonkey · 30/05/2007 14:14

At 14 months my daughter still sleeps in a cot in our room with us.

Actually, this may be a good place to ask a question I have.

I'm quite happy to still have her sleeping in the room with us, but now, every night, having gone down happily she will wake circa 1-2am and cry until we put her in bed with us. She is a wriggly little sleeper and likes to tug on my hair while sleeping.

As a consequence I am getting no sleep and am absolutely shattered.

Does anyone have ANY idea how I might stop this habit?

FioFio · 30/05/2007 14:15

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kiskidee · 30/05/2007 14:16

me too. surprise, surprise love her beaming little face every morning. it just gets better and better even at 26 months.

kiskidee · 30/05/2007 14:18

mamonkey have you tried gently holding her hand and saying no when she tugs your hair? when she stops, praise quietly?

about wiggling can't remember too much about it. now she just tries to sleep crosswise.

Libra · 30/05/2007 14:20

DS2 didn't go into his own room until he went into a big boy bed at 3 and a half. So much less stressful to have him close to us in the night and not have to go up and down stairs to deal with him (our bedroom is downstairs).

BenHarpersBongo · 30/05/2007 14:40

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hotchocscot · 15/06/2007 23:51

ooh, so glad i found this thread, was looking for some reassurance. Our ds just over one and sleeps in cot next to our bed. Like others have said, we find it easier to comfort him from close range, he seems to go back to sleep v. quickly as we get to him fast if upset in the night, and we get back to sleep faster too i think than if we had to get up, walk through, turn on hall lights etc. And it is SO lovely to have a chirping giggling little alarm clock leaning over the cot in the morning. Don't plan to move him anytime soon but was made to feel like hippy freak at toddlers group last week when said he's still in with us. (and yes, we can have s-*-x sssshhh don't say it, without waking or i presume "traumatising" him as one mum told me i would be doing!)

TooTicky · 15/06/2007 23:57

Ds2 (5) and dd2 (nearly 2) still sleep with me

TooTicky · 15/06/2007 23:58

I believe Elvis slept with his mum until he was 13.

TheMaskedPoster · 16/06/2007 00:04

dd went into her own room at about 8 months ... it was a big thing at the time but suited us - so to speak

Flamesparrow · 16/06/2007 00:12

We did on and off until the wandering out of bed and down the stairs incident

Grooveisintheheart · 16/06/2007 00:14

dd3 moved into shared room with dd1+2 just after her second birthday.

but always wakes up in my bed, usually with at least one of the other dd's as well.

purpleduck · 16/06/2007 00:53

My dd is 5. She slept in our bed for ages, (funny, i can't remember til when!!) We eventually moved her to her own room, but she would end up in ours every night. We have only just kicked this habit -she is a nightmare to sleep with, she loves to scratch my back, and put her hand down my front. Hate it!!! Definately comiserate with mamonkey. It sometimes helped to lay down with her for a few minutes, then sneak out. Tbh, i think it was laziness on my part, it was just soo much easier!!

mojosmum · 17/06/2007 20:04

dd went into her own room at 9mnths but still sometimes sleeps with me & she is now 6 i dont see a problem in that at all

Marne · 17/06/2007 20:07

I sleep in the same room as dd2 (15 months)

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