Hey,
So I'm a first time mum and my DD is 9 months in a week. She first started sleeping through the night at 4 months but never really self soothed, she would periodically wake up and I'd have to give her the dummy and she would go back to sleep.
At 5 months she would go through some sort of leap / regression where putting her to bed was an hour long nightmare of rocking / putting in the cot / baby wide awake as soon as her back touched the mattress and repeat.
At 6 months we've had enough of hours on end screaming and so she would come to bed with us and watch some telly and she would naturally fall asleep and we would put her back in the cot sleeping. Worked like a dream so we continued until this monkey would no longer go back in the cot and we started co-sleeping as there was just no way of putting her back.
For context, we are awaiting our new house to be built and we currently live with parents which means we share a bedroom with our DD and controlled crying wasn't really fair on everyone else so we didn't do this at first.
How on earth do we stop co-sleeping?! It was okay at first as we were kidding ourselves that it would pass but now it seems like there is no way back and it's sort of affecting us as a couple as well as my poor back haha!
Any advice would be super helpful!!