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If you were co-sleeping at 6m+, how did it end?

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Dresswithpockets · 23/06/2023 21:25

My ds is 9 months and since he was about 6 months we have been co-sleeping, initially the odd night in our bed, then more consistently for part of every night (after he moved into his own room), and now I basically go to bed at his first wake (he wakes every 1-3hrs most nights) in his room which also has a bed in and he sleeps in with just me. It has been the way to maximise the most sleep for us all as a family in the short term but I the more mobile he is, the less comfortable I feel and I don't sleep that well with him.

How/when did co-sleeping stop for you if you were still doing it 6m+?

Fwiw, he is breastfed. He isn't fed to sleep at the start of the night but does have a shh/pat etc after bedtime story. He is often fed back to sleep. We tried sleep training once and I couldn't hack it at the time but also think the timing wasn't right - he was just on the cusp of crawling and loads of other development stuff and there was just too much going on and more upset for him being left than I could stomach, so we stopped on the first night. He has never really slept longer than 3hr stretches and was in a next to me before he got too big and was moved into cot in different room.

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Gabby10 · 24/06/2023 07:07

Will be slightly different as my DD isn't BF but she's 16mo and just starting sleeping all night in her own bed. She still wakes during the night but now wants to give her milk to herself so I will pass her the milk and she will have it and go back to sleep. Could you start putting him back in his bed after the fed? That's how I started with DD and it's slowly got to the point where she will just have her milk in her bed. Don't get me wrong it's not 100% worked yet, for example she got in with me from 2am this morning but that's the first time in a week.

gogomoto · 24/06/2023 07:32

Umm don't ask! Bought a bed for dd one about 18 months which helped as she liked tucking down in it and having stories, she then usually fell asleep listening to music, she would trot in around 2am and climb into bed with us. Once her sister arrived though she quickly stopped as there wasn't much space.

Her sister however was 7 or 8 before she stopped coming in completely (it lessened from about 5)

Emmamoo89 · 24/06/2023 08:34

Ducksurprise · 23/06/2023 23:02

So often you read about adults that don't sleep well without their DP/DH/DW. Only modern society has forced children into their own rooms.

I sleep perfectly fine without my partner 🤣 always been a good sleeper. Happy sleep alone but doesn't mean I don't love sleeping with my partner.

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