Co sleeping hopeful stories?...

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Any parents out there who co-slept and their children now sleep well? Nervous I’ll be co sleeping/having child sleeping on me for years

My current situation is DS 21 months. He slept pretty well until 4 month sleep regression, after about 6 months started co sleeping which was a game changer and saved my (+ DHs) sanity at the time. It has continued and sleep is on and off ok when I’m there. But DS always starts off in bed on his own and then I either settle him a few times or he joins me on the sofa asleep on me while I watch TV, or if I am really tired I just go to bed early.

When I end up going to bed alongside him he sometimes sleeps really well or he needs resettling, depending on growth spurts etc. I work full time but still BF at night and to get him to sleep.

Just looking for hopeful stories that this will all be ok in a year or 2… thanks!

My daughter was the exact same. Just before her second birthday (after the birth of her little sister) she started sleeping through the night in her bed in our room. Now she is nearly three and sleep in her own room and sleeps through 80% of the time. Now I have a one year old in my bed but we will work on that when I feel she is ready.

It'll be fine - youre not making a rod! Gotta do whatcha gotta do to survive and sleep, especially working full time.

Little one (3.5) went to sleep on her own, in her own room, in her own bed from around 3 and happily has - and slept through 9/10 nights - since.

As hard as it is, and you're in the trenches, it does get easier and believe me you'll miss the cuddles x

Coslept with both from birth, both slept through in their cot on their own initiative at some point, the first at 11 months and the second at 22 months.
I think it only works if you don’t feed to sleep though. You don’t mention whether you do.

It will be ok. do what you need to do. I co slept with mine on and off for years. Now he is a confident happy pre teen and we have a wonderful bond

Co-slept with all of mine as it was the only way they'd sleep. They all went solo and are happy adults who sleep well.

Yes both mine (tweens) are great sleepers now and slept in with me for a couple of years.

Dd co-slept until she was 10, now won't even sit on my bed let alone get in it. She was absolutely fine sleeping over at her dad's, grandparents or friends but at home wanted me although she always had her own bed to sleep in etc.

I'm a single parent, and just wore headphones to watch TV on a tablet and benefited from an early night myself. Turns out DD is autistic so looking back I'm glad I didn't force the issue and actually miss those nights.

I coslept with my daughter until 2.5 (wasn't the plan!)
We got a sleep coach involved and she started sleeping through and on her own within a month very reliably. It's definitely possible but, for us, we had to make (gentle) changes to get there - naps, bedtime routine and how she was falling to sleep were the main things - otherwise I think we would still be cosleeping now.

Thank you for your messages so far ❤️

I still BF to sleep

If I bring DS to the sofa while we watch TV he will sleep soundly

Currently cosleeping every night with baby number 3 who is 8 months old. Number 1 & 2 both sleep through every night without fail, coslept with 1 until she was 2, it was tricky for her to learn to fall asleep by herself but she was mad for the boob until she was 4 (she's now 6) and I was going through hell cosleeping with 2 when he was 18 months and one night had enough and moved his cot out of the bedroom. First night in own room he cried once and was quickly resettled and has slept through every night since, he's now 3. It's all just phases and now I know that I am getting more rest having finally given into cosleeping and not trying to constantly resettle them in own beds.