For those who co-slept in the early days...

[Chunkamatic]

... how, and when, did you eventually move them to their own cot/basket etc?

DS2 is 6 weeks and he's been sleeping with me from the 1st week in order that we all get some sleep. I don't really want to continue co-sleeping as a long term thing though, and he has a lovely amby nest waiting at the side of the bed for him!

Just wondering when would be a better time to make the transition before he gets too used to sleeping with/on me!

I'm not there yet but you could try feeding/cuddling etc till nearly asleep and then putting in Amby. I found bouncing the Amby very gently also helped. Now I just need to take myown advice and stop falling asleep while feeding!

Well given that they should never been alone in a room without someone there, it doesn't really make much difference whether they are in their own bed or yours at this stage does it?

I suppose when they reach 6 months or so and you might want to put them to bed before you will be the time to aim for the transition!?

about 2 and a bit when they moved into their own room

still cosleep once I go to bed htough

i co-slept with DD2 all the time until she was 10 weeks. then i moved her into her cot, and i slept on a mattress on the floor until last week;she is 7 1/2 mo! right up until then, she usually ended up in with me from about 2a.m, was easier for feeding and i loved the snuggling! this week, she has come in with us most mornings for the final hour or so of sleep.
bizarrely, i miss those early days when it was just me and her

I've been co sleeping with my 11 week old. I was quite suprised at the negative response I get from alot of other people when I tell them she's in with us - you'd think I was telling them the baby slept with the dog! As a first time mum, with little clue as to what I'm doing, I'm a bit concerned at how I am going to get her into her own bed, and when is the best time to do it?

DD slept with me until she was 4 months old and it was making her more wakeful

initially it was brilliant at getting me more sleep

she always napped in her basket or cot so it wasn't a huge leap to get her to go to bed there (which she did when she stopped cluster feeding)

i loved co-sleeping and am really pleased i did it

I kind of co-slept with dd2 and then ds- they started off in their moses basket/ cot, then often came in during the night, stayed for a bit, then went back (or not) if I woke up later. They both went into their own cots at 6mths, their own room at about a year, and I had absolutely no bother getting them to sleep in their own bed, contrary to what other people had warned me!

With dd1 I took the warnings to heart, nearly killed myself sitting up trying to stay awake to feed her, then sitting by her cot holding her hand until I lost the will to live! She was by far the worst sleeper of the three, and I wish I'd been more relaxed with her too!

Coslept with DD1 till 7 months(dates hazy,no sleep or concept of time, but she was in nappies and definitely very short), then put her in cot at end of bed.

DD2 was utterly different, hated people from day one and refused to cosleep if she wasn't actually feeding all the way through it.

I think DD was about 3 or 4 months in with us then gradually I would put her in her cot, which was next to the bed between feeds as being in with us was keeping her awake too, and back in with us first thing in the morning. The cot stayed in our room until she was about 14 months but she started waking more often for feeds which she didn't actually need and the disturbed sleep was killing me - once she moved into her own room, we were prepared for lots of fuss - which never happened - and within 2 nights she was sleeping through!

Dont get me wrong I do really enjoy it - who wouldn't all those lovely snuggles just for me!

Tummytime that is how we got to this stage - that crazy whoosh of sleepy hormones meant we were falling asleep on each other whilst feeding and I figured I should just organise myself to at least do it safely. Am hopeful that the amby will be an easy transition when we do make it!

DD is 10 weeks and we're trying to ease her into her cot. It's not easy as we've co-slept since day 1 and she hates being in the cot. I've heard that habits are easier to break/make before 12 weeks, so around then might be a good time, but there are probably loads of MNerswhose DCs made their own way into separate beds when they were older.

TBH, I really don't want her to go into her cot, I love having her snuggled beside me as I feel like it's special time for the two of us - especially since having to stop BF - but DH is adamant that she needs to be by herself, so we've been feeding her to sleep while in the cot. I sneakily bring her into bed after she wakes for her first feed, though

I'm approaching it with the attitude that I can always break the habit later on, with three or four days of hard work. Until then, I want to enjoy my gorgeous, snuggly little baby.

About 12 weeks. It actually wasn't that difficult to move him into the moses basket then.

DS is 18 months. I don't think it's necessarily a cut off between co-sleeping and not so I will give you a rundown of how he has slept from birth until now!

Birth: Slept cuddled up next to me in bed at night, slept on my lap for naps
2 months: Started the night in a 3-sided cot attached to our bed. Used to scoot him over next to me when he wanted feeding, he would usually stay next to me until morning. For naps he slept on me or on the sofa next to me (I would sit down and MN etc)
7-8 months: Started putting him to bed in our bed or 3-sided cot (feeding to sleep) and coming downstairs once he was asleep. I would sometimes feed/rock him to sleep downstairs in a rocking chair, or push him in his buggy until he fell asleep, then would transfer him upstairs and feed him back to sleep. Naps mainly in the pushchair, sometimes in bed.
10 months: I used the "Pantley Pull Off" technique to try and stop him being dependent on the breast to fall asleep. Result - he now feeds, then rolls over when he is finished and falls asleep. Naps mainly in the pushchair.
12 months: He rolls away from me when asleep and sleeps away from me in the bed now, will not cuddle up. He would still wake every 2-3 hours until I came up to bed though. Naps mainly in pushchair.
18 months: He still feeds to sleep, however he doesn't want to cuddle up once asleep, and will go 4 hours + without me there, sometimes all night, in fact he doesn't even wake up when I go up to bed some nights. Naps in pushchair. I am thinking of getting him his own bed now.

HTH

Stopped complete cosleeping at about 6 weeks when we put him into his grobag for the first time. It seemed to make him warm and secure enough to sleep in his moses basket. Have found some cosleeping useful for those nights when he won't settle after a feed, wakes up early, is ill etc.

A combination of Peke Moe sleeping sack and Cocoonababy baby nest made the transition out of our bed relatively painless at 8 weeks/4 weeks corrected for DD. She usually feeds until drowsy then goes down fairly quickly. Still sleeps in a sidecar arrangement within arm's reach of me.

DD co-slept with on us from when she was born and it was at about 4 months that we started trying to get her into her own bed as she started waking a bit more.

We had always tried to get her to nap in her Moses basket so she was used to it. At about 4 months we started trying to get her to sleep in it from her bedtime until we went to bed or she woke up and gradually the period before she would wake up got longer so she spends more of the night in her own bed.

If she is having a bad night then she just comes in wih us, but if she wakes in the night I try to put her in her own bed unless she really won't settle.

We co-slept til DD2 was 5 months old, I think, when she started to roll. It was utter bliss and I'm so glad we did it. She went into her cot next to the bed, but still woke up to feed every two hours so at 6 months put her in teh room next door and she went down to feeding 2 x a night. At 11 months she's feeding 1 x a night.
I thought it'd be really hard to get her into the cot, but she was fine. I, on the other hand, found it quite hard!

I shunted ds2 out when he was about 7 months old and rolling around like a sausage. Didn't cause any issues.

Ds2 is 30 months old, and been in his own room since he was 1, but he still finds his way back into my bed most nights...

I was very anti baby-in-bed with ds, less so with dd1 (I'd be feeding her at 3am, it'd be daylight in an hour, seemed daft to spend that hour trying to settle her in her cot), & completely relaxed about co-sleeping with dd2.

She'd fall asleep feeding, I'd doze off next to her - it was lovely.

After 4 months or so she wasn't waking in the night, so dh would come up to bed later & gently lift her into the cot.

No difference between the three in terms of settling into cots/beds when older. If anything, dd2 is the most relaxed about sleeping in whatever bed she's offered!

If I had it to do again, I'd co-sleep every time.