If you cosleep or did, how long until you moved your child to a crib or their own toddler bed?
ByMy son cosleeps and just turned 1 year old. I answered a question earlier and got a ton of negatives. I never considered the cosleeping a bad thing. He isn’t stuck on it and sleeps in a crib sometimes, too, so he isn’t “spoiled”. I just like having him close and he enjoys it, too. And, no, it doesn’t prohibit my husband and I from our own private time. So, what do you think? And when did your little one stop cosleeping?
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April 11th, 2010 at 11:06 am
We let our kids move out of our bed when they are ready. Our oldest was about 3 when he decided he wanted to move out of our bed. Then we moved, and the change made him want to sleep in our bed again. He slept with us for about 4 months, and then moved out again now at 4.
Our youngest is 19 months and still sleeps in bed with us and we will let him move out when he wants to.
April 11th, 2010 at 11:24 am
Well, with my daugheter who is now 2, we almost always had her in our bed until she was 1. She was breastfed and it was just easier that way. It was a little difficult at first getting her to sleep through the night in her own bed but I wouldn’t go back & change a thing. She now falls asleep easily & rarely wakes up. I’m glad I had her so close to me for so long. She’s only a baby for a short time and I cherished that. Might get some negative responses to this but it worked just fine for us. Good luck to you!
April 11th, 2010 at 11:59 am
Just for the record I am not for or against cosleeping, for myself no I will not do it. I am a VERY light sleeper and had to cosleep with my b/f’s daughter the other night b/c he had gotten called out, I was awake all hours of the night and hearing her talk in her sleep just didn’t help me sleep much. I don’t think this has anything to do with a child being spoiled plus, it will be easier for the child to change into the “new” than the parent. His daughter will usually go from wanting to be in her bed to her daddy’s bed, just depends on the day. And I will agree with you there is many other rooms in the house, use one of them for your private time. Little girl has just turned 3 and probably will cosleep until about 5 (that’s as long as I’m seeing him let her sleep with him(she’s a rough sleeper))
April 11th, 2010 at 12:58 pm
My kids were put into toddler beds when they kept jumping over the side of the crib lol they thought they were big kids moving into their new beds I bought them all the sheets sets of their favorite things and that made them want to sleep in it, there is nothing wrong with sleeping with your child as long as their not like 14 years old lol
April 11th, 2010 at 1:49 pm
My daughter coslept with me off and on, mostly on, until she was 4-1/2. I wanted her to get used to sleeping in her own bed before she started school and it was getting very uncomfortable for me sleeping in the middle every night. I had to sleep in the middle because once they hit that age they are about the perfect height to really cause some pain to your husband if kicked in the right spot during sleep!
April 11th, 2010 at 2:21 pm
my daughter moved to her own room when she was a month away from 3 i may have waited to long but she and i were by ourselves all by our self for awhile like 2 1/2 years…………it did however was a shorter transition than i had thought…….took about one night
April 11th, 2010 at 2:29 pm
Mine is 3 and still sleeps with us. He has his own bed but we don’t force him to sleep in it; on the rare occasions that we put him in his bed, he comes out and crawls back to us in the middle of the night we let him stay with us. The arrangement is going to be tricky now because we have another baby coming soon. We bought a co-sleeper bassinet and I hope it works out ok.