How do u co-sleeping Mummys do your night routine?

[Sarahandprincess]

Hi Ladies,

I have a 15 month old co-sleeping queen in bed with us at night. She falls alseep around 7-7:30pm breastfeeding on my lap while I am watching TV and I usually sit there with her till I head off to bed, yep I go to bed pretty early (9pm) lol.

I would pop her into bed but I worry she will just get up and crawl off it if she wakes... as you can imagine, this type of routine has cut out all of my alone time with my husband, or even by myself!

What do you ladies do when it comes to bedtime?

[1+1=5]

my boys had a cot set up in the bedroom so i would put them to sleep and then pop them in the cot. once we go to bed and they had their first wake, they just came straight into bed with us.

[chicken and eggs mum]

my boys had a cot set up in the bedroom so i would put them to sleep and then pop them in the cot. once we go to bed and they had their first wake, they just came straight into bed with us.
This is what we did when we were co sleeping too.......

[Mrs Nietzsche]

DS goes to sleep in a toddler bed next to my bed, baby goes to bed on my bed (I usually bf her to sleep, and DS goes on his own).

IT takes DS about half hour to go to sleep so I use laptop and just tell him to lie down if he sits up. (Before this we have playtime and then books).

I usually go do anything downstairs I've forgotten to do then do some uni work before i go to sleep myself. I just do this in bed on laptop with light off :rolleyes:

[MummaBear03]

I just had a rail on my bed so if she did wake up, she couldn't just fall off. She's have to be properly awake to get off around the bed rail. She went to bed at 6:30 and I went to bed around 11-ish, now she's in bed at 7 and I go to bed around 11 still. When she had her own bed it was the same thing but into her bed not mine. I breastfed her to sleep til she was over 2 years old too.

[loving6]

my boys had a cot set up in the bedroom so i would put them to sleep and then pop them in the cot. once we go to bed and they had their first wake, they just came straight into bed with us.


:iagree: Us too, cot/porta cot/toddler bed.

[missie_mack]

DS has been able to get in and out of our bed unassisted since he could walk. We have never had any problems with him falling out of bed or minded if he got up anyway :cool:

[Boobycino]

Jasper goes down in his cot at the start of the night and comes to bed with me when I go to bed.

he goes down at 7 and then wakes around 8:30-9 and so I usually go to bed then, or when he wakes again around 10pm, I take him to bed with me.

Until I go to bed though he cries out for me about every 1-1.5hours.

[MsMummy]

When he looks tired (normally at 9pm), I lie down in our bed with him and feed him to sleep. Then I get up (he's between the bed rail and some pillows), and go back to bed when I'm ready. He normally stirs when I go to bed for another little drink.

If he falls asleep in my arms, then I just transfer him to the bed.

we have been doing that since he was tiny (he's now 20 months), and we haven't had any problems.

And he learnt to get down off the bed when he started walking (15 months). It's a bit disconcerting though now as when he wakes up from his naps, he just silenty wanders into the loungeroom.

If I were you, I would definitely do the transfer as you'll have way more time to yourself and freedom.

[MummaBear03]

DS has been able to get in and out of our bed unassisted since he could walk. We have never had any problems with him falling out of bed or minded if he got up anyway :cool:

I never had a problem with that either, but found that without the rail on the side of the bed she'd still be half asleep getting out and would fall, but with the bed rail there she'd have to wake up that little bit more and climb out and never fell after that :)

[Phyllis Stein]

Dinner, bath, story, then I cuddle him (2yo) to sleep in our bed, then prop pillows along the side to keep him from rolling out in his sleep. He rarely wakes up and if he does, he sometimes calls out but mostly just comes out. I go in myself anytime from 10 to 2ish. He usually sleeps through until around 7-8 in the morning.



It's a bit disconcerting though now as when he wakes up from his naps, he just silenty wanders into the loungeroom.


Tell me about it! I'm partly deaf, so DS just seems to apparate in front of me without warning. So cute, though, half asleep and tousled.

[Boobycino]

Tell me about it! I'm partly deaf, so DS just seems to apparate in front of me without warning. So cute, though, half asleep and tousled.

Awwwww :cloud9:

When Jasper was 9 months old he was sleeping in his cot as a 'side car' to our bed, so the side off and pressed against the side of our bed firmly... so... yeah... same thing, cept he crawled out to let me know he was up :rolleyes: and was very proud of himself!

So we put the side back on his cot! Because, errm, didn't like the idea of my 9 month old 'wandering' unsupervised through the house!

But it was VERY cute at the time :D

[missie_mack]

I never had a problem with that either, but found that without the rail on the side of the bed she'd still be half asleep getting out and would fall, but with the bed rail there she'd have to wake up that little bit more and climb out and never fell after that :)

I must admit DS doesn't go anywhere until he is fully awake. He takes a while to function like his mother :o When DS was small he would often just sit there in the morning playing until I woke or he would kiss me all over my face until I woke up. It was the most divine way to wake up with him when he was 12 months old. Now I am likely to get 'Wakey! Wakey!' yelled at me or become his science experiment where he looks in my ears, prodes my teeth or lifts my eyelids :rolleyes:

[Boobycino]

I must admit DS doesn't go anywhere until he is fully awake. He takes a while to function like his mother :o When DS was small he would often just sit there in the morning playing until I woke or he would kiss me all over my face until I woke up. It was the most divine way to wake up with him when he was 12 months old. Now I am likely to get 'Wakey! Wakey!' yelled at me or become his science experiment where he looks in my ears, prodes my teeth or lifts my eyelids :rolleyes:

AWWWW jealous!

Jasper is awake and running out the door the moment his eyes open.

Its tough on me because I am slow to wake up, so if our bedroom door is open as my eyes flutter open I see him sliding bum first off the bed and running out the bedroom door. And then he shouts from the loungroom until I get up.

(and if daddy calls out "I'm coming" Jasper SCREAMS and cries and runs back to bed, to make sure mummy gets up too!)

[Tam-I-Am]

When DS was co-sleeping, I would breastfeed him to sleep and put him down for the first part of the night in his cot (in our room). When he woke up (usually somewhere between 10:30 - midnight) I would bring him into bed with me where he would stay until morning (unless he was having a REALLY restless night in which case I'd put him back into his cot at around 5am or so so I could get an hour or 2 of sleep before we all woke up for the day).

[gotmilk]

oh OP I sooo hear you!
I can not leave my DD in our bed - she rolled over once before and it was bad :(...
She is also a bad sleeper (wakes up from every little noise) so my hubby is sitting next to her reading or studing once she is asleep so I hardly see him in the evenings:( or I do that and he does something else...So one of us has to finish our evening when DD goes to bed...
We were thinking of moving her on a floor before we go to bed but it is freezing now...:confused: we have tiles in the house and we also can not use heaters in her room as her eczema goes very bad when warm and she used to sleep in a cool room since little bub...