How to know when to stop?

[Rainbowbrite]

How did your bub tell you they were ready to stop co-sleeping?

Also, how did you go about it, Mattress on the floor in your room or straight into their own room & big bed?

We dont have a cot so that options not there.

Ta

[spring]

No real good advice here sorry. I'v also been wondering how to tell when DD will be ready to start sleeping by herself.
I have actually put a double bed on the floor in her room & the two of us have started sleeping in there, I thought perhaps it might be easier if I'm the one who has to start sleeping in my own room:rolleyes: I don't think I'll be going anywhere for a while still but we'll see how we go.

[aden2005]

How did your bub tell you they were ready to stop co-sleeping?

Also, how did you go about it, Mattress on the floor in your room or straight into their own room & big bed?

We dont have a cot so that options not there.

Ta

I could tell my son was ready to be in his cot at the age of 7mths, he started been really wiggley in bed with us and always stirring.
So we put him staright into his own room with his cot and it all went fine he slept though the first night fine :)

Good luck :thumbsup:

Luv Katherine-xxx-

[Jem]

well they dont really tell me, i tell them :laughing:

ds2 will be 17 months soon.. think he's only a few days younger then your MJ.
dp has shipped out of our bed, because ds2 sleeps sideways, and likes to kick a bit :o
As soon as i can find a reasonably priced second hand bed, he will be sleeping on his own (sharing a room with his big sis)
I'd say within the next month. :D

[Can I?]

Well......for us, we maintain an open bed policy, so although all our DS (11, 4, 2.5) start the night in their own beds, they are welcome back at any time. Big DS 11 sleeps on his own. DS 4 comes in most nights at around 2.00 am, and DS 2.5 joins us at about 6.00 am for a pre breakfast breastfeed. Then we all get up.

It has been simpler for me to shift them, because I have always started them off in their own bed for the first sleep of the night so in the bassinett next to my bed at first, or the cot/bed in their own room. They have then come in when they wanted a feed or a cuddle. As the feeds lessen, the length of time in their own room also increases. We have been fine with that. We will also lie down with them in their own beds if they are having trouble getting to sleep. so maybe that is an option for you?

[jarrahsmumma]

It more came to a time when we felt DS was ready to go into his own bed, we know his temprement and style so we could anticipate how he would transition.

wait for the instinctual feeling of when it would be "right" and if it turns out to be stressful and a battle, i would leave it a while and try again later on.

good luck, there is no right or wrong when it comes to NP

[LotusMum]

For us DD was only about 4ish months old. I realised she wanted her own space when she got so wiggley and unsettled (she has always been an independent little thing). She had a cot in her own room, but since then up until now when Im too big (32wks pregnant) she has been allowed into our bed whenever she wants.
As its getting so hot now, we will all be back in the same room as we only have one airconditioner, althought I havent worked out exactly how this will work out. Maybe a mattress on the floor for her. Our room isnt so large and soon it will be four of us in the room. Itll be interesting to see how that goes as DH works long hours and starts at 5am (I think he may have forgotten aobut the lack of sleep that happens with a newborn!!!).
I honestly think that you will know when the time is right for your little one to move into her own bed or room, and hey, if you misread the signs, the worse that can happen is that you get your baby in the bed back.

[Pixie]

Well I kept waking Eliza up I sleep worse than she does most nights so I popped her into her own cradle and there she is, some nights she comes in with us maybe once a week but I think she remembers and half way through the night she's patting my face and I put her back in her own bed, she just sleeps better on her own, Her cradle is in our room though. Later on when we get to the UK few months yet she'll be in her own room!

[Goosie22]

Hi.
My first started sleeping on a mattress on the floor in our room at a little bit after he stoped nursing (after 3yo) comming into my bed if he woke up or I would lay down with him which ever he prefered, then when he didnt wake up anymore we would laydown with him in his room untill he was asleep. If he woke up he would come into my room and get into our bed and still does.

My Second gave up nursing at around 15 months, he slept with me untill recently (almost 3) when he wanted to go and get into his own bed, if he wakes up he comes into bed with us but he doesnt wake up much. Sometimes he wants to sleep in his room and others he wants to sleep with me or his Dad. We dont have any set rules on the subject as long as everyone has a sleep.

[Rainbowbrite]

Thanks guys.

We have a mattress on the floor in our room for whoever gets kicked out of bed :p

I'm trying to put MJ into that for day sleeps when i'm not having a nanna nap with her & when we go to bed at night. Lasts about an hour then she gets up & finds me :hugs:

She just seems to be waking more at night, maybe its the 18month seperation anxiety starting up :confused:

[Jo_Jo]

ahhhhh goosie22 said it again....lol no set rules as long as everyone gets sleep, all my kids co slept with me at stages but by the age of 4 were sleeping in there own beds, but there are times when i have them all in bed with me wanting cuddles....lol...we are getting some reno,s done so when they are finished ej will have his own room so see how things go then but i think like the others he will still come and hop into bed in the early hours of the morning!:thumbsup: jo