How old did you/will you/do you want to cosleep until?

[fawnanddoe]

Right now I can't imagine NOT cosleeping with DS. I guess I am just curious when people transfer babes to their own bed

[rubidoux]

My older is six now and it still feels right to have him in our bed. We did recently get him his own bed, but he has NO interest. lol He did say though that instead of buying his baby brother his own bed when he's ready for one, he'd like to just get a larger bed so they can co-sleep! How sweet is that?! I would feel great about having them leave our bed to co-sleep together, but it is really hard for me to imagine my older sleeping alone with the other three of us together.

[lurable]

I'va always thought that we would co-sleep as long as each girl wanted to. Now that dd2 is a bit older I can see a time coming when they will probably 'move out' together into a double bed. Then DP and I would have the king size to ourselves...sigh...
of course I do get excited at the idea of all that room but it would be hard to give up the great time we have bed sharing!

[Honey693]

Dd is a year and we're going to slowly start transitioning her soon. By the time she's two I'd like her out of our bed for the most part. I wake up every time she moves, even if she stays asleep and I know sometimes my moving wakes her up so it's starting to not work for us anymore.

[major_mama11]

DD is 3.5 (well, 4 in a few days), and she surprised me last month by suddenly wanting to sleep in her own bed. All it took was me buying a special bedspread, she took it from there.

We do keep a baby monitor in her room so I can hear her when she has a nightmare. Those nights, she ends up back in our big bed.

[roadfamily6now]

we co-slept with our 3rd until he was 2 1/2 at which time I gave birth to our 4th.
We co-slept with her until she was 5+ and most days when she was 6 as well. She is nearly 7 and finally in her own bed 9 nights out of 10.

[KristaDJ]

All of mine are still in my room, my oldest is seven and not leaving until he wants to. He has his own bed which is attached to the foot of ours. My two year old just moved to a crib side-carred to our bed within the last month. It was her decision and she has asked to sleep there every night though she does come over to me at some point in the early morning. My 1yo still sleeps in my arms almost every night

[alacrity]

I am so glad to hear some families cosleep so long. My daughter is one and I decided to let her sleep with me until she no longer wanted to. I always wonder how long it will last. I love night snuggles.

[iachica]

Our 3 year old and 18 month old are both still in bed with us. We have number 3 on the way, and I don't anticipate anyone leaving our bed before he/she arrives. I was a reluctant cosleeper, but I cannot imagine anything different now. I absolutely love cuddling in the night and all waking up together in the morning. And there is nothing sweeter than coming in for bed and seeing my dd and ds cuddled up together. We do have a twin bed smooshed up next to ours for more space, since we naively bought a queen instead of a king when we were pregnant with #1!

[AnalogWife]

I always pictured that DS would want to move out when he was 4. He's 2.5 now and I'll be happy to have him as long as he wants but DH is growing a little old of the situation. Presently we only have one bedroom until DH completes the renovations of our bedroom.

[sunnmama]

My 8 yo and 2 yo (9 and 3 in early 2010) sleep on a full mattress next to our queen mattress. There are no signs that either will move out anytime soon. Frankly, we'd love for them to sleep together in a different room, if that room were very close to ours (easy earshot). But our apt has 2 "master suites", and it is impossible to hear what is going on in the other bedroom. So we aren't pushing it (and our 8 yo is very glad about that!).

[jen&james]

Our 2 boys are 3 yrs apart. My first DS moved into his own bed by his own choice just before he turned 4 last spring. DS2 is 19mo old and still in our bed. DS 1 still comes into our bed a few times a week in the early morning and we enjoy having him back in bed to cuddle.

[AFWife]

My guy is only 7 months...so not anytime soon.

We plan on transitioning him when we start TTC again in hopes that he'll be in his own bed (or at least a mattress on the floor of our room) by the time I'm pregnant. But that's not for another year at least.

[Daisie125]

My 3.5 year old & my 2 year old just moved out to their room together (two toddler beds pushed together). They are happy there and sleep through the night now

My bed is cold and empty even with DH there - and I need more blankets now.

I miss them, but they are happy there and bedtime is SO SO SO much easier.

The new baby will cosleep, but he/she will probably want to move in with his/her siblings eventually.

[HollyBearsMom]

our son is 8 and still sleeps with us most nights, especially now that it is cold and we haven't turned the heat on yet!

[Caneel]

DS is 4 and we are thinking about transitioning in the future. I suspect it will take a long time. We all enjoy co-sleeping but DH and I are both starting to feel like it is getting a bit crowded.

Also I am seeing a need in DS for more sleep. Currently, we all go to bed together. I would like to start moving DS towards an early bed time and in doing so, I feel it needs to be in his bed.

[Alyantavid]

Both my boys transitioned to their own beds aroudn 2.5 - 3. They still come in and sleep with us some nights, but they do really well in their own beds and like their arrangements, so we go with it.

[Ldavis24]

DD is just about five months and I think partly because we hadn't planned on co-sleeping, we just fell into it the first night from the hospital and haven't stopped since, DH is really happy to have her out of our bed as soon as possible. Myself on the other hand would keep her with me as long as SHE wants. Daddy is sooo not ok with this though so we agreed that if she is still with us around 2 that then we will start transiitioning to her own bed. He would do it sooner but I absolutely refuse seeing as I am the one to feed her at night and she is nursing half the night!

[Llyra]

I coslept with all mine, on purpose-- in other words, we planned to even before they were born. I had always thought that I would let them move to their own beds in their own time, but I seem to have about a year's tolerance for a baby in bed with me, and then I get to a point where I need a change. I started moving DD1 at ten months, although she wasn't in her own room full-time until 15 months. I moved DD2 at about ten months, and I moved DS at a year. In the twins' case the move was more abrupt, because I was very sick (I have a serious chronic illness) and unable to tolerate sharing a bed even with DH for a few months. DD1 we made a more gradual transition. In all three cases, they were of course welcome back in our bed when the need arose, and DH and/or I have frequently spent nights in their room, but for the most part we coslept one year.

[~D~]

Originally Posted by HollyBearsMom

our son is 8 and still sleeps with us most nights, especially now that it is cold and we haven't turned the heat on yet!

Ds is 8 too, and cycles through sleeping in his own bed for a time, and needing to be in mine. He's currently in my bed. I don't pressure him to sleep alone if he feels like he doesn't want to. I tried to move DD before she was ready (at 1.5) and it took a lot longer to get her in her own bed all night. So that she doesn't feel neglected, I crawl in her bed every morning about an hour before I wake her up. We like this b/c we can have 1 on 1 time this way too =)