When did you stop co-sleeping?

[lactatinggirl]

Peanut is 12 months and I have no plans on stopping, but I'm starting to feel like she sleeps better when I'm not in the bed with her (because we put her down to sleep before us). She sleeps for 3-5 hours when I put her down and I go to sleep when she wakes up to nurse. Sometimes she'll nurse every 20 minutes for the rest of the night! I just put her on and fall back asleep, but still waking up every 20 minutes makes me tired the next day. Anyway, is she trying to tell me she needs her own space? I would prefer to not stop co-sleeping because I don't know if I'd get any sleep with waking up to feed her and put her back in her bed. At the same time, I don't want to force her to co-sleep.

[lifeguard]

We stopped co-sleeping this week. Ds started sleeping throught the night 2 weeks ago (only one wake up most nights now) & so it seemed like the right time for it. We nightweaned over christmas & has slowly slept longer stretches ever since.

[ps4624]

We are currently night weaning, which has turned into me sleeping in the guest room and DD and DH in the master bedroom. Her sleep has improved dramatically in the 3 weeks I've been in the other room (as has mine!). She's sleeping 12 hour stretches at night and has graduated from 1 (maybe 2 on a good day) 45 minute naps to sleeping in the bed for an hour and a half.

Long story short, she needed me to stop sleeping so close to her.

[Katie T]

She may be ready, know way to know till ya try. My 21m and my 3 1/2yo are still sleep sharing. My oldest quit sleep sharing when she was around 5yo but it was with my urging, we had another baby coming and with a full size bed at the time it was just too crowded.

[pacificbliss]

We moved DS at 18 months. He slept better without me at that point too. We were nightweaning so it al just went together. Both the nightweaning and moving were smooth. No tears. he was ready.

[Monkeygrrl]

I co-slept with my boys fulltime until they were two, then started putting them into their own beds. 7yo stopped coming into my bed by the time he was 3. 3yo (4 in May) is still coming into our bed regularly (4-5 nights a week). But we had some trauma last summer, so all attempts to keep him in his own bed came to a halt for a while.

peace...

[love being a Mom]

We brought in a foam mattress for the floor of the 2nd bedroom as our 'escape' when we had DD#2, so either DH could get some rest before work, or if DD#2 was being noisy DD#2 and I would leave our room. Well DD#1 had other plans. She took one look at the bed in *her* room, and said "That's Livia's bed" She was 23mos. She has never looked back LOL. She will wake btw mdn and 6am to come into our bed, and then Dad moves to the floor. It's a little complicated, but it works for us - oh and DD#1 was upgraded to a twin bed with a bed rail when we realized that she actually did really want to sleep in her own bed... Well that and she was dive bombing the floor mattress and smoked her head on the baseboard (ouch).

[Chloe'sMama]

DD is almost 22 months and still sleeping with us. Baby #2 will be sleeping with us all once he or she arrives. I don't plan on DD moving out any time soon.

[puamama]

still sharing

my dd is 4 and my baby is 9 months, we all share a bed but I'm hoping to get my oldest into her own bed soon, it's getting too crowded and I've been averaging about 4-5 hours of sleep per night, arghhhh...
I love it most of the time but my baby has been sick so she wants to nurse every hour....