Ready for his own bed?

[Big D]

How do you know your LO is ready for his/her own bed?
I've seen several posts mentioning that the LO doesn't like co-sleeping and I am sincerely wondering how you know?
My LO hasn't been sleeping very well for several weeks now and I'm toying with the idea of setting up a separate bed for him, but I don't know if it's worth the effort to rearrange all the furniture to make it work if he really likes co-sleeping. He's not talking yet (he's 1.5) so I'm clueless here!

[NewMoonMum]

By separate bed you mean separate, but in the same room?
And you son sleeps in your bed with you and DH?

If so, perhaps you have a pack-n-play type of thing(or could borrow one), which you could set up next to your bed, so you are still close but he has his own space, and if that does not work, easy enough to go back to co sleeping. If he does well, then it's easy enough, in time, to slowly move it farther away from your bed to get him ready for the eventuality of his own room.
But perhaps I misunderstood you current sleeping arrangement.

As for being able to tell when they are ready-I can't offer much help, since our son was just a couple feet away, but in his own crib, from the beginning.

[Big D]

To clarify (thanks for asking)- right now he sleeps in the same bed as DH and I. I'm thinking of setting up a toddler bed for him in our room or possibly in his own room, but I'm not sure he'll go for it.
I don't have a pack-n-play, but I do have a toddler mattress I could try on the floor...

[chinupchamp]

FWIW, I am a big fan of the mattress on the floor. I would wake up at night with palpitations wondering if that noise I heard was the baby falling out of a regular bed, but never really worried with the mattress on the floor. In fact, she would just sleep right through rolling onto the floor

We tried her own room for a while, I guess around the same age that your son is now. It didn't work for us because I would wake when she did - and started screaming - and then I would trundle down the hall, lay with her on her single mattress and spend the rest of the night there. Rinse and Repeat for months and months.

We are going to try to move her into her own bed in our room again since I am pregnant.

So, I guess, if he is a sleeper for a solid stretch at night, likes jammies and can stay warm on his own so as not to wake up being cold and you think he might be ready, I say give it a try! What have you got to lose besides a few nights worth of sleep

Lisa

[Tway]

I don't know if this will help, but I started wondering if DH and I were making noise that was waking DD up. So one day last week, we left DD in our room (she sleeps in her crib the first part of the night) and we slept in the livingroom. But DD woke up at the same time she always does, ready to nurse, so it was back into the family bed for us.

I felt better knowing we weren't waking her and that she's just not ready to sleep longer stretches yet.