How old was your DC when it became easy to have them in their own bed?

[rumismom]

My DS is 8 months and I love sleeping with him.. (DH wants our bed back)

I know it can't last forever so I'm curious when yours were ready for their own space?

[thismama]

Mine is 3.5 and nowhere near ready. They are all different, but personally I'd tell dh to lay off! Ya'll will have the rest of your lives to not co-sleep.

[Nature]

Almost 4 and no where near ready here. Some nights she'll fall asleep in her bed with me there, but is always up before I'm asleep and crawling in with me.

[rmzbm]

I'll let ya know...my nearly 9 yr. old still happily cosleeps!

[MomInFlux]

DS moved to his own room at 4.5 yo. DD is 39 months and won't be ready to sleep alone any time in the near future.

[Alohamelly]

We coslept until she was almost 8. We got a bed for her then and she didn't really like it. But now at 10, she seems totally fine with sleeping on her own, although she always loves to come to my bed when Dh isn't here at night. I never minded her sleeping in my bed, but when I got remarried, it didn't feel right to have all 3 of us in the same bed.

[alegna]

Dd is 2.5 and nowhere near ready.

-Angela

[rzberrymom]

Depends on what you mean by their own bed. DD is 2, and we got a twin size mattress for her and put it next to our mattress. DH and I have our bed back, DD has her own bed, but I'm still RIGHT there if she needs me. She's nowhere near ready for being in her own room, but she loves her little nest next to ours.

[Llyra]

I moved DD to her own bed at 12 months and to her own room at 15 months. She took to it right away and had no problems, and I made the decision to do it because it seemed to meet her needs best, but in the end it was ME that decided to move her. Had I left it to her to decide when to move she would probably have coslept much longer.

[mbhf]

i voted 3-4 years for my oldest. he will be 4 in may and has been sleeping on a mattress right beside our bed (we push it under during the day) for a few months. he is not ready for a bed in another room though, and i dont think he will be for a good while.

[crysmomofthree]

see I think this is a funny poll, because my experience with my kids has been my babies have been happy to be in the crib in our room from about 4 months till 2 years. (with me nursing them frequently at night, but most of the time going back in the crib) but sometime between 2 and 2.5 my kids have a strong desire to sleep in my bed until about 4years?? I say 4 years with a question mark, because I'm really guiding my 4 year old into his own bed right now, he starts the night out there, but once he wakes to pee he wants to sleep with us, but i'm too big right now, and soon we will have a newborn in there and I'm not comfortable sleeping with a newbie and my 4 year old. Of course he doesnt' really sleep alone in his room either, he shares with his older brother who is happy to even share the bed

[Jenlaana]

I'm actually celebrating this week that my daughter STTN for the first time since she was born (and I STTN - minus 1 bathroom trip - for the first time since I got pregnant with her...wuwu)

I would have to say, more than ANYTHING that you need to do what works for your family including dad and baby. Listen to your babe and watch their signals and I think you'll figure it out when they're going to be comfortable having their own space.

We've been toying with a toddler bed in different spots since DD was about 14 mos (in our room at the foot of our bed, in her room, in our room as just a mattress, etc) It wasnt working so we abandoned it for a few months, and about 2 weeks ago we brought her mattress back into our room and I've been putting her there for naps (this also doubles as our den where our TV/computers are so I'm nearby all the time) We've been starting her there, if she's not fussy, and then moving her to our bed whenever she wakes up.

The past few nights I've noticed that she sleeps a LOT better on her bed (for more hours I mean) than she does in our bed. Then 2 nights ago, she slept all night long. Its a long process, and I dont make her stay there if she doesnt want to, but I definitely think she's ready for it now. I get her bottle ready at bedtime and she crawls into her bed and lays down now, without a word or a direction from me.

[Gray's Mommy]

OUr DS was very dependent on us at night for sleeping, so he stayed much longer than anticipated. It turned out to be perfect for him & us...

[Red Sonja]

When DS was around 16 months he became very restless in the family bed and wanted his own space to sleep. Now he'll still come into our bed when he wakes up in the morning (anytime between 4 am and 8 am) but he likes to sleep in his own bed for most of the night.

[littlemizflava]

i voted 4-5 but i had to add my dd still ends up in bed with us by the end of the night almost everynight i guess it all depends on the child i spoke to her about this and told her she has to start in her bed but if she felt the need she can come to my bed

[libranbutterfly]

Both my girls start out in their own beds, then come join us around 4 am Kamille was STTN in her own room @ 15 monthes, but then we moved, and she hasnt really gotten over that. She also did very well for a while in her own bed in our room, we usually were able to calm her enough that she stayed in her bed the whole night. We dont have room for this in our current house, however.

[Scrubsjm]

My oldest dd moved to her own bed at 2, her own bed right next to ours that is. At 4 1/2 she's still there, and her little sister is in the bed with us. Who knows when they'll decide to sleep elsewhere.