Question for bedsharing mamas

sbuxsweetie · March 2010

DH's brother and his wife have been bedsharing with their DD since she came home, and now she is 2YO and she still sleeps in their bed. My question is, if you bedshare, have you thought about when you might want to transition LO into his/her own bed, or are you just planning to cross that bridge when you come to it?

rianals · March 2010

We don't have any specific plans for transitioning LO into her own bed. I guess it will be sometime after she stops nursing several times a night.

Traycee1242 · March 2010

We will when he becomes more mobile... which will proably be sooner rather than later Crying

suzymarie · March 2010

We moved DS around 20-21 months. We would still occasionally bring him into bed with us (like if he was sick or if he woke up at 4am). Now at 2.5 yrs he almost never sleeps outside of his own bed.

MissyOlivePants · March 2010

DD is just shy of 2yo. She normally starts off in her bed (if it's early enough) and then eventually she'll come into our room at some point during the night.

mrs.mkd · March 2010

We tried twice to move her to her own room, and each time lasted about 4-6 weeks. The first time she was 8 months, the second time 10 months. We do enjoy having her with us, and only moved her because she went through a really wiggly phase and I was sick of getting kicked all night

Now we plan on just crossing that bridge when we come to it. We are prepared to have a 2, 3, or 4 year old in our bed, along with a second child. But, it's what we prefer. I'm not worried about her transitioning when she's ready, and we'll let her decide when that is.

shainababygirl · March 2010

Rianals:
We don't have any specific plans for transitioning LO into her own bed. I guess it will be sometime after she stops nursing several times a night.

This. Oh, and when we have somewhere where she can sleep somewhere out of our room. (she starts in her co-sleeper, then comes in bed after her first waking)

kada626 · March 2010

We have been trying to get dd to sleep in her bed for the last month. She wakes up constantly so its been pretty rough. We hope to have her out of our bed completely soon!

LLB430 · March 2010

She starts in her crib every night but is usually in bed with us by 11. I am hoping she stretches her time in the crib on her own. We really are in no rush.

tmp-509854625003294 · March 2010

my daughter is 3 and still in the bed with us..It doesnt bother us..however, I am trying to figure out what we are going to do with the new baby coming..I havent figured it out yet

Ally3411 · March 2010

we had to stop because he was kicking and hitting us all night long. And he'd try to climb over us and we were afraid he would squirm around one of us and onto the floor. He still comes into our bed if he is having a bad night, waking from teething or something.

MrsAmers · March 2010

Around 10 months DS started spending the beginning of the night in his bed, and when he wakes he spends the rest of the night in our bed. We did something similar with DD so that once she stopped waking, we stopped nightly bed-sharing. She still has some sporadic night-waking, but once I hit halfway through my pregnancy DH stopped bringing her to our bed and just soothed her in her room.

But we don't love bed-sharing. For us and our cr*ptastic sleepers, it is a survival tool. :-)

Cityplanner · March 2010

She spents the first part of her night in her crib and comes into bed with us around 11. I think she'll phase out the night wakings as she gets older. We're playing it by ear.

CalinsBride · March 2010

We think we'll try around 14 months, which is when we plan to be done weaning. (We plan on starting the weaning process at 1 year and taking 2 months to transition him gently).

LanaM · March 2010

DS is spending his first nap in a toddler bed right now. We tried first time last night but he refused to sleep in the new bed, so tried again now and I think he's sleeping..... at least it's quiet up there.

The main reason is because DS1 and DS2 go to sleep at the same time now and DH often works late..... so I have to run between rooms to put them to bed, read a story and kiss everyone good night.... I wanted them to start sharing a room last summer, but we ended up waiting until now.

I did start missing him in my bed, just thinking about it... but then he slept with us at night anyway

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