Zucca4 wrote:
Is there a so-called "good time"? Our son turns three months today and we love
having him between us at night in our smallish Queen size bed. We could care
less about spit-up and peeps and poops on our sheets. It's made breastfeeding
so much easier for me and our baby goes to sleep when we do and wakes up when
we do and there is minimal waking up at night. When he whimpers I give him the
boob, he nurses for a bit a returns to sleep. We really love our little
arrnangement.

Of course we try not to listen to other people who tell us he'll be with us
until Kindergarten if we don't break him out of our "dirtly little habit" ,
but we don't care. We love our baby with us. Only problem is I think WE wake
HIM quite a bit with getting up for the bathroom, tossing and turning, coughing
etc. I'm wondering if we chose to put him into a crib (in our room) if there
would be a good time to do it and exactly how to phase our system out. At three
months are babies typically "re-trainable"? We don't want to upset him too
much.

In short:
When and how did you stop co-sleeping? Also why?

Thanks,
Lisa



We started out co-sleeping with our first, because she wouldn't sleep
anywhere but with us. By the time she was 3 months old, we'd start her
out in her crib, and she'd move into bed with us when she woke up at
night. (She was bottle-fed, so breastfeeding didn't come into it.)
When she was 4 months old, we moved her out of our room and put her to
bed in the crib - she slept longer in her own room, but we still brought
her back to bed with us whenever she woke up. By the time she was 9 or
10 months old, she'd sleep 10 hours at night, so we didn't co-sleep a
lot after that.

The thing is, if you like co-sleeping, why stop? There were things I
liked about it, but it completely wrecked *my* sleep, so I was glad to
stop.

My 2nd hasn't slept with us very often - he was OK with the crib from
the beginning. I'm about to have to re-train him, though. He's had 2
bouts of some stomach bug in 4 weeks - and since I sleep with him when
he's sick, he's now adamant that he wants to sleep with me, not in his
crib (he's 2.)

Clisby