Oooooooh, this is complicated! :-) For both Clara and Niel, we set up a
single bed next to our queen and moved the baby onto the single. This
really doesn't count as quitting, just making the bed a lot bigger.

With Clara, we moved her to her own room at 16 months, but this was just
because Monika was pregnant with Niel. Monika still nursed Clara at night.
She just went to Clara's bed instead of Clara coming to ours. Still, Clara
was allowed in our bed after daylight.

This continued after Niel was born. When both were nursing at night (a
long, long time) Monika would switch from our bed to Clara's bed and back
maybe 6 or 8 times in a night. A good night would be only two or three!

Since we didn't have another in the wings, we didn't move Niel out into
his own room until he was about 3 1/2. Now Clara comes back into our
bed when she wakes, but he refuses and demands that Monika go cuddle him
in HIS bed. (until daylight, of course, when we insist we aren't moving
and he can come in with us!) :-) Uh, they are 6 and 4 now.

Does that answer your question.
Larry


Zucca4 writes:
: 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