[joonzgurl]

What have your sleeping arrangements been through the years/months with your little one?

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For us, we started out with the baby in her bassinet. Probably for a couple months she stayed in her bassinet, but didn't sleep great. DH slept in the other room becuase he was having to get up early for work. Then I realized how much better she slept right in bed with me, so I moved her in there.

I started to miss having DH in bed, so we side-carred her crib, and he came back to our room. After a little while though we took it down because we realized that she pretty much always ended up in bed with us anyways. DH moved back out of the room because she is so wakefull.

She continued to sleep in bed with me for months, until around 6 months I loved a mattress to the floor of her room. This would still allow me to crawl into bed with her and put her to sleep, but DH and I could have some alone time at night when we go to bed. That was always our special time, we used to always talk together before bed. Now I am just so tired!

When she wakes up now, I either go in to her room and stay there, or bring her to my bed, depending on what is happening with DH:s work and what time he has to be up.

[Cruiser]

With DD, she was in a PNP in our room until she was a little over a year. At about 6 months she started coming in to bed with us because she slept better. At 13-14 months, we moved her to her room after she fell asleep in our bed, and we'd go get her when she woke up. Then DH started to go in and lay down with her when she woke up, staying in her room. Currently he's still doing this, sleeping on her floor, ha!

DS is in a PNP in our room, he ends up in bed with just me 9 times out of 10. Since DH is in with our DD, it's the 2 of us in a king-size and he STILL takes up a ton of room. Weird. We'll start to transition him to his room when a) he stops teething, and b) I'm ready.

[KMH]

Claire slept in a co-sleeper attached to our bed for...about 30 seconds Her breathing sounded terrible, almost like she was choking. As soon as I brought her over and snuggled her next to my breast, her breathing evened out and she was peaceful. That's all it took for me to know that we'd be bedsharing

We bed-shared until Claire was about 9 months old. At that point no one was getting good sleep anymore, so I started putting her to bed in her crib in her bedroom (right next to ours). When she'd wake up sometimes I'd bring her in with us still, but it was working better. Eventually she just stopped waking up in the middle of the night, and now she sleeps about 12 hours in her crib in her own room.

We're getting ready to transition her to her big-girl room and a regular bed...I just can't lift her in and out of the crib anymore and we will need her crib for one of the twins anyway.

[Jule'sMomInOR]

Originally Posted by KMH

Claire slept in a co-sleeper attached to our bed for...about 30 seconds Her breathing sounded terrible, almost like she was choking. As soon as I brought her over and snuggled her next to my breast, her breathing evened out and she was peaceful. That's all it took for me to know that we'd be bedsharing

We bed-shared until Claire was about 9 months old. At that point no one was getting good sleep anymore, so I started putting her to bed in her crib in her bedroom (right next to ours).

Ditto all of this ... except the crib was side-carred. The side-carred crib was there the whole time but Juliana did not sleep in it regularly until 9-10 months old. We bedshare at my parents' house.

I don't have plans to transition her to her room any time soon. I think we will be following her lead on that, but IDK how I will feel about it in a year. I think DH will be ready to give her some gentle nudges by then but I don't think I'll want to push her to sleep in her own room (as long as she remains an only child).

[alwayssmile]

DS used an arm's reach co-sleeper for well....not long. We kept trying to use it because all the info we had at the time said that cosleeping was dangerous. Well, we obviously gave up on that co-sleeper pretty quick after I found tons of info online about safe cosleeping. We coslept all night and I wore for naps or slept with DS till 4 months. At that point we slowly transitioned over to using the crib for naps. At 6ish months we revised our night routine and started putting DS down at night in his crib. When he woke for the first time to nurse, we'd cosleep for the rest of the night (he tended to wake when I went to bed anyway). At 9.5 months cosleeping turned from sleeping into an all night party for DS. Every time someone moved, he'd wake up and wouldn't want to go back to sleep despite being clearly tired. There wasn't enough room in that house to side car a crib, so we started trying to get him to sleep in his crib the whole night. It was a long process, but without CIO DS eventually did sleep. He STTN for the first time at 10 months in the crib, but didn't do it again for another month. He regularly STTN in his crib now. Although when he wakes in the morning he comes into bed for his morning boob. I hate that cosleeping ended when it did, but when nothing we tried helped after 2 weeks, it was time to pull out the No Cry Sleep Solution and see about getting him in his crib full time so that we couldn't disturb him.

[Buggymom]

We used a bassinet in our room at first and then we moved her into her crib. She was fine with it. Then one day she rolled from back to front (this was before she had total neck strength). Her right arm was stuck between the bars and her right leg. Her face was smashed into the mattress! She was screaming...not crying...SCREAMING. I ran in there as fast as I could...then and there I vowed she would sleep in my bed where I can make sure she's safe. Being a sahm, I would lay with her while she took naps and take one with her. I didn't get a lot done but that's ok. Our pediatrician told us that Kayley sleeping with us would turn her into a brat. We started to doubt ourselves and moved the crib into our room (she was around 9months or so). She was crying and it was bad. (The doctor told us to let her cry it out and she may even vomit on herself but not to give in no matter what.) I couldn't do it...so she stayed in bed with us. Then when she was 1 (the crib now back in her room) I would lay on a loveseat in her room and sleep next to her. She was ok though. Oddly, the first night she stayed up all night staring at me. She was sitting straight up. She would fall asleep and fall backwards, bump her head on the crib, and start clapping her hands because she was glad that she was awake and then stare at me more. Finally, she fell to the side and was asleep. After that she was good in there at night and for naps.

At 2 she jumped right out of her crib (she's tall) and said "NO NAP!" during naptime. After that, naps were over for us. So, we got her a toddler bed....I'd lay in it with her til she fell asleep (fingers crossed that it wouldn't break). Then, I would sit on the floor holding her hand. Then, she fell asleep on her own. She quickly outgrew that bed....and at 3 we bought her a full size bed for her. She would sneak into our room and lay with us halfway through the night. Then, at 4 she became really scared of the dark (it doesn't help she has a big bedroom). I started laying with her until she falls asleep and then halfway through the night she calls for me and I lay back in there and sleep with her. She is now 5 and that is what we still do. I don't mind it. I just don't want to bring her in my bed because the 3 of us have trouble fitting. It's funny, I actually sleep better when I'm with her.

We are actually TTC right now...and I wonder how things will work out, lol. (Either hubby will be kicked out of our bed or we will be bringing another bed in there and everyone will be in my room.)

We did bed-sharing and then eventually moved them to their own rooms in cribs. My DH isn't big on bed-sharing so it was only for about 6 months or so. If it were completely up to me, it would have been longer. But, both kids transitioned to their own room just fine, it was just harder for me, especially still breastfeeding.

[HappyHippy]

We have been bed-sharing and co-sleeping for almost 5 years non-stop. ds1 started in our bed, at 3 years he weaned himself into his own bed in our room, which he still is. ds2 was born right before ds1 turned 3 and he's 2 years old and still in bed.

[lrowe70]

He's only 9 months but we've bedshared the entire time, no intention of stopping anytime soon.

[KiwiMommy]

Ashlynn slept with me from birth to 18 months in my bed. After that I got a toddler bed from a family friend and I decided to see if Ash would sleep there (in my room) and she did! She would come into bed with me sometimes still though. Then SO and I moved in Feb (he was not living with us before) and she slept in her room for the first 2 or 3 nights, but kept waking up crying so I brought her to bed with SO and I. Shortly after that we put her bed in our room at the foot of our bed, so she slept there and often still came into bed with us. SO got tired of it and suggested we try her in her own room. We tried and all went well, so now she sleeps in her own room at night and still naps with me in my bed, as she has since birth.

[ashleyj88]

We've been cosleeping from the start. For the first couple of weeks she was in one of those cosleeper sleep nest things that go in the bed but have defined edges. That ended up being a PITA. She ended up sleeping on me on top of the Boppy for months. Then we started side-nursing and she now sleeps cuddled up to me. We have the crib side carred and she slept in there for a few days before teething hit and I haven't really worked on getting her back in there because I hate having to sleep on the crack.

[miamor]

we tried a bassinet, but he had slight reflux so he ended up sleeping on the boppy lounger right next to me on the bed for a while. naps were always on top of me across a regular boppy. he ended up in a sleep and play which was really snuggly and elevated. he slept there til he hit the weight limit.. getting him to sleep flat in the mini crib was really hard and took a couple of months...he would co sleep with me after the first waking of the night...once he started outgrowing the mini crib, we moved the large crib and side carred it to our bed. he spends more time attached me at night than in the crib, but he does start the night out for a few hours there. i really love having him close at night and i have no idea when he'll move out of our room.

[spicymustard]

When Lilly was born I knew nothing about ap and bed sharing and thought cloth diapers were the pre folds with pins. Lol

I thought she would be in the pack n play in our room. Well we got her home and she wouldn't sleep in it. She would fall asleep in my arms and then I would fall asleep. Luckily I found this board (a lot of moms from Lilly's PR were here at the time) and that was it. She was in our bed ever since.

Oliver was born when she was 3. She moved into the side carred crib and he sleeps between us.

We plan on setting up a nice bed in her room this summer but she will have the choice to sleep there or in our room.

[PinkFireFly]

DD was a mix between the bedside co-sleeper and in our bed since day 1. She ended up going into the crib the nights I worked and DH didn't but when I am hope she was always in bed with us. When she was able to sit up on her own and became a bit more mobile we moved her directly into our bed and put away the co-sleeper bassinet.

She is starting to want to sleep in her own room but she is currently without bed. Went bought a crib but she was rarely in it, then when she was 9 months she climbed out of the crib one night and we decided she would just stay in our bed, but at a year we turned her crib into toddler bed and I put a mattress on the floor next to it and would sleep in there or she would sleep in with us, we would let her decide which bed she wanted to sleep in...

With her wanting to be in her room now, we are currently making her her own big girl bed but we put the crib up completely about 4 months ago so she has been without bed in her room and completely in with us.

It sounds confusing, lol and it has been but we have been going from her cues as to where she wants to sleep. We also don't have her on a strict sleeping schedule either we follow her cues, and since DH and I are third shifters she is and always has been a night owl so a lot of the time she falls asleep on the couch and then we transfer her to our bed.

[ashj_1218]

DS1 was in our bed, with intentions of using the co-sleeper from birth to six months. Then, from six to nine months we used a pack-n-play next to our bed. He was in there about half the time. Around ten months, I was tired of getting up every hour with him and moved him into his crib in his room. He was in there from 10 months to 2yrs and a couple months. Then we turned the crib into a toddler bed. And now, at 2.5 we have him in a twin bed.

DS2 slept on our bed exclusively from birth until about four months. Then he started sleeping in his crib in his room for the first part of the night and then cosleeping the other part. Now, with his rapidly deteriorating sleep patterns, we side carred the crib and are hoping he will sleep in there for parts of the night. He is just so restless all.night.long! I will do about anything for some sleep at this point.