[...] cozy corner of our first home. She still hasn’t slept in it since I’m having a hard time trying to decide when to boot the baby but that doesn’t mean we don’t spend lots of time in it. It’s a perfect room that [...]

My oldest was in his own room by three months. HOWEVER, there was a daybed in the room that I slept on till he was 7 months old. Hey, he was my first, and I couldn’t stand being away from him! lol He’s almost 4 now and sleeps great in his own bed, in his own room. My new little guy is 5 1/2 months old and has been in his own room since about three months also, and there is no bed in there for me. :( But I am much more relaxed about it this time and the video monitor does help (though yeah, he looks a little spooky on it). I think you should do whatever feels right to you. If you move her now and just lay there worrying the whole night, what’s the point?

My son only slept in our room his first night home from the hospital. My husband and I quickly realized that it would be a lot better if he was in his crib in his own room and only one of us had to wake up and tend to him, as opposed to turning on the lights in our room and disturbing the other person too. We still keep both bedrooom doors wide open, though, so we can hear him pretty easily if he wakes up in the night, and he’ll be one on Friday.

My six-month-old is still in bed with us- I haven’t even made him move to the pack & play that’s been set up next to our bed since he was born. One of these days, when he sleeps through the night and I won’t have to get up & walk across the hall multiple times to feed him, he’ll be in his crib. Until then, I’m really, really enjoying the snuggles.

Oh yeah, Amanda, I’m with Elissa. We never used any lights (lights send the wake-up hormones surging, making it hard for both baby and parents to get back to sleep).

No answers, still co-sleeping with a 10.5 month old. No plans to stop until he can sleep in bed with his brother.

My oldest was in a heirloom cradle in our room until he was about 6-8 weeks old. He started sleeping through the night (6-8 hours) about then so we moved him. I had read in numerous books and been told by my ped to get him in his own room by 4 months if we wanted an easy transition to him sleeping alone. Older than that and he would most likely fight the change. My dughter who is now 6 months old has been in her own crib from the first day home from the hospital. My husband and I had slept much better after our son moved to his own room and we decided to do it from the start. It may just be coincidence, but she slept through the night both earlier(3 weeks) and for a longer period of time(8-10 hours at 3 weeks, since 4 months 10-13 hours).

I am still bedsharing with my 22 month old. He has his own room (well technically, we just moved into our first house with 3 rooms- ours, my sister is renting out one, and the other –which would be my son’s room– is being used as an office/playroom). I cant imagine him sleeping anywhere else.. but once my sister moves out (which should be by october) we will set his room up to be his little boy room, and hopefully it wont be too hard getting him to sleep there.
I am still nursing as well, and he nurses twice a night. I’m planning on weaning him soon, so the transition from our bed to his isnt too rocky.
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http://www.TheNotSoBareNecessities.blogspot.com

With our babies, we keep them in our room for about 6 months. At that time, we start putting them to bed in their own room, but once they wake up during the night, they sleep with us for the rest of the night. (I’ve yet to have a 6mo that sleeps all night every night.) Actually, even before 6mo, I start putting them down for naps in their crib, so they are used to sleeping there, at least for short times.

Around a year or so, we start having “rules”… like if baby wakes to nurse before 4am they have to go back to their own bed when done, after 4am they can stay with us. For us, our kids have always transitioned to their own bed/crib fine, so that by the time that *I* want them out, they are already out…

I’d say as long as you want her there, she should stay. Our other sleep motto is “sleep where everyone can sleep”, which means different things at different points in a baby’s life. Sometimes that meant co-sleeping, sometimes that meant one of us sleeping in the guest room and one sleeping with baby, sometimes it meant we all slept in our own beds… Just as long as we were all as rested as possible, we accepted whatever arrangement was working at the time.

All three of my kids co-slept the first year and we have had no issues with transitioning to a bed. Never even bought a crib.

I co slept with my boy until he turned a year old. That’s when I started the sssllllooooowww transition from my bed to his playpen, which was at the foot of my bed. I’m going to do the same with my daughter, since my fear of SIDS is the main reason I co-sleep in the first place (I also prefer it, their lovely little bodies all snuggled up next to mine for their first year of life…nothing beats that! Well, nothing, except their growth, smiles, & lovin’s). As for booting out of the room? I’d wait until you were comfy with the idea. if you’re not comfortable with it, you’ll be up all night, & that defeats the idea of enough sleep before it has a chance to start! Have a serious discussion with hubby: maybe if he more fully understands your feelings, thoughts, & motives, he’ll do his part by working with y’all. But also keep in mind it’s his bed too, so maybe a different solution can be brought up (some people I go to church with actually slept in their kid’s rooms until the kids hit 9 or 10 – wife with the girl, hubby with the boy). Figure out an arrangement you’re both happy with that is also good for Vivi, & everyone will be fine. :)

My son Emrys is 8 months old, and unfortunately, he STILL sleeps in bed with mommy and daddy. I wanted him to sleep in his crib in his own room from day one, but Justin wanted him to sleep with us because Justin’s younger brother had a lot of problems when he was little, and Justin remembered the stress it caused him. I said that one night would turn into the rest of our lives, and so it has. Emrys refuses to go to bed, unless it is with us, and unless we go to bed too. I’m pregnant with our second child, and there’s no room in our bed for all 3 of us anymore. I’m not going to make the same mistake that Justin made with Emrys, so this next baby is going to sleep in its crib from day one. But since we only have a 2 bedroom apartment and Justin’s brother Kenny lives with us, both of the kids will be sleeping in our room. That is, until we move. Try them out in their own bed in your room at first if you like, and then move them to another room when you feel comfortable being away from them.