How to stop bedsharing

Hey, have you tried starting with putting him in his cot for his naps? Then at night, when he falls asleep, put him in his cot so if he wakes up, he’ll find himself in his cot which will familiarise him with it. I’m currently doing that with my baby and it seems to be working. She wakes up through the night and I just put her back in her cot instead of my bed! As difficult it is as I’m normally exhausted. Just putting in extra effort now!

My LG has recently turned 2, and we moved her to her own room/bed that week. We're still having to cuddle her to sleep, and one of us still ends up in her bed for the 2nd half of the night.

Following as I’m in the same situation. We are looking to start in the summer, when it’s nice and warm so she doesn’t “miss” us because she’s cold. My husband wants to let her spend some time in the cot, while interacting with us so she doesn’t see it as “scary big thing”, then slowly try to get her to sleep in the cot.

We started at the same age and moved her at the same age lol I would definitely recommend a floor bed it was such an easy transition we just lay and cuddle until she falls asleep

You could try a floor bed? Or I bought a travel cot where you can zip down the side, so I can lie next to her and then roll away and zip the side up

I breastfeed and co-slept from the get go and at 14-15mths successfully night weaned my girl but we had a floor single mattress wedged between the wall and our bed. I responded to her here and I would sometimes end up sleeping with her before night weaning but as we night weaned I could put a hand down and pat her bum and shush her to sleep for the transition. She slept here the whole night. Then at 16mths we brought her floor mattress into her own room no issues at all. She began waking at 18mths again and we had ended up getting a double floor mattress and dad would mostly respond as I was heavily pregnant. Spent 2nd half of nite there She woke more at 2 yr sleep regression and probably due to baby brother. Responding always worked best for us even though it was absolutely exhausting!! She now sleeps through of her own accord from 27mths old (not ideal to hear I know) but I do think it's relatively quick) and she is 2.5 now. On a very rare night she might wake up but generally if there's something up!

In the process of doing this but not too concerned about it. My method is to get him his own bed that I could also lay in (twin is what I had space for) so that we could still snuggle to sleep. He has never been okay with being contained so I’ve shared my bed with him since a few days old and was climbing out of the crib at a year so I don’t have experience trying to get a child back into a crib.

I was in your shoes! We started with very gradual night weaning & lots of playtime (familiarization) in his room & crib. Then worked on naps w/ gradually less support (nursing to sleep, physical contact, etc.) until I felt ready to try bedtime/the first 1-3 hours of the night. I treated it like naptime: same routine every day, staying in the room, gradually lessening support, leaving once asleep. At that point he was nursing maybe 1-2 times overnight (not interested during the day) & when he couldn’t resettle I’d bring him into bed w/ me. I also talked to him about what was happening ahead of time. “You & Mama are going to practice you taking naps in your own bed. It might be hard but I will help & I will always come back.” For the final stage, we used The Sleep Wave method *on top* of all the gradual supportive work we’d done. It took two nights to click & no more crying than usual. Bottom line: my kid was ready (so important) & we found strategies that worked for him.