19 months cosleeping
Just wondering if anyone else is still in the same boat. I’m happy to still be co-sleeping with my daughter at 19 months. it is and always has been the best way for us both to get a good nights sleep. Up until about 2 months ago my daughter has always gone down for the night in her own cot in her room and would usually last there until about 12am or occasionally the early hours of the morning (she’s been doing this since about 10 months old). Right now we’re lucky if she manages until 10.30pm in her own space. I absolutely don’t want to stop her coming into bed with me as I love it just as much as she does. But only getting an hour max each evening to wind down and have a bit of breathing space is really getting to me. Does anyone have any tips to help her last that little bit longer in her own space
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I’m in exactly the same boat!! My son is 18 months and was doing very well at spending large amounts of the night in his own room. But since a couple of months ago, he is waking hourly and needing to co sleep to be able to resettle. He is therefore spending the vast majority of the night in bed with me and my partner. It’s affecting our sleep and sense of wind down at the end of the day like you said so I totally get it! I think it’s important to keep going with putting them down in their own space to reassure them that it is safe to sleep there and keeps it normalised. But also important to reassure them that if they need us, we will always come to them and sleep next to them if that’s what they need. Sometimes I find it helps to remember that co sleeping and co regulating with my baby is literally giving them everything they need to be independent later on, and it’s all temporary. Sending love because I know it’s hard being so needed 24/7. ❤️
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