Co sleeping

My son will be 8 months in about 2 weeks… He starts off in his bassinet around 10pm (we have a larger size bassinet), and by 2-3am he’s climbing out into our bed, so we lay him in the middle until it’s time to wake up. Some nights he sleeps on his own, some nights he wants to sleep with us. I know people say it’s safer and better for baby to have their own room, own crib, etc. but I feel like it works for us, and I don’t want to just kick him out. Idk how to transition without him being super fussy, and I don’t want to sleep train because he normally sleeps through the night, and he only sleeps with us probably 3 days out the week . It was worse before (7 days a week) so to me he is slowly weaning off!

I co sleep when my baby went go on his crib, and I follow the lullaby trust guidance. My first was the same and he went in to the cot at 6 months.

If you’re following the lullaby trust guidance you should be fine, but just be aware if baby gets between the gap of the bed and gate they can suffocate x

Yep! Almost 6 months in and still cosleeping. I’d personally say carry on if it’s working for you and your baby! I believe it’s natural and the best thing to do 💜🥰

I co sleep

I say don’t worry about trying to get them to sleep by themselves unless it’s something you want. My son is almost 5 and still co-sleeps with me every night but over the past year has finally started doing few hour stretches in his own bed each night.
Honestly, I feel like the cosleeping does wonders for their self esteem and developing a secure attachment style. My son is autistic but surprisingly does so well with new caregivers/people and I suspect the extended cosleeping has contributed even in a small way.

I still co sleep now and she’s nearly 2!

I struggled so much with getting sleep in the early days especially when dad went back to work.. and I won’t lie I never followed safe sleep as I wasn’t aware of it and I was just surviving! However now I’m such an advocate for it, as long as you’re following safe sleep! You’ve got to do what works for you!

As a lot of mums will say, they won’t want to sleep with you forever, so what’s a few couple of years (if you chose that long) I never got the long stretch of a night if we wasn’t co sleeping, but what I ended up doing when she was a bit older is putting the cot up against my bed so she had her own sleep space, but we was technically next to each other, the gap was so minimal and was of an age that she could get herself out. But even that I gave up cos she would still wake looking for me now she will wake and just self soothe realising she’s right next to me Xx