Co-sleeping

I also co slept with mine until around 7.5 months and for my next I plan to sleep train with Ferber at 5-6 months. I tried every gentle way for 2 months until I couldn’t take the sleep deprivation anymore and went for it and she’s been sleeping great! Since she was closer to 9 months when we went full Ferber it was a lot more hard on both of us with her more cognitive (hence the plan to do it earlier for my second). sleep training is different from cio, but you don’t have to ofc, just thought I’d throw in the option

hello hello! we coslept since day 1 and bedshared from 4 months. at 6 months, i worked on practicing independent sleep at nap time. when i didn’t want to nap with her, i would lay with her to fall asleep then roll away, so i could get a half hour to myself. this also worked really well with the pack-n-play with a side that rolled down. once she got the hang of it, i could do the same at night and knew like clockwork when she’d wake up for her next feed.

i didn’t do any sleep training and at 18 months she told us she was ready to sleep in her own room and very easily made the switch. waiting until she was ready, supporting her sleep development and responding to her always at night really worked for us. she’s 3.5yo now and still a great sleeper

I chest slept with my little boy until 3.5 months and we contact napped every day but then he got too big and wriggly so I co slept with him after that. I did similar to Anne above and started putting him to sleep in my bed for naps, laying with him and then slowly moving away. Sometimes that got me 15 mins, sometimes 2 hours. But I kept trying and stuck with it for a couple of months. If he woke up quite quickly, I didn’t stress about it.
He’s now almost 7 months and has started going in his own room and he’s doing really well but I knew he was ready to do so.
Sometimes it can just be the temperament of the baby themselves too.