How Old Did Your Children Sleep in Their Own Bed?

My 1st was 6 weeks when she was alone in her room. My 2nd, was in his crib in his room on night 1. It's the best decision I've every made.

My son started sleeping in his crib in his own room in the first few weeks. That's just where he was HAPPY. (He hated cosleeping, hated the bassinet, etc... but when I laid him down in his crib "just for a second" to free up my arms... poof! Asleep baby!). He slept happily in his crib in his own room until he was 3ish. Then we got him a full bed, and he slept in there on his own for several months. Between 3 & 4 though... he started piling in with me (esp while my husband was out of town, which was a lot)... and he's been in and out of my bed ever since. About 50/50. I'm just enjoying it while it lasts. Too soon my 8yo who still likes to come snuggle will be borrowing my keys to my car and then grown. It all goes by so fast! I swear he was a toddler last week, and a baby not too many days before that.

All 5 of my babies also slept in their own rooms, in their own beds, since the day I brought each of them home from the hospital. We didn't have monitors back in those days either (they hadn't been invented yet!) but no matter what, I always heard my babies from my room down the hall no matter how soundly I thought I was sleeping.

since day 1. Keep them in their own rooms. You will want your privacy to read, sleep and be with the hubby etc. Otherwise they will never leave you alone and it will become frustrating. Besides do you want to get kicked and hit with their hands?

I think by college.....lol.

I am currently sitting up thinking about going to bed but there is a 3 year old and a 7 year old currently in it with papa.

I totally don't mind the co sleeping. They will want nothing to do with me soon enough and I can always look back and treasure that little snuggle they do when they are just seeking that connection.

My son slept in a crib in our room until he was 9 months old. I was nursing and just found it easier to have him close. I didn't want to wander down the hallway in the dark in order to feed him in the night. It worked just fine for us. We moved when he was 9 months old and that's when he moved him into his own room. He didn't have any problems at all adjusting to his own room.

I cosleep with my babies. My toddler slept in my bed until 13 months, then I was ready to transition him because he tossed too much. I did nap him in his own crib in his own room starting at 4 months because I wanted him to be used to sleeping in either room. He has slept in his own room since, with no issues. Having his father help nap and put him down helped during the transition into only his bed. Doing the same with my newborn...he will cosleep for awhile, until I am ready to transition him out of our bed. Both hubby and I like that. Go with what you enjoy, need, etc. Take all advice, and then do what feels natural, do not go against your own instincts. good luck!
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3 months for my first child and 2.5 months for my second child. We kept them in a co-sleeper in our room until they started "sleeping through the night" (at least five hours at a stretch). This allowed me to establish breastfeeding and feed on demand while still helping them develop good sleep habits. It also allowed me to transition them to their rooms before I went back to work. No offense but I don't want older kids sleeping in our bedroom unless they are sick - for their sake or for mine. My older son has a well established bedtime routine and sleeps from 8:00 until 8:00 in his own room.

I co-slept with my first daughter for 3 months, and then onto the crib. With # 2, I had every intention of co-sleeping for a couple of months, but she hated it! We still call her squiggle because she just won't stay still! We kept her in the moses basket in her cradle until about 4mos. in our room and then used her in the moses basket to transition her to the crib. We put the moses basket straight into the crib for a few weeks until she was used to it and then slowly transitioned her at naps into it. She was fine in there until she was 22 mos. old when started climbing out.

Both our kids slept in their own room from the day/night they came home from the hospital. I used a good monitor, and they were fine. And so was I. They never knew any different, except when they were sick with a stomach bug or something, and then I stayed out on the sofa with them or whatever.

They are 9 and 12 now, and still sleep just fine in their own rooms. :) They don't even have a sibling sharing the space.. they have their own. But they do think it is fun/special to have "sleep overs" with each other occasionally on the weekends. and it really is like a sleep over... they lie in bed with books and giggle about the stories (usually Diary of a Wimpy Kid or something along those lines).

Mine have slept in their own cribs, in their own rooms, from day ONE! It was the BEST advice I got when I was pregnant: do not ROCK your baby to sleep (put them down awake) and put them in their own beds. They are now 11 and 8 and have slept on their own, go to bed by themselves and are awesome sleepers. Read other posts on here about moms trying to get kids out of their beds and into their own...not an easy thing to do! Good luck!

You're going to get a HUGE variety of answers. Every child is different, every Mom is different. Some will tell you how natural co-sleeping is, how until the last hundred or so years every one slept in the same room/bed without batting an eye. How babies match breathing patterns of people that sleep and have a lower chance of SIDS. People that don't co-sleep will tell you any variety of when to start them in their own bed... from day one to one year. Some people use every monitor on the planet...

I personally breast fed and co-slept until each baby was sleeping 4-5 hour stints at least. I keep a bassinet near my bed for easy access to the baby for nursing. I also have a changing table in our room, and a diaper champ. Our kids slept in our room or right near our room until probably 9 months or so. I start to move kids to their own crib 9 months to 1 year. Generally I did use their crib for napping once they get on an actual nap schedule I could predict 2-4 months. This seemed to make the transition to a crib easier. I've been lucky that none of my kids have had a hard time with it.

Just keep in mind there are SO many ways to handle night time with your baby. There isn't a clear right or wrong. Find what works for you.

my son was in our room in a bassinet for 4 months. (it would only have been 2 but he was a preemie, 2 months early) as soon as he outgrew the bassinet, he went into a crib in his own room. he did fine. just get a baby monitor where you can see and watch him.

I had my twins sleep in their own cribs from the time they came home at four days old. They were fine, and our bed has remained our bed.

My 3.5 y/o still sleeps in an oversized crib in our bedroom, he has his bed and room but prefers the "small bed" says that he feels snugly there :)
My kids always had their rooms and beds but chose to sleep in our bedroom (on a separate bed) for a long time. My 13 y/o still pulls an inflatable mattress into my bedroom when my DH is away and will sleep there...
I like them there, I feel they are safe...I do not know, I just sleep better that way. Even when my older one in his room - I always keep the door open, listen to him breathing, I guess. My little guy fell asleep one night in his big boy bed and I brought him back into my bedroom - I just couldn't sleep with him so far away.
Everyone is different, some people want privacy, some do not want the baby to be alone...Do what you are comfortable with.
As for sex, watching TV and reading - there are other rooms to do that. Bedrooms are for sleeping, at least in my house.
Good luck.

For me, it was maybe 6-9 months. Whatever you're comfortable with. You can get a good baby monitor and turn it up as loud as it can go if it eases some of your anxiety. As they get older, it's always fun to have them come in and sleep with you sometimes. But make sure it doesn't become something they expect every night, because then it will be a HUGE effort to get them back in their own beds. I'm dealing with that right now with my 3 and 5 year old. Between them and my hubby, there's no room in the bed for me! So now I'm having to deal with the tears and tantrums of kicking them out. But oh, how good it feels to stretch out in my bed, lol.

My first was in his own room from the first night we brought him home. He has been great at sleeping like that. My second slept in our room until about 3 months- I didnt want her waking him up ( right now they have to share a room ) But now she sleeps in her own crib and when she does wake up- It doesnt disturb him usually- which is great. I have friends who have their kids sleeping in their bed and they don't seem very happy that its like that, but they allowed it and opened the door to it, so its all the kids know. I didnt want that to happen to us, so I never allowed it. Good luck!

7 to 8 weeks old and they were sleeping in their own cribs.

My babies came home and went into their own room. The only one that
did not was my fourth. She stayed with us for a month until we got the
bedroom situation straighted out. Trust me, you will hear them cry. We
never had monitors and lived in a four bedroom two story house. You hear
them.

My daughter moved from the bassinette (or our bed) in our room to her crib by 2 months. She slept through the night by then, so no need for her to be in our room. My son slept in the cosleeper in our room for a few months longer than that. I wanted to keep him in there - I was breastfeeding, he still fed 2-3 times a night and I was working fulltime, so I wanted to avoid getting out of bed at night, but he was such a squiry, snorty thing that he kept me up when he was sleeping, so I moved him out at 4-5 months.

Both of my babies were used to their cribs from the very beginning.
That is not to say that I didn't put them in bed with me sometimes, for daytime naps or if they were sick, etc. But their beds were their beds and it made things so nice. I could put both my kids in bed with me when we travelled or if it was rainy and we snuggled up as a family, but they didn't expect it every night. I mean, it's not like they couldn't transition from one place to another. We traveled alot and they could sleep anywhere in anything. I got them used to a little bit of everything and it just worked out really well that way for us.
Do what you're comfortable with, but in my opinion, even infants should get used to their own rooms and beds at least during the day.
You will find what works best for you.

Best wishes!

2.5 months for my first child and about 4 months for my second.

My children have slept in their own beds since day one. Given our family situation, with my husband getting paged all hours of the night and being on-call 24-7, having the child in the bed would be harmful to both his sleep and our sleep.

The first night home from the hospital both of my girls were in their own bed in their own room and we've never looked back. My theory is why start a habit that you're eventually going to have to break.

my daughter started taking naps in her room right away and moved in for the night at 2 months. We used the monitor during naps, as I'd be all over the house and have a hearing problem, but at night it lasted about 10 minutes the first night, then went off. We just kept both of our doors cracked and we could hear her when she cried.

All 3 since birth now ages 7,3,1
we still have our crib with our 1 yr old in our room because her bedroom is incomplete my other 2 kids have their own room they were switched to twin size beds at age 2..I don't do well with wiggle worms they cried at times but that was becaause they needed something when they were babies we tried to cosleep off & on but always eneded up in their cribs especially if I fell asleep Bfing them & the whole SIDS scared me so that didn't help my cosleeping...They are fine in their own beds/rooms...

My son slept alone from day 1. He is 4 now and usually comes and crawls in bed with us in the morning for 30 minutes. He has always been good about sleeping anywhere - when we travel sometimes he sleeps with me if there isn't another bed available and he does fine with that and is happy to go back to his own bed when he gets home. My philosophy with sleeping is to start them out in their own bed as infants so that will be the norm for them and that saves from having to sleep train later on.