If you co-slept with a newborn, how/when did you transition to a crib?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We took one side off the crib and fastened the crib to the side of the bed. Later we replaced the crib with a small single bed next to the bed. That was our arrangement until we moved house when DC was 9 years old. The new house had a great floor plan with the two bedroom doors facing each other (small flat in foreign country) which made the transition to DCs “own” room very easy. Nearly 18 yo now and very happy and well adjusted with no issues and good long term friendships and a happy well balanced life about ready to launch! I think it’s natural for kids to want to be physically close to their parents. Especially when sleeping

We did the same. We put the crib in the corner of the room where there was no windows etc. Took down one side and fastened the crib to the bed. That way the crib was protected from every side, and there was a place to put the baby after nursing. We did not sleep train as I was a SAHM. We also did not do CIO and I nursed on demand. DH woke up for every feeding and would burp the baby and rock her to sleep. It helped that we all were in the same room.

We believe in co-sleeping though to prevent accidental smothering we are super cautious. Babies are always put perpendiculal to the parent with the feet of the baby touching the parent's body and head being away from the parents body. Sleeping parallel to the baby is a no-no in our family in the same bed. We have a king sized bed in our room so we had ample space.

Our kid slept in our room for a very long time. I guess till they were 6 or 7 years old. They always had a bedroom of their own, with a queen sized bed. I never bought smaller beds. My kids would nap in their own room but were with us at night. Then one day they just decided to go in their room and that was the end of it. We raised them as we were raised in another country, so co-sleeping was not a big deal.

My kids are well adjusted too.

[Anonymous]

Never. Eventually we transitioned it to full sized bed. Then Covid happened and we still Cosleep at 7 sometimes. I’m going to miss this someday soon.

[Anonymous]

Single mom still cosleeping with 5 and 8 year old. Easier to wake up for the day.