Has anyone successfully stopped cosleeping? How did you do it?

Question

My daughter is almost 13 months and just getting too big for our bed. Nobody sleeps well. She wakes every 1.5 hours, but when I lay her down in her crib she wakes every 30 mins 🤯 I'm losing my sanity, I need sleep

Answer

Honestly it took me leaving for 15 days for the cosleeping to stop. I’m in the National Guard now and when my baby was about 8 months I went away for a bit for training. My husband can’t cosleep with her because he takes medication for his sleep problems, so his REM cycle is strong and deep. He’ll awake if he gets strongly jostled, hears a loud noise or is near the end of the cycle, but letting her sleep alone with him wouldn’t work. So he did our sleep routine, and would comfort her if she woke up, but just wouldn’t bring her to bed for cosleeping.
When I got back, she was sleeping through the night and didn’t even want to sleep with me.

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No help but I'm with you

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Cutting the feedings helps big time! Our LO was waking up every hour or so in his crib.  We had an extra guest bed that we put on the floor in his room.  Omg, what a difference! He's only waking up twice a night now.  For whatever reason he's doing so much better on a regular mattress and it's so easy to put him to sleep now.

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I did naps with my LO in the crib in our room. Always have the same blankets in there (I have multiple of the same one) & she always has a cup to drink. From there I moved on to doing strict routine sleeping in her crib and by 11 months she was in her own crib. Now sometimes she sleeps with us to fall asleep and I’ll put her in the crib but she doesn’t like sleeping with us anymore anyways she enjoys her new space. It helped too that I quit breast feeding by 10 months & only did at night so naps in the crib weren’t associated with BF and then she weaned herself off at night so that helped a bunch.

Has anyone successfully stopped cosleeping? How did you do it?

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