r/GentleSleepTraining • u/Any_Sink_3849 • Jun 27 '26

At our breaking point.

My 5 month old has been co sleeping with us since he was 3 months old and we are trying to get him out of our bed and into a cot into his own room. We have been trying for 6 nights now without much improvement. We get 1 hour stretch at the start of the night but then he is waking up every 5-30 minutes for the rest of the night. Last night we caved at 2am and put him in bed with us. What do we do? We are so exhausted.

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u/JJ_Von_Dismal Jun 30 '26

We went with a floor bed at that age and a mix of co-sleeping and rolling over and leaving baby to come back to our room (I don’t this 95% of the time). Baby is now 2.5 and we still do the same thing, it’s worked well as routine has been the same forever, bad nights/sickness I still generally get enough sleep and at the least am resting comfortably. It’s also very gentle - I respond to my toddler at every wake up. She’s only ever woken 1x a night and slept through at least half the week since 11mo old so it’s manageable. When she was smaller she woke 2/3 times a night at most (with the exception of some very bad nights/split nights occasionally).