Eliot has always been an especially horrible sleeper, and at some points I wondered if I did it to him, but since having Jack and seeing that not all babies sleep as insanely as he did, I know he's just different. He's just like me. We co-slept with Eliot due to his constant nursing, light sleeping, and need to be comforted.
Then around a year and a few months, we tried transitioning him to his own bed. It didn't work.
At two years, we tried again with a mattress on our floor. That semi-worked.
At two and a half, we put the mattress in his room. That was three months ago. Every single night (with the exception of just two nights when he was sick), he has started out in his bed in his room. And he climbs in our bed in the early morning.
We were missing one last step: a bed beyond just a mattress. I know quite a few people who just have their kids sleep on a mattress on the floor for a while, but Eliot is getting on to three, so we figured it was time to get the dude a bed. And he also banged his head really hard on his window sill one night.... He was all excitedly climbing into bed when the lights were off, and he kind of missed the bed. I felt so bad!
Chris wanted to get bunk beds for the boys eventually, thinking that maybe they will want to share a room. And, come on, bunk bed are awesome. The cheapest ones we could find were $500, which I suppose isn't too bad since you're getting two beds.... Then we thought, hey, maybe Chris's parents would let us use their bunk beds.
So, instead of dishing out a good amount of money, we were able to use the bunkbeds of Granddad Robinson's boyhood.
We have so many fort games and pretend ships ahead of us, and I'm so thankful for these awesome beds.
As for Jack, he is still sleeping in the portacrib. At one point, he was only waking up once or twice a night. Then four-month sleep regression came along. Now we're up to four times a night. Oyyy. But, I'm sure he'll get better, so I'm trying hard to keep him sleeping in his own space.
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