Whoa...Another One?!?

Ok, so I have a lot on my mind tonight:

Alright, I'll admit it here: we co-sleep.  And not in the Dr. Sear's approved co-sleeping on a separate bassinet thing that sits next to the bed.  We go all in.  Hoss is with us in bed and has been since he was born.  I'll admit I was really nervous the first night, because I'm a notoriously heavy sleeper.  But after the first night, I was hooked.  I woke up...I don't know how many times...but enough to feel safe about Hoss being with us.  In fact, I still wake up even though he is huge now.  I'm constantly checking to make sure he is alright throughout the night, as is my wife, obviously.

Now, I'm not advocating co-sleeping for everyone, as there are a lot of factors that you have to think about.  Here are some of the things my wife and I went over when researching/deciding to co-sleep:

• Neither of us smoke or drink
• We rarely use medicine of any kind, especially not the kind that causes drowsiness
• Hoss is breastfed (which makes a huge difference, because he will constantly wake up through the night, as breast milk is easier to digest than formula and will make him hungrier sooner)
• We have a large enough bed for everyone

I'm sure there are more, but that is all I can think of right now.  If you co-sleep and know some more factors to consider, please feel free to add them below in the comments.

All of that is to say this (and then something else): I love co-sleeping.

I, like I think most men, was a little shocked at the idea.  My first thought was, 'What about my sleep?!?'

Simple answer:  I get more sleep than I would have if Hoss was in another room.  How do I know that?  Two reasons (I'm all over the bullets tonight):

1. My wife is there and nurses him the second he wakes up and needs to nurse.  No getting up and bringing him in to her, no warming bottles up...just rolling over and going back to sleep.
2. I would be up every thirty minutes checking on him in another room anyway.  That's just my nature.  I can be pretty over-protective, and this would have definitely kept me up at night.

My second question when we were considering co-sleeping was, (and not trying to be crude here) 'What about...uh...you know....that*?'

*that is referring to the act of procreating

And to put this as family-friendly as possible: it just makes that aspect of marriage more exciting in finding other places and times to be intimate.  It takes more work, sure, but it is well rewarded work.  And now I'm blushing, so I'll stop talking about that*.

But I know that many men probably ask those two questions the most.  So that's my experience with both, if you really wanted to know.

Ok, now the final point of this soapboxing: how on earth do we transition Hoss to a bed of his own???

I think my wife has the answers to this question, and I'm in no hurry to kick Hoss out of bed.  But at some point he's probably going to want to try sleeping on his own (and it may not be until he's years older).  It's never to early to plan, right?

So that was my whole point of this.  Just to say that I have no idea how to transition from co-sleeping to sleeping in his own bed.  Do you have any insight?

Thanks and God bless...