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I put a firm futon mattress on the floor of LO's room (full sized). She and I co-slept for the first 6 weeks until she started sleeping longer stretches (6+ hours). That's when I moved back to my room with the hubs. Futon mattress is still on the floor (i put pillows around the edges so she can't roll off -- even though the mattress is 4 inches thick). I lay next to her and nurse her to sleep, and on the rare occasion she wakes in the middle of the night, I'll lie next to her and feed her.
It's worked really well for us. Once she starts crawling, I'm going to put a thick blanket on the ground and have her sleep on it. My sisters and I grew up sleeping on the floor next to our parents in korea. All in the same room. I asked my mom how she pulled it off, and she said when you have no choice, you make do with what you have. When one of us woke, we all woke up!
Btw, I chose to co-sleep with baby in her room since my hubs is a light sleeper and he can't function well at work when he's sleep deprived.
I'm a SAHM.
If you do end up deciding to co-sleep with baby in your room, you could always get a co-sleeper and attach it to the side of your bed.

We are planning on having the baby sleep in a cradle next to me in our room for at least the first 4 months. I plan on having him nap during the day in his crib so he gets used to the mattress though.

I tried having baby in a bassinet but after one day I shipped him in his crib. I was waking up at every little sound.
At 4 months about we did the CIO method. And it worked.

Our plan is for LO to sleep in a crib in the same room with us for the first few months, and then we'll move to a 2 bedroom and they'll move out of our room.

DD was a preemie and slept in a bassinet in our room. She outgrew her bassinet @ 5 mths so she transitioned to her crib, again in our room. We will lie down with her on our big bed after her night time routine, singing until she fell asleep before moving her to her crib. We moved her crib to her own room @ 12 mths. This bedtime method continued until she turned 18 mths old and won't sleep in her crib anymore - even after we converted it to a toddler bed. She now sleeps on two twin sized mattresses on the floor with 1 parent (her beloved daddy!) accompanying her until she falls asleep then she us on her own all night. If she foes wake up, nightmares or from congestion, we'll go to her. She is capable of falling asleep on her own and has done so but naturally prefers her daddy around. I have no issues with her sleep patterns now but if I could do things differently, I would have trained her to fall asleep on her own when she was an infant. I read that sleep training works best @ 4 mths old actual age but I went back to work when she was 4 mths adjusted age and she hardlynslept t daycare. DD is 28 mths old now.

I am so interested in this topic
Because it's the most pressing issue for us now. At birth to 3 months she slept in her bassinet next to our bed, some nights I just kicked hubby out and had her sleep next to me. At 3 months I moved her into her crib in her room and just slept with the baby monitor on. It wa honestly some of the best sleep I had since she came along. She was sleeping through the night at 2.5 months so I rarely had to go
Get her.

So the kicker is this at 4 months my entire family moved in with us while their place was renovating. We moved her crib into our room and it's beEn almost 4 months now. During this time she is in our room I'm soo guilty of just letting her cosleep with us. Husband was against it but finally he gave in and saw how much it soothed heR.

Everyone tells us not to let her into the
Bed with us because it's a very bad habit to break but it is what feels natural to me also. I grew up with 4 siblings and we actually slept in a family room with our beds next to our parents until I was 6 or so.

I don't know if I'm setting myself up for problems with sleep training in the future. Anyone have experience
Moving
The baby Out of your bed into their cribs? How
Was it?

I am trying to figure out away to give a short answer to this but basically we tried everything. I would have paid someone to do sleep train him but hearing him cry seriously broke my heart especially since my husband was on the fence. I wish I was more consistent but he always ended up getting sick or we traveled and it messed up his sleep.

We co-slept for the first 5 months because that is the only way he would sleep, then after that we put him down in his crib but when he woke up i would bring him to bed with us - he started sleeping through the night at 7 months and stays in his crib.

I have my son in the crib right next to my bed. Once in a blue moon he'll be spoiled nad sleep with momma at night.

My son started out in the Arm's Reach co-sleeper but gradually moved into bed with me as I got too tired to put him in and out of it all night. My husband moved to the "nursery" since day 1 since he works full-time out of the house with a long car commute and I work part-time from home, and we wanted him to get a good night's rest. On weekends or when we have guests (our place is small), he'll join us in bed.

My son still nurses throughout the night but it's definitely decreasing in frequency and he's definitely sleeping in longer stretches. I am like @honeybee - I believe that when he's developmentally ready, he'll do it naturally. I happen to sleep really well with him; and in times when he's been sick it's worked out really well because I can pick up on when he's, for example, really feverish and treat him right away.

I'd also say wait and see what kind of child you have. My babysitter tells me her first son was always very independent and slept better on his own (after the "fourth trimester") while her second slept better with people next to him.

I pretty much did what bykes187 did. Wombat slept beside us, but I feel asleep feeding her. Finally, she just slept in bed with us until my husband wanted to snuggle just me, so she went into her crib. She only stays there until she wakes to eat and sleeps with us until we wake up. It works for us and I love cuddling with her.