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| We co-slept from about the time my son was a month old (he slept mainly in his bassinet by our bed from the time he came home until he ws about 4 weeks old) until he was about 5 months old. My son had colic and the first month I was bound and determined that he would not sleep in the bed with us and that led to sleeping with him on the rocker,couch anywhere but our bed. By the time he was 4 weeks old I was so exhausted and frazzled that against my husbands wishes Allen came to bed with us until he was about 5 months old when he moved into his crib in the nursery. |
| posted by Kyleen on 03/01/2008 08:05 PM |
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| My friend let her two daughter co sleep (not at the same time) but I saw how miserable she is, so I put my foot down and decided that my son is not co sleeping with us. |
| posted by Chelle on 03/02/2008 10:34 AM |
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| I'm a firm believer in co-sleeping, but not in the same bed. Let me explain...I'm a big fan of the co-sleeper bassinets that attach to the adult bed. I myself had a bassinet on wheels that was the same height as our bed, so our son slept right next to me for his first few months of life, without me having to fear one of us rolling over onto him. I was able to touch him, breastfeed him, etc... :) |
| posted by on 03/03/2008 03:03 PM |
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| my husband works at night and in the begining i put her in a bassinet but she was constantly eating and every noise i heard from her made me get up and check on her i just wasn't sleeping good until she came in the bed with me and since its just me and her there is lots of space in the bed and easier acess to her. |
| posted by lanisse on 03/03/2008 10:05 PM |
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| I only let my daughter sleep in bed with me if it is the weekend and I want to sleep in (my guilty pleasure that sometimes backfires if she truly wants to be awake, but sometimes it works wonders), or if she keeps fussing through the night. She is normally a really good sleeper, but there are times that she will literally get up every 5 minutes and at that point I say enough is enough and let her in bed. This doesn't happen very often though because I would prefer her to be in her own bed. |
| posted by Ashley on 03/04/2008 10:13 PM |
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| My children both slept with me and now they share a bed.You get use to the closeness of someone next to you.I still lay in bed with them until they're a sleep or I'm a sleep. |
| posted by nicole on 03/06/2008 09:53 AM |
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| My son goes to bed in his own bed-always has. But he always comes to my bed in the middle of the night. I was always too exahsted to walk him back downstairs to his own bed and now he is four and a half!! Sometimes I tell him to go back to his own bed and he will ( With a lot of tears) but he's smart enough to sneak in quietly so as not to wake me up! Then he's golden and get's to stay! He is a finger sucker also and the noise of that can wake me up. I'm tired of being tired!! |
| posted by elaine on 03/31/2008 12:20 PM |
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| My daughter started sleeping with me in the hospital. She got passed around to much and by bed time all she wanted was mommy. We started her out in a bassinet next to our bed and sometime during the night she would end up in our bed until she was about three months old then she would sleep in her bed until my husband went to work then she would come sleep with mommy and have mommy time when we woke up. She is one now and has been sleeping in her own bed since she was about five months old. My bed became a play place and one day she was done sleeping in it. ; ) |
| posted by Anne on 04/09/2008 03:02 PM |
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| My son is three and still sleeps with me. I never understood why we put the smallest person in the house in a room all by themselves. If it's too crazy, and no one is getting any sleep, my husband goes to sleep in the guest room. When is was an infant, he was very, very ill and sleeping in our room in a bassinet or crib became common place. It was the only way I could get any sleep knowing he was close enough that I could hear everything going on with him. When we took the crib down, I missed him, so he's in our bed. He takes naps in his own bed or ours, which ever he chooses, so long as he takes a nap. I figure he'll want his own space soon enough and I'll have knock on his door to be able to talk to him. I'm taking what I can get while I can get it. No need to rush it. Might be hard if my husband disagreed but he doesn't so it works for us. |
| posted by Michelle on 04/16/2008 03:42 PM |
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| After two months of co-sleeping while breastfeeding it was becomign to uncomfortable on the bed. My fiance is a deep sleeper and almost hit the baby in the head once. Ever since I decided to let the baby become comfortable in his own bed. The only problem now is since he sleeps on his own when we take trips its hard to get him comfortable anywhere else. |
| posted by Monchhichi on 05/09/2008 06:03 PM |
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| My son has been sleeping in the same bed as us since he was born, he is now 7 months old and we all love it. We still have enough room for us and we don't need to worry about him all night. I breastfeed so it's so much easier than getting up to go over to his crib or something like that...I just roll over. |
| posted by Esmeralda on 06/10/2008 06:39 PM |
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My daughter got kicked out of the hospital nursery the first night and wound up in bed with me...from there with all her health issues we found it easier to keep her in bed with us until she hit 12 mos.Now she sleeps in her own room doesn't get up at all and loves being alone.
Her little brother hated trying to sleep in my bed so he's in a crib in our room for now. |
| posted by Virginia on 10/01/2008 02:17 PM |
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| No. It is not safe.!! |
| posted by Maria on 10/13/2008 02:08 PM |
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| When my son was first born until he was three mo old we had him in a cradle next to our bed. |
| posted by Heather on 01/04/2009 08:12 PM |
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| I kept Piper in a crib next to my bed for the first 6 mos. I am an extremely heavy sleeper so I knew that co-sleeping would be dangerous all though we caught a few winks together a couple of times. |
| posted by Krista on 02/15/2009 09:03 PM |
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| We made our daughter sleep in the crib right next to our bed for the first 6 months coz we thought that co-sleeping might be dangerous for her but now she sleeps with us n i hav no intention of making her sleep in her crib in a separate room..coz i just love sleeping beside her. |
| posted by monica on 02/19/2009 07:21 PM |
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| If any of my boys want to "snuggle" our rule is that you have to wait until the sun comes up and then you can have snuggle time. We have one that, almost nightly, comes into our room in the middle of the night and sleeps on our floor. |
| posted by Jennifer on 02/24/2009 05:57 PM |
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| My son slept in bed with us for about the 1st 2 months after he was born. After that he was in a cradle in our room and then a crib. He did go through a period (for a couple of months) when he would wake up in the middle of the night and demand to sleep with us. We finally couldn't take it and let him cry it out, and then it was his bed only. He slept in the same room with us until a month ago, when we put him in his own room and he is doing great. Only once have we had to take him from his bed in the middle of the night to our bed. Its great! So nice to actually have alone time together! |
| posted by Christine on 03/19/2009 03:45 PM |
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| we have slept together in the same bed since day it is not easy you cant be a drinker smoker or be on any medications besides vitamins and that includes your spouse too you also cant be overweight or a heavy sleeper and it works out good for use and we see it as she will get in her own bed when ready |
| posted by Hillary on 04/08/2009 11:41 PM |
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| sometimes she will take a nap with me in the bed while daddy is at work or early in the morning we'll fall asleep on the couch with her on my chest |
| posted by Amy on 06/18/2009 06:01 PM |
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| My son LOVES having his own bed. :) |
| posted by Shanelle on 06/21/2009 12:01 AM |
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| We bought one of those Snuggle Nests and its the best ever, plus it has a light, heart tones, and music so we can check on him and play noises to get him back to sleep. |
| posted by jessica on 10/06/2009 11:21 AM |
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I have twins. One of my daughters will sleep in her bed -- but, my other one likes to sleep with me and my husband. (Once in awhile.) I sometimes wait til she falls asleep and then I put her in her own bed. They have bunk beds. They love them.
Have a good night! |
| posted by Jennifer on 10/06/2009 07:44 PM |
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| I lived with my parents as a single mom when my son was first born, and my mom - knowing i'm a heavy sleeper - cut a hole in my wall to the nursery where Rafe slept and on top of that put a monitor in her room so she could hear him and come wake me up to get him until i actually started waking up on my own. He has never slept in my bed because its a play place to him. Now that I am living with my boyfriend, I am grateful that I didn't get Rafe used to sleeping with me. He goes to bed and nap quickly and on his own which allows me to do chores that I can't do with him awake, or go to sleep myself! |
| posted by Meg on 01/24/2010 12:10 PM |
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| my baby gril sleep in the same room as i do. she sleep on her own bed. right next to me. because we dont have other room for her. my son has own room. |
| posted by vannessa on 02/18/2010 12:57 PM |
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| I co sleep in the same bed! I love it. |
| posted by Crystn on 07/28/2010 12:26 AM |
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| Her crib is next to our bed. She co-sleeps when I fall asleep burping her. ;) Used to co-sleep most nights when she was younger. We pushed the bed against the wall and put Lili between me and the wall. |
| posted by Wendy on 12/09/2010 06:08 PM |
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| I co sleep with my children at nap time, but one thing that I always said was that my children would always sleep in their own beds and not in mine and that worked really well with my first child but my second one was a different story when he was born he had a birth defect, he was really sick and I almost lost him so when he was really sick I did let him co sleep with my husband and I in a travel bed placed between us for about 2 months until he had his second surgery. Now he is fine and sleeps in his own bed except for nap time. |
| posted by Mel on 01/04/2011 08:50 AM |
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