Post by charmediamsure on Aug 1, 2014 22:53:09 GMT -5
As in bed sharing. I'm wondering how many probies do.
I always thought I would never let my child share my bed, but Jack wouldn't sleep anywhere but in my arms when he was a baby and I got so sick of not sleeping that I brought him in our bed so I could nurse him back to sleep. He weaned at 18 months and is still in our bed. Well, he naps in his room, but sleeps nights in our bed.
I love having him there, especially with H working nights (his transfer fell through because some douche with more seniority decided after the fact to grieve the position--so H is still stuck on nights).
I kind of dread the day he says he wants to sleep in his room.
Sometimes I wish she would sleep with us because the cuddles seem nice but she won't- even if she's sick, it's total playtime and she wont settle down. I'm sure Rhys will sleep with us for a few months as a little baby
Post by lauranicole91 on Aug 1, 2014 23:03:04 GMT -5
I would probably enjoy bedsharing with a non breastfeeding toddler. But if she were still in my bed these days(she was for the first few weeks and then again from about 10m-18m), she would nurse all night long. I would get no sleep. Plus DH works early mornings now and is up anywhere between 3am to 5am getting ready for work so she would wake up to his alarm and not go back to sleep.
The first time I bed shared with Julian was the second night at the hospital. He cried everytime I put him down and I was so confused I didn't know what to do, so I help him and tucked a pillow beside us and he slept tucked under my arm like a football. I fell asleep I didn't do it on purpose. Then he always napped with me in bed, but he could never actually sleep beside me, I'd never get to sleep, he doesn't sleep in our bed anymore,..idk if I'd let baby girl sleep in our bed unless I was desperate.
I bedshared with the first two, and I have a crib sidecarred for this one. The only reason I have a crib at all is Sadie is still in my bed, and this way I can safely put the baby in the crib and have Sadie on the other side of me.
ETA: I try to get Sadie to sleep with Holden, but the past two nights have resulted with both of them in my bed. DH sleeps downstairs in his own private room while I try to fit four people in a queen size bed. :N:
I mostly love bedsharing with G, except for right now. But apparently I'm grumpy about everything when super pregnant. Anyway she's usually snuggly and very peaceful. She has her moments when she insists on repeatedly kicking me in the back but she's mostly good. Night weaning made it much better for me and for the last 6ish months we've nursed to sleep and sometimes in the early mornings but not at night. We recently moved her crib next to our bed and took off the side so sometimes she sleeps part of the night in her own space, but within reach. Someday I hope she'll sleep in her own room but am happy with the status quo now.
I bedshared with the first two, and I have a crib sidecarred for this one. The only reason I have a crib at all is Sadie is still in my bed, and this way I can safely put the baby in the crib and have Sadie on the other side of me.
ETA: I try to get Sadie to sleep with Holden, but the past two nights have resulted with both of them in my bed. DH sleeps downstairs in his own private room while I try to fit four people in a queen size bed.
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Post by redmonkeystomper on Aug 1, 2014 23:28:45 GMT -5
We are still co-sleeping. It's getting to where I am not sleeping well because she is bigger and hogging the bed. We have a queen and the last 4 nights dh has moved to the couch. We are considering a king bed. I love the cuddles and waking up to Ruby but being kicked is getting old. She does nap in her room in a toddler bed but she does not want to sleep in there at night.
We coslept from 6 mo-20 months and similar to Laura he nursed so much motn. We also had roommates until he was 15 months and so I was afraid to sleep train and have them here him cry in middle of the night so it was the easy thing to do
We are still co-sleeping. It's getting to where I am not sleeping well because she is bigger and hogging the bed. We have a queen and the last 4 nights dh has moved to the couch. We are considering a king bed. I love the cuddles and waking up to Ruby but being kicked is getting old. She does nap in her room in a toddler bed but she does not want to sleep in there at night.
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We just upgraded to a king last week. It is awesome. But Jack is still snuggled up right next to me right now. When I want space I just tell him to move over and he rolls over to H's side and spreads out.
C and I co sleep mostly. I sleep in his room. H sleeps in the same room as Oliver. Cosleeping works great as long as it's not a night that Colin wants to nurse nonstop.
Post by thedahliharpa on Aug 2, 2014 1:29:59 GMT -5
With H we shared a bed from about 4am until 7am until she was a little over a year and dropped the 4am nursing session. We bed shared deliberately day 1 with D and gradually moved to part time as her sleep habits changed. Each situation was right at the time.
A started out in the co-sleeper but once she got a little bigger we brought her into bed with and co-slept till she was 8 months old. M starts out every night in the co-sleeper then moves into our bed at some point during the middle of the night haze. It has been like this since day 1.
My April 2012 babe is as much of a co sleeper as they come. I never envisioned this, but she has always been needy and cuddly and just sleeps so much better with a person. I believe she'll grow out of it when she's ready and we'll keep doing what works for us. Dh doesn't sleep with us most of the time because he works 24 hour shifts and if she's bothered she'll wake up at night. We'll probably get a king size bed when these 2 year molars grow in, though.
We do. We tried to wean but it never works. I think she likes our soft bed over the hard crib mattress. I jump for joy when the 4 year old wants to sleep in here. Those snuggles are hard to come by. He also understands how to sleep in a bed, she's all over the place and lays perpendicular.
Post by pinkpeony6210 on Aug 2, 2014 6:50:02 GMT -5
We coslept with Ella until she was about 11 months, and then she napped in our bed until we transitioned her to a full sized big girl bed.
Kate only slept in bed when she was a newborn...there was only so much recliner sleeping I could take. She had to sleep in bed with me when we went on vacation both times, and did surprisingly well, but she kept mentioning that she missed her crib.
I co-sleep with Julie, but J has always been in his own crib/space so this is relatively new to me. From the first day in the hospital, she has cried/woken up if put anywhere but in our bed. I just moved her crib to a side car position to give us more space because for the last few weeks H has not been sleeping with us which I don't like. I'm nervous I will never get her out of our room, but I am trying to calm myself down by saying that everything is a stage and she will outgrow it. I hope like dahli said that as her sleep habits change we will move her and that will feel right at the time.
We do still. She comes in when she wakes up sometime between 12-5 am. We night weaned and I told her nene wakes up when the sun comes out so as soon as it's light she wants to nurse (5:45) but then falls back asleep. This is ok but won't be when school starts in the fall so we are working on that. I love snuggling her and the cute things she says when she wakes up. Sometimes I need more personal space but it's worth it for the attachment she's formed.
C was in my bed full time from birth to around nine months, when we introduced the crib. He hated the crib and slept in our bed about 99% of the time until we switched to a toddler bed last fall. So he basically slept with us until ~20 months. He still comes directly to our bed and climbs in if he wakes up in the MOTN, and he always begs for "Mommy bed" at bedtime, so I'm sure he'd still be with us full time if I let him.
Sometimes I wish she would sleep with us because the cuddles seem nice but she won't- even if she's sick, it's total playtime and she wont settle down. I'm sure Rhys will sleep with us for a few months as a little baby
Same! I wish she could sleep in a bed when we're on vacation. That would be a big help.