Post by ruthie7532 on Jan 14, 2015 23:38:45 GMT -5
We had a cradle that my dad made at the foot of our bed until she was 6 months old. It only worked that long because she was tiny, and her nursery was upstairs, which seemed too far away when she was small.
We did the RNP until he was about 3 months (maybe? The whole first 6 months is still hazy to me. lol.) and after that he was in his crib. I'm a really light sleeper and I would wake up every time he moved or snorted or made a sound so I wasn't getting any sleep when he was in our room which is why we moved him into his own room sooner than I had planned on it.
Post by fortmyersbride on Jan 14, 2015 23:52:11 GMT -5
DS- we had a bassinet, he hated it. He slept in our bed.
DD1: slept in the cosleeper next to our bed, later in our bed. Moved to a crib when she weaned
DD2: currently bedsharing/cosleeper. She'll chill in the RnP during the day, but doesn't stay asleep in it. DD1 napped in the RnP but never slept well in it overnight.
The RNP concerns me--they are small aren't they? I worry I would knock it over:/. I'm a super klutz.
They have a decent base that's wider than the part where the baby goes. You'd really have to try hard to run into it and knock it over because it's also pretty low to the ground.
My kid hates the RNP. He prefers to be flat. We have a cosleeper next to the bed, where he starts the night. To be honest, he still spends at least 75% of his sleeping time in my bed though.
DD1 slept in her crib from the first night we were home. DS slept in a mini co sleeper next to our bed out of necessity-we were still in our 2 bedroom condo. DD2 slept in the crib from the get go as well. I tried putting her in the co sleeper in our room so she wouldn't wake up the older kids but it didn't work and I didn't mind getting up to nurse.
DD slept in our room in the RNP for the first two or three weeks.
Then we realized we HATED room-sharing and put her in the RNP in her room (across the one-story house at the time).
It was NBD. She was a LOUD newborn sleeper. We moved her to the crib around 11-12 weeks.
+1 de slept in a PnP in our room for 4 weeks and holy shit, SO LOUD. It also meant I couldn't read in bed (pre- kindle paperwhite) before falling asleep, which sucked.
Post by thecatinthehat on Jan 15, 2015 1:04:39 GMT -5
We co-slept for about 5 weeks. But DS would move on to the RNP around 4am, for some reason he just slept better there for a few more hours. Then we moved the crib to our room and he slept there until about 4.5 months. But same thing, we would moved him to the RNP in the early morning. For some reason DH did not trust the RNP for an all night thing. Then we moved the crib back to his room.
O sleeps in a RNP in our room. He is going to be 4 months and I don't anticipate moving him out of it until he grows out of it. Mostly because his room is on a different floor than ours and I don't want to go up there in the MOTN.
We have RNPs and love them. They didnt like their cribs and prefer an incline. I had them in our living room during the day at first too. Now they are just for night and we use bouncers during the day.
And they sleep in the RNP in their room across the hall. They were in our room until a couple weeks ago.
Post by curbsideprophet on Jan 15, 2015 2:50:52 GMT -5
We used a co sleeper with both kids. We moved DD to her room around 8 months. DS is still in the co sleeper (7 months). Ours is full size and you can take the bassinet part out so it is basically like a PNP.
Post by sillygoosegirl on Jan 15, 2015 4:14:22 GMT -5
First ~6 weeks in an arms reach cosleeper. Then she started refusing it and would only sleep if she was touching one of us, both night and day. Also, started wanting to nurse like ever 60-90 minutes. So she slept in our bed for a while. After a week or two of that, we got her back in the arms reach for the first sleep of the night and back to sleeping in more reasonable lengths (3-4 hours followed by 2-3 hours), but our bed for the rest of the night. And that brings us to now.
I thought it was hog wash what they say about mother's and baby's sleep cycles aligning when bed sharing, for better rest in spite of it all, but having done it, I'm now a believer. I wasn't nearly as tired during that period of short sleeps as I would have expected. But I'm super glad to have our bed to ourselves for half the night again, and wish it was all night.
Mine slept in her crib in her room right away. Even though her room is on the other side of the house, it's a ranch style so I didn't have to go upstairs when needing to get her. Plus, I never liked nursing her in my bed, I was always more comfortable on the couch or recliner.