if you bedshare and want to get ku this year

[juliamastro]

I bedshare but want to get KU this summer and I am having a hard time trying to decide what to do with DS1.

I didn't plan to bedshare, but it is so much easier.

What do you plan to do, or when/how are you going to transition?

[Dorothy Zbornak]

We are all in a huge bed+single bed pushed up against huge bed. H can move to her room whenever she's ready. So, I guess I have no answer. But if you're going to transition, I'd do it sooner than later.

Eta: Not getting KU this year!

Sent from the future.

[juliamastro]

Jan 5, 2013 9:35:34 GMT -5 Dorothy Zbornak said:

We are all in a huge bed+single bed pushed up against huge bed. H can move to her room whenever she's ready. So, I guess I have no answer. But if you're going to transition, I'd do it sooner than later.

Eta: Not getting KU this year!

Sent from the future.

Thanks. I know I should have transitioned by now, but I like my night time snuggles

[redmonkeystomper]

We were cosleeping and just started the transition. We are not trying to get ku.
However, when we were cosleeping and wanted to do the nasty we would wait until LO was asleep and move her into the crib which is in our room. Maybe if you have a pack and play or even set up a little pallet on the floor so when you want to do the deed you can move her for that.

[Dorothy Zbornak]

Jan 5, 2013 9:49:06 GMT -5 juliamastro said:

Jan 5, 2013 9:35:34 GMT -5 Dorothy Zbornak said:

We are all in a huge bed+single bed pushed up against huge bed. H can move to her room whenever she's ready. So, I guess I have no answer. But if you're going to transition, I'd do it sooner than later.

Eta: Not getting KU this year!

Sent from the future.

Thanks. I know I should have transitioned by now, but I like my night time snuggles

Noooo! That's not what I meant! I am very pro bedsharing, and if you have a big enough bed, you all can continue with a new baby. I just figure that if you must/want to transition, then you probably have to do it before the baby gets too opinionated.

We enjoy our big hippy family bed, though. I wouldn't want to do it any other way!

Eta: Uh, by "do it" I don't mean IT.
Sent from the future.

[jaime183]

We bedshare and part of me wants to continue but part thinks he needs his crib. He hates his crib mattress though and kicks in there which he doesn't do on beds. I think the mattress is too firm.
We've started laying with him on the guest bed and letting him fall asleep in there closer to 7. Once he is out we sneak out of bed. At 10, when we go to bed, DH brings him in our bed.

I bought these bed rails (originally for our bed but our mattress was too tall) and have them on the guest bed. I wouldn't trust him to be awake/angry with them- he could jump over but once hes asleep he barely moves. I like having the rails there and we use the monitor and as soon as he stirs we run upstairs
www.amazon.com/Regalo-Hide-Away-Double-Sided/dp/B000HK6BCE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1357399908&sr=8-1&keywords=regalo+bed+rail+double

So to answer your original question... we get alone time from 7/8-10 now. It's much nicer than when we all got in bed at the same time

[mamasaurus]

We aren't trying, but we either get it on before we bring her into bed with us (usually she goes to bed earlier than we do and starts in her crib) or do it during naptime on the weekends in another room of the house. It's definitely more challenging to find opportunities.

[Dorothy Zbornak]

Hold up a second. Is this question about where the first baby should sleep with the second baby comes? Or is this a question about what to do with the first baby when you want to try to make the second baby?

Sent from the future.

[mamasaurus]

Lol! Dorothy, I see now that there are two very different ways to understand this question.

[juliamastro]

Jan 5, 2013 11:23:23 GMT -5 Dorothy Zbornak said:

Hold up a second. Is this question about where the first baby should sleep with the second baby comes? Or is this a question about what to do with the first baby when you want to try to make the second baby?

Sent from the future.

Lol my predicament is our bed is not big enough to cosleep with two babies so I need to transition C to his crib.

[jaime183]

Jan 5, 2013 15:45:40 GMT -5 juliamastro said:

Jan 5, 2013 11:23:23 GMT -5 Dorothy Zbornak said:

Hold up a second. Is this question about where the first baby should sleep with the second baby comes? Or is this a question about what to do with the first baby when you want to try to make the second baby?

Sent from the future.

Lol my predicament is our bed is not big enough to cosleep with two babies so I need to transition C to his crib.

Oh! I thought it was about making the second baby because we wouldnt leave him on the bed alone so when he went to sleep we did...