November 2015 Moms

Where does your newborn sleep ?

My baby girl was born November 2nd.
I know they say the babies should sleep on there own but it's so hard being a new mom again the second time around feels like the first ! Then she makes all kinds of noises even the smallest of squeaks I pop out my sleep to make sure she ok. We have a baby bed that you can put in the bed for the baby to sleep so you don't roll over the baby but trust me that's the least of our worries.
Its tough but we said when she makes a month we will put her in her bassinet. Luckily she sleeps through the night.
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Re: Where does your newborn sleep ?

  • Tiff1stTiff1st member
    edited November 2015
    I am a first time mom and my baby girl sleeps in the bed with us! She sleeps in my arms actually through the whole night. I tried to put her in her bassinet and she just won't sleep in it and than she makes a lot of noise in it so I just decide to let her sleep with us. Plus I freak out if she isn't close to me while sleeping! Also my baby girl was born the 1st of November (:
  • My LO was born Oct. 16 and she sleeps in the pack n play next to my bed. DH and I don't want the LOs sleeping in our bed for safety reasons and for down the road. We need the separation.

    She snores and makes all sorts of noises that DD1 never made so I get very little sleep but I suspect it will ease up in a month or two.
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  • Right now Zeke only sleeps solidly when being held. He won't sleep at all in the pack n play, and I can only get about 30 minutes out of the bouncer or swing.

    Right now he's cluster feeding at night so I'm not really getting sleep then anyway. So I let DH sleep thru the night then he takes Zeke while I nap during the day. Idk what we will do when DH's paternity leave is up though
  • In a bassinet about 4 inches from my face! Born 11-10
  • On my chest, because he refuses to sleep anywhere else.
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  • My baby sleeps in his crib in the nursery. It's very close to our bedroom, so we can hear when he gets fussy.
  • He just started to sleep in his crib but his crib is 2 feet from my bed.. But he is 3 weeks old and until the other day the only place he would sleep was in his swing.. He would fall asleep on my chest then I would move him to his swing and he would knock out and be fine but he hated sleeping flat on his back.. But sleeping with the baby in your bed with you can be very dangerous.. Unless of course you have them in a co-sleeper.. If you put your LO in the co-sleeper in your bed then you should be ok..
  • Lo born 11/10, first night home we tried the bassinet and it was a complete failure so we got a rock n play and that has been working much better. May give the bassinet another shot in a week or so.
  • LO born 11/16. He's sleeping in the napper portion of the pack n play we have in our room until my c-section incision heals up enough for me to be able to pick him up and put him down comfortably. Then he'll move to the bassinet part of it (hopefully).

    During the day I absorb all the newborn cuddles that I can. He goes in his swing when I need a break or to my mom while she's staying with us :)
  • rerawalt said:

    This isn't false info. Co-sleeping without a co-sleeper is incredibly dangerous. As a physician I have seen more sleep accidents than I can count and they are heartbreaking. Please invest in a co-sleeper if you want your infant in your bed with you.

    And just a personal pet peeve, reading online isn't doing research. Unless you are reading national guidelines (the AAP is very clear that they strongly recommend against co-sleeping) or have access to medical journals, all you are doing is reading someone else's opinion.

    Once again, please don't take my word for it. Look up the AAP recommendations on safe sleep and talk to your physician.

    I did talk to our pediatrician. Thank you.
  • We are bed-sharing and co-sleeping. We also read/researched online as well as discussed it with our midwives (we saw all 4 at the center) and 2 pediatricians, all of which think it's totally. It's a personal preference, but you can do it safely.
  • My LO sleeps in a pack and play next to our bed/in our living room.
  • We've transitioned to long naps in the crib and the rock n play at night.

    Our first coslept for 2.5 years and I'm kind of enjoying having my bed back so hopefully going to avoid cosleeping this time.
  • My little one sleeps in her crib in her nursery. Our rooms are very close, and we use a video monitor. She is two weeks old today. She has been sleeping in 3-4 hour spurts, wakes to nurse, and then goes back to sleep in the crib. I'm quite proud of her and hope that it continues.
  • Personally I am not a fan of cosleeping. I think it's because I am a very deep sleeper. Once with DS I was so exhausted and he was sleeping on my chest, I fell asleep sitting up and holding him. I was towards the edge of the bed. Thank god I had him on the other side of me. When I woke up I found that he slid down by my legs. I was terrified as I could have rolled over on him. With this LO, I got a bassinet that can be adjusted to hang right over the side of my bed so LO will be inches from me and safe.

    I realize cosleeping works for many women and that's fine. It's just a personal preference for me and safer for my baby not to do it.
  • This is my 3rd and the 3rd one to cosleep. I sleep better having them with me. That being said, we did buy an arms reach cosleeper this time and she has been in it once or twice. She is a better sleeper than my first 2 though. My first only slept on me. Period.

    Look up safe cosleeping practices and do what works best for your family. ♡
  • DD is one week old today and refuses to sleep in the pack in play as I had planned. She gets swaddled and sleeps in 2-3 hour intervals in RNP. I put her in her crib during the day for naps but she doesn't have it. Hoping this changes when she gets a little older! She also is still awake and cluster feeding during the night and sleeping during the day. Mama is tired.

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  • DS sleeps in the pack n play in our room. When I wake him up to nurse him I put him on my nursing pillow instead of my chest so he doesn't get too warm from my body heat. Then I swaddle him and put him in the pack n play. Before I discovered the body heat thing he would cry every time I put him down.
  • At first we tried having him sleep in a Moses basket at the foot of our bed. He did okay, but startled himself a lot, which in turn woke me up every time. This morning I tried swaddling him and setting him in his car seat (no buckles) and he slept for a solid four hours! I don't want him to sleep in there all the time, so I think we'll go find a little sleep and play later today.
  • DD is one week old today and refuses to sleep in the pack in play as I had planned. She gets swaddled and sleeps in 2-3 hour intervals in RNP. I put her in her crib during the day for naps but she doesn't have it. Hoping this changes when she gets a little older! She also is still awake and cluster feeding during the night and sleeping during the day. Mama is tired.

    DS is now a month old. He slept in the rock n play for the first two weeks and then I transitioned him to naps in the cribs, but he still likes the RNP at night. Have you looked at a sleep wedge for the crib? Both of my boys have had to sleep with a slight incline due to reflux issues. We also swaddle when he's in the crib because the open space seems to bother him. I've found that double swaddling, a receiving blanket swaddled under a swaddle me, works great for naps in the crib.
  • Anyone have issues with their little one sleeping on their own and then suddenly deciding not to?

    My little one slept on his own for the first week and now after he wakes up for his first feeding he refuses to sleep on his own. Any tips?
  • semulcahy said:

    At first we tried having him sleep in a Moses basket at the foot of our bed. He did okay, but startled himself a lot, which in turn woke me up every time. This morning I tried swaddling him and setting him in his car seat (no buckles) and he slept for a solid four hours! I don't want him to sleep in there all the time, so I think we'll go find a little sleep and play later today.

    Along the same lines as the rest of this thread, please do your research when it comes to decisions like this. There is a huge safely issue letting newborns sleep in their car seat for long periods of time due to the risk of positional asphyxiation. Also there a risk of strangulation letting them lay in there unbuckled. Again, ultimately it's your decision about what works for you, but please at least make an informed decision.
  • We got one of the "halo bassinest" things and have been really happy with it so far. The first few nights, LO wouldnt sleep anywhere but in our arms, but we started to put him in for small amounts of time during day naps, and now he will sleep totally fine. We plan to have him sleeping next to us in the bassinet for the first several months and transition into his crib.
  • Lolo427 said:

    Pacifiers will mess up a baby's teeth when they come in, don't let your baby sleep past 2 hours, don't swaddle it can up SIDS risk.

    Swaddling an infant who sleeps in the prone position can increase SIDS risk. But we all have heard time and time again that infants should be placed in a supine position to sleep. Research shows there is no increase in risk for SIDS when an infant is swaddled and placed supine to sleep.
  • He slept a total of 4 hours in bassinet the first 10 days home then we tried the rock n play, where be sleeps much better... unless he has gas, then he sleeps on us on the couch.
  • Lolo427 said:

    Pacifiers will mess up a baby's teeth when they come in, don't let your baby sleep past 2 hours, don't swaddle it can up SIDS risk.

    Swaddling an infant who sleeps in the prone position can increase SIDS risk. But we all have heard time and time again that infants should be placed in a supine position to sleep. Research shows there is no increase in risk for SIDS when an infant is swaddled and placed supine to sleep.

    No no I totally agree and have researched extensively (we swaddle Dd) but I can't tell you how many nurses at my birth center say that swaddling is now not okay and a SIDs risks. I was using those as examples for how people say many many different things ( ie, pacifiers are okay and you should use them versus pacifiers cause nipple confusion and bad teeth alignment -don't use them). Unfortunately this morning I was eh on the composition front.
  • Pontot31 said:


    Everything we do has risks. But flat out saying "it's not safe" ends up driving women to cosleep in unsafe ways.

    How? Do you have any proof or statistics to confirm that informing someone of the risks and dangers to cosleeping would lead them to practice 'unsafe' behaviour? I find no logic in this statement.

    I appreciate you are an advocate of cosleeping but to claim it is 'safe' is by your own admission false as 'everything we do has risks'.
  • Pontot31 said:

    He just started to sleep in his crib but his crib is 2 feet from my bed.. But he is 3 weeks old and until the other day the only place he would sleep was in his swing.. He would fall asleep on my chest then I would move him to his swing and he would knock out and be fine but he hated sleeping flat on his back.. But sleeping with the baby in your bed with you can be very dangerous.. Unless of course you have them in a co-sleeper.. If you put your LO in the co-sleeper in your bed then you should be ok..

    There are safe ways to cosleep. You just need to do your research. Please don't spread false info.
    I coslept safely for more than 3 years with my daughter and will do the same with the little one if he's not a crib fan.
    I was not spreading false information.. I clearly stated that it CAN BE dangerous.. I did not say there weren't ways to cosleep "safely" I said it can be dangerous to co sleep without a sleeper.. You are able to do what you feel comfortable doing but I was only saying that bad things can happen if you don't use a cosleeper.. There was no false information in my original statement.. I also never said "it's not safe" if you go back and read the original comment again you will see that those are not the words that I posted.. If you had a great experience cosleeping without a cosleeper then more power to you.. By all means do what you want to do.. But there are some women who have not had the same experiences and have heard otherwise..
  • My son sleeps in the rock-n-play at night. We're trying to transition to the pack-n-play but he's not much of a fan. During the day he'll sleep in the napper part. Of course his favorite place to sleep is on mama's chest in the rocking chair. If only we could do that all day!
  • Tiff1st said:

    I am a first time mom and my baby girl sleeps in the bed with us! She sleeps in my arms actually through the whole night. I tried to put her in her bassinet and she just won't sleep in it and than she makes a lot of noise in it so I just decide to let her sleep with us. Plus I freak out if she isn't close to me while sleeping! Also my baby girl was born the 1st of November (:

    Congrats that's my birthday !
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