for the co-sleepers..

starlingrose

How do you manage to actually get sleep? My LO has slept in bed with us for 3 nights now in a cosleep bed but I havnt been able to sleep at all with him beside us because every sigh, coo and little sound he makes wakes me up! Does anyone else have this problem?? My LO makes alot of sound at night and I almost want to skip the cosleeper and the bassinet and use the crib already! ( except I dont want to because it scares the crap out of me when he spits up in his sleep). Anyone else experience this?

ljlkm

I totally know what you mean, but I just got used to it.  A few weeks at waking up to his every sound and realizing he was fine and just making noise trained me to sleep through most of it.  I'm still working on it, though--even last night he woke me up fussing a little bit.  But I sat there for a few minutes, realized he was still asleep and fine, and then I just went back to sleep. 

Kflie83

We had to end up moving Evan to his crib after a week for this same reason. The little amounts he was sleeping every night were wasted on me tossing and turning and checking on his every sound. It was not making me a very good mommy!

MrandMrsAndrews

jackieobride:

How do you manage to actually get sleep? My LO has slept in bed with us for 3 nights now in a cosleep bed but I havnt been able to sleep at all with him beside us because every sigh, coo and little sound he makes wakes me up! Does anyone else have this problem?? My LO makes alot of sound at night and I almost want to skip the cosleeper and the bassinet and use the crib already! ( except I dont want to because it scares the crap out of me when he spits up in his sleep). Anyone else experience this?

Me and my LO bedshare (DH is there but LO sleeps exclusively on my side).  The first couple of nights his little noises would wake me up - but they would also wake me up if he was in his bassinet.  We didn't bedshare at first because I was terrified, but did a lot of research and feel better about it.  I sleep better because he is next to me and I don't feel the need to sit up and look at him, or go into his room and check his crib.  

I have started to be able to "decipher" the in his sleep cries and little movements enough that they wake me up sometimes, but I am able to fall right back asleep with him.  

Mrs.DeliaMarieP

This is why i moved DS into his crib the other night...it's much easier for me to check the video monitor than get up and look in the bassinet for all his grunts and groans

ETA i've also learned which noises are sleep sounds vs. awake sounds and therefore know what to ignore most of the time...i'm just a light sleeper and i can turn down the monitor a bit...can't turn down the baby

peachypear

I learned what to sleep through and what to wake up for - it helped that I was so exhausted that I'd sleep through anything. But DH is a light sleeper and couldn't ever sleep through it. Some of the best advice I was given was "do whatever gets you sleep." Every baby and parent is different. For us, I slept best with DD and DH had to sleep in another room (now DD is in her crib/nursery and I'm in bed with DH). My SIL coslept with her first and had her second in the nursery almost immediately, b/c that's just what worked.

shortyran

We had a basinette (did I spell that right?) in our room, but my little guy refused to sleep in it- he would cry every time we tried to put him in it. So, my husband got booted to the guest room and the baby co-slept with me for the first 5 weeks. The baby is such a loud sleeper though- he's constantly making noise- and he was at least a little more quiet when he slept with me (I'm not sure why??) So, I dealt with it for the first 5 weeks. However, I always slept with one eye open and was getting exhausted, so just this weekend I tried rocking him to sleep and trying the crib in his room- and it worked! We have him sort of on his side in a sleep positioner, and that helps him sleep a little better (he has pretty bad reflux). We also have an angelcare monitor, so I don't feel bad turning the sound down really low (so I'm not woken up by all of his grunts, but can hear him if he actually starts to cry). It's worked the past two nights (knock on wood!!). I know the angelcare monitor is a little bit overkill but it really puts my mind at ease knowing he's breathing in there