Clicky Poll: Where does your baby sleep?

Mrs.Cooley2bee

Reading TTT's confession and responses got me thinking.  After about 2-3 weeks I have put both of my kids in their crib to sleep at night (started out in the swing or bouncy in my room).  They have never slept in my bed, ever.   Where did/does your baby sleep....let's say for the first 6 months?[Poll]

Superchicy

I voted in crib to start and then in bed, but I probably should have been the SS.  DD starts in the crib and then depending on the night is either with me in the recliner in her room or back in her bed if it's a good night.  She doesn't do well in bed with us, most of the time she just wants to pounce on DH and not sleep! 

jerseygirl81

Charlie was in his crib from the first night we brought him home. Bedsharing just wasn't for us. While I was home on maternity leave (and on weekends after I went back to work), sometimes we would doze together on the couch after he woke up in the morning (like from 7 to 8:30ish), but that was the extent of our co-sleeping. Even then, I wasn't really sleeping because I was overly paranoid about it.

teacherjess

Leah slept in her bouncer for the first two weeks and then in her crib. She has never slept anywhere, since then, besides her crib. I was terrified to bring her into bed with me early on because I was so exhausted, but I wish she would have been able to sleep better in the room with me because it would have been much more convenient early on than having to go into her room multiple times a night.

KristenBtobe

Maggie was in the swing in our room the first 4 months. Owen was in the co-sleeper until 5 months.

Mrs.Cooley2bee

Superchicy:

  She doesn't do well in bed with us, most of the time she just wants to pounce on DH and not sleep! 

I think this is exactly what Charlotte would do - she wouldn't lay down in our room if we begged!

Ttimes3

I gave it the old college try by buying the Arm's Reach Co-sleeper from Becky, but the AP in me won out and DS2 has been in bed, right next to me, since the day we came home from the hospital.  It was the same with DS1 (until he was 6 months old).  With J, we went straight from bed sharing to Ferber. And, if I'm being honest, I will admit that if it wasn't for DH, Ferber never would have happened (although I'm SO thankful that it did adn J sleeps like a dream).  We'll likely go the same route with W.

curlypie1

The lack of bedroom space in our house has DD#2 in our room for the time being. She'll eventually go in her sister's room but I'm not ready for that yet for a few different reasons. We had her in a co-sleeper for awhile and now she starts out in a pack n' play and once she wakes for a feeding overnight, I put her in our bed. I'm lucky that she's a solid sleeper and doesn't jerk around much. It's worked out so far. I don't plan on prolonged co-sleeping, especially if it ends up keeping her (or us) awake more.

sistrkate

Both of our boys slept in a bassinet in our room, but only till they were about 2-3 months old.  Justin moved into the crib in his room at about 10 weeks old (because I was going back to work and didn't want him in the room then).  We moved Tyler into his own room at 3 months, DH got tired of tiptoeing around in the dark with him in there.

DRockH

I picked SS, C has been in a RockNPlay since we got yelled at by our peds about letting her sleep with us. Its been awesome for us, but she is in our room, she will be until we are comfortable with her up in her own room.

 I am having a hard time with it because her Bedroom is upstairs and the master is on the first floor... We have a video monitor... I just would miss her! I am hoping to get her in her own bed when she is 6 months... or a long weekend... whatever comes first.

Moesten

jerseygirl81:

Charlie was in his crib from the first night we brought him home. Bedsharing just wasn't for us. While I was home on maternity leave (and on weekends after I went back to work), sometimes we would doze together on the couch after he woke up in the morning (like from 7 to 8:30ish), but that was the extent of our co-sleeping. Even then, I wasn't really sleeping because I was overly paranoid about it.

This is us exactly.  

JLPT830

I voted SS.  Both DD and DS slept in a bouncy seat in our room for a few weeks and then into a bassinet in our room.  DS moved to his crib around 2 months because I went back to work and he was such a noisy sleeper.  I imagine we will try the same with DD.  DS started STTN shortly after we switched him to the crib.....I would love to move DD soon, but she does this weird spit up/gag thing and I still want her close!

l.m.k.

Special snowflake - Nora was in a co-sleeper in our room for the first 2 and a half months, then her own crib.

If she wakes at night, I feed her in her room and put her back to bed, unless it's close to when we have to get up for work anyway - then I'll bring her in bed, nursing laying on my side, and try to catch some more zzz's before work.

Brougham7-15-06

for the first 3 months Audrey slept in her PNP in our room, the bouncy seat or swing.  Now she either sleeps in her crib or her swing...we are trying to break the swing, but she just hates her crib most times..I have no idea why

cops_wife

She started in the bassinet next to our bed. Once she outgrew it and decided the only way she was sleeping was if she was touching me, she went in our bed with me. It was the only way I could get any sleep, especially because DH was working overnight at the time and couldn't help. She co-slept with me until she was a little over a year old. Once DH's shift changed at work, we worked on getting her in her crib. She still often comes in our bed early in the morning and dozes for a few more hours, though.

Mommy2Max

Special Snowflake here.  Max was in the RCNIC at CCHMC for the first 6 months of his life, but when he finally got home he slept in a pack in play for the first two weeks and then went to his crib in his own room.

mag2point0

Until 3 months she was in the co sleeper and occasionally in the bed with us. At 3 months, we switched the co sleeper to a bassinet when I realized I was waking her up a lot. She didn't seem all that comfortable in the bassinet though and we moved her to her room at 4 months.  During long nights when I find myself getting up every hour, she usually ends up in bed with me.

schwenjl

Ttimes3:

I gave it the old college try by buying the Arm's Reach Co-sleeper from Becky, but the AP in me won out and DS2 has been in bed, right next to me, since the day we came home from the hospital.  It was the same with DS1 (until he was 6 months old).  With J, we went straight from bed sharing to Ferber. And, if I'm being honest, I will admit that if it wasn't for DH, Ferber never would have happened (although I'm SO thankful that it did adn J sleeps like a dream).  We'll likely go the same route with W.

This exactly right down to DH taking the reins with Ferber! He's ready to get Georgia in her crib now, but given the fact she might be our last baby I am dragging my feet BIG time.

Ttimes3

schwenjl:

Ttimes3:

I gave it the old college try by buying the Arm's Reach Co-sleeper from Becky, but the AP in me won out and DS2 has been in bed, right next to me, since the day we came home from the hospital.  It was the same with DS1 (until he was 6 months old).  With J, we went straight from bed sharing to Ferber. And, if I'm being honest, I will admit that if it wasn't for DH, Ferber never would have happened (although I'm SO thankful that it did adn J sleeps like a dream).  We'll likely go the same route with W.

This exactly right down to DH taking the reins with Ferber! He's ready to get Georgia in her crib now, but given the fact she might be our last baby I am dragging my feet BIG time.

This will DEFINITELY be me!

Lucky_N_Love

I voted sleeps with mommy. We became bed sharers on accident I suppose, but now I can't imagine anything different. We have been thinking/talking about making the switch  now to get her into her bed. I sidecarred the crib thinking she would start sleeping in there but next to me then we could slowly make the transition. Yeah the crib is not comfy I get why she doesn't like the hard as a rock mattress. 

I have 3 different sleep books checked out from the library right now including the sleep lady shuffle and Dr. Gordon's family bed book. We'll see what we end up doing. We have a vacation planned for May where she will probably sleep with us there so I may just wait.

FWIW I think more people do this than will admit and I always love it when I run across a mom who {gasp} brings their baby to bed sometimes. 

andailey

We brought DD home from the NICU when she was 2 wks. old, and tried the PNP in our room for nighttime sleeping. She absolutely hated it, and so from 5 wks. on she slept soundly in her crib in her nursery. She never looked back, but continued to sleep in the PNP (we moved it downstairs) for naps during the day.

Since we have a 2 BR and our house is on the mkt, we are buying a co-sleeper for DD #2 to keep in our room, and keeping the PNP downstairs until we move. (Which I pray is this summer, at the latest!!) 

KYmama9286

Nicholas was in our room in a bassinet until he was almost 2 months old exactly. We kept him in our room since I was EP'ing DH would get up to feed Nicholas since I was getting up to pump so we were both up every time he got up in the middle of the night for the first 2 months. Thankfully he was a great sleeper (in the beginning he has gotten progressively worse lol) and was sleeping 6-8 hour stretches at 2 months and that is when we transitioned him. Since neither of us were having to get up multiple times a night there was no need to have him in our room.

Also, in the beginning he had REALLY horrible reflux and would reflux and choke on the acid (coming out the nose, him gasping for air, really not fun for a new mom). But thankfully by 2 months we got his medication figured out so I was more comfortable having him in his own room. I do wonder if it will be different with the next baby if I am able to nurse instead of having to pump...if that's the case it will be a whole different story I imagine since it will be only me getting up vs. both DH & myself. 

kel716

SS..  B slept in his carseat until he was almost 6 mos old.  Since then, he's been in his crib/ toddler bed.  He did much better with the incline, so the carseat worked for us. 

shawnsweetie

Rylee was in our room for 4 months and then moved to her crib.

Parker was in my bed until 6 months and then I moved into his room. He is 2 and I still sleep in his bed with him

JenRose05

i chose "starts out in crib but ends up in bed with us after 1st waking (after we've gone to bed). if i didnt do this i would probably get an hours sleep a night. We bedshared with Ben but he easily went to his own crib if we wanted him too and he was sttn at 6 weeks. If Nathan would sleep in his crib i would not bedshare this time around. i love the cuddle time but not having the option to go back and forth isnt so fun (and i realize its not realistic and we were very lucky when it came to Bens sleep habits)