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Babies: 9 - 12 Months
cosleeping question
For those of you who sleep with your DC actually in bed with you do you ever worry about rolling over on them? I don't sleep with DD in bed with me at night and never have (she sleeps in her crib in her room), but I love to nap with her next to me every now and then. I feel like I am so aware of her presence that there is no way I will ever roll over on her. A part of me still fears it though (and my dad is always telling me I shouldn't put her in bed with me and that even if I don't think I could roll over on her it could happen.) I really don't want to give up my occasional nap with DD because it's great bonding time and she loves it as do I but am super paranoid that I need to give it up.
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Re: cosleeping question
Nope.
I'm pretty crazy anal about following safety stuff as far as not going to bed with her after I've been drinking or taking medication, etc.
I figure DH and I don't roll over on each other in the night, so I'm sure I won't roll over on my baby.
My honest (and probably highly flammable) opinion is that roll-over-deaths happen when people are careless and irresponsible.
What saves you from rolling onto your baby is the same thing that prevents you from rolling right out of bed every night. Just because you're sleeping odesn't mean you are unaware or comatose.
So no, I don't worry. We do things as safely as possible, and I feel good about it.
We worried about it at first, but not any more since we've been doing it since he was about a month old.
He always sleeps between our pillows and prefers to cuddle up to DH than to me. Though DS and I did take a lovely nap this afternoon and he slept fine with me.
IDK. We were nervous when we first started cosleeping, but now it's old hat and we thoroughly enjoy it!?
I worried a lot about this at first, but DS wouldn't sleep anywhere else. When he was a newborn, I would wake in a panic thinking I had rolled over on him. As he got bigger, I worried less. I also read a study (sorry, I can't remember where it was from) but some researcher who has done a ton of work with co-sleeping pairs found that mothers don't roll over on their babies and they seem to have an innate sense of where the baby is in the bed. Fathers, however, did not have this sense and are apparently more likely to do it. I share the opinion that most rollovers (nothing is 100%) occur when one of the parents is impaired. I think it is much less likely to happen during a daytime nap too because you aren't in the same deep sleep state you might - if you are lucky - reach overnight.