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2nd Trimester
Where will your LO sleep at first?
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Re: Where will your LO sleep at first?
We co-slept with the first two. They were in our room for the first 7-8 months because it was easier as far as nursing goes. This time, our plan is to have the baby in our room, but we're going to try not to co-sleep. We'll see how it goes.
With our first, our original plan was to have her in her crib from day one, but when she was four weeks early, neither of us were comfortable having a preemie in a room by herself (she was healthy enough to come home with me two days after birth). Our plans didn't go as we thought, but it ended up being easier co-sleeping. The only reason we're going to try not to this time, is because neither of our kids slept through the night till they were 18 months. Not sure if that was the cause or not, but we're going to see what happens with this one. We may go back to co-sleeping. Who knows.
We plan on having baby in our room for a little while at first. Unless we don't feel like it works, then we'll figure something else out.
I've read that it's good to have the baby sleep in the crib (move it into your room if you want) from day 1 so that they don't have to transition to their crib from a bassinet or a pack'n'play or something.
Right now we're planning on using a Pack'n'Play with the bassinet feature. I've not heard that they're not safe. Any details on why the crib is "safer"?
As one of those people, I have to laugh. You will find that will many things, your plan may change once your baby gets here. My sister used to give me the hardest time. Lo and behold, her baby now sleeps only on her, not even in a bed.
That said, my daughter and my marriage have done very well with us cosleeping (she just moved to her bed at age 3, although I sleep with her some nights). We are a very close family and my husband is a doll who never once complained. As working parents, those extra hours together were a benefit to us not a burden.
Like anything else, try not to be quite so judgemental above parenting choices, because soon yours too will be called into question.
It's actually quite easy. You start co-sleeping while you're breastfeeding because you find yourself becoming a zombie and unable to stay awake enough to safely take care of your infant. Then your infant is colicly and screams all hours of the night refusing to sleep unless the warm of mommy is near and you just don't know what else to do but you can't let a 2 month old scream until their breathless for hours and hours. So then you end up in a horrible habit with a 2 year old who will not sleep in their own bed. At least that's our story. It's easy to criticize it when you haven't experienced it.?
Our plan is to have our LO sleep in a cradle in our room for at least 3 months while we're breastfeeding on demand and then we'll move to the crib. We'll be sleep training this one from the get go
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I haven't even thought about it yet. But I do know that my ss and his mom co slept and it was so hard for us to finally get him to sleep by himself. When he was 2 we started sleeping on the floor next to his crib, then we'd lay there just until he would fall asleep, then we'd stay in the room by the door, then we stay on the outside of the door, he is almost 4 now and still thinks that we stay outside of his door (even though we don't).
Time alone was important to us (still is) so don't do this if time alone is important to you.
I am using the pack n play. Because right now I am staying at my fathers house an that is the only room I have. As soon as I move back in with my fiance *he is traveling for work and doesn't have a permanent home* we will have her in a crib in her own room!