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2nd Trimester
Kingston54
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If your dog sleeps in your bed/bedroom...
Kingston54
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Do you have any intention on changing that when the baby comes?
MIL sent me an e-mail today suggesting we do this. I do not understand how, since our dog has slept in our bed/bedroom since we got her, over 5 years ago.
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Re: If your dog sleeps in your bed/bedroom...
exactly. Baby will not be directly in the bed with us, just in the bassinet next to me. He always sleep curled up at the end of the bed anyhow (the dog, that is)
Our 3 labs sleep in our room currently but we will be moving them to their own "room" in a couple of months. I would let them stay but they like to wake up at 4:00 am and wander around the room, lay their head on the bed trying to wake you up, and then they do the "shake" and make a RACKET with their tags... it's awful... I don't know why we haven't moved them yet ha!
So they'd be waking the baby up all night plus I'd be tripping over them every time I breastfed and break my neck. So thankfully they will have their own nice room to sleep in
but we're doing this months before baby comes so they don't associate the change with the baby and resent the baby.
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we didn't change this. our DS slept in the PNP bassinet on my side of the bed for the first 8 weeks, and our dog never bothered him. the bassinet was set up for about 5 weeks before he was born, so he definitely had time to sniff it out.
our dog sleeps in his kennel on DH's side of the bed, or sometimes he comes out & moves to his pillow on the floor. he is pretty mellow at night.
Oh this is something I hadn't thought of yet. Not this time around at least since the baby will be sleeping in our room in the beginning. DS didn't. I think it is important no matter how calm/well behaved your dog is that it not be left unattended with a baby. Particularly given this tidbit I read today: newborn in critical condition.
I'm counting while you're sleeping as equavalent to 'unattended'.
Probably the one I linked just above. Yes, that one was part wild animal. However, I've heard similar stories involving the family's sweet golden retriever. My point is an animal is still an animal and doesn't have the same ability to reason and think they way people do.
I think mine are pretty stinking close. Yes, my dog is a trained therapy dog used to being man handed by toddlers. However, she's still an animal and you just can't always tell if an animal just isn't feeling well or something else is going on.
We are blessed to have a huge master and it will fit us, the baby (in a his.her own bed) and our two well trained rottweilers, who sleep on their beds, never in the bed. I always wonder about people whose dogs have free reign of the house. If my dogs were allowed to roam the house all the time I think I would trip over them (rottweilers are like shadows). When they are in the house, they stay on their beds all the time.
This also keeps hair in the house to a minimum, despite having 180lb of dog. (I don't want people to think my dogs are deprived, they go on beach/woods romps nightly and they trade on and off coming to work with me every day.) This whole "beds all the time" plan is mostly DH's since he is OCD about cleaning but now I am really glad because I think it will be much easier when the baby comes. How are you guys going to deal with dog hair and dog following you around and baby or does it not bother you?
We have a 20 lb pug. By letting him have free reign, it does not impact our lives at all.
And as far as dog hair goes, he does shed like crazy, but we vacuum/sweep every day. He will likely follow us around a lot, but like I said, he's small, he doesn't get in the way.
Our dog was sleeping in the bed with us until I got pg and I have purchased his own bed which is now on the floor right next to the bed.(dog is 5 years old) He has taken the change better than I thought he would and I am glad we started it early rather than just when the baby comes.
So far it is hot where I live which is one of the reasons I think the dog is happy to have his own bed on the floor, but come winter time he will probably want to be back on the bed under the covers...and baby is due in fall/winter!
I am not worried about my dog around the baby at all! For us it was a matter of space. I didn't want the bed to be so crowded once baby came (DH, me, dog, baby all on a queen). I also didn't want the dog to think "I was here first, who/what is this thing" I wanted to set clear boundaries early and transition the dog from the bed to his space where he is comfortable.
My dog mysteriously stopped coming to bed with us when I miscarried last winter - now he sleeps in the living room.
But our plan before that was: his crate is in our bedroom. If we found that he was too much in the baby's face at bedtime, he could go in there. Normally he used to sleep at our feet, but he really loves babies & children, so I could see him becoming too attached.
No, why would we move her? I'm not sure I understand what your MIL is worried about. You would be right there too so you are not leaving baby alone with the dog.
We have had our lab for 4 years and she has slept in our bedroom the entire time. We are on baby #3 and don't plan to make her leave this time either. She wasn't any problem with the other two babies during the time they were in a bassinet in our room so I doubt she will be this time either.
Those parents were idiots and did not have the house baby proofed yet. And they also admitted that the dog like to take things and hide them. THEY should have trained the dog! And shut the door to the baby's room when they were not in there!
We have a little dog, a shih-tzu, who sleeps with us. He has slept with me since the day I got him (at 4 months). I will not be changing this when baby comes. He tends to stay in bed if my FI is in bed. So if only I get out he won't be too phased. He adapts to change very well, we have moved 3 times in his short 2 years of life.?
He would be too bad if we kick him out. He is super dependent on us, so he would bark the whole night, every night if we put him in a different room. He has to just get used to it, the same as we do.
I DO NOT plan on allowing the baby to sleep in our bed. I don't want to start that habit, so overcrowding will not be an issue either.?
When I started getting smell aversions back in 1st tri, unfortunately, my dogs were among them. I felt so awful because I couldn't stand to be around them no matter how many times I washed them! My oldest doxie is my baby and he always slept in bed with us under the covers. We started crating him with the German mix we have (they are best friends) at night and he was sad at first but now he won't come out!
It's been a little better this trimester and he's been back in the bed a little, but mostly he prefers the crate now. When LO gets here, I think we'll just switch to the crate full time so that there won't be any confusion in the night.
Our black lab has free reign of our house and we have never had any issues. Our dog is really laid back and rather lazy though. At night he is either sleeping in his dog bed in the corner of the living room or in the spare bedroom on the bed. I don't plan on making any changes to his sleeping arrangements.
I do feel better knowing that the baby will be sleeping in the co-sleeper in our room for the first couple months though. I doubt Rockie would ever do anything, but accidents do happen. The story where the Golden Retriever strangled the little girl because he was playing with the tails of her scarf is always in the back of my mind.
I second this. My dog and cat will probably still sleep in our bed. The cat may choose not to once the baby is nearby, but the dog is 14 and not going anywhere she doesn't want to. We won't always have her and I just couldn't do that to her now. Besides, sometimes I think her "pop pop" (my DH) would kick me out of bed if she wanted to sleep in my spot. LOL!!
we have a pitbull that sleeps by the bed in her own bed. The baby will be in the co-sleeper, and i don't think we'll have any issues.
The article is unfortunate, and i feel badly for the family, but we don't know the whole scenario that occured in that. And random things happen. For example, remember the article about the newborn that had its limbs chewed on by the family pitbull while the parents were sleeping? The media failed to mention for quite awhile that the parents were sleeping off drugs, and nothing would have woken them up.
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