cosleeping?

Re: cosleeping?

• volleydiva

  July 2009

  I am having the same problem, I really don't want DD to cosleep, but she won't sleep more than 20 minutes in her bassinet, and I need to get sleep too.  I definitely want to see anyone's answers who have successfully switched there child to a bed.

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• Cassandra1028

  July 2009

  I mainly co-slept for the first oh, 5 months! Alexander just transitioned to his nursery. We slowly got him to do his first sleeping time in the bassinet in our room, then in his bassinet in the nursery, and now in his crib. It took 10 days in  his bassinet in his nursery and then he's been in his crib for the past 7 days. The first 2 nights were "rough" and me and DH camped out on his nursery floor...but 2 nights is nothing compared to what I thought it was going to be...especially from what everyone else was telling me ("you're never going to get him to sleep on his own", "he'll be in your bed until he's 3", and on and on the comments go)

  I say don't worry about it...get as much sleep any way you can get it. Just make sure you co-sleep safely (remove blankets from him, get side-rails, etc)

  Good luck!
  

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• JLS0320 member

  July 2009

  I work, but on weekends when I want a few more hours I bring DS in w/ us to nurse and sleep in. We face each other or he's on his back and his head is usually propped on my chest and I have an arm around him to keep him from rolling. It's not very comfortable sleep but its better than getting up at 6 on a Saturday! I don't put him between us just because I don't sleep as deeply as DH does and I am very aware of where DS is. I don't want DH to move an arm and hit DS on accident.

  

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• Suparstarz714 member

  July 2009

  Dh actually WANTS DS to sleep in the bed with us because he sleeps so much better.  Of course I don't sleep very well because I am freaked out that one of us is going to roll over on him.  I start DS out in the crib but in the middle of the night he hates to go back in there. 

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• Lilo06

  July 2009

  When I was pregnant, DH's friend, who has a 5 year old, told DH never to let me sleep with our baby or else we'd never be able to get the kid out of our bed and we'd never have sex again!  I think said friend is a little bitter about something...  LOL

  Anyway, DS started out co-sleeping with us for part of the night.  He was in a bassinet in our room and would come into bed sometime toward morning.  When he was 3 months old, we moved him into his crib in his room.  Moving him was easy and didn't require any sort of a transition period.  Now he usually starts the night in his crib and comes to bed with me around 4 a.m.  But some nights he spends all night in his crib, and some nights he spends all night with me.  He switches back and forth really easily.

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• daisy365

  July 2009

  We let DD sleep with us for the first 2 months.  I had a really hard time with  it because my DD was really tiny.  We used a co-sleeper in our bed.  It is a small box like thing with mesh hard sides.  This way I could get really close keep my arm around her, etc... but not worry about one of us crushing her.

  After a while she would start off in her bassinet, but by her 5a.m nursing she would stay in our bed.  She is now 41/2 mo. and sleeps in her bassinet all night. After her nighttime nursings she goes right to sleep in her bassinet.  I do pull her in bed with us when we sleep in just because we still like snuggling with her. 

  I used to say I would never do that!  Now I feel that if she needs us to feel secure than I want her to have it. Plus, sleep is so important for you.  I say do what works and when it no longer works try something new: )

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