Those who bedshare with mobile LO's

KMEss86 · January 2012

Do you put your baby to bed first, and then come back out? We always started the night in the crib, and when ds wakes up, I bring him into bed with us. However now our old routine isn't working anymore, and we lay in bed with him until he falls asleep and then get back up, leaving him on the bed alone. (The mattress is on the floor). The room is babyproofed, and I have a monitor on, but Im still so nervous about him being in there, able to wake up and get up, in the dark.

Does anyone else do this? And will I stop worrying so much?

Angela814 · January 2012

We have DD start out the night in her crib and bring her to bed with us when she first wakes up. She's all over the place once she's in our bed, and she's still waking every couple hours, so I need that 3-4 hour stretch of sleep alone. She's 18 months now, and I will leave her in bed in the morning to shower. She finally knows not to walk off the bed.

Our bed is actually higher than usual, and she's learned how to climb down. (We do have a guard rail one one side, so she sleeps between that and me or between me and DH.)

Krista123105 · January 2012

DS starts off in his crib, and then when/if he wakes up during the night he joins us in bed. If he sleeps later than us we move the video monitor into our room and focus it on him so we can watch him while we get ready for work.

TiffanyBerry · January 2012

Since she's been unswaddled, she's gone into the bed with me and I leave (when I don't fall asleep). They do fine - better dark vision than you'd think. She climbed off the bed (low to the ground) successfully a couple of times before we put the bed on the floor, and she's never had a problem. (She rolled off once - while I was in there. She was annoyed, but totally fine.)

(I would worry more if it were hardwood rather than carpet. Which her room is. So I'll be putting blankets or area carpets on the floor when we put her in her own room.)

3003girl · January 2012

We have the crib sidecared and I put her to bed and leave. the beds are also on the floor. if she wakes up she usually sits up and cries and I run in to the room. once she sat up too close to the edge and fell off onto the dog bed. she was upset, but mostly scared, not hurt.

I usually stay in bed and read with her though. We live in a loft so we can't make much noise after she is asleep anyway. we unfortunately have a very light sleeper.

nosoup4u · January 2012

Yep! DS2's mattress is shoved in the corner, and our king-size mattress is next to it. The room is baby-proofed, and he usually just cries out and waits for me to come in if he wakes up, though he has walked to the door before. We had the same set up with my older son, but he never got off the bed when he woke - which was awesome.

Show him how to go backwards to get off the mattress (though it's really not a big deal if he rolls off, both my kids have done it), but you'll be fine. If you're really worried, you could get a video monitor.

pixieprincss · January 2012

We start LO out in his own, child-safe room on a floorbed. We don't mind if he gets up and entertains himself in his room, but he usually just wakes and crawls to the door or cries out for us. At his first real nightwaking after we are ready for bed/in bed, we move him in with us.

danseusefrancaise · February 2012

We do this with DS who is 15 months old. We put him to sleep in his toddler bed first and when he wakes up (he always does), we put him back to sleep in our bed. Depending on what time it is, we get back up and leave him there by himself, but we have a small light on and don't close the door so he can get out if he wakes up again. We haven't had any problems yet. I worried about him a lot when he first went to his toddler bed, too. I kept a monitor on, too, but turned it off after a week or two because he could open his door (it doesn't latch, he just has to pull on it) and often I would see him before I would hear him on the monitor. I think you'll get more comfortable with it as time goes on.

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