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If you bedshare after LO's first nightwaking...

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What time does your LO go to sleep for the night and what time do you bring them into your own bed?

After a year of terrible sleep, we've finally given in to part-time bedsharing on a regular basis ... but DD's first nightwaking is generally just an hour after we put her to bed around 7:30/8 and we're not ready to go to bed by 8:30/9. Luckily I can usually nurse/rock her back to sleep and put her back in her crib until she wakes again another hour or two later. At that point we've been bringing her into bed with us, where she thankfully is nursing just once or twice more before morning (versus waking every hour or two if we try to have her sleep all night in her crib). Just curious what other part-time bedsharers' routines are...

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  • CJJ1016CJJ1016 member
    Well my LO is stil pretty young, but the routine lately has been she goes down around 10 (anywhere from 9:30-11) and sleeps til 3 or 4, then she nurses and goes back down til 5ish when I side nurse and keep her in bed.
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  • wendyll64wendyll64 member
      I do something similar. He has been starting the night in his RnP but he's starting to get uncomfortable in it as he's trying to move around from side to side and the RnP limits him to only his back.  I'm working on crib transition now.  He has always slept better in bed with me but I'm (a) unwilling to go to bed at 8 and (b) sometimes it's nice to have a little sleep on my own. I usually bring him into bed with me between 12-3a.
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  • nosoup4unosoup4u member

    DS2 would start the night in his crib until he was about a year...at that point we gave up on it, and put his crib mattress next to our mattress (we still haven't bought a bed frame). It was getting too hard getting him back in the crib when he was waking so soon after going to bed, so this way I can just go in and nurse him without having to move him around.

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  • KMEss86KMEss86
    DS goes down around 8, and usually wakes around midnight, and I bring him into bed. He wakes several more times before morning. If he wakes up before Im ready for bed, I nurse him and put him back in his crib. 
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  • TiffanyBerryTiffanyBerry member
    Even at 2yrs, DD starts in our room and stays there.  At 1yr, we added a mattress on the floor in our room, next to the bed, but I sleep down there with her most of the night (it's our old queen mattress).
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  • jaimevogtjaimevogt member
    Just read a chapter in my book "bringing up bebe" that if your child wakes up between midnight and 5 am to try to put them back to sleep w/o nursing. This way their body starts to get used to not eating those hours. Like we all learn to sleep through the night.
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  • pixieprincsspixieprincss member
    We bedshare at his first nigh-waking after we are in bed. He tend sto go down around 7-8, needs some pats at 10 or so then comes in with us around 12:30.

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  • ryry1977ryry1977 member
    DD is asleep between 9 and 10pm lately...trying to get it earlier.  She sleeps in her arms reach co-sleeper at first.  Whenever she wakes up (the 1st time) somewhere around 2am I bring her into bed with us.  She BFs and goes right back to sleep.  Spends the rest of the night with us.
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  • Allie77Allie77
    He's asleep between 8 and 9pm. Falls asleep on our bed having a bottle of milk then I move him into his crib. His first waking is around midnight then I just bring him into our bed with us and he falls immediately asleep (he doesn't eat during the night anymore). But if I try to move him he wakes up screaming. So he sleeps the rest of the night with us. And he doesn't wake up until 8 am. He started bed sharing with us at 9 months when he learned to stand up in the crib and it was just easier to get him to go back to sleep in the bed (we all could get sleep this way). He's now 18 months and loves the bed. I'm thinking of getting him his own real twin bed and trying that since he's getting so big we are running out of room (but I do like waking up with him). But I'm worried I'll just be sleeping in his room with him in the twin bed! We'll see how it goes. 
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