Question for cosleepers

stoneycakes · July 2012

If your LO goes to bed before you, where do they sleep? We've been transitioning our 8 week old from his RnP (which we mostly keep in the living room) to his cradle which is in our bedroom. We were taking shifts sleeping on the couch with him but I would like for us all to sleep together now that he sleeps better. LO goes to sleep an hour or two before I do. I'm wondering if I should keep him in the living room with me until I go to bed or start him off in the cradle by himself with the baby monitor on. Is he too young to be sleeping in another room for a couple hours?

tokenhoser · July 2012

When he could sleep through anything, we kept him in the living room with us. Once he got older and needed the dark/quiet, we started him in his crib in his room.

poison489 · July 2012

During the early months with DS, we would start him out in his crib at our bedside and then transfer him to bed with us when he would wake up for the first time at night. We had a video monitor for him when we were not in the room.

00jennifer00 · July 2012

I'm a bit paranoid about SIDS, so I always have my baby sleep in the same room as me for the first 4mo or so, naps included. After that, I'll start laying the baby in my bed and use a baby monitor so I can hear if s/he needs me before we come to bed.

Rdautenhahn · July 2012

00jennifer00:
I'm a bit paranoid about SIDS, so I always have my baby sleep in the same room as me for the first 4mo or so, naps included. After that, I'll start laying the baby in my bed and use a baby monitor so I can hear if s/he needs me before we come to bed.

This. We have also added a side rail in case some how I don't get there fast enough when he starts moving. My H works nights though so often times I will just get in bed when I put the baby to bed with a glass of wine and my kindle.

StefandTodd · July 2012

We have a king size bed and a bedrail and a video monitor. He goes to bed in our bed at around 7:30 or 8...we've tried the crib, but he just won't go down easily, it's a fight, and he wakes up several times and cries. In our bed, he will still wake up after an hour or so sometimes, but he'll see he's in the bed he loves, and he'll just roll over and go back to sleep. So our bed it is. I just watch him closely on the monitor. He's never been one to jump up quickly and crawl without me being able to tell (and, I can hear him breathing, hear the blankets rustling, etc on the monitor anyway), so I don't worry about him falling off the bed really. We like this system. My only downside is we have to be reeeeeally careful when we do go to bed, not to wake him. And sometimes he's doing the starfish in the middle of the bed, so that can be a bit hard

nosoup4u · July 2012

Both of mine started sleeping in a crib in our bedroom around six weeks. Just use a baby monitor, it's not a big deal. Both of them would wake up if it was noisy or bright at that point, so they needed a quiet space before DH and I went to bed.

pixieprincss · July 2012

At that age, he'd sleep in our bed or the sidecar--same as if we were in bed. When he started crawling, we started him on a floor bed in his own room.

It sounds like right now you are sleeping with your baby on a couch sometimes. Cosleeping experts will tell you to never do this. Couches and armchairs are not safe places for babies to sleep because of the softness and the crevices.

pixieprincss · July 2012

ClaryPax:
pixieprincss:

At that age, he'd sleep in our bed or the sidecar--same as if we were in bed. When he started crawling, we started him on a floor bed in his own room.

It sounds like right now you are sleeping with your baby on a couch sometimes. Cosleeping experts will tell you to never do this. Couches and armchairs are not safe places for babies to sleep because of the softness and the crevices.

You could be right, but I kind of took it that OP was on the couch and baby was in a bassinet or something next to couch. At least that is what we did for the first 6 weeks.

Ah, got it. That makes sense with the transitioning out of the RNP part.

mkflower3000 · July 2012

Because we weren't fitting comfortably on our queen sized bed, we took DD's crib and attached it to our bed like an extension (we took a side down and moved it right against my side of the bed). We usually start DD in there no matter what, and when it's time to nurse I just move her closer to me. It's nice too, because even when she ends up in our bed I can keep her right on the 'edge' (since it just spills over into her crib) and that gives us a ton more space. Anyway, I just turn on the monitor and check on her every once in a while. So far it's not been a problem!

stoneycakes · July 2012

Hi Pixie,

Thanks for your concern, but no need to worry. LO sleeps in a Rock n Play next to the couch. It sits level with the couch so we keep it in the living room and one of us sleeps right next to him. The cradle is level with our bed so we keep it in the bedroom and it is similar to a sidecar setup, except the rail is still between the bed. I didn't feel comfortable with the RnP in our bedroom because it sits so low and I was afraid our blankets might fall into it (DH tosses the blankets around sometimes) so I've been waiting for LO to like his cradle before putting him in our room.

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