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Tell me about how you co-sleep and/or bed-share

MereBride2007MereBride2007
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I have a 9 week old baby and we have bed shared for the past 7 weeks.  I don't mind the middle of the night feedings so much, but right now I am going to bed with the baby every night around 9pm and I am getting tired of it.  I feel like he needs to go to bed earlier, but I also don't know how to get him down without me.  If you bed-share, do you go to sleep when your baby goes down for the night?  If not, what do you do?  Do you put your baby in your bed and join him/her later, or put them in a crib to start the night? 

I am also thinking about side-caring the crib to our bed to try putting him down in that for the first part of the night.  Right now he likes to sleep right (and I mean RIGHT) next to me, so I'm not sure if that will work.  I guess we need to start working on new things - like going to sleep without mommy right there and how to sleep at night without mommy next to him.  He takes naps during the day in his swing just fine.

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Re: Tell me about how you co-sleep and/or bed-share

  • tokenhosertokenhoser member

    When he was little, he just slept in the living room with us in his bouncer or swing. I'd bring him to bed with me when I went to bed, or DH would bring him in when DS needed feeding and then I'd keep him.

    Honestly, "working on new things" with a 2-3 month old is likely to end in misery for everyone. Do what works. A baby doesn't really have the capacity to form habits until somewhere in the 4-6 month range. We went to him starting the night in the crib around 6 months, and it went fine.

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  • NiniJ55NiniJ55 member

    DS falls asleep in the living room most nights and I carry him to my bed. I join him at the end of my night once I put DD to bed and finish up my chores.

    I used to put him to sleep in his crib and then he would come to my bed for the other half of the night when he woke up around 3 or 4am. 

    DD on the other hand sleeps in her crib (I worry about co-sleeping with both).  Around 5am when I've had enough I bring her to my bed (we lay across the bottom as to not disturb DS) for about an hour then I put her in her own crib.

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  • vintagejjanevintagejjane member
    I lay with her/ feed her until she is sound asleep in our bed. Then I get up and hang with my husband, then just lay next to her when I go to sleep. It's usually only an hour after she goes down.
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  • MereBride2007MereBride2007

    imagevintagejjane:
    I lay with her/ feed her until she is sound asleep in our bed. Then I get up and hang with my husband, then just lay next to her when I go to sleep. It's usually only an hour after she goes down.

    I think I am going to have to try this.  If I keep him with us watching TV he will fall asleep but wake up a lot, so I don't feel like it's good sleep.  I think I will try lying down with him tonight but earlier and then sneak away when he's down.

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