How do you cosleep?

crunchylove77 · November 2012

I really thought I would cosleep for at least the first year, but he's been in his own room now for over a month. :-( It's just what gets everyone the most sleep and works for my little family. Maybe with #2!?

BUT, I know cosleeping looks different for every family, so I was wondering, how do you cosleep?

jkeyros · November 2012

We bedshare and have done so ever since DD was about 2 weeks old. It was so much easier to bf every few hours lying in bed rather than sitting up in a chair trying not to fall asleep. I became a very light sleeper after #2 because I started bedsharing with ds #2. I just put a pillow on either side of me and tilt LO towards me so that there's easy access to bf.

Emerald27 · November 2012

We bedshare. Our mattress is on the floor, and I used to keep DS on the outside next to me, but now he sleeps both on the outside and between DH and me. I also nurse DS to sleep for naps in our bed.

We love this arrangement. It is very snugly and we all sleep very well...unless DS is getting a tooth and waking grumpy often. At some point in this next year, we plan to purchase DS his own twin mattress. We'll put it next to our bed at first to begin the transition to independent sleep.

ashleylchapman@hotmail.com · November 2012

My DD has slept in our bed since birth. Even in the hospital she didn't sleep in that little bed, she slept with me (well I didn't do much sleeping there lol). She sleeps inbetween DH and I since we are both light sleepers. Our mattress isn't on the floor or anything since she isnt crawling yet. She has a crib which she just started taking some naps in. Other times I nap in the bed with her. I don't really have a plan for when she starts crawling because I don't know if we'll still be bed sharing or not....I never planned on it....it's just the only way she would sleep but now I really enjoy it. So we'll see how it goes and make adjustments as needed. If our bedroom wasn't so tiny I would have put the crib sidecared to the bed but that didn't work

MomtoH · November 2012

We bedshare. She sleeps on both sides of me (for nursing purposes). When she's on the outside, I have a toddler rail to prevent her from rolling off the bed.

KateLouise · November 2012

We bedshare too. She starts the night off in her own cot.

I used to sleep with her in our bed, with a bedrail, but then she got so mobile I got anxious about her pulling herself up on the bedrail and falling over it before I woke up and was aware she was awake.

Now I sleep with her in a single bed in the nursery.

skibunny59 · November 2012

We never planned to cosleep. It just sort of happened. DD slept with us for the first 3 months of her life simply because she wanted to nurse all night long and it was just easier for all of us. I didn't mind it. I loved having her tiny, snuggly little body next to me.

When she turned 3 months we decided to "try" putting her in the pack and play next to our bed one night. She did very well with the transition and slept there until she was 6 months old.

When she was 6 months old we moved her to her crib in her own bedroom. She usually starts the night out in her crib and then I bring her into our bed for her MOTN feeding. She is 8 months old now and lately, has been ending up in our bed the whole night again because she wants to nurse constantly. Oh well. We see it as a temporary situation and we know that one day, we will want to snuggle in bed with her and she won't want to.

We have been pretty go with the flow kind of parents. We do what is easiest for our family at that particular moment and what gets everyone the most sleep.

skibunny59 · November 2012

skibunny59:

We never planned to cosleep. It just sort of happened. DD slept with us for the first 3 months of her life simply because she wanted to nurse all night long and it was just easier for all of us. I didn't mind it. I loved having her tiny, snuggly little body next to me.

When she turned 3 months we decided to "try" putting her in the pack and play next to our bed one night. She did very well with the transition and slept there until she was 6 months old.

When she was 6 months old we moved her to her crib in her own bedroom. She usually starts the night out in her crib and then I bring her into our bed for her MOTN feeding. She is 8 months old now and lately, has been ending up in our bed the whole night again because she wants to nurse constantly. Oh well. We see it as a temporary situation and we know that one day, we will want to snuggle in bed with her and she won't want to.

We have been pretty go with the flow kind of parents. We do what is easiest for our family at that particular moment and what gets everyone the most sleep.

She sleeps in between DH and I. We are both pretty light sleepers. Our bed is not up against the wall or anything so I'm afraid if I put her on the end then she would roll off.

JessieJH · November 2012

We mostly bedshare.

LO starts out the night in her crib (from about 7-11). she magically wakes up within minute of me getting to bed in our room. Then DH and I bring her to bed. She sleeps on alternating sides of me to nurse- snuggled up against me most of the night, though she gravitates to her own space in the middle in the early morning (arms flung out- super cute). We also have bedrails on both sides for safety.

As much as I hate the lack of sleep I get I do love waking up in the morning as a family. :-)

We are dragging the crib in to our room tonight to see if we can get her to sleep on her own a bit more (for my sake).

NYGirl02 · November 2012

DD starts off the night in her crib in her own room. I do my best to keep her in there all night, however, she wakes up 1-3 times a night and usually ends up in our bed between me and DH. Lately she likes to sleep in the crook of my arm with her head snuggled right up by my neck. It's so sweet, but I am not getting any sleep, and don't really enjoy cosleeping when its this regular.

Still free to be me · November 2012

We have a family bed. We have a crib, sidecarred to a twin, sidecarred to a king. It is really ridiculous and I thought it was the craziest bed ever...then, I found out one of my best friends has the exact same set-up!

When DD1 was born, she slept in a Moses basket next to the bed. When she outgrew it, she looked so teeny in the crib that I just brought her to bed with me. Then we sidecarred the crib.

DD2 started out bedsharing in the hospital. When we got home, she and I slept in the twin, while DH and DD1 shared the king. I wasn't happy, though because the twin wasn't as comfortable and I missed sleeping with DD1 so much. (I didn't feel comfortable bringing DD2 into the king because it is too soft and there is just too many people, pillows, blankets, stuffed animals, etc. in there.) So, I move back and forth from the twin to the king, depending on whether the baby needs me next to her or is sleeping fine alone. DD1 seems to be getting ready for some more independant sleep. She has been sleeping in the crib about half the time, these days...

I guess we have a pretty fluid sleeping arrangement...It works for us.

Alliebooberz · November 2012

Bedshare since birth, we recently side cared the crib in hopes of transitioning him to the crib next to our bed. With number two, we plan to have number one in the side car crib and number two in bed.

boogerbearoriginal · November 2012

We bedshare. Started off with LO in the bassinet next to the bed as a newborn however by around 3-4weeks (when the HOLYSHITIHAVEABABY!!! energy wore off) I was falling asleep sitting up while nursing him all the time. And H would come in to find me sitting in bed holding LO, both of us sleeping.

We slowly came to accept that this really wasn't the best solution so by around 8-9weeks when he stopped pooping all night long and I wasn't getting up to change his diaper, I just brought him into bed. I still had to wake up to get him latched but it was a million times better. We did the crib side car but he really never slept there because he preferred to sleep snuggled up to me.

It wasn't until LO was around 4-5m that H felt comfortable with him in bed because he was so paranoid that he was going to roll on top of him, or hit him with his arm or whatever. Once he started crawling, and took a spill off the bed, we put the mattress on the floor. Although TBH we could probably put the bed back up now since he just sits in bed and yells for someone when he wakes from naps.

Now it's us that has to watch out for LO since he likes to thrash around in his sleep! I have been hit in the face more times than I can count. We have been discussing when to transition him to his own sleeping space, but ironically H now likes having him in bed. Although he says it's up to me since I'm the one getting up at night to nurse. He seems to sleep fine for several hours at night so I may start him off with his own mattress next to us soon.

danigirl7181 · November 2012

We also bedshare. We bought DD a twin bed about month ago and shes only slept in it 3 times. I miss her when she's not in bed with me. She would wake up several times and I would have to go in by her. DH and I both work night shift and don't have off of work together often. It's just easier having her in bed with us, not sure when we will completely transition her to her bed.

LadyDelilah · November 2012

Evie weaned herself off of us at 7mo. She just wasnt having it and once we transitioned to a crib she was much better. Now we room in and she will have spurts of wanting to be with us in our bed and we dont say no or "tain" her to go back to her bed.

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