How many Co-sleep?

Crequito · November 2013

My mother thinks DH and I are creating a little spoiled monster by putting her in bed with us some nights. We only do it if she wakes up in the MOTN and is so fussy she won't go back to sleep (even after we've offered a bottle) - maybe once or twice a week at the most? And it's usually around 3am so the two of us can get a few more hours before we need to start our day. DD is 7 months. How many out there are co-sleeping, even sporadically?

MrsG071809 · November 2013

I bring DD into bed with us most mornings after she has woken up to eat, as there is usually still an hour or two before the alarm goes off, and it's much easier to snuggle her back to sleep than to try and put her back down in her crib.

Do whatever works for your family - there is nothing wrong with bed sharing if you do it safely, and if it works for you!

RN2011 · November 2013

Our DD is 9 months and I sometimes bring her to our bed on the weekends when she get's up early. Even though she STTN I just like to have a little more time in bed with her.

LisaLisa1980 · November 2013

My SIL bed- shared with their daughter for 2 yrs. she's perfectly fine.

I personally cannot do it as my h & I like to cuddle and DTD.

=Lee=B · November 2013

We do, my 8 month old is more than happy in her crib. Goes down awake and puts her self to sleep with zero tears or fussing. She does this for all naps and at the start of the night. But...I am just too tired to feed her and return her to her crib. I nurse her lying down on a twin bed in her room and then I pass out and nurse on demand all night. I get way more sleep this way.

I do hope to start spending more time in my own bed, with my husband...but am just to lazy/tired to get up in the night and go back down the hall!

pinottoparenthood · November 2013

Our guy has slept in his crib since day 5, but now if he wakes up MOTN the eat, I nurse him side lying I bed. I often fall asleep while he nurses so sometimes he ends up in our bed for an hour or two. Yu do what you have to do to get sleep! Sometimes I do worry I am creating bad habits, though. I am a teacher and we might have to sleep train over winter break if he continues to be reliant on nursing to fall asleep.

kellyrn9956 · November 2013

I exclusively bedshare. Sleep training went very poorly so we will try again at another time.

kellyrn9956 · November 2013

Oh, and my son is for sure a spoiled little monster. And I wouldn't have it any other way!! :x

PipSqueak0313 · November 2013

I have ds's crib right next to my bed....the amount of time each night that he spends in bed with me varies from night to night.

jllmb79 · November 2013

I put my DD#2 who is 8 months old to bed in her crib and co-sleep when she wakes the rest of the night.

I did the same with DD#1 and stopped around 10 months when I did progressive waiting sleep training. I will do the same with DD#2 in a few months.

Rochacha2013 · November 2013

How do you do progressive training

PandasMama0626 · November 2013

We exclusively bedshared with out daughter until she was 15 months and it took a good 6 months of finally keeping her in her own bed for the entire night. Now, she climbs in bed with us maybe a couple nights of the month (shes 3.5 now). Our son is 8 months and we have bedshared since day one...I wouldn't have it any other way personally

my mother bedshared with me, her mother with her and so on...it just doesn't feel right to have my kids in a separate bed when they are babies after spending 9 months in the same body. Plus, we have been very lucky that transitioning from bedsharing to sleeping in their own bed has been a fairly easy and painless process.

Crequito · November 2013

Thanks everyone! I thought the norm was to stop cosleeping by 6 months but I was wrong (and happy to hear it)! Some mornings it's just easier than going back and forth to DDs room to soothe her to sleep in her crib. And then it's nice to wake up next to her smiling face and play in bed for a bit . . .

SLGILL1978 · November 2013

I bed share with my daughter. We started at 9 weeks right before I had to return to work. She was a horrible sleeper before then. To be honest I wish I had started earlier. Now I have a great sleeper. She even sleeps great at daycare.

SarahandSam2007 · November 2013

The norm in other countries is to bed share. A lot of other countries think we are mean to our babies for making them sleep in solitude.

We bed share 100% of the time. My son will leave when he wants to and we can sacrifice our space for more sleep and a more secure child.

Just a thought.

Sweetpeakisses · November 2013

We co-sleep with our LO and we have been ever since she came home. We have a king sized bed so we all have our own little space. I just can't imagine putting her away from us in another room. She is a little spoiled, but I think that is more so grandma's fault

DanandVan · November 2013

We bedshare, and love it. We did with our other 2 kids as well. Right around age 2 we moved them into big kid beds, and it was an easy transition. Bedtime has always been tear-free in our home.
You should never feel bad about bringing your baby to bed with you, and if your mother doesn't like it, guess what, she doesn't have to know!

Elizabeth043086 · November 2013

We co-sleep and have since day 1. We also co-slept with ds 1 for his 1st year and the very first night we put him in his own crib was also the first night he slept a whole night. So, no it didn't create a spoiled monster in our case.

youenjoymyself · November 2013

We started exclusively bedsharing at about 3 months. I wouldn't have it any other way. I can't sleep without her.

thetwinsmama · November 2013

My twins co sleep sometimes still and I love it, when they are calm enough to cuddle!

rdbanks · November 2013

An interesting article I came across:

https://commonhealth.wbur.org/2013/11/is-it-time-to-rethink-co-sleeping

We don't co-sleep, but I thought this had some very valid points.

Smartie26 · November 2013

We have bed shared since the day DD was born. We cannot imagine her or us sleeping in any other arrangement! We sidecar 2 queen sized matresses on the floor and literally have wall to wall bed. So DH and I have our own "bed" and DD and I have our own bed. I just roll over to her bed to nurse and cuddle and go back and forth throughout the night cuddling whoever needs cuddles, DH or DD, lol. We love sleeping so close to our babe and truly cherish the nighttime nursing & cuddles.

We are huge advocates of "the family bed" and thankfully (suprisingly?) my parents both accept and support our sleeping arrangement.

NDarya · November 2013

I co-sleep with LO. My DH sleeps in a different room (not a very healthy situation for marriage I guess) but if they sleep in one room they constantly wake each other up by snoring, fussing, etc. LO is not a great sleeper so it's easier for me to soothe him right next to me rather than jump out of the bed every couple of hours. I still BF so co-sleeping saves me a couple of hours of sleep.

Kissimi21 · November 2013

We co-sleep with our twins half way through the night. At bed time, they are placed in their own cribs. If they wake up during the night, they can come in our bed. We did the same thing with DS1 and never had any trouble getting him to sleep in his own room afterwards.

Leni410 · November 2013

We coslept a lot from newborn to 5 months but I was sleeping like total crap so I put my big girl panties on and started getting her to sleep in her crib. Now she only comes to bed with us maybe 3 times a month? I miss cosleeping for the cuddles though!!

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