I know the babies are months away from being born, but anyone plan on co sleeping?

Sweetlill1 · September 2014

We will likely keep the baby in our room in a pack n play or something similar for the first three months and then we will be moving and will plan to have a separate room for the baby but who knows for sure. I will not be bed sharing.

mrsalvidrez · September 2014

Definitely planning to co-sleep mostly because the set up of our house (that I hate) is not convenient for LO to sleep away from us. I would be hauling my ass up a tiny steep staircase every time baby needs something. Also, DH is firm on co-sleeping and doesn't want LO out of our room till like a year old. (We will see how he feels a couple months into it).

Mushibamboo · September 2014

All 4 kids in my family co-slept during infancy (in same bed--the distinction is new to me also). I did it with my daughter. It's the secret to my success at nursing--I would have gotten zero sleep without it and would not have been a happy camper

. I'm into it. I plan on doing it with all my babies. It's definitely not for everyone--if you or your partner have sleep disorders, illnesses that disturb normal sleeping patterns, are on certain medications etc it isn't for you. If you have normal sleeping patterns, the same principles that keep you from rolling out of bed in the night (most adults don't do this because they still have spatial awareness at night) keep you from rolling onto your baby/child.

My daughter transitioned at age two, which worked for us. She still hops in bed with me after a nightmare or for a quick cuddle and I love it. Again, if it works for you, awesome. If not, still awesome. It's one of those family culture things I think. My best friend thinks it's weird.

JJBoden · September 2014

Co sleeping is what has helped me get some sleep with nursing as well. So I'm sure I will end up with # 3 in bed too. I'm just hoping to do something different at some point so # 3 is a better sleeper than the other two. And yes, it was just called co sleeping when my oldest was a baby. The calling it bed sharing now and co sleeping if s baby is just in your room is not what it's always been called. Dr. Sears called co sleeping when a baby was in your bed. At any rate we do it safely with no pillows near baby, no blankets. And baby is between me and wall not by daddy.

Babykells3 · September 2014

The way I understand it is that Bed Sharing is a type of Co-sleeping. Co-sleeping includes anything where the baby is sharing a space with the parents, whether it be a bed, a side car, their own bed but in the same room, etc.

MudLover · September 2014

We'll have a PNP set up in our room for the first few months then transition to crib in his/her room. That's what I did with my DD and it worked. Well, that's what we're hoping for anyway!

EmmaSF · September 2014

With DS, he slept in a RNP next to the bed until 3 months and then went into a crib in his own room. With the twins, we will probably do the same until we sleep train around 4 months. It's going to be interesting!

cheshyrz · September 2014

Planning on something like this for sure; Best of both worlds?

Ashgal · September 2014

My husband and I support co-sleeping once baby is big enough and did it with both of our boys. However our youngest(3) is still crawling into our bed at night and waking both me and my husband up at night. We have had such a time getting both boys to sleep in their own beds in their own room and it has wreaked havoc on our sleep. For this next baby, we plan to have baby in a bassinet or co-sleeper next to our bed until she outgrows that. Then we will transition her to her crib in her own room, which is literally feet from our room. We learned our lesson, I guess you could say.

RobynB13 · September 2014

I never plan to, it always just seems to happen. I don't move when I'm asleep, and a terribly light sleeper, so with all three I've ended up sleeping with them on my chest, wake long enough to nurse, then back to sleep. The Boppy was the greatest invention ever!

islandmom79 · September 2014

We are planning to have the baby sleep in our room in PNP for first 3 months and then transition to the crib in separate room. We did this with DD and it went fairly well.

kbehelr · October 2014

kbehelr said:
Warning-scary info ahead... I serve on a committee at my hospital in conjunction with social services and we investigate cases of infant death. It's only September and we have had 3 babies die so far this year from co-sleeping. It is absolutely heart wrenching to work these cases, but want you to be aware that this happens, much too often.

In all cases the parents were considered healthy and well educated. It does not take much to suffocate a baby. In one instance a pillow had moved and prevented the baby from getting air in another it was an individual's arm.

OliveMom3 · October 2014

With DS we had him in his p&p for the majority of the night but by 2-3 am he would come into bed with is so I could get at least a couple hours sleep. He was a horrible sleeper, up every 30 minutes to three hours (and I was lucky if it was over 2 hour stretches) for the first 6 months. He slept in our room until around 5-6 months (last year 5-6 months was the current health Canada guideline) when he started getting really noisy at night and we transitioned him to his crib in his room. He just started STTN a couple weeks ago (at just over a year old) when we started giving him a bottle of organic wcm before bedtime nursing. He sleeps from 8pm until 4:30-5am and that's miraculous for him. I still bring him into bed in the morning to nurse and try to get an extra half hour before going to work.

OliveMom3 · October 2014

We will do the same with the new LO unless the baby dictates otherwise.

MissLMS · October 2014

With both my kids they started out in a cradle next to our bed, but never bed shared. The couple times I nodded off while nursing scared me to death.

DD transitioned to her crib in her room at 5 weeks because she was a noisy sleeper. DS stayed in the cradle until 3 months, then slept in the rock n play beside our bed until 6 months. At that point he still wasn't sleeping through the night and basically using my boob as a human pacifier every other hour at night. Moved him to his crib in his room and we had the best sleep ever.

joanakunzler · October 2014

I have no idea what I will do, I think baby will decide it for me. Lol
All my friends with kids say I should NEVER EVER share the bed, but I know my mom did and my mother in law too. So I guess it will depend on how calm the baby is, let's see.
But there will be for sure room sharing.

Murran131 · October 2014

Our plan is to room share, but definitely not bed share. I know I wouldn't sleep, I'd be so aware of all my movements and worry all night. I think the arms reach cosleeper sounds like a great way to go, and we'll probably use something like that for the first few months. Then a crib in our room. We're in a VERY tight living situation right now anyway, so not much choice, but I think we'd be doing that either way.

bcope2530 · October 2014

Yes, I plan on doing it. I have read the benefits for mom and baby. Seems like a good idea!

nchall2012 · October 2014

Personally, no. A neighbor co-slept with her first, rolled over and smothered her baby. Why risk it?

phoenixrising702 · October 2014

The key here is to do your research, make the choice that is best for you and your family and do it safely!

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