Sleeping with baby report! Read this....

[BabysMomma]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...Babies-share-mothers-bed-age-good-hearts.html

So we're told by MWs and HVs not to bring our baby into bed with us...and now this! How the heck do we know what's best when we're told so many different things!

 

[nikki8092]

i co slept with both my children on and off. Thought it was much easier to breastfeed if they were next to me. its not for everyone though and there are precautions you have to take. x

 

[nikki8092]

Wouldnt go as far as 3 years old though, thats just madness x

 

[Sarah13]

Im too scared to risk it as much as I'd love too! My hubby knocks Kynon when I'm breast feeding in his sleep as it is cos he's so unaware! I really have to shout to wake him too. I must admit one of us sits cuddling Kynon loads in the day and I let him sleep on my chest then, it's meant I've got really lazy and not done much but I love it and think it's more important than housework etc! Think I'm still on my babymoon!

 

[nikki8092]

Baby cuddling is way more important than housework, that can wait but babiews dont stay babies forever xx

 

[Dragonfly Fi]

just be careful not to fall asleep with your baby on the sofa, if your feeling tired you are both much safer on a bed x

 

[spice]

i personally think that the study size is to small to make a proper judgement, my mum co-slept with both me and my brother and we are both very close to her but i'm the same as Sarah13 i'm to scared to co-sleep with Flynn as my OH is always well gone and even manages to roll onto me in bed :s so having Flynn in the bed would not be safe! though Flynn does spend most of his daytime sleeping on me

 

[clairebear22]

If Jack wakes before 6am I bring him into bed with me for a cuddle and a snooze. If he wakes up after 6am we get up. I love co-sleeping with him for a few hours but understand people being too scared to do it.

Jack's going into his room in the next few weeks and i'm planning to stop the co-sleeping before he gets to used to it because a little boy I childminded still co-sleeps with his Mum & Dad and he's nearly 8 years old!!! Jack will just have morning cuddles with us when he goes into his own room x

 

[Maria1977]

You just have to do what feels right for you. We are a cosleeping family and I used to have 'the fears' until OH did alot of research and we found out it is safe, you just have to be cautious. Don't use big blankets, pillows etc, don't smoke or do drugs, don't drink alcohol. I feel that having him close to me all the time has been beneficial for him, and me. I just feel it in my gut. I'm just worrying with #2 on the way if we have room for 4 of us lol

 

[spice]

If Jack wakes before 6am I bring him into bed with me for a cuddle and a snooze. If he wakes up after 6am we get up. I love co-sleeping with him for a few hours but understand people being too scared to do it.

Jack's going into his room in the next few weeks and i'm planning to stop the co-sleeping before he gets to used to it because a little boy I childminded still co-sleeps with his Mum & Dad and he's nearly 8 years old!!! Jack will just have morning cuddles with us when he goes into his own room x

tbh we do this to but i'm normally awake and Flynn is drifting in and out of sleep and i just like to lay there watching him!

also, after reading the little debate in the "sleeping through the night thread . . . i'd just like to say that, as a species that evolved and spent many thousands of years sleeping in caves ect we wouldn't have survived if we couldn't co-sleep safely as it would have been to cold for the baby to be separate from us!!!! monkeys co-sleep in trees quite well so i'm sure we can manage it in a nice warm flat bed lol!

 

[Dragonfly Fi]

Totally agree!

a dog will occasionally roll onto a puppy but rarely, but they have many puppies in a much shorter gestation, we are designed to grow ONE baby in 9 months and then care for it completely (like a kangaroo would for a baby roo) for another 2 years at least! Think about other mammels, they can walk practically straight away, it takes us years to do that!

So actually the notion that we are designed without a inbuilt ability not to roll on and harm our young is ridiculous!

 

[isobel84]

I don't listen to studys like that, (what ever they r about) I listen to my instincts.
I would not cosleep I don't cosleep. But that's mainly cuz we can't stand sleeping together. I can't imaging to have him in his own room tho, I need him close but in his cot.

 

[Lulu_Laroo]

Oh for goodness sake. I am so sick of reading/hearing conflicting advice.

I am too scared to co-sleep with Poppy but have occasionally snoozed with her in my bed for a short period of time. I'm interested to know how people do it - do you have baby in the middle on his/her back without pillows or do you keep them on your chest? What sort of blankets and pillows do you use for yourself whilst co-sleeping?

 

[Eilishnbean]

Grace usually comes in bed with me for a few more hours jn the morning. She lies flat on the bed with her little blanket and I only have one pillow moved away from her head or she sleeps with my arm wrapped round her with her head leaning on my arm. I keep knees right up to her feet and either blanket just up to my waist or fluffily dressing gown and know blanket. X

 

[Momma`Kat]

I coslept for a long time with alanna, and believe me you dont sleep the same way, you are very aware of every move they make even when asleep. But now she is older, she wouldnt fall asleep atall if she was in my bed, so she just naturally progressed to her own cot, and then to her own room

 

[xxbeckyxx]

I couldn't do co sleeping - like MK says, you are very aware of what's going on even though you are asleep, but the men aren't quite the same lol! My OH hasn't got a clue when he's asleep - he's squashed me several times!
I also think our relationship wouldn't be quite the same if we couldn't have our own snuggles in bed - as much as I love being a Mummy, it's nice to go to sleep and wake up as a couple in our own right iykwim

 

[Dragonfly Fi]

have people thought about having a sidecar cot? it means you have the benefits of co-sleeping with the benefits of having your own space

i will find a piccie of our arrangement and upload it x

 

[Momma`Kat]

Dragonfly - That was my plan! But I couldnt find a cot to work right with my bedframe

 

[Dragonfly Fi]

it doesnt show it very well but Jasper is in his cot and Liam is lying on the bed, it was very easy just leave one side off the cot and bolt it to the wooden bedframe.

we had it like that for months and months until Jasper moved into his cot away from the bed (because i was pregnant and he kept climbing on me!

 

[clairebear22]

If Jack wakes before 6am I bring him into bed with me for a cuddle and a snooze. If he wakes up after 6am we get up. I love co-sleeping with him for a few hours but understand people being too scared to do it.

Jack's going into his room in the next few weeks and i'm planning to stop the co-sleeping before he gets to used to it because a little boy I childminded still co-sleeps with his Mum & Dad and he's nearly 8 years old!!! Jack will just have morning cuddles with us when he goes into his own room x

tbh we do this to but i'm normally awake and Flynn is drifting in and out of sleep and i just like to lay there watching him!

also, after reading the little debate in the "sleeping through the night thread . . . i'd just like to say that, as a species that evolved and spent many thousands of years sleeping in caves ect we wouldn't have survived if we couldn't co-sleep safely as it would have been to cold for the baby to be separate from us!!!! monkeys co-sleep in trees quite well so i'm sure we can manage it in a nice warm flat bed lol!

I'm out for the count when we co-sleep lol. he lays on my left side and I curl my arm around him, i've never moved while he's been in with us x