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Another question (sorry to bombard you girls I hope you don't mind!)
Who here is partially co-sleeping? What I mean is the baby sleeps on the crib but when LO wakes up sleeps with you? Or like sleeps with you during naptimes?
I don't mind co-sleeping with LO in fact I love the cuddle times. Lately it's so hard to put him to nap (and the only times he would nap is either with me beside him or on his stroller.
Dh thinks it's a bad habit and that Tristan would ask to sleep with us during the night as well. However, his routine has been since 3 months old is sleeping on his own crib during the night. Is this bad?
We co lspet with Jude as a baby, ans he has happily slept in his own bed since he turned one. He never wants to sleep with us, but does come in to snuggle in the morning
Rogen sleeps in his crib for the first half of the night, and then I bring him into our bed in the early morning.
We always put Lila down to sleep in her crib and then when she wakes up she comes into bed with me. Sometimes it's 11, sometimes it's 4am. As much as I love having her next to me, I wish she wasn't there because that would mean she was sleeping through the night!
Only if you want him to keep sleeping in his crib. DH went on travel and DS stayed in a playpen near the bed (he ALWAYS sleeps in his crib if we are home). Middle of the night he would cry and I was too tired to put him back to sleep. So he climbed into bed with me. After 2 weeks on this bad habit, it was VERY difficult to get him to sleep the night in his crib. It was so painful to hear him cry so much.
We always put Lila down to sleep in her crib and then when she wakes up she comes into bed with me. Sometimes it's 11, sometimes it's 4am. As much as I love having her next to me, I wish she wasn't there because that would mean she was sleeping through the night!
SAME HERE. We do the same - she goes to bed, in her bed, every night. Usually its closer to 11 that she is in my bed, but every once in awhile we make it past midnight. I make no effort to get her back in her bed - I am just so lazy and she is such a horrible sleeper, plus I don't want her to wake up my other kids. I too worry that its a bad habit, but right now I'm in survival mode.
What I hate about is that I am so uncomfortable! I wake up every morning stiff and sore from sleeping in whatever space she allows me. But I do enjoy the cuddling part and the ease of just nursing her back to sleep.
Janel, how did you get Jude to sleep in his bed? You just did it one night and he didn't mind? My biggest fear is that she will be sleeping with us till she's 10, so your post gives me hope.
One thing I have been good about is making sure she goes to bed every night in her bed and naps, twice a day every day, in her bed. I'm hoping since she's at least used to sleeping her bed part of the time, she'll be able to transition eventually...
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I believe co-sleeping is very personal to the families that are doing it, especially at this age. My son co-slept until he was a year and a half, and he does fine in his own bed now. It's really all up to what you are comfortable with!
Only if you want him to keep sleeping in his crib. DH went on travel and DS stayed in a playpen near the bed (he ALWAYS sleeps in his crib if we are home). Middle of the night he would cry and I was too tired to put him back to sleep. So he climbed into bed with me. After 2 weeks on this bad habit, it was VERY difficult to get him to sleep the night in his crib. It was so painful to hear him cry so much.
Okay, so maybe I should really consider trying to put him on his own bed even during naptimes!
I think it's just the lazy part of me that just doesn't want to bother and want the easier way out. I just don't want him crying in the middle of the night either - wanting to sleep beside me. It might be harder to transition him then...
We always put Lila down to sleep in her crib and then when she wakes up she comes into bed with me. Sometimes it's 11, sometimes it's 4am. As much as I love having her next to me, I wish she wasn't there because that would mean she was sleeping through the night!
yup, that's exactly what we do. We used to co-sleep exclusively but I've been trying to encourage Will to sleep in his crib more and more. He naps there now, and starts the night there. Last night he slept in his crib until 3AM, and then came in bed.
Nevan sleeps in his crib till he wakes up around 3-5 am... anytime in there, then he comes in my bed.... my bf sleeps on the couch cause he snores way too loud.
Nevan has fallen off the bed twice once he woke up and I just had my eyes closed but was awake. So im gunna try and break him of the habit of sleeping with me... by giving him a bottle in his crib, and then switching it with the suckie after its finished.
I dont need him fallin off the bed and seriously hurting himself.
Eclipse is a strict sleeper in her bed (or seat if she is having belly episodes). Hurricane is a partial co-sleeper. He sleeps in his bed til he wakes then Hubby brings him to our bed (I move too slow at night because my hips hurt). He sleeps with us til morning.
Mak partially co-slept with us until she was almost 13 months. We do the thing with Maddie. She'll start the night in her crib. She wakes up around 12am to quickly nurse and she goes back in her crib. She'll wake up again around 5am and I'll bring her into bed with me. She'll nurse herself to sleep and we get up for the day around 8:30am.
Bringing her to bed lets me get some extra sleep in the morning. If she's having a restless night and wont' go back in her crib I put her in the playpen that's in our room. If she's really awake I'll bring her to bed before the 5am.
It works for us. Because both girls start the night in their crib it's not foreign to them. Mak starting sleeping through the night when she self weaned at 12.5 months so because she started her night in her crib and stayed there, it was no huge transition for her.
I'm expecting it to be the same for Maddie. She sleeps in her crib for her morning nap and in the playpen for her afternoon nap.
Mak partially co-slept with us until she was almost 13 months. We do the thing with Maddie. She'll start the night in her crib. She wakes up around 12am to quickly nurse and she goes back in her crib. She'll wake up again around 5am and I'll bring her into bed with me. She'll nurse herself to sleep and we get up for the day around 8:30am.
Bringing her to bed lets me get some extra sleep in the morning. If she's having a restless night and wont' go back in her crib I put her in the playpen that's in our room. If she's really awake I'll bring her to bed before the 5am.
It works for us. Because both girls start the night in their crib it's not foreign to them. Mak starting sleeping through the night when she self weaned at 12.5 months so because she started her night in her crib and stayed there, it was no huge transition for her.
I'm expecting it to be the same for Maddie. She sleeps in her crib for her morning nap and in the playpen for her afternoon nap.
I'm so glad to hear this has worked for people so its not totally hopeless that I will ever get her in her crib full time!! My BIL and SIL have their almost-4-year-old still in their bed. Which is fine, if it makes them happy. BUT, he never ever slept his crib - not even for one minute. The result of that was that he has never napped - when he was a baby he would catnap in the car and as a toddler he never napped at all - and he doesn't go to bed until they do - so he's up till 10-10:30 every night and then up early in the morning. They've had all kinds of behavior issues with him because he has been sufferering from lack of sleep his whole life! Plus they never get any time where he is in bed and they are not. So that type of situation is what I want to avoid!!!
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The only times we cosleep anymore is when she's sick, or when she wakes up in the morning and it's light out and I know she won't go back to sleep. It's much darker in our room, so I'll take her in there and nurse her laying down, and she usually goes back to sleep for another couple hours.
For those who are co sleeping, how do you prevent baby from falling off the bed? Ive already taken the frame out but its still high, and then he can crawl over the the pillows, so i put comforters around the bottom of my bed on the floor, in case he does again.
For those who are co sleeping, how do you prevent baby from falling off the bed? Ive already taken the frame out but its still high, and then he can crawl over the the pillows, so i put comforters around the bottom of my bed on the floor, in case he does again.
This is a worry of mine too. Our bed is pretty high. 99% of the time we are both in bed so she is "stuck" between us. She just started crawling yesterday and is no where near the point where she could get up and crawl over us or over the bedspread to get the to the bottom of the bed. So for now that isn't a problem. When she's asleep, she's as close to me as she can get, so she's not rolling around in her sleep, so even when dh isn't in bed, she does fine. When I worry is when we both get up and shes still in bed. I hover until she wakes up - and we put pillows around her and on the floor.
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We partial co-sleep. Kendall won't go to sleep in her crib so I have to get her to sleep then move her into her crib. She will usually sleep in there until about 2 AM. She slept till 4 AM this morning! Then she comes to our bed. When she's in bed with us I'm a very light sleeper. Everytime she moves I'm awake. And if by chase I don't she will slap me or pull my hair lol. I never leave her on the bed alone. I will put her in her crib if I have to leave the room. She fell off the bed once and that was enough for me.
SAME HERE. We do the same - she goes to bed, in her bed, every night. Usually its closer to 11 that she is in my bed, but every once in awhile we make it past midnight. I make no effort to get her back in her bed - I am just so lazy and she is such a horrible sleeper, plus I don't want her to wake up my other kids. I too worry that its a bad habit, but right now I'm in survival mode.
But I do enjoy the cuddling part and the ease of just nursing her back to sleep.
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