Co-sleeping

That pretty much sums up why we co-sleep Kelly, cos it's just easier. It started when I had ds, I'd had an emergency c-sect & DH was overseas so it was just easier to sleep him with me rather than crawling/crying/rolling out of bed to go get him. As for planning to get them in their own beds- they've always had their own beds to go to, we use them for day sleeps & putting them to bed earlier than we do, & as I said in previous post they've decided on their own when to end it, no drama.

Yeah,I do find it easier,especially when I have C to take to school and stuff in the morning,its not nice when you have been up all night with a baby...I just don't have the time or energy ,and now being 35 weeks pregnant,I really dont have the energy.
So I guess I do co sleep a fair bit,he always starts off in his bed though

In case anyone was interested, I recently read something about swaddling and cosleeping not being so great when done at the same time. It's the first I had heard of it (though my DD hated being swaddled so we never did it anyway), but I googled it and came up with this:

wrote: when they're swaddled they're like little cylinders and will roll in whatever direction when the matress slants, which it will when a big person lies down on it. So in addition to not being able to swat at blankets (which a young baby probably wouldn't do anyway) and sleeping too deeply (a SIDS risk) I think keeping the legs and arms tucked in would cause the baby to roll onto their tummy or side facing a pillow and then not be able to push up.

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Edited by SoyBasedMama

Emmecat wrote: And BD??? What's that?? lol

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Our big girl is a monster to sleep with and I prefered having her sleep in her cot with the angel care under her, but my lil one is lovely and snuggly and I looove having her cuddled next to me, she just snuggled in when she wanted a feed like a little piggy - so cute
Once she got a bit bigger I moved her into the pillow gap and moved her up the bed more so she didnt wriggle down under the blankets, but now she is in her own room, its only day 2 and I miss our cuddles,but Im getting more sleep I guess

haha yeah DD likes to dig in my belly button too! She is so fascinated by it

The other reason I didn't sleep with her swaddled either was because of the rolling, she would just roll right into me or on her tummy and I wasn't keen on her tummy sleeping swaddled - sounded dangerous. But she is a side sleeper so that also added to it too I think.

Cute? Painful! Especially when she has long, sharp fingernails I have the scabs to prove it!

I'd never heard that before about swaddling, always wrapped our newborns, scary. They've had their arms out though, & our bed is slat with very firm mattress, no roll, barely any sink, & I don't use covers, sweaty sleeper. Ugh scary though, will definitely think twice about doing it again. =(. It's been too hot to lately. Thanks Soybased Mama, learn something new everyday!

We have co-slept with McKayla since she was 6 weeks old and she started moving to her own bedroom at 2 and a half. With the move to NZ and then from Howick to Waiuku she would keep coming back to our bedroom in the middle of the night. It was just before 4 that she is completely in her own bed every night with no issues at all.

As for independent. Well she cried when we had a school visit as I stayed with her and that we left at morning tea. She wanted to stay the whole day and didnt wanted me to stay with her at all. Her first day of school she wanted me to leave her immediately and kept on asking if I am leaving and I should go now (I wanted to just speak to the teacher first but she was unhappy about that.) Teacher said it was the first time she saw a girl cry with her first visit due to the mother not leaving her there by herself.

Co-sleeping with Andrew as well. Both kids were under covers (but I am known from childhood days to sleep with orphaned baby birds to keep their body temp up and not one bird has every died either. We dont drink or smoke and when hubby did have a party and drank the kid just sleeps on the other side with me.

BD-ing. Well explore other rooms or do it before you go to bed at night. Reading in bed. I just do it however Andrew does have issues with light and he cant go over in a deep sleep. Even with a tiny nightlight. So beginning of night is fine.

McKayla needs a nightlight again. Both parents need to be on board with this. I remember in the beginning asking hubby and he said it is fine until one. One came and we had 2 months living in NZ and he said no leave it until 2. At 2 we had visitors and he was happy to just leave it until she was ready for it instead of us pushing the issue.

And we are very happy with the decision.

I have the cot set up as a side-car which has been fantastic.
I did start by having DS in bed with me but once he started rolling around I was too worried he would fall out of bed so having the side-car has been fantastic.

As for special cuddles, get adventurous I think we have only BD'd in bed a handful of times since DS was born. Adds a bit of spice I find