Re: did you ever sleep with the baby in the bed with you?

Every morning. Ryan gets up at 4 to nurse. I pick him up, bring him into bed with us, pop a b00b in his mouth and fall back to sleep. Eventually he does to and we all sleep till 7.

Re: did you ever sleep with the baby in the bed with you?

nope

Re: did you ever sleep with the baby in the bed with you?

yes, at first i was very against it but when lexi was about 4w old and i was exausted, i put her down next to me and she slept for 7 hours. every night since then, shes been next to me. sometimes i regret it but then i think back to those sleepless nights and i change my mind

Re: did you ever sleep with the baby in the bed with you?

I have let him sleep in our bed, but only while I am awake. I don't feel comfortable allowing him to sleep in the bed while we are sleeping. I am too worried about him being smothered with a blanket or pillow, or him falling off the bed, DH rolling over and crushing him, etc.

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Sydney slept with me many, many months - even now, if she wakes up in the crib and I can't get her back to sleep I bring her into my man.

Re: did you ever sleep with the baby in the bed with you?

Yes, when DD had colic sometimes it was the only way to get us all some sleep. I have also done it though when she has been sick.

Re: did you ever sleep with the baby in the bed with you?

we have done it when dd was waking in the middle of the night sick. Sometimes if she wakes at like 5:30 I will take her in to grab another hour or so of sleep. I know its a bad habit but that extra sleep is key sometimes

Re: did you ever sleep with the baby in the bed with you?

Yes, when Sarah was colicy I used to bring her in my room and lay next to her with white noise on to calm her down and get her to nap and I'd doze off too.

Never with Andy.

Re: did you ever sleep with the baby in the bed with you?

Yes, the first 3 months she slept in bed with us. Now she does a couple of times a week. Since I was EBF it made it so much easier to just keep her in bed with me. Im slowly trying to break it all together because I need good sleep.

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Re: did you ever sleep with the baby in the bed with you?

Yes! But not often.

Re: did you ever sleep with the baby in the bed with you?

Nope - never.

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Re: did you ever sleep with the baby in the bed with you?

Yep- We have had DD sleep with us. Only when she has a bad night though. I don't like doing it- because I get so paranoid that I can't get a good nights sleep. DD is really squirmy when she's sleeping- so I usually end up with feet my back or ribs.

Re: did you ever sleep with the baby in the bed with you?

me and DD slept together for the 1st 4 months and then she went into her crib

Re: did you ever sleep with the baby in the bed with you?

Yes, and we love it, but started at around 4 months, and only for a nap.

Re: did you ever sleep with the baby in the bed with you?

After his 7AM bottle, DH would leave for work and this was when I brought DS in bed with us.
We would both snuggle until about 9 or 10AM when he was ready to eat again.
Aawww I miss those days
We did this until he started rolling over and becoming mobile.

Re: did you ever sleep with the baby in the bed with you?

Yes. We co-slept with all of our children.

Re: did you ever sleep with the baby in the bed with you?

For the first few weeks, until I found out from her ped what to do about the reflux.. the only way that poor baby would sleep was on my chest....

So my answer is a definite yes.....

Re: did you ever sleep with the baby in the bed with you?

Posted by Diana1215

Yes - when he was a newborn at around 5am he would wake up for a bottle and sleep with me in bed until about 7.

Those were the best two hours (even though my arm was dead since I had him snug next to me kept far away from DH for fear of him elbowing him or something ) - and we were nose to nose! I LOVED every minute of it!

Then, he got mobile - and when he came into our bed he thought it was playtime.

Re: did you ever sleep with the baby in the bed with you?

Nope, me and DH move around alot in our sleep and I would be too scared to have a baby in the bed with us.

Re: did you ever sleep with the baby in the bed with you?

DD slept in her bassinet for the first part of the night and I brought her in bed with me for her feeding, usually right before DH woke up or right after. We'd sleep together for a few hours.

Re: did you ever sleep with the baby in the bed with you?

No, and I never plan on it...we have three dogs that occasionally come into bed with us, I don't ever want to take the chance of one of them hurting DD.

Re: did you ever sleep with the baby in the bed with you?

no, that's why we never had a decent nights sleep.

He is dying to get into our bed...he's moved into our room now, mattress on floor, and he's completely satified with this arrangement.

Re: did you ever sleep with the baby in the bed with you?

In the beginning, we agreed not to but we did! I was so tired I took him in bed with me one night so that he would sleep through the night and that was it...2 years later and by 3am, he's back in bed with us. I loved it but it's hard to get him to stay in his own bed now.

Re: did you ever sleep with the baby in the bed with you?

I used to nap with him in the Snuggle Nest. I know you were asking about people who didn't use a co-sleeper but the Snuggle Nest is something that goes right on the bed, not next to it. We didn't use it at night.