Fellowship of Co-sleeping Parents

Sure!

My son too HATED the crib so we didn't use it. At 11 months we got rid of it but kept the mattress for the toddler bed. At 12 months we put the mattress on the floor and let him get used to it. Then one day for his nap I put him on the mattress instead of in the Pack N Play. He slept for 30 minutes instead of 2-3 hours but I kept at it, if he didn't want to I didn't push it. Then at night I started rocking him to sleep and putting him to bed in his bed. At first he'd wake up every hour but went to every 3 hours. So he'd go to bed at 8 and then get up at 11 and go back to sleep in his bed but when he wakes up at 1a he normally comes to bed, to nurse and he then cuddles up to Dad and we go to sleep until 6-8a depending.

If he rolled off it wasn't that bad since he's only 3 inches off the floor. We did that for 3-4 months and then we got his fire truck toddler bed. We'd planned to buy him another bed but his cousin grew out of his toddler bed so we adopted it.



He loves his bed. Oh it's also only like 4 feet from our bed so he can sit up and ask for us or climb out of his bed and into our bed. Or he climbs off our bed and goes back to his own bed.

Some nights he will sleep all night in his bed other nights he will only co-sleep. Although if DH and I move him he normally doesn't mind.

oooh I wrote a novel.

So our next hurdle will be moving the bed into his own room but I don't know how that'll go.

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I love that bed... its so cute.... I bet David would have loved a bed like that!

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Married 9.5 years! Homeschooling SAHM to D (5 yrs), M (2.5), E and (1.5). and baby due January 2, 2010.

That is why I have always slept with Taylor. Because she would go to her dads a week at a time. That has been over, but she still sleeps with me. We both are comfortable with that.

She has a room, but it is for "Show". I sleep in her room when she has company. Sometimes she will even come get in the single bed with me when she has company.

Originally Posted by RedTulipMoon

crystal,
i didn't know you were getting a divorce, i am so sorry to hear that!

I didn't know this either Crystal. I am so sorry to hear this.

We co-slept with our first born for several years, moved her into a bed in our room, then moved her to her room. We had a queen sized bed with her.

We are now co-sleeping with our second born. Until I weaned him at night, I would put him down in his bed and then about 12 or so he would wake up and I would move him to mine. Now I just stick him in mine to begin with until he gets used to no more Ninny during the night. We have a king sized bed now thank goodness!

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We co-slept with our kids from the time they were born until...well, until the 4 of us couldn't fit into our king-size bed comfortably!

We didn't plan to - we had a nice cradle and everything, but...when I put our first into the hospital cradle he looked so tiny and alone there - it just wasn't natural. I put him up on my chest and wrapped my arms around him (I had a cot in my wife's room), and that's where he spent his first night!

We did the same with our second, and we always considered it a blessing, not a problem. They both slept through the night after the first week (mom woke them up to breastfeed), and we all slept very well together.

They are both in their teens now, but they sometimes sneak into our bed in the mornings (it only holds 3 full-size people). Of all the many decisions of parenting, this is one of the few we have never had second thoughts about.

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Originally Posted by lovesdolphins

I will step out of this thread. Due to a situation with my husband we will not co-sleep when we have children.

lovesdolphins, don't step out of this thread because of some miscommunication between one another. By all means, stay, inquire, learn (even if as a lurker). I appreciate you coming back and responding further. Thank you for the apology. It does have an effect (regardless that I hold strong and secure positions, I am still human ). If you are interested in how we (my family) implement cosleeping, you could always send me a PM.

I thought I should also point out that one does not have to have their child in the bed to be a cosleeping family. There is the arms reach cosleeper that attaches to the parents' bed and then after that, removing one side of the crib and pushing the crib against the parents' mattress. This is still a form of cosleeping. Don't be scared off by how jgonz or I experience cosleeping in our families. What I do works for my family, every member of my family. If it didn't, we would not be doing it. Plain and simple.

Thanks. He'd have never gotten it had we not got it second hand, they don't come cheap. I hope if we have another child it'll be a boy so it can be used again!

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I do use a crib~ mostly as a glorified changing table. LOL

But I also use it for naps after the baby grows out of the cradle, which is in my room. At night is when I really co-sleep with whatever small baby I have. DH will stay in the bed this time~ unless the baby wakes him up too often. We'll see.

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Matt. 5: 17-19

Ok, I am interested in what it is like to cosleep with a preschooler and a newborn. I worry that my preschooler would roll over on a baby. How have you avoided that from happening?

From what I've read it's a general rule not to allow other children to sleep with a newborn without a parent there. They could cover the baby up, hurt the baby etc not on purpose but not knowing any better. It's advised that the baby have somewhere to sleep, like a co-sleeper, if the kids go to sleep before mum and dad.

I'm personally hoping DS will be sleeping in his own bed[full time] before he has a sibling. If not The baby will sleep between and the bed rail and Ethan can be between me and Daddy, although in a Queen I think that'll be a tight fit. DH jokes about buying a bigger bed with each child so by the time were to #3 we'll have a California King.

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