does your baby sleep in your bed with you?

I will let my children sleep with us as long as they want to. Even after they transition to their own bed, they will still be allowed back in the family bed whenever they want to.

You husbands parents sound mean Why on earth would they let him suffer like that? There are much gentler ways to getting your kids to sleep in their own bed. And so what if they don;t want to sleep on their own. Who cares. It's not like the kid won't ever move out cuz he's afraid of sleeping alone LOL If the cave people let their kids sleep in the hallway, they'd have gotten eated by bears

 

Yeah, his parent's wern't so great. They forgot (or more likely didn't bother) to make sure he was even going to school when he was a kid. Finally they let him talk them into "homeschooling" him, but they didn't bother to actually homeschool him, they went to their jobs and just left him home alone. All this before he was even 14!

 

Wow! That's too bad. You'd think your husband want to be so close and attached to his kids then.

 

eh, i let all my babies sleep with me - before there were such nifty terms as 'co-sleeping', i found it quite humorous that there's a name for it now. my big boys, 13 & 11 now, did fine, and transitioned over to big boy beds pretty easy. the bedtime story reading was my way of getting them to bed AND IT WORKS GOOD. dinner, bath, in bed for story time every night at the same time - all my friends were amazed that my kids would be asleep by 8 or 830 when theirs were still up at 11 or 1130.

my 11 year old used to sneak into bed with me at night sometimes cuz he'd have bad dreams - i always left a night light on for him. but he out grew that a few years ago - now he says he LOVES scary stuff...

now we have another baby, i don't plan on kicking him out of bed anytime soon - i love him being with me at night. we're still nursing, and i just feel better knowing he's alright all night. we have a crib mattress on the floor in our room he naps on, i'm sure eventually he's gonna want to sleep in his big brother's room. some nights he does fall asleep in there already as for intimate moments... there's the whole rest of the house ya know...

 

Yeah, he is actually getting a job where he will work from home because we plan on starting a family soon. He just doesn't want them to be afraid of being alone at night like he used to be.

I never slept with my parents, but I have a twin sister, so I always had someone to sleep with. My mother would read to us every night, also.

 

I think the best way to prevent children from being scared at night it to show them that they can trust you to protect them. It begins in infantacy and may not end untill adolecence. but it's the job we take as parents. Parenting doesn't end when the kids fall asleep. You need to night-time parent them. IMO, that means co-sleeping. We're going on our third babe and we own no crib. My mom bought us one for #1, but we literally never used it. We sold if in a garage sale when I was pg with #2. I got some strange looks, but I was able to brag about our night-time parenting techniques. We still only have on bed in the house, our family bed. We have no intentions of branching out for years. It will be "child-led weaning" from the family bed.

 

Yes!!

Aiden sleeps in his crib until around 3 or 4 am and then wakes up wanting a boob and then just falls asleep in the bed with us. sometimes when my fiancee isnt home or wont be home that night i just lay aiden next to me so i dont feel lonely and so that i will be able to sleep cuz i cant if there is no one next to me. so all in all it works out perfectly for me. I dont know if we are ever going to wean aiden of co sleeping. Shane (fiancee) is sure of himself that when aiden is old enough to understand that is when he will be weaned into his own bed. Yet i tell hime it's not that simple to just break the habit in one night it could take weeks,months, or even years.

 

my hubby said that when leane is about a year, he's going to start putting her back in her crib again.....i tried to explain to him that it's not that simple....i guess he's in for a shock! lol.
but i don't think that he's going to want her to be in her own bed....he loves having her there just as much as i do.

 

My kids slept with me when they were younger then Noah kept falling out of the bed(he loves to roll around and spread out) so I put a crib next to my bed and he slept in that. Croix around 2 years old fell in love with those car beds and I bought him a vw bug one. He LOVES it. His bed is next to mine. For Noah's second birthday he wanted to have one and we set his up for him... he sleeps at the foot of my bed. If they get scared or want to sleep with me thats fine but for the most part they wanted their own beds. In the morning when they wake up they climb in my bed and we all cuddle and talk. Its nice, I love letting them have their "independance" yet still be close by so I can make sure they are ok. I'm sure the new baby will be sleeping with me until they say they want their own bed. If he/she doesn't thats fine too. My boys are all about doing everything on their own, they are "big boys" now... well thats what they keep telling me!

 

Our son sleeps with us every night. He likes the closeness of beeing inbetween his mommy and daddy. All though I must say that I can't wait till he gose to his own bed, that way I'll have mroe room to sleep, and cuddle with the hubby. I miss the closeness with the handsome fella. Also, the intamacy with him, it's not totally gone, but some has gone away. Not saying that Skye is ruining it all or anything. He jsut makes us both happy.

 

We cosleep too..Abigail is 3 and Dakota is 1, they have both slept with us since day one. We have a king size bed and it all works out just fine.

 

My daughter has slept with me since the day she was born.

 

I'm obviously not a mom, but my mom tried to cosleep with me when I was a baby and apparently I hated it. One night when I was about 2 weeks old they put me in my crib for the night in my own room to see how I'd do and it was the first time I slept through the night. They brought me back to their room the next night and I was really, really fussy again. So in the crib I stayed, and I was fine after. I was an odd baby though, apparently, since most kids don't react like that.

My parents coslept with my brother for a few months and then he went in the crib with me since there's only 18 months separating us. Until I was 3 and we moved to Georgia, my brother and I always slept together in a different room than my parents and that worked out pretty well.

I don't know how comfortable I'd be cosleeping though, just because I'm such a violent sleeper. Last time I slept with my mom on a vacation, I kicked all the blankets off the bed, gave my mom bruises on her shins and arms from kicking, and woke up diagonal across the bed. I didn't wake up once during the night during all of that, either. When I was with my boyfriend one night, he woke me up at least 3 times thinking I was having a nightmare because I was thrashing around so much.. except I wasn't.

One of the little side-bed cribs I've seen you all talk about would work, though. I'd just be so afraid of accidentally punting the baby out of bed.

 

I used to be the same way, but it turned out that once she was in there with us, I was very aware of her, and everything has been awsome. I was really cautious at first, and would place her far away, but the more confident we became with it, the closer everyone's become.

 

i'm getting a baby snuggly for joey. dave is a totally untrustworthy co-sleeper. he has restless sleep and he loves taking the pillows that guard joey. the snuggly sits between us at the head of the bed, has hard sides and i can prop her just slightly on her side, which seems to be her preferred position. that aughtta help me quite a bit. i have kai's toddler bed on my side of the bed, so having a co-sleeper that straps to the side of the bed just isn't gonna happen.

 

yes and my boy is 2 yrs old ,

every country has kids sleeping with then tell about 3 except america
we try to make kids act like adults

i love to wake up ,look over at my boy and he says i love you daddy ...ahh wahat a great feeling
fyi - his name is floyd