Co-sleeping

Information / articles / links / experiences anyone ? From birth through to when children are slightly older etc.

Just doing a bit of information gathering atm. Thanks !

I just did a quick search on there, and came up with heaps of threads about it. Also have a look at naturalparenting.com.au i think it is.

Personally, I dont like co-sleeping. The odd night Hannah has slept in our bed I have hardly slept at all for fear of suffocating her and shes really squirmy and noisy!

It has crossed my mind a few times, but as I said I am trying to find out a bit more about it before I decide anything. It wouldn't be a fixed decision anyway, whatever ends up working best I would stick with and I don't know what that is yet of course LOL I would look on The Nappy Network but for some reason I have found it is REALLY slow to log in and load for me, and I haven't had the patience. Might give it a go though, and see what I can find.

I had Paige in our ROOM. That was loud enough. She slept with us several times but wiggled and turned sidewards and kept us all awake. I found she slept better and more soundly in her own bed and so did we. And it did not set up any disasters or problems with dramas when she was older - sleeping in her own bed..not coming out etc. Which from what I have heard can be a real problem!

In saying that....If she is ever really sick now she sleeps with me....or the odd ocassion as a treat Mark gets booted out and she comes in. (AND SHE STILL SLEEPS SIDEWARDS AND PUTS HER LEGS ON TOP OF ME.....7 years later!!! LOL)

i have co-sleeped with james on and off since he was born and to tell the turth sometimes its fine and he looks like a angel and then there is the wiggly,worm who takes all my bed and staels all my blankets to tell the turth though it donsnt worry me to much now but as he gets older it will be a pain in the butt thats why as sonn as he is well again i will be doing the mean mummy sleep program so i can have my bed again

Great information ladies, keep it coming ! I'll take all the input I can get.

check out Kelly Mom Just search co-sleeping.
This website is great in general but especially for breastfeeding, etc.



Edited by meow

I think you can get little basket things that go in your bed as well, for when they are newborn...

I used to do it with paris when she was little and i would feed her in the mornings and we would snuggle and she'd go back to sleep for a while - but i'd stick her on daddys side of the bed cos he'd gone off to work.

We didn't do it religiously but when she needed it, she would sleep with us, when i was preg with Ayja she did it alot cos i couldn't get out of bed (SPD) so the first time she cried on a bad night she would get stuck in our bed otherwise mummy would get very sore and very little sleep - or daddy would get woken lots and he gets VERY grumpy when he's woken too many times

Ayja we didn't do it with - she's too wriggly and after having her fall from my arms at 6 days old, and hit the ground head first and end up in hospital with a huge haematoma (basically collection of fluid and in her case blood underneath the skin)on her head i was really careful and more than a little freaked out. However i must say since she has been sick in the last week, she has slept alot in our bed, and so has Paris - on different nights thank god. Ayja has now decided our bed is GREAT. last night woke for the second time in an hour didnt need changing didn't need bonjela, didn't need a feed, mike stuck her on our bed, and well... the screaming stopped and tantrum stopped righ tthere, she crawled over to me, stuck her head down on the pillow and rolled over so she was snuggle dup in our bed, and looked as if to say "no way am i moving this is all i wanted" monkey!

Anyway it has it's pros and cons.
Nice for cuddling etc, but we didn't do it all the time or let the kids get used to it, i think it's nice to have your own bed, to yourself and your partner... and let the kids snuggle when it's really needed, at least then, you know you have something that is a last resort sure fire trick to settle them. If they always sleep in your bed.. what would that last resort be?

Ok so was totally againgst the idea of it till I had Alan and of course like most thingswhen the baby arrives you change your mind on so many thing's I did it with Alan by accident a few time's Hubby went to work at 4am so I would feed Alan then pften fall asleep wiht him still in bed he was on Daddy's side. Now htat he is older he is often found in our bed at some point. Usually when is feeling abit under the weather with teething or if hejsut need's a cuddle. I think as long as you are very aware and careful it is fine although I was really not to comfortable with it till he was older and I knew he could move if he got too hot etc.