I never planned on co sleeping with my baby as the moses basket is in my bedroom anyway! But from 4.5weeks my DD just wouldn't settle unless she was being held. Then say she's been asleep for an hour, I'll go out her down in the moses basket and she'll wake up. So the poor thing gets so worked up at times cos she's so tired. So I let her sleep in my arms. Or at night, on my chest to then have her roll down to my side. She's ontop of the covers with her blanket no higher than it should be with my arm as a pillow. Now I've always been a heavy sleeper but since she was born I wake up at every snuffle! Every hiccup or little dream noise she makes. Also, the amount of times before this age I accidently fell asleep with her on my chest, I discovered I did not move a muscle the whole time.
She is now 6weeks old and still sleeps with me in the bed and my partner. Has her last feed at 11.30pm and sleeps all the way thru until 5.30am. Now this is fab.. a great nights sleep for us and her. So why should I not co sleep?
Midwife and doctor both say I should stop now before it becomes too much of a habit..but if she's sleeping so well with us rather than in her moses basket, why stop?