Thoughts on co-sleeping?

[HappyDreamer]

First time mum, partner works away and LO is 9 months.

LO always starts off in her own crib but maybe after an hour or two she wakes up screaming and I will then try settle her. If this works by 12-2am she’s waking up screaming again and I do put her in with me safely because I’m so tired by this point.

I get comments of people telling me how bad it is she won’t settle with anyone else if I keep doing this. Just wondered peoples thoughts and who else co-sleeps? This was never my plan or has just kind of happened.

We didn't co sleep with our firstborn for the first few months and wished we had. He's now 4 and sleeps though the night.

Our second born we co slept with right away otherwise the whole house would have been up.

We currently take one in each bed so my wife and I rarely share a bed but it'd not forever.

My 4YO is already talking about wanting to be left alone at night.

They aren't little forever, just be safe don't have too many pillows or really heavy duvets you should be fine.

I've always co slept. My son is almost six and he happily goes to his bed initially but he wakes every night and comes to my bed. I don't mind it, he just falls asleep straight away again so it's easier this way

I know all the advice is not to co sleep but you have to do whatever keeps you alive. You are no use to anyone on little or no sleep.

I don't know of any adults that still sleep in their parents bed with them😂. You do what works for you. We occasionally have our three year old in the bed because he grabs his pillow and comes in. I would feel heartless telling him to go back to his own bed. Tbf when he was younger we never co-slept as I was terrified that I would roll on him or the cover would end up
over him. But if your happy co-sleeping then I would just keep doing what ever you need to in order to get a good sleep. ☺️

I started co-sleeping with DD when she was 6 weeks. A year later and I have no regrets. She sleeps through the night. From 9 months she began sleeping by herself for a nap during the day time. I enjoy our nighttime cuddles and so does she. It felt the most natural thing to do for both of us. I also don't miss my duvet or pillows🤷

I co-slept with dd from day 1. I hadn't intended to (I didn't even know it was a thing so it hadn't crossed my mind) but when I was in hospital, the nurse asked if I wanted her in bed with me.

Dd and I both loved it, it seemed very natural so I read up on how to do it safely and we both used to get a decent night's sleep.

If you follow the safe co-sleeping guidelines, my personal view is that it’s safer than a freaked-out parent who’s hallucinating from sleep deprivation … I used to think it was very dangerous, but then reality struck. No duvets, pillows, bumpers etc.