To think that co-sleeping should be renamed...

[MrsHelsBels74]

Watching your child sleep whilst you worry they'll fall out of bed, & you lose the feeling in at least one of your limbs?

Admittedly I don't do it often but son wouldn't settle last night & it seemed easier to let him sleep with me...well easier for him!

Crook of arm? You lucky lucky bastards. DD likes sleeping draped across my actual face whilst listening to the soothing sound of her mother slowly suffocating beneath her.

lol if i let my son sleep in our bed he pulls my extremely long hair and generally harrasses me while he leaves dh alone.

PenelopePipPop

"DD likes sleeping draped across my actual face whilst listening to the soothing sound of her mother slowly suffocating beneath her."

Ahhhh the unadvertised dangers of co-sleeping-Sudden Parent Death Syndrome!!

I love cosleeping. DD is usually in her own room now but I miss our snuggles.

I would rename it "Can't sleep because I'm laying awake gazine in wonder and amazed at how gorgeous my little girl is".

Confused the HVs never mention this stuff do they? Maybe if DD put me to sleep on my front I'd be a bit safer...

Anyway YANBU OP. Some kids stay in roughly one place at night. Others practice a range of latin and ballroom moves. In theory I love co-sleeping and would do it every night with DD. In practice we both sleep better apart and only resort to it when she is poorly and needs me there to help her settle off.

why does it have to be 'named' anything at all?
Its like blooming 'baby lead weaning'

people have been doing these things for centuries, then some assholes come and label them, and hold them up as some new fangled, middle-class parenting 'approach' or 'concept'

Just fecking get on with it-STOP NAMING EVERYTHING!

Gets on my nerves royally-PAH!

pip-pop

yanbu!

I had to do it in hospital for 2 nights and hated it. Couldn't relax at all. They were in their own rooms by 8 weeks.

Only let them in my bed when they had chicken pox and then I had to take time off work as I hadn't slept a wink.

I'm a bad sleeper at the best of times, pre-dc's I had blackout curtains and ear-plugs.

I co slept with both Dc until they were 11 months. (not at the same time). It completely saved my sanity as I didn't need to keep getting out of bed in the night. When they got to 11 months they moved about too much and nobody got any sleep. So they went into their own room and settled really well fortunately.

I fully intended to co sleep in an attempt to make life easier. Easier!!!!???!!!
I could not sleep a wink with them in the bed.