AIBU to let my 8 week old baby to sleep on me in evening because I enjoy cuddles too or is this detrimental to future sleep habits?

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She sleeps in her cot ok and will nap through out the day on me or on bed, wherever but her evening sleep until proper bed time at 11pm is mainly on me on sofa whilst watching tv. Now I enjoy this cuddle time but I'm worried it might not be good for her sleep routines overall? I don't want to have bad habits!!!

Oohh noo YADNBU! They are so yummy and smell so good at that age, all snuggled and snuffly and milky

I say enjoy enjoy enjoy.

Dc 4 is now 1 and such snuggles are rare as she needs her space to sleep and spends the rest of her time wrecking my house. No one ever looks back and wishes they had spent less time cuddling their babies

I do this all the time with my 20 week old, my friends think I'm mad but I'll so miss him being little, I want to enjoy it while I can. So enjoy!

I did this until mine was well past 6 months. I miss those cuddles. She's been poorly this week and I have had her snuggled up on me in the evenings again, it was lovely.

Yabvu for making me broody!!!!

Yanbu to love baby snuggles. Enjoy x

When reading all these posts it really puts it into perspective! She's only 8 weeks old!! These days will be gone soon enough I imagine

My DS is only 11 months and I struggle to remember the snuggles.

It's a lovely time, enjoy!

yADNBU. dD slept on me for most of the first few months of her life. She's 4 now and sleeps fine. Enjoy.

Also glad I won't be having a 16 year old relying on me for cuddles to sleep, lol. My darling daughter just ruined our moment by doing the loudest smelliest fart ever!!

oh how I miss the snuggly days and nights... Don't you dare put her down, not quite yet!

I did this with my youngest.

It was lovely. Only lasted until 12 weeks, and he started needing his own space.

He's 6 months now and fast asleep in his cot.

Enjoy every minute, I miss it so much.

Yabu. You'll break her and never fix her. says the woman who is enjoying her final newborn dc so much I won't be putting her down ever

Yanbu, cuddle her for as long as she'll let you!!!I'm tempted to get my two year old out of her cot now for snuggles :)

I have one good sleeper and one bad sleeper. Good sleeper snuggled on me in the evenings til about 6 months, bad sleeper I tried to put down to bed in his crib from a few weeks old :-( it's as though he's been trying to make up for that lost time ever since! Getting in my bed at every blasted opportunity!

Just found out pregnant again (yippee!!) after big gap- will be 8 years, and Sooo excited for new baby snuggles!!!

I'm liking this thread as I did this with mine for about the first 3 months. Then I started putting to bed at 7-8. Around 4 months nighttime sleeping went downhill. I always wonder if I contributed to this. Nearly 7 months and sleeping still awful...

Enjoy every second of it and don't listen to anyone that tells you any different.

One of the many midwives I came across told me not to smile at my pfb ds during the middle of the night because it would make him form bad habits. One night he gave me the most gorgeous smile and I didn't smile back because of the advice I had been given. I know that at the ripe old age of 14 months my pfb is none the wiser but how I wish I had smiled back!

Happy snuggling!

8 week old babies are designed to be cuddled as much as possible

I did this every evening for an hour or 2 until DS was 1. His choice to go to sleep in his cot from the on :(

He sleeps beautifully, I say it is down to having a relaxing comfortable bedtime routine on me that did it!

I am a little bit jealous

Babies cannot manipulate you
You a not making a rod for your own back
Babies need to be cuddled as much as possible
You need the contact as much as the baby does
Please do not have a single moment more of guilt, you are doing what you are supposed to do.

mine are 19 and 16. They still hug me, but for about 2seconds :(

Just be careful you don't doze off yourself as sofa sleeping can be considered dangerous... otherwise enjoy those cuddles while she's so tiny!

It is absolutely ok. Dd (14no) hasn't done this for months now :-(

DS had his daytime naps on me until he was about 10mths and I loved it. I got a sneaky one in the other day when he was ill but generally he's happier in his cot.

Today I heard him wake up from his nap but he didn't cry. I went in and he was playing with his teddies. He looked at me as if to say, oh it's you. He's only 14mths old - what happened to my baby?!!!

Cuddle cuddle cuddle and cuddle some more!

Yanbu. You'll remember those previous moments when you are on your death bed.

Precious not previous.

Absolutely not!