To sleep with my baby in my arms?

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Ultimately I know it's my choice and I like doing it, but I worry (rods for back etc)

The situation is that my 10 month old DS is a fairly good sleeper. Will spend extended periods of time happily in cot. He's also not so great in other ways- can sonetimes (not always) really fight naps etc. I guess I worry that I'm influencing this.

Most days I BF him to sleep if home. It's just nice and fits in with two naps he now has.

I'll invariably be on rocking chair in his room (and on MN), and sometimes I just don't put him down!

It's so nice looking at his little face and frankly I don't always want to start the shush pat in cot and also cut the nap short

I just get a small sense of guilt in doing so - as if I'm not making progress that day (helping him nap well on own). And I say to myself, it's ok for a little while longer. Mum guilt AIBU?

DS used to have all his naps on or with me until he dropped it at 2.5. Apart from if we were out- car/ pram.
Enjoy- they get big so fast! He’s always been an amazing sleeper at night too.

My baby sleeps in my arms all day and sleeps with me all night - he absolutely hates being put down 🙈 sometimes I think i am making a rod for my own back (he is only 6 weeks) but mostly I think it’s wonderful, we will never get this time back and he wants to sleep on/next to me so why wouldn’t I let him? It’s such a short period of time, just enjoy it! It’s blissful xx

Like you OP, I've found this thread so reassuring! I'm going to make every effort to thoroughly enjoy every minute of sleepy snuggly cuddles with my little one.

Self-soothing doesn't have to involve crying WiddlinDiddlin As I said earlier in the thread, I cuddle DD for all her naps, but at bedtime she's overstimulated and far happier to be left alone - she chats to herself for a bit, rubs her eyes, cuddles her muslin and falls asleep. If I try to cuddle her or even stay in the room she cries. I've never left her to cry at night, ever, but she's still learnt to self-settle and she does so throughout the night too. I hate this assumption that if your child self-settles you must heartlessly let them scream!

@middlingmum that is so sad/heartwarming. Precisely why I will cuddle my dc to sleep/during naps/at night for as long as they let me! I know on my death bed I will never regret cuddling them too much.

I rocked both my babies to sleep in the pram in the day and my arms at night at co slept they are 6 and 2 now and both sleep all night in their own beds both are great at going to sleep too.