Do you sleep with your child/ren?

[breeze]

My DS is aged 3.8, and I have never slept in the same bed as him.

Occasionally when he is ill, we will go to the spare bed (he calls it the sick bed) and I will lay with him until he calms down, then he goes back in his own bed. I have attempted to sleep with him but he such a fidge pants and I end up putting him back.

Luckily when he wakes up in the night, he calls out and never gets up.

I mentioned this to a friend and she thinks that is weird that we have never slept in the same bed. Do you?.

Having just got home from a weeks holiday staying with family and having to sleep in a double bed with dh and dd I can honestly say in my opinion there is nothing worse than having everyone in the same bed. I didn't sleep a wink the whole time we were there. If it wasn't dd rolling over and sticking her bum/arm/foot in my face, dh was pulling all the covers off(he doesn't sleep well in strange places, moves around a lot)

I don't think it's weird that you've never slept in the same bed as your son Breeze. When dd came along she was always put to bed in her moses basket, fed through the night and put back in the moses basket or cot. As she's got older and is now in her own bed she sleeps there quite happily but there are nights when she can't settle and for the sake of peace I put her into our bed and then move her when I go to bed or maybe leave her if dh is working late and I can't be bothered moving her. If that happens he sleeps in her bed. There is the odd morning where I will wake up and find her in the bed with us and have no recollection of how she got there.

When she was a tiny a baby I never had dd in the bed with us as I was to scared of what might happen, one of us roll over her, she might get too hot with the duvet on her or something. but her moses basket was in the same room as was her cot when she went into it and she stayed in our room in the cot until she was well over a year old. When she was about 1 she would get up and have her morning bottle and then snuggle with us but it was never all night I just couldn't cope as I would worry all night. If she is ill she usually sleeps with us though, I never sleep very well when she is ill as she doesn't get ill very often so I worry even more than usual.

Now that we are home and I've caught up on all the news I've just found out about the poor family near Glasgow that lost their 6 week old twins to cot death. What that poor woman and her family are going through I cannot imagine, but my heart goes out to all of them.

co-sleeping is a personal choice, not one that would work for me but there are plenty out there who probably do co-sleep. Each to their own I say.