so I co-sleep...

[artisanroast]

As the title says... I co-sleep...

I feel quite ashamed of this due to the SIDS risk. I didn't co-sleep until my daughter was 6 months (although she was 4 weeks prem so 5 months corrected).

It started by me taking her in with me at 5am to breastfeed. Then it became 3am and I would feed her if she woke. Now it's sometimes 1am so every time she wakes I just latch her on and switch boobs as required.

I don't really know how often she wakes now but I think it's 3-4 times per night.

I sleep in her nursery (with my 2 cats who share our single bed) so I'm 'it'. Nappy change or feed I do it. I'm exhausted. So, our sleep pattern has evolved.

My husband sleeps in our old bedroom as he works all day and sometimes until 1-2am as he is self-employed.

I don't let him feed her. I have a drawer of frozen expressed milk but after difficulty establishing breast feeding I am now a bit the other way and don't want anyone else to feed my daughter unless I can't do it myself due to not being there. If I'm there, I'll feed her myself. No matter how shattered I am.

Does anyone else do this?

I love my daughter and only want the best for her (as any parent does).

I had planned to stop breast feeding at 6 months, now it's looking like 9 months... Oops!

xx

I only started co-sleeping at 6 months. My wee boy sleeps in with both of us in a sleepyhead. We are trying to get him to sleep all night in his own bed but the wee monkey likes ours better.

I co-slept with both of mine, so no judgement there, but it sounds like you're really shutting your DH out. Can't you co-sleep in the double with him, it must be a bit lonely for him?

Thanks all,

DH works from home and makes his day flexible to see us during the day and works late into the night.

His office is our bedroom so we couldn't sleep in there and have him work in that room.

I'll think about locking the cats out but they have shared a room with me and my daughter since she was 3 months with no difficulties so I am reluctant to lock them out now.

Overall thank you for your reassurance. I have looked at safe co-sleeping and feel happy that we are doing that.

It's also lovely to hear there are other mums like me doing things in the same way for happy, healthy babies

xxx