Co-sleeping

[Laurenxoxo]

Would just like to know who agrees with co sleeping and who has personally done it... and if so from what age did you start. I have been reading a book on parenting which has sold a lot of copies and in this book it says you should sleep with your baby. Would just be interested to see people's opinions on it.

Depends on how you're defining cosleeping. NHS says baby should be in a cot or basket in the same room as you for the first 6 months to reduce risks of SIDs.
As for sleeping in the same bed, I've only ever done it out of absolute desperation; followed the safe sleep rules, and still been terrified of squashing my baby.
Cultures that bed share tend to sleep on roll mats on the floor, not our tall beds of doom.

I have never done it and never wanted to risk it. If you do cosleep please be careful. All my friends did it and they were fine but my husband is a detective and had to attend an incident recently where the baby died and the mother was beside herself. It can happen unfortunately. So please be careful. X

I did it because I was falling asleep accidentally at that point anyway. DD would only go to sleep on me after the 4 month regression and was almost 2 before she could self settle.

I did, safely, until about 5 months. It was lovely and everyone got plenty of sleep!

I'm doing it, started a week or two after baby was born as it was the only way any of us got sleep. I did research it and the evidence is mixed about whether its riskier (assuming you follow all the safe sleep rules). But I knew it would definitely be risky for me drive while sleep deprived etc. I'm enjoying cosleeping now. Baby is quite a bit bigger so it feels much safer and cuddling up to your baby as you fall asleep feels lovely and very natural. However he still won't really sleep without me so I do worry how I will eventually wean him off it. If I have another I will probably try and persist with the cot/moses basket a bit at the start because if baby settles in that it would be my preference. I think a lot of people bedshare at some point in some way but don't always talk about it.

I did. From about 3 months upward. Still do most nights- she wanders in in the early hours and snuggles down next to me. Will do with the next one from newborn if necessary to get some sleep, like it was with the first. I always recommend it to exclusively breastfeeding mums who have no risk factors for SIDS (baby full term, no drinking or smoking). Look up safer co-sleeping guidelines and adhere to them.

I do. Got 2 DC, 3 and 18 months and have done since they were a few weeks old. Sometimes end up with all 4 of us (including DH) in a normal double. Not ideal but 🤷‍♀️ when they were small, it helped us all get some sleep,but now they're bigger, it's a nightmare as they're so wriggly! Wouldn't change it tho

Do you mean bed sharing?
I did with DD1 from 6 months, first few weeks I was very incapacitated from complications from emcs and then she was ff and I was too scared of SIDS to cosleep. I started cosleeping then to get more sleep and coslept completely in my room until nearly 2. After then DH or I would end up joining her in the night.

DD2 - From the second night when I was still in hospital. I couldn’t the first night as I had just had a GA. She has just turned one and is still in bed with me.

I didn't for the first month or two as DS was so small and I was nervous. However, it was happening too often that I would fall asleep sitting up & nursing and DS slept best beside me so we naturally started to co sleep (never planned it).
It worked well until 7mos when he kept trying to crawl off the edge!

Yes my girl is nearly 3 month now and have been doing it for a while now. She does settle fine in her Moses basket when we go to bed, but then most the time around 4/5 she will wake up unsettled so I will lay her next to me safely and she falls right back to sleep until around 7. I guess everyone has their own opinions about it