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Co-sleeping While nursing....Did It Work for You?
A few people have told me that they co-sleep with their baby and "just roll over " to nurse. This sounds wonderful and a great idea to get more precious ...
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- I too recommend the Arms Reach Co-Sleeper. My daughter slept with us until she was about 4 1/2 months. It made nursing so easy...But I wasn't able to sleep really deep...
- Hello!! I also wondered what I would do when my son was born. It just turned out to be a natural thing for him to sleep in bed with us. My husband was against it in t...
- I have a 2 1/2 month old daughter who sleeps with me, and let me tell you, it makes it a lot easier to get a little bit more sleep. Most of the time I fall asleep with...
Co-sleeping Options
My husband and I want to continue co-sleeping with our 10 month old son, and are trying to figure out how to do this safely. Currently, the baby and I are ...
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- Hello K. A: This is the first time I have ever heard of the term "co-sleeping". Being the mother of 5 and raising several other children as newborn infants being p...
- I suggest you stop the co-sleeping, because in the future you may run into trouble with your baby sleeping in his own crib/room. It will be a hard habit to break. Goo...
- If you have room in your rooom (it sounds like you do) we bought a crib that has a toddler bed conversion. I converted it to a toddler bed adjusted the matress level ...
Co-Sleeping
My problem is I have always been against co-sleeping for fear of hurting my baby , but he's been sleeping with me for almost 4 weeks now and now he won't ...
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- Please for your own health and sanity do whatever makes your life easier. This is no time to do what the "sleep experts" say! You need to get as much rest as possible ...
- We co-sleep and have for going on 17 months now. A sober parent has never rolled over on a child. However you have to make sure that the bed is good, like no water bed...
- I say, just go with it. There is nothing wrong with letting your child feel secure, especially at a time like this. I co-slept with my daughter for the first 6 month...
7+ Month Old Still Co-sleeping
Nice job co-sleeping! Many recommend it, especially Dr. Sears. Anyhow, we co- slept with our baby until she was 7 months too, then we gradually weened her ...
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- Hi C.- Our baby boy slept in our side-car co-sleeper until he was about 8 months old. As some of the others suggested, we put him down for naps in his crib in his ow...
- Jana's advice is great--he's just learning a new routine. We did CIO with our daughter at 11 months--we had fallen into a co-sleeping pattern around 7 months when s...
- We used the cry out method with my now 2 year old daughter and she goes to sleep at 7pm until 7am every night, we started that with her at around 5 months or maybe 6 m...
Cosleeping...
I'm a huge fan of co-sleeping. I did it with both my boys. I always used the pad that ... If you are next to the baby sleeping, they will sleep the best! ...
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- Congratulations on your pregnancy! So sorry about your loss this year too. I'm sure your instincts as a mom are very good but the loss, among other things... is a ter...
- Sorry about your loss -- I can see why you're concerned! I would recommend grabbing a copy of the Dr Sears Baby Book or Sleep Book (you should find them at your lib...
- Hi K.! I'm a huge fan of co-sleeping. I did it with both my boys. I always used the pad that inclined to prevent acid reflux as much as possible. Sometimes we used th...
Co-sleeping When Camping
We are trying to figure out a safe way to co-sleep with my then 10 month old while we .... Nursing to sleep made baby quiet and not disturb other campers. ...
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- http://www.target.com/Fisher-Price-Infant-to-Toddler-Rocker/dp/B000WUB9O4/qid=1234110877/ref=br_1_9/176-###-###-####-###-###-####?ie=UTF8&node=1041928&frombrowse=1&rh=...
- This would work: http://www.target.com/First-Years-Close-Secure-Sleeper/dp/B00012CHFI/sr=1-1/qid=1234123130/ref=sr_1_1/189-###-###-####-###-###-####?ie=UTF8&index=tar...
- We've tent camped and used only insulite (sp?) pads...we backpacked with the kids and air mattresses weren't practical. I left my bag partially unzipped and had baby ...
Advice on Co-sleeping
We now have baby #2 coming in just about 2 months, and he will also not be a co- sleeping baby. My husband and I are big on having our own bed :-) Don't feel ...
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- My son wanted to sleep in our bed with us too when he was a newborn... he would never sleep longer than half an hour outside of our bed, but I slept HORRIBLEY with him...
- You sound like a very sensitive and intuitive mom. I agree that "cry-it-out" techniques break trust and waste calories that could better be used for learning and growi...
- I didn't do the cry it out with my daughter either. I don't like it and nothing anyone said to me was going to make me comfortable with it. We later found out that we ...
Seeking Advice from Other Co-sleeping Moms
I think it is fine just as long as your husband, you and the baby are okay with it and comfortable. People say I co sleep with my kids way too long and ...
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- Hi S., Don't worry about Ferber. Don't worry about what other people say. I was a co-sleeper mom until my son was about 16 mos old. It is pretty natural for moth...
- My boys are 2 years old and we are co-sleeping. They do not seem to be dependent on it, it is just an arrangement that we have, but we both feel that it is better for ...
- Hi S., We have been using Dr. Sears's attachment parenting method all along. We have had great success with it. We co-slept with our first son until he was two. Wh...
Co-Sleeping Issue
I am the happy mother a a 3 year old and a brand new 3 week old baby girl. With my 3 year old, I did not co-sleep nor did I nurse in bed. She would sleep in ...
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- We did part time cosleeping with our son until he was one y/o then we committed to full-time cosleeping. He's now two and we are all very happy with the situation. L...
- Hello M., I'm a mother of twin girls and I can tell you it's natural for them to wake up every 2-3 hours for about the first month or so. Your first child sounds ...
- I used a bassinet that hooked to the bed, so he was literally in arms reach, but safely in his own bed. When he was older I used it as a pack and play I think its call...
Newborn Sleeping with Mom in Bed at Night
Co-sleeping is fine as long as you can get some sleep that way. I always found that my baby slept really well in bed with us. Most of the time for the first ...
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- I understand how as a first time mom you can be extremely exhausted especially with the frequency and newness of breastfeeding. Additionally, I too wanted to know tha...
- HI! C. I AM D. AND I WOULD LIKE YOU TO KNOW THAT I HAD THREE BEAUITFUL KIDS AND THEY ALL SLEEP WITH ME WHEN THEY WERE BORN BECAUSE I THOUGHT THAT IT WAS DANGROUS FOR T...
- There are a million resources about co-sleeping out there. I recommend reading Dr. Sears as well. The studies that say bed sharing is dangerous were funded by the j...
