🛏️Co-Sleeping🛏️

My sons pediatrician admitted they cosleep / bedshare with their own kids too (:

Our 1 year old sleeps in our bed so our 7 month old sleeps in their crib 😂 I’m sure she’ll end up in our bed too, but our 1 year old sleeps way too crazy to have the baby in bed with us lol

We didn't cosleep at first but it is the only way I can actually sleep. And it has helped my anxiety so much. We held our baby for every nap in the new born phase so why not cosleep at night is my thought. I just have the older people in my life telling me my baby is going to sleep in my bed forever if I don't get him out soon (he's 9 months). I know that's not true but even if it was, I wouldn't mind it. I know so many people who coslept but just didn't talk about it until I was pregnant. So I am very open about us cosleeping with the hope that others can be more open about it. And learn how to do it safer before any accidents happen.

Co-sleeping is technically defined as sleeping in the same room but not necessarily on the same sleeping surface (ex. baby's crib is in your room). Bedsharing is sharing the same bed. I bedshared from birth with all my children. Currently I share my bed with my 2 year old and then my older two have their bunk bed next to my bed.

I have a cosleeper bassinet for my youngest (3mo) I bed share sometimes, I bed shared with my older two until they were 3+ my 8 yo is in his own room now, my 5 yo will sometimes climb in bed with me halfway through the night.

I co-sleep with my LG. She has her next2me cot literally right next to my side of the bed. Sometimes she will sleep in our bed with us/me. But it isn't very often, maybe once every couple of weeks. Most of the time, if she is struggling to fall asleep... I'll get her to sleep in our bed, and then after half an hour or once, I'm sure she's in a deep enough sleep, I'll move her into her cot x

I co-sleep with my baby girl. It's me and her in a room together and most times she sleeps in her pack & play peacefully, but some nights she's cold or she's teething and wants snuggles and I have no problem laying her next to me. Like this last week, she's been going to bed at 9 in her pack and play, but will be up by midnight, so I've been using it as a guide for how much me - time I get. I get to shower, clean up, play the game, etc... but once she calls for me then it's time for bed. I don't move in my sleep so I'm not worried about that. If anything I'm worried about being pushed off the bed because of how wild she sleeps 🤣

Co-slept from 4 weeks to about 8.5 months

I didn’t with my first (he was in the Next to Me by our bed the first 6 months) but I am with my second. She simply won’t sleep independently, I’ve tried everything. Once she’s 3 months I’m going to train her to go in the Next to Me

Coslept with both my kids until they were a year old and I stopped breastfeeding. But for a while it was the only way for me to get any sleep and it always felt much safer and natural than putting them in a crib

every asian i know co sleeps, my husband and i co sleep with our babies :)

I don't think it's still true that most medical professionals advise against it. My midwife told me she co-slept with both of hers. She just told me the importance of doing it safely.

With my first I did from about 3 months old (I was scared to do it until I educated myself about it). With my newborn now we’ve been bedsharing since day 1 ❤️

Only when kids are ill and won't go in own room I have a 3 year old and 8 month old and recently had 2 nights of baby in bed as she had a temp and wouldn't settle in own room

I never planned to but after the 4 month sleep regression hit it was the only way to survive the nights. Over time I grew to love cosleeping. I live in the uk and I do know quite a lot of people who also cosleep, one of the midwives I saw after birth actually suggested it to us and signposted us to the safe guidelines for it.

Thanks for sharing !

Co slept since my 2 Yr 7 month old was 17 months , only way anyone gets more than 2 hours sleep 😴

I could never personally

Both my children slept in bassinets beside our bed, but I did not let them sleep in bed with us because I'd never sleep that way. I am way too anxious/paranoid of a person (yes, I'm familiar with the co-sleep safe 7, but I'd still be way too anxious).

There was a time around 6-7 months where it was the only way to get her to sleep. I tried my best for it to be as safe as possible but there's a point where you must sleep!

My little one is 6 months and he’s always slept so much better in his crib for bed time than in our bed. I’ve tried a few times out of desperation to get some sleep during regressions but he just wakes up when I put him down. For naps he will sleep in his crib but he loves contact napping.

We did while breast feeding and when they stopped we stopped

Sometimes. When he was small like younger than a year if he was having a rough night I would just put him next to me and we sleep. Now I don’t do it because he’s almost 2 and sleeps rough lol maybe an hour or two in the morning if he wakes up and wants snuggles.

@Crystal I have a bassinet too. Sometimes during the day I'll put him to sleep on my bed with me. He looks so tiny on the bed because I have a king. He's almost going to outgrow the bassinet soon. 😭He's two months old.

@Allie she wants to be with momma! 🥰

@Agata awww 🥰. cute profile pics.

@Ryann sounds like you got the routine down! I have a bassinet and a crib I have the crib in another section in the apartment and I have not used it at all I just been using the bassinet and my bed. Eventually I want to transition him to the crib but I'm not set on a timeline for that.. when it happens it happens.

We bed share still and she’s 18 months, once we get a bigger house we will teach her to sleep in her own bed/room but I’m not in a rush. I slept with my grandma until I was 9 and I’m GREAT 🤣

I cosleep/bed-share with my daughter who is currently 16 weeks. I get chastised a lot by my family, but it's partly necessity and partly spiritual and emotional reasons. I've also done a lot of research and follow the same rules as their own crib besides one pillow for my head away from baby.

To each their own, I heard many bad stories especially when parents coslept with newborns and infants and it didn't end up well, but I think with toddlers and older kids it's safer I just personally don't want to make it a habit because i want my kids to sleep in their own rooms in their own bed and mommy and daddy have their own bed to sleep in. Unless they have nightmares and once in awhile what to sleep with us that's fine but not an everyday thing.

@Violeta💕 yes we did a bassinet in our room until he got too long around 3 months I believe. Now we have the crib in our room. You have to do what’s best for you and your baby for sure :)

@Violeta💕 thank you! Yours are cute too !

Never, but I also recognize I had an easy baby so there was never really a need. A couple of times I did put her down next to me on the bed if she wouldn't settle in the early morning, and she would sleep another hour or so, but I never did. I'd like to say I would still stick to my guns if I'd had a more difficult baby, but not having been in that situation I can't judge people who do it out of desperation and I'll agree that intentional is safer than falling asleep by accident. I think I would still be extremely conservative about it even if I felt like I had to out of desperation, I would never do it freely or if I felt like I had a choice.* *this applies only to a very young baby, I'd be fine sleeping with my 2-3 year old if I felt like she wouldn't roll her ass off the bed. She moves around a ton in her sleep right now and I 100% would not trust her at 11 months, she's too reckless.

We follow the safe sleep 7. Everyone sleeps better