Interesting article on Co-Sleeping

[mrcantrell]

My wife sent this to me, I thought I'd share. For us Co-sleeping is a necessity.

http://www.askdrsears.com/html/7/T071000.asp

[Bees]

We coslept with our dd, pretty much from the night she was brought home. She did not like her bassinett, and I was far too fearful of SIDS to have her in her crib in another room. So, into our bed she went with us. We have no regrets about doing this. Now, she is about 17 months old, and we have given her our old queen size bed, put siderails up, and are working on getting her to sleep there exclusively. Yep, I heard all the "you'll be so sorry" stories, but to me and DH, cosleeping is what help us get through all this change--with baby. We all learned how to sleep together, and have been a very happy family unit for it. Our dd is quite a confident child, and in addition, I subscribed to attachment parenting theory. This went hand in hand with the cosleeping, I believe.

Cosleeping is not for everyone, and I am not one to push it on anyone. But I certainly have felt and see the benefits of it. Yes, I did read the Dr. Sears books, and follow advice from there often. Anyone who asks me, I will tout the benefits of it, and we will gladly do this when we have our next child. In the end, each family needs to do what is best FOR THEM. I have learned to let the advice usually go in one ear, and out the other...especially from my inlaws. Yep, I know my dh will probably read this, and likely would agree w/me.

All the best to all in whatever you all choose to do.

Bees.

[Diamondog]

My wife and I co-slept from day one too! We love it, so does the baby, made feedings very simple.....we put her into her own crib at 6 months where she sleeps now and there was no problem making the transition (however she is having some sleep problems currently, whole other topic). One thing our midwife pointed out to us about co-sleeping which we found very interesting is, there is a lot more co-sleeping in European and other countries and they have MUCH lower rates of SIDS than we do here in NA where co-sleeping is frowned upon.

[Toronto]

Very interesting and long read, and I have forwarded it to my wife. My son doesn't really like sleeping in his crib and we've notices he wakes waaay more often than if he's in bed with us.

Out of curiosity, what does DD and DH stand for?
Edit: Just found an entire thread on the abbreviations!

[getmail99]

Co-sleeping, 101 % agree. Especially essential for BF (Breast Feeding, not Boy Friend ) mother.

[Bees]

Co-sleeping, 101 % agree. Especially essential for BF (Breast Feeding, not Boy Friend ) mother.

Here, here! I agree!

Bees.

[shoppingmama]

We never owned a crib, our babies slept with us from day one until they were 2-3 years old then went in their own beds (we did the extended breastfeeding too)

I love Dr. Sears. Co-Sleeping was a wonderful time for our family, I miss those days!

[canadiankorean]

We met with a pediatrician on Tuesday for the first time.
She asked us if the baby slept in the bed with us.
We said yes.
Immediately, she said Stop it. Not even in a nice way.
Rudely she said you must stop it. The chances of SIDs is much higher, the baby won't learn how to sleep properly and blah blah.
She was fairly young and pregnant too.

This article is a great read.
Thx!

[mrcantrell]

We met with a pediatrician on Tuesday for the first time.
She asked us if the baby slept in the bed with us.
We said yes.
Immediately, she said Stop it. Not even in a nice way.
Rudely she said you must stop it. The chances of SIDs is much higher, the baby won't learn how to sleep properly and blah blah.
She was fairly young and pregnant too.

This article is a great read.
Thx!

When I told our Doctor that the kid was sleeping in the bed with us she said 'I did that too' and that was the end of the discussion. She has 2 kids.

[Diamondog]

We met with a pediatrician on Tuesday for the first time.
She asked us if the baby slept in the bed with us.
We said yes.
Immediately, she said Stop it. Not even in a nice way.
Rudely she said you must stop it. The chances of SIDs is much higher, the baby won't learn how to sleep properly and blah blah.
She was fairly young and pregnant too.

This article is a great read.
Thx!

Just about all of them say that...it's nonsense especially when you look at countries (European) that have high rates of co-sleeping...guess what they have much lower rates of SIDS than North America...anything to it? I think so....

[lint]

Just about all of them say that...it's nonsense especially when you look at countries (European) that have high rates of co-sleeping...guess what they have much lower rates of SIDS than North America...anything to it? I think so....

do you have any links to statistics? That article is mostly anecdotal, and I would like to do some research.

[Spidey]

We never started this at all. We had them in a bassenet in our room for the first 2 weeks, then into a crib. Everything worked out fine

We have friends that did this, all 3 kids were sleeping with them. Dont know how the hell they handled that

My question on this is how can you have any fun in the bed with your wife if you have a kid sleeping next to you

[gmark2000]

My question on this is how can you have any fun in the bed with your wife if you have a kid sleeping next to you

You just do it quietly.

[Spidey]

You just do it quietly.

Whats the fun in that. One position basically with the lights off

[canadiankorean]

My question on this is how can you have any fun in the bed with your wife if you have a kid sleeping next to you

You don't have to have fun only in the bed at night...