Sharing Bed with Baby

It's not right for everyone-but it was for us. All of our children slept with us. Our youngest still does. We had no trouble transitioning the kids to their own rooms. They are happy, healthy and independant kids, and I give credit to co-sleeping for that, along with practicing attachment parenting.

The communial family bed has always been in effect in our household. My now 5 year old always starts the night in his own room and bed but seldom finishes there. Sometime in the middle of the night he always relocates into the middle of our bed. We do encourage him to start the night in his own room (some intimate couple time is vital to the health and well being of my husband and my relationship) but we also enjoy the cuddling and special bonding of our little guy sleeping between us and being there as we all wake to start our day. He seems to be fairly well adjusted...both sings and laughs in his sleep all the time and is fiercly independant.

Im sure it not for everyone. I think it depend on the parents and their baby. My daughter slept between me and my husband every night. She had her own room and her crib and she use to sleep by herself but with all the health condition she had, I was the one who didnt sleep good. so one night I just put her between us and I had the best sleep ever! My hubby told me that he slept better too. Although my daughter kicked my hubby out from a bed several times, letting her sleep with us was the good idea for us.

No and the #1 reason being SIDS. I think it's selfish on the parents' part. Of course I hated to leave my daughter at night, but I knew it was the safest thing for her.

ALL MY 4 KIDS HAVE CO SLEPT W/ME...IT JUST DEPENDS ON WHETHER U FEEL COMFORTABLE OR NOT...TO EA. HIS OWN:)

Babies sleeping in their parents bed is ok in my opinion. It builds up trust and comfort between a parent and their children.

Well, I've been allowing my one-year-old baby to sleep in bed with me when he cries, and the predictable result is that he always cries when he is alone in his own bed - until I get him. I know it's unwise, but he's only going to be a baby for a little while.

Honestly, I say no. Not because of SIDS, or the possibility of rolling on the baby or smothering it. But for the reason it is HARD to break a baby of cosleeping when the time comes. I coslept with my oldest and it was a painful process to get her to sleep on her own. Even now at the age of 5, she still doesn't like to sleep alone.

Hi! I shared my bed with my baby. It had nothing to do with selfishness. I had stress and PPD after I had my baby and couldn't relax for a long time. After my daughter would nurse and fall asleep, my home health care nurse told me to go to sleep with her. It helped me ease into motherhood and work past the stressors that birth caused. :-)

I think it's ok for babies to sleep in bed of the parents. It gives them a secure feeling, there's time enough when they grow older, to sleep alone. I think that for every child it is different.

I dont think it's safe to share a bed with a baby untill they are old enoght to be able to get the sheets, pillows or whatever might land on their face during the night off so they don't suffocate. Also what if you roll on them or they get stuck below the covers or something? What a scary thought. I dont like the idea of a baby sleeping anywhere but their safe little cot. Maybe wait till theyre like 2 or somethin before putting them into your bed, just make sure theyre out by 4.

I don't see why not!

Yes parents should allow their babies to sleep in bed with them. coz the baby will feel a secureness while sleep.

My daughter has slept in my bed since she was a baby. I think its the safest thing for my child.

yes,they have to share my bed with babies

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I feel that it should be a personal choice. But, when my child was a baby, I was reported to DCFS for letting her sleep in my bed with me. I don't know why, or what business it was of anyone elses, but I did get into trouble with DCFS for it...

yes, i think they shoul. all three of mine slept with me

my daughter is four years old,i don't allow her to sleep in the bed with us she just get up some nights i don't know if she having a bad dream or not i just wake up and find her in the middle

its definately a personal choice but i think parents who do this constantly are creating a rod for their own back. i have a friend who lets her now 4 year old still sleep in bed with her and her partner everynight and she will not sleep in her own room. they now have a new baby(??? i hope the 4 year old wasnt in the bed when she was in the making) and the baby also sleeps in the bed with them. i think this is a case of There were 4 in the bed and the bigga kid said roll over....???