Baby sleeping

I don't personally like sharing a bed with my kids but I have no problem with people doing it. Just the other night I went to bed to find my 10 month old in the middle of the bed. I tried to sleep but she hogs the bed so I gave up and went to sleep on the couch instead. My older 3 all slept in our bed the first couple weeks of their lives.

I'm personally against a baby sleeping with the parents. I think it's really dangerous. There have been cases where parents have rolled over and smothered their children. I also do think though to each their own. I might not agree with it but if it works for you, so be it.

my son and i always fell asleep together, whether it was on the couch for a little nap or if it was at night in bed with me. I do not see a problem with it. I mean it was not an every night thing to where he would not sleep in his own crib but occisionally.

I love having my children sleep with me. I don't see anything wrong with it. They are only kids for a short time, and eventually, they will grow up and want their own room--maybe their own house. So let us enjoy this moment and have them with us while they still want our company.

It's a personal decision that you have to make for yourself. Try not to let other's opinions affect your choice. It's your baby and you know him/her better than anyone. I have on occasion had mine sleep in my bed with me. It wasn't like we made a habit of it and they all had their own beds. Sometimes though, especially while nursing, the only way to get any sleep is to bring the bay in with you. As long as all the proper precautions are taken to protect the baby from rolling off the bed or getting smothered, it's really not a big deal. I'm sure your sister in law thought she was being helpful. She probably assumed that you and the baby were sleeping and was afraid he'd slip out of your arms and get hurt. Just trying to take the baby without even making sure was a little rude though. The better way to have handled it would have been to wake you (if you really had been sleeping) and ASK if you wanted her to take the baby.

I let my little girl share my bed when her Dad isn't around. I put her in a carry cot so there is no danger of me rolling onto her or anything. I was reading in an article today that it can actually be beneficial during the early days, because it helps the two of you fall into the same sleep routine, making it easier to wake up with bubs in the middle of the night. I figure anything that helps with midnight feeds is a great idea! Although I definately would never evern think about bed-sharing if I had anything to drink.

well this must be a personal thing for each one but after the shock of the first time i took a baby back to bed to feed i would never do it again .He was only a couple of weeks old i was so exhausted this night that hubby said he would put him back in his cradle when he finished feeding .Well in the morning i thanked hubby for putting him back for me as i went off to sleep during the feeding .Hubby said he didn`t put him back so we went to look no baby in the cradle it was empty panic stations we found the babsound asleep covered in perspiration at the foot of our bed under the bed covers .That was enought for me.Many a night i was woken feeding the babies as my arms relaxed and they started to fall but never again would i ever take the baby tomy bed i learnt me lesson almost the hard way

i let my four months old baby sleep with me,when he was 1 month old, i always put him in his own mosquito net, ans he is not sleeping beside me, but when he reahes 4 months, i sleep beside him, i want to embrace him and make him feel that i am beside him. during his early days i am afraid i might hurt him or mosquito and other insects will bite him that is why i always make it a point that he is inside a mosquito net for protection, now he is getting bigger,i want him sleep beside me. good day and happy parenting....

When I first had my baby, my baby slept with me. And this was probably only the first week or so. While I was in the hospital and feeding my baby, I would doze off and my baby would be sleeping with me. But after that, she slept in her own bed. On the other hand, when my mother in law was visiting, she slept with her in her bed. And I think it was therapeutic for my mother in law because she was only staying for a month and my baby was only a few days old so she really cherished those times.

There were times that I would take my baby to bed with me, usually if she was sick and cranky because that was the only way to get her to fall asleep. It was the same with my son. I would also sit in my big rocker/recliner and end up rocking both of us to sleep. Just before I would conk out, I would put up the footrest, and then we would both snore away. LOL

ofcourse if baby small to not be afraid when he or she wake up and to take care of him ofcourse

well my little boy used to sleep with me and to be honest that bond that you get it lovely, also my son is one of them children who wakes up every 2 hours, so with him with me it made life a lot easier, i did however struggle when the time came for him to start sleep on his own in his own bed, but then again i suppose it took about 2 weeks, but my first child my daughter did'nt sleep in my bed only when she was poorly but in the afternoons i would have a nap in the rocking chair and she would sleep in my arms. now my children aged 4 and 9 when they get ill i do let them sleep in my bed

i wouldn't allow my child to sleep with me. i think that once they get used to sleeping in your bed it's very hard to get them out of it. also, my husband is a very heavy sleeper and he moves, a lot. he used to like to fall asleep with our baby in bed with him. one night, he draped his arm over the baby's face. thank god i was in the room because my husband didn't even fully wake up with me yelling at him to move his arm so i could move the baby without hurting him. when i told him of it the next day, he said no more sleeping with the baby, and hasn't since. as far as i'm concerned, the kids have their own rooms and their own beds for a reason. when our baby was first born, i slept on the couch, with the baby in a moses basket on the coffee table until he slept mostly through the night, then i used a baby monitor next to him and the other end in my bedroom and i would get up to care for him, and then put him back to bed, in his own bed. when he got too big for the basket, we moved him to the boys' room and the monitor went with him. that's what they make monitors for after all.

This decision, as with most if not all parenting decisions, are personal to each family. We chose not to co-sleep, and probably mainly because it was a selfish reason of us NOT being able to sleep as well with our baby in bed with us! lol She slept NEXT to our bed in her bassinett for the first month, then she was in her crib from then on out. I think all of us slept much better, because when she was in our room, I (or my husband) would wake up at the slightest sound from her, which more often than not would cause HER to wake up. We went through a couple stages where she would come into our room in the middle of the night(when she went into her toddler bed) asking to get in bed with us, and I'd just put her right back into her bed. Like I said, it's just not a decision that was right for our family. Once in awhile on the weekend we'll all sleep in the same bed for a nap in the afternoon, but at night-time it's everyone in their own bed! I think that parents deserve the right to have their own personal time and space, and their bedroom and their bed is one of the best places for that.....IMHO, of course! :)

There have been horror stories of babies dying in this manner so people do panic. We did it and others have done it and all is well in our worlds. In a rocking chair it is no big deal, doubt that you would have been sleeping deep. We as mothers sleep different than normal and so having the baby in bed come bring needed rest when they are young. They are more comfortable with you near also. A win-win method. Two babies for us and it went well!

I used to fall asleep with my kids when they were small on occasion, especially when they were ill and I wanted to keep them close in case they needed me right away. I see nothing wrong with it.

I do not let our baby sleep with us in bed. I just didn't want him to get used to it and then have a problem weening him later. He falls asleep every night in my arm and then we move him to his crib. The Dr.'s all gave me a hard time about it, "you are supposed to put him to bed awake" thats crap, we do what works for us. Everyone is different. Do what is comfortable for you. We were also too afraid that we would roll over him or hurt him another reason WE didn't allow it. When he gets older and has a bad dream we will have no problem if he needs to cuddle.

I don't see anything wrong with an occasional nap with your child, in the rocking chair, or on the couch. But your bed should be your bed. and theirs should be theirs. If you allow them to sleep in your bed with you, they will never want to sleep on their own.

It is your own personal choice..My choice is to not let my child sleep with us...She understands she has her space in her bed and we have our space in our bed...Some people just go to the extreme though like your sister in law...It's your choice and she should just accept that fact and if she can't tell her it's your choice and not hers..

Our baby girl sleeps in our bed with us at night. She's fine in her cot during the day but at night I find that she have uninterrupted sleep if she's sleeping beside me.