Does your baby/toddler sleep with you?

when my ex husband left us. My daughter and I moved in with my mom. We shared a room and had to share a bed. She was two at the time. When we moved to our own place 9 months later i had a very very difficult time getting her out of my bed. It was until recently that she stopped wanting to sleep in our room. We now have hardwood floors so it's not very comfortable for her to sleep on the fllor. My two year old does not sleep with us at all. NO WAY. I saw what it did to my oldest and I really don't want to go throught that again.

the only time my kids ever slept with me was if they weren't feeling well. i nursed both mine, but as soon as i was done nursing they went right back into the crib each night. i didn't want my kids in my bed till they were 5 lol. my youngest is 2 and sometimes she gets up in the middle of the night and comes over. i used to let her stay because i was too tired to get up, but she tossed and turned so much i couldn't get any sleep. so one night i took her back and layed her back down, i really didn't think i'd get away with it, she started to cry but as soon as i closed her door she stopped. i thought oh no here she comes but turned out she stayed in bed and went back to sleep. i think its better for them to learn to sleep in their own beds.

Hi! We are trying to transition my daughter into her own bed. We start her in her own bed, but she always ends up with me. She is a special needs child, and sometimes she needs to be with me more than I realize. Because of that, I haven't forced the issue of her sleeping in her own bed. Every so often, she will go to sleep in her own bed and rarely she'll stay there all night, but I know she will when she's ready. She's just not ready yet. :-) And like you said, it's nice to have the security of knowing they are next to you and to wake up to their smiling little faces! :-)

My son is supposed to sleep in his bed (he is 2 1/2) usually he will fall asleep in my bed then I put him in his bed but sometimes he will wake up and climb in bed with me. or if the room is a little cold I will let him sleep with me just so I know he is warm. If I try to lay him in his own bed while he is awake he will never go to sleep, he gets up and plays and talks and just wont lay down but in my bed he lays right down and gos to sleep.. when I was younger I slept with my mom all the time. I felt safer and it was very rare that I slept in my own bed..

The first one slept with me until she was about 6 months. The second one in bed with us until about 4 months and in the same room for another 5 months. The newest addition doesnt sleep in the bed with us, but at 3 months he still sleeps in the bassient in our bedroom. I would never sleep with the baby in our bed agian.....everyone gets a much better sleep this way!

its really best that i sleep with my kids...i feel somethings missing when they are sleeping with my mom or my mother in law... there's a sense of comfort and completeness when you sleep together with your children specially when they are still young...and they will feel secure and very loved when you are always by their side

mY SON sleeps with me, he is about to be 2 years, and i am used to this, he will not sleep without me

My son has slept with me from birth. I was in hospital with him for 8 days after his birth and after a few very sleepless nights of trying to settle him into his hospital cot I had a couple of midwives (who also couldn't get him to settle) strongly suggest I let him sleep with me because they could clearly see that's what he wanted. They taught me how to tuck him in next to me with his own blankets and gave me advice on how to safely co-sleep with him when I got him home. They were very supportive and informative. Now he's a 2 1/2 year old and I have consistently tried to get him to sleep in his own bed but he refuses to. I always try putting him in his own bed first and sometimes he'll be so exhausted he'll fall asleep but he always, without fail, wakes up a few hours later and crawls into bed with me. Admittedly I love the closeness of it and am making the most of it while I can, because one day he'll be all grown up and I'll be lucky to get a kiss goodnight before he dissapears to his room for the night. My daughter also wouldn't sleep in a cot in hospital but the very day I brought her home, she slept a solid 10 hours in it and nine months later she still loves her cot and rarely wakes at night.

My little one did not. He slept in a bassinet in our room till he was 4 months old. When he grew out of that, we just moved him to his own room. He loved his "big bed". He just turned 2 and is very independent. He prefers sleeping on his own and doesn't want any company. When he was sick a few times, I tried to get him to sleep with me but he refuses to go to sleep then and only wanted to play cos' Mommy's in bed with him! When it's time to go to bed, I just tell him it's "night, night" time and he will hold my hand and pull me to his bedroom for me to tuck him in. Too cute!!

My son slept with us until recently. I set up his own bed and let him choose when he wanted to do so. He made the choice at 18 months. No crying it out, no tantrums, no screaming in the middle of the night. I didn't pressure him at all and my husband and I are glad that the transition was so easy. I had family saying that he'd never sleep in his own bed, now I just want to say nanananana!

I have always been too afraid of rolling over and suffocating my daughter to allow her to sleep with me. She is 18 months and still sleeps in the same room as my husband and I, but we don't allow her to sleep in bed with us because of that reason. My husband especially is a very heavy man (350lbs) and is an extremely heavy sleeper. The fear of him rolling on her scares the hell out of me!

I have always had my daughter in her own bassinet & now cot, the bassinet was in my room but the cot is in her own room! I never felt comfortable with the idea of having my daughter in my own bed, i was worried i'd squish her! Plus, she was in her own hospital crib from birth so there's no need to change things when i got home. However, i would be very disappointed if my mother was to look after her & allow her to sleep in their bed. That would totally ruin any routine i have with my daughter now. I don't have to worry about it for the moment coz i am not comfortable with my daughter staying anywhere else but at home with me. I think it has something to do with the fact my family doesn't just live around the corner & i would be too worried with there being a 1 1/2 hour gab between us. I think you need to find out how your daugher/daughter in law feels about this coz i would be very upset if i found out this was happening! Good Luck!

My kids dont sleep with me, but I don't think it's a problem when people do let their child sleep with them! For me the bed isn't big enough for everyone (4 boys!) and the youngest is a 5 month old and I am a worrier and tend to feel like me or my husband might roll over on him, or he might roll over on the bed and suffocate. That is sweet that you have your grandson sleep with you! What a nice grandma.

My son (who will be 3 in may) is SUPPOSE to sleep in his bed but 90 % of the time he ends up in my bed. He has slept in a crib but then we coslept with him until he was about 2 and now he still wants to sleep with us in the mornings. I think for him its a comfort thing. He sleeps crappy by himself but as soon as he is in the bed with us he sleeps wonderfully. so sometimes it doesnt bother me since he sleeps longer in our bed otherwise hes up at 4-6am wide awake.

i have 2 sons, 9 and 10 yrs old and a daughter who just turned 5. and all 3 still sleep with us. yes, they still do. we don't have a problem with it. as far as i can remember, i slept with my mom till i was 12 and i still turned out okay. contrary to the beliefs that children who still sleep with their parents will become too dependent, clingy, shy, insecure, etc... i have won a lot of contests when i was in school - spelling bee, declamation, oratories. and i have been an emcee for countless of times. not to mention the fact that i've been president for different organizations, in and out of school. now, i organize events for individuals and some companies. what i'm saying is, sleeping with my mom for so long must have made me a better and more confident person. and i intend to have my kids with me in our room for as long as they want to. yeah, you're right. waking up next to them is a very nice bonus,too!

My kids sleep with me. Both of them. My daughter is 4 and she sleeps in bed with me and my son who is 15 months, has a toddler bed that sits right next to my bed, so we are all pretty close in the same room at nights and they have their own rooms, but they use their rooms as a play room.

It might be nice and very handy. But they do have their own bed. I dont know about your grandson, but I do know this about our son. He uses that to try to control what we do do him. When we tried to change it at first, it was horrible. He through incredible fits. Now things are getting better, that he understands what his bed is. Other than that, I dont see anything wrong with what is happening.

My kids are no longer babies, but I never had them in bed with me, even as babies. I had their crib in the bedroom with me close to the bed so I could feed them when they woke during the night, but I always put them back in their crib after and they settled down. Once they started sleeping through the night on a regular basis, I moved them into their own bedroom and I can in all honesty say I never had any problems. People say that when kids sleep in bed with their parents it's very hard to break them out of that habit. I'm glad I never had that issue to deal with. It's nice to share my bed with my kids for a while in the morning on a weekend though. My kids will get up and my partner fixes breakfast for them, then they come and climb into bed with me and generally kick me and god knows what else till I wake up LOL. I cherish those moments.

There's nothing wrong with sharing the bed with your toddler; they still may need reassurance at that age. It's good that you do put him back in his crib once he's sleeping though.

My almost 2 year old sleeps with us still and soem nights it is annoying but soem nights it is so cuddly and nice. I want him in his own bed but at the same time right now it isnt a big deal to me. My 3 month old daughter sleeps in her own crib and doesnt mind at all. Learned that mistake once!