Baby Sleeping in Bed

I allowed Jaydon to co sleep with us because I wanted him there. I am a working mom and I didnt feel guilty for not spending time with him during the day and now needed him to sleep with us. I was always afraid he would stop breathing and I wouldnt hear it. Its not a lazy thing either. I didnt breastfeed him so still had to get up to make bottles etc, Jaydon still sleeps in the room with us but its because he is afraid of the dark.

With Kyle, he hates sleeping with us because he wants space. He will roll around the whole time until we put him back in his cot.

Its very interesting seeing everyones reasons for and for not co sleeping

Jensen absolutely refuses to sleep with DH and I. From about 3 months (when he started creche) we moved him into his own room (was always in his own cot from birth) and has gotten used to the peace and quiet of his own space at night!

I have tried a few times to get him to nap with me in the mornings but as soon as i lay him down he tosses and turns and sits up and then starts kicking and poking either me or DH.

I think I actually prefer it this way, because we know that he wont have a problem later on adjusting!

Yip dylan won't sleep with us. He sits there and then pokes us and sits on our head and if by chance he does sleep he kicks the blankets of all of us and then sleeps sideways. No way, no fun.

Once he is asleep nothing wakes him. I have gone into his room, put the light on, changed him and the bed all while he sleeps, but only since sleep training him and surround sound doesn't bother him, but he arrived early to a building site so he is used to noise. No wonder he was a colicy baby.

Here's my problem. But perhaps it's my child who's not cut out for being a cosleeper. She goes to bed at 7 - now with it being winter, had she been sleeping in our room we'd have to close the door to keep the heat in the room. We are downstairs till 11 or 12 then go up, shower, bath whatever in the en suite which doesn't have a door to the room.

The door to our room makes a noise, the massive flat screen TV with surround sound makes more noise upstairs, the pipes in the walls make an awful noise when the taps are turned on and the shower door clangs when you shut it.

Now my beautiful baby girl wakes up from these noises even when in her own room with her and our door closed so HOW ON EARTH do I do all these things if she was in our room?

And when I mean she wake up, she really wakes up, she'll only go back to sleep in complete darkness. We have taken her out of bed at 11pm to go to the airport twice and she was awake from the time the car stopped until we drove back which on one day was 4 hours later!

I can't hold her to sleep she cries till I let go and if she lays down between us she turns over and stand up no matter how tired she is.

I'm thinking, either she is very use to not having us around or she just wasn't made for it?

This is a very funny topic really.. But I agree on the statement that: I love my boy to death but YYEEEHAAAA for bedtime

He slept with us in his co-sleeper until 4mnts and then I moved him to his cot next to our bed (he has his own room but rarely uses it). He still sleeps in his cot next to us but recently started to cry until he is back in bed with us. Now I dont really mind this since I love cuddling with him but in the end I would prefer to have him sleep in his own little bed. And then I would get him when he wakes up at 5 and the cuddle and snooze a bit until about 7. But now in winter I feel kinda guilty that he is on his own and might be cold.. and hubby is def the one pushing me to put him in bed with us

As for the intimate thing.. weve had him in our room or bed since he was born and we manage fine.. hehe.. spare rooms, lounge etc etc

Julz, lol at Dylan playing peeping tom

precious claire.

Oh julz it is such a precious time.

Brandon will come stand next to me, pat my cheek and ask if I am awake. I open the covers and he crawls in and we chat about what will happen during the day, or if something is bothering him / making him happy.

When DH is away, I try to let him know just how much his father loves & misses him.