Do YOU like to co-sleep?

[neostudded]

I do!

Ive co slept my whole life, with my mum till I was about 3-5, then mostly with my sibling's but sometimes with my mum until I was 15.

Then at 15 I got a boyfriend and co-slept with him sometimes my family, then from 16 I only co-slept with him, then I had my son at 17 and he co-slept with me to.

Now iam 18 and single, my son co-sleep's with me, and about once or twice a week I either sleep in my little sisters or brothers room, and sometimes with my mum in her bed.

And about once or twice a week I share my bed with my little sister, or my cousin (she is 16) who lives down the street! :laughing:

I have a posture mattress and a queen bed so there is plenty of room.

[Myztik]

Nope I hate sharing a bed :p

As a kid I used to sneak into mums bed if I woke up during the night but since moving out of home (years ago) I prefer a bed to myself. I love it when DF falls asleep on the couch coz I can spread out :laughing:

I do love it when DS2 climbs into bed with me at 4 in the morning though... as long as he doesn't hog the bed :laughing:

[Milliner]

I love co-sleeping with DD, she doesn't move around and kick me in the head like DS does. DP LOVES co-sleeping with DS, he loves the bond they have.

ETA - I don't like co-sleeping with DP. :laughing:

[veve]

hate it ..

when I share my bed with my DH I only get a third :laughing: so put a kid in there too?? and I get 1/5th of a bed - and wake up with a toddlers feet ON my neck :laughing:

not our cup of tea .. none of us lie even remotely still in bed :laughing:

xx
Jen

[neostudded]

I just remembered when I was with my ex I used to get sick of co-sleeping, with him because sometimes he would put his limbs on me and id get pins and needles.

I do like having the bed to myself and my son aswell, (more room) but I like having a change and sharing to.

[~Alicia]

I love it :goodvibes:

Hate the lack of room, but love having my babies around me :cloud9:

[westerner]

hate it ..

when I share my bed with my DH I only get a third :laughing: so put a kid in there too?? and I get 1/5th of a bed - and wake up with a toddlers feet ON my neck :laughing:

not our cup of tea .. none of us lie even remotely still in bed :laughing:

Same here..

[RaryGirl]

hate it!!!!

My hubby hogs the bed and snores! :hair: And DD wriggles, kicks, squirms, talks, talks and talks .... DS is a wriggler too.

So I loooooove it when I have the bed to myself, then when DH comes to bed he has to just fit in the small space I've left him. :laughing:

[~Emmylou~]

I don't like it with babies, I just don't sleep. God knows I've tried....I just can't :(

DS slept with me a few nights ago and he kicks and pokes and hogs the bed....has boob 10 times a night just cause it's there....no fun for me at all.

I DO like to sleep with DD now though - she's 3.5 so she can lie straight in the bed and not hog the doona now :laughing:

[Ana Gram]

Nope hate it.

[susmamma]

yup - love a bit of co-sleeping here.. i never get why you'd be bothered getting up in the middle of the night to feed and rock and pat and walk around half the night trying to settle a baby in a cot when you can just pull out a boob in bed and drift back off to sleep...

but whatever works i reckon.
that worked for us.
if it stresses you out too much then you wont be getting much sleep anyway!

[MummaBear03]

I never used to like it til I became a mother. Now I love it when she's in my bed. I'm not going to make her sleep there, it's her choice, but I secretly hope each night that she'll want to share a bed with me. Little Miss Independent doesn't always do what I would like her to do though :(

[preciousbabyboy]

I love co sleeping with DS but only somtimes! He kicks lol

[Benji]

:no: I don't enjoy it at all!

I didn't mind sharing with XDP but DS co-slept with me from about 3 months to 9 months and I hated it!

Not only did I wake in the middle of the night thinking I had crushed him (or that XDP had - heaviest sleeper in the WORLD there!!!) but DS would want me to feed him all night long and I just can't sleep with someone tugging at my boob.

Last night DS woke around 3 am and I brought him in with me and OMG I hardly slept. He would kick, sing, sit up, hog the bed, push me.

I prefer a nice, big warm bed to myself :D

[Teley]

Yeah, I've co-slept with DS since he was born. He has his own bed, but often in the morning I'll wake to find him next to me:p!
(There must be nighttime escapades to my bed that I always seem to sleep through:laughing:).
I didn't really co-sleep with my parents, but since having DS I love co-sleeping. If I'm not co-sleeping with DS, I'm definately co-sleeping with the teddy bear lol!

[Chunkydunks]

We co-slept with DS for a little while after he was born. It was nearly winter and in Canberra so it was darn cold. Apart from that no I don't like it. I'm a big girl and DH has a second pillow under his knee to keep his back straight so there isn't much room to fit a nearly 4 year old. Mind you for some reason it became acceptable for the dog to sleep with us:laughing:. She takes up bugger all room though cos she's a tea cup silky.

[kyiethree]

i like it my youngest son sleeps with me as im single i dont mind too much his find till he kicks me also 7 year old son often hopes in my bed during the night

[reAllytee]

yup - love a bit of co-sleeping here.. i never get why you'd be bothered getting up in the middle of the night to feed and rock and pat and walk around half the night trying to settle a baby in a cot when you can just pull out a boob in bed and drift back off to sleep...

Cause there are a few of us who actually dont like the feeling of b/f so cant fall asleep to it :o

Oh & cause i have a baby who cant be b/f :p

Sorry had to do it :laughing:


I co-slept with my parents till i was around 6yrs & was still known to sneak in sometimes when older even sleeping on the floor if i couldnt get into the bed heh !

Since the teenage years hit i had a whole double bed to myself so became rather antsy about sharing but learnt when i was with an ex as he was at my place all the time & then same with DP.

It is hard sharing with DP though cause he doesnt sleep properly even though out to it so thrashes & stuff. Oh & even with a queen bed he is too tall so has to lay horizontally taking up part of my side ... Actually i really hate sharing a bed now :laughing:

Boof will come into us now but when younger hated co-sleeping whereas Squeak loved it but due to his reflux we couldnt manage it properly.

[sweetsugardumplin']

Yes and ....................no :o

I love the concept of co-sleeping but the reality is very different.

DH and I both co-slept with DS until he was seven months and DD until she was seven weeks.

We still had/have their cots in the room.

I just can't sleep well. Both bubbas were on the boob the whole night, which was very uncomfortable. Not so much the BF but the awkward position one must maintain. (I have a spinal deformity which causes me a great deal of pain - so any prolonged and uncomfortable postion sees me spend the rest of the day in agony)

Having said that, both DS and DD end up in our bed in the wee hours of the morning - one's resolve is very weak at 3am :rolleyes:

[ThisIsLiving]

No. Can't stand it. Only like me and DH in our bed. Thankfully our kids seem to like sleeping independently of us too! They are very settled in their respective bed/cot, which is a good thing for us as we love our 'adult time' ie: SLEEP time! :laughing:

[naiwen]

I loved loved co sleeping until DS was able to roll/crawl and sadly since then it just hasnt been possible.
a) if he is rolling crawling he could fall of the bed (he will even crawl over me to got out!
b) his oxygen tubing gets all tangle up with him and me and the doona.
c) if I am there with him he thinks it's party time and wont go to sleep, he just keeps trying to play with me.

If there was a way past all those issues then I would co sleep again in a second!

[AM]

I love it :goodvibes:

Hate the lack of room, but love having my babies around me :cloud9:


You summed it up perfectly! :cloud9::thumbsup:

[Benji]

No. Can't stand it. Only like me and DH in our bed. Thankfully our kids seem to like sleeping independently of us too! They are very settled in their respective bed/cot, which is a good thing for us as we love our 'adult time' ie: SLEEP time! :laughing:

:laughing: LOL gotta love adult time!

Actually yes I agree. My friends always used to carry on about how much better for the baby co-sleeping is and :ecomcity: but he slept so badly next to me. He was always so tired and grumpy.

About two days after being in his own bed in his own room, he was like a different baby - happy, more alert, developed quicker, ate more. I guess they really are all different!

[subaruforestermum]

We dont have a matress at the moment, we cant afford one, and our other one got ruined by flood waters when we first moved into our house.... So we have this thin little matress that use to be on our old fold out couch.

We have that on the lounge room floor, and DS and I sleep on that and DF sleeps on the couch...

DS has his own bed, but I love watching him go to sleep, holding his hand while he is sleeping....just knowing he is ok.

He was doing so well sleeping in his own bed, until we moved the matress into the lounge, and now he wants to, as otherwise we are too far away for his liking (up the other end of the house).

DF doesnt like it, as last time he slept next to DS he copped a smack in the eye while sleeping....

I hate sharing a bed with anyone else though even my mother. It sickens me to feel her skin even against my foot.... I dont know why but I hate it. Too crowding...

[Seekrit]

I loved Co-sleeping with Cobes until he was around a year old... then he started moving more.... and enjoyed his own bed.

Now when I need to have him in my bed it's horrible, he sleeps ON me and I get no sleep by the end. I wake up with elmos in my face, fingers up my nose, feet in my belly button and faces pressed against mine... OH and eyelids being peeled open. Blergh. I then have to drag myself to work and be happy in the morning........... poo poo poo.

NEXT baby we'll co-sleep for the first while... but I think we might side car.

My husband and I share a bed, I wouldn't say we co-sleep though...

[DonnaL]

As above, I share a bed with DH, but I don't really consider it to be 'co-sleeping' as such.

I was never really keen to co-sleep with DD, I am convinced that my DH would have squashed her. And she won't sleep there anyway.

[TinyStar]

We diddn't co-sleep until our kids were over 1 year,

I used to hate it, and it certainly still has it's moments, but if everyone is actually asleep, no one is kicking anyone, and it's 8am on a sunday.

BLISS!

NB sometimes our DD will chuck DS out of the bed if he kicks too much! LOL too funny, she tells him "Patrick GO to bed NOW" and he sobs, crawls out of our bed and back to his.

[misskittyfantastico]

I'm co-sleeping with DS atm and while it's giving me the extra sleep I need, I do want my bed back - I like to sprawl:yes:

[alphafemale2901]

I love it.

I co-slept with DD on and off and less and less until she was about 9.

I would love to co-sleep with my almost 17 week old, but he's outgrown it.

The lack of room sh!ts me, but being able to feel my child breathing and smell them next to me is about as close to heaven on earth as I could possibly imagine.

[Cordelia]

I have enough troubel sharing a bed with DH :laughing:

i have to admit that those cold early mornings in the early months, there was nothign nicer than feeding a newborn in a warm cosy bed and drifting off..... mmmm

i dont think that would work anymore tho :P she'd be too busy climbing over us and jumping on the pillows and pulling every body part she can get her hands on.

[Chunkydunks]

[quote=Cordelia;2593574]I have enough troubel sharing a bed with DH :laughing:

i have to admit that those cold early mornings in the early months, there was nothign nicer than feeding a newborn in a warm cosy bed and drifting off..... mmmm

I used to do that with Kynan too.......Oh I so loved that. Then Daddy coming in at 10 for his "lunch break" (he used to start at 5am) to wake us.

AWWWWW I want another baby!!!!

[justmum]

Like? :yes:

Work for us? :no:

[JosieMonkey]

I'm (secretly) beginning to like it. I reluctantly started co-sleeping when DD kept waking regularly throughout the night. It was something I thought I would never do (from fear of crushing her) but sleep deprivation can make you change your mind about anything!
Funnily enough, before I started co-sleeping I woke regularly every night looking for DD in my bed, often thinking my DH was her...it drove me nuts! Now that I sleep with her part-time, i don't wake up looking for her.:confused:

[SmileyBJ]

This is really interesting.

I never co-slept as a child, never with my parents, probably only once with my brother and a whole of 3 maximum times right up until I was with my XDP. It took me a looong time to get use to sleeping with someone else... & we shared a single bed 50% of the time as we commuted from 2 places :laughing:.

I got a little lonely not having someone wrapped around me each night once we split but love my own bed once again already :D

[neostudded]

Angike I agree so much with that!!

I fully believe that some people/babies sleep better own their own, and others while co-sleeping and some babies something different works I guess.

With my son, he sometimes wouldnt go to bed with me, (same problems some people have mentioned) so we cut down on co-sleeping. For about a month there was a time where he'd only sleep in his cot, and in the early hours (from about 12 to 5am) he'd co-sleep with me.

But now he has gone back to co-sleeping alot more, even during his day nap.

At the moment he is going though a clingy stage and he wont go to sleep unless iam with him, (I love it :goodvibes::cloud9:).I cant cuddle him anymore while he goes to sleep though, he has to use my belly as a pillow, or put his leg on me, mostly just so he knows I am there.

While I sleep he also pull's my hair and bites my nipples and acts as though my body belongs to him, but iam a DEEP sleeper so I dont wake up.

But I can understand how some people wouldnt be able to sleep though that! :laughing:

[little mermaid]

I never ever slept with my parents:barf:, not allowed and never would have even thought of it. They had their bed and we had ours. Most certainly would never sleep with brothers or sister or even cousins. eww :barf:

[borntobemummy]

It really freaks me out. I often fall asleep while feeding DS then wake up in a panic when I realise he is still there, under the blanket and laying really still. I even have those freak out moments when he's not in the bed, I just forget that I took him back to bed sometimes.

[studyingECS]

I co-slept till I was 2, and then was forced into my own bed, only to start sleeping with them again when I was 4, by the time I was 7 dad slept in my bed and I slept next to mum. And then When I was 10 they kicked me out again. I get kind of embarrassed about it though.

[Benji]

(I love it :goodvibes::cloud9:).I cant cuddle him anymore while he goes to sleep though, he has to use my belly as a pillow, or put his leg on me, mostly just so he knows I am there.

While I sleep he also pull's my hair and bites my nipples and acts as though my body belongs to him, but iam a DEEP sleeper so I dont wake up.

But I can understand how some people wouldnt be able to sleep though that! :laughing:

Lucky you! I would have kept it up had I been a deep sleeper.

When DS was little and had that yummy smell, I used to smell his little peanut head next to me at night :laughing: XDP thought I was a weirdo!

[FishFace]

I dont like it at all.

I had bad experience as a child and it has left me very uncomfy with it.

I did try with DD but it was horribel for both of us.

[NewBeginnings]

Nope, it isn't my cup of tea. As a baby (you know when they lie still and don't move and bash you in your sleep :p) it was ok on the odd occasion.

But now I get bashed to death and I end up on the floor as DS takes up the entire queen size mattress... and no exaggeration he does! and kicks the doona off me as he doesn't want it on... and moves me outa the way because he wants to sleep where my feet are.... well let's just say he has his own bed just for him to sleep where ever he wants, with our without a doona.... and this mummy can actually get sleep without waking up black and blue... and well actually get a semi good nights sleep in! :laughing: (although when I am feeling down I do co-sleep with him... not usually in a good mood the next day from no sleep.... but at least I was near my baby all night! :bee::cloud9:)

[Areca]

DD1 it just didn't work so it sucked. She wanted her own space. She never asks to sleep with us.

DD2 - We have co-slept on and off. I love it for a few nights but I must lie in funny positions and end up stiff and sore. I just kicked her out of our bed after a 6 week co-sleeping stint and she is sleeping much better in her own space. I hate having to get out of my warm bed to feed her though!

I remember slepping in mum and dad's bed on occassion when I was growing up. DH and I bought a king size bed so there would be enough room to co-sleep but I prefer just DH in the bed with me.

[neostudded]

Angike I love the new baby smell to :cloud9:

Sassafras, Iam sorry about that hey.:(:hugs:

NewBeginnings, my son is starting to kick the blanket off me and it is starting to get so cold!

It sounds like your ds is happy is his own bed though! :D :laughing:

[~Bec~]

Most mornings DS gets brought into our bed - it's easier to resettle him when you're laying down than standing over his cot or bouncing him on the swiss ball. We move the pillows apart and pop him in there. He does take up an awful lot of room though as he usually insists on sleeping with his arms stretched out each side.

It's so cute to wake up snuggled up next to him and for him to be the first thing I see in the morning. :cloud9: :goodvibes:

He has whacked us both very hard though.

I never co-slept as a child, mum and dad's room was their space and we didn't really even go in their room without permission.