How's co-sleeping going?

[namistenicole]

If you are co-sleeping or bed-sharing, that is.

I've been sleeping with Lucia in our spare bed since she arrived. I woke up this morning at 5 and couldn't go back to sleep so I just laid there and listened to her funny sleep grunts. She cycled in and out of deep sleep, thrashed her arms for a while, and went back to sleep. It's really been blissful nursing and sharing a bed with her.

How's it going for everyone else?

[odenata]

I've been enjoying co-sleeping, too. All four of us end up in bed together most nights - DD cuddled up with Daddy and baby with me. (Thank goodness we have a king sized bed!)

DS still has problems latching on, so I keep a flashlight under my pillow so I can help him.

[dsaucone]

Very well.

I'm not sure how he does it, but his 10lb little body kicks ours out of bed practically every night.

[chic2chic]

yes! my ds starts that same "grunting" at 5 am too... but i make sure i'm in bed by 9 every night, and i have had a solid 8 hours of sleep (no, i'm not kidding) every night since his birth

[Biscuits & Gravy]

I'm loving it. H has been gone for 2 wks, and we won't see him until next Friday, so I'm loving having a little warm body to snuggle with. He sleeps for such long stretches most nights, it blows my mind. He has latched on great since birth, so I've been able to do the side lying thing since the day we came home which is awesome. Most nights my older DS wakes up around 4 or 5 and comes to bed with us, so I get to wake up sandwiched between both of my boys. K is usually latched on, or barely so, and N likes to pet my hair and put his arm around me. I love it.

[kJad29]

We love it! I get lots of sleep and he gets lots of milk! It's win/win. DH loves that our baby is close by and since we have a king size bed, it doesn't disturb our sleep. DH has even said that he is getting really good sleep. We can generally get a good 3 1/2 solid hours of sleep, DS wakes up for diaper change and then we nurse back down for another 2 hours. We sleep in 2 hour increments after the first long sleep, but the interruptions are minimal. I love bedsharing. It's a lifesaver!

[Swandira]

It's working really well so far. (My other two coslept with us until I got pregnant with this one, so I expected nothing different.)

He goes to sleep at about eight in his Amby hammock downstairs while my DH gets the big kids into their bed (they still cosleep...with each other), and then I go read to them, and come down and hang out for a while with DH. When we're ready to go to bed we take the baby upstairs with us and put him down between us and I tank him up for the night. Around 5-ish he'll start stirring and I nurse him again, and then he tends to wake up again when the big kids come in around 8:00 or 8:30.

[jrabbit]

We coslept with both older DD's, so it's natural for us. I wouldn't trade it for anything. Zoe snuggles and is so warm. DD2 is Daddy's girl, and se still wakes up in the middle of the night and comes back to our bed. We're not getting a cosleeper this time, so I'm not sure how much longer that will work out. DH has always bragged about cosleeping to his peers because we've never really had sleep deprivation issues, even when living through colic or other sleep-disturbing nights.

I'm still recovering, so I'm in bed 20+ hours a day mostly. I spend most of my days online with a laptop and a bed-tray. DH or kids bring me food and water. If I weren't in such a sorrowful and painful situation, I'd be in heaven.

Zoe and I nurse and sleep. I'm so in love with her.
--janis

[Lemon Juice]

We are in co sleeping bliss here too! I love co sleeping and sharing a bed w/ my sweet lo's. We have Aya in the bed and our 4 yr old ds. Life is good at night at our house :

[Funny Face]

I guess I'm cosleeping... it happened by 'accident'!

Dh won't sleep with us as long as ds is in the room and waking up at night (he can't sleep because we make 'too much noise') so he's been sleeping on the couch since ds was born. I had a crib pulled next to the bed but since dh isn't in the bed I may as well have ds in the bed next to me, it's so much easier!

Ds sleeps in the bed in his own little space between feedings at night and then right next to me once it starts getting light in the morning. I don't feel comfortable with him next to me all night- too uncomfortable, I'm too worried I'll smush him or he'll end up under the blankets.

Having him in the bed with me makes all the difference in feeling like I'm actually getting some sleep. With dd I had to get up and go in the other room every 2 hours to nurse, I was EXHAUSTED.

[jenniferadurham]

I love co-sleeping! We usually sleep in our bed, but the past 2 weeks we've been sleeping on the couch bc daddy has a bad cough that keeps baby up. My back is SICK and tired of sleeping on the couch...but it keeps me closer to Evan bc he either has to sleep directly on me, or very snuggled up to me on my side so he doesn't fall off the side! EEK!...can't so that for very much longer, he's learning to roll over already!

[Starfish11]

We are "accidental" co-sleepers meaning we thought she would sleep next to our bed in an Amby but she' s made it clear that the only way any of us will get a full night's sleep is if she is in our bed. It's going well, actually. I'd prefer it if she slept in the amby as it would give us a bit of a break (we hold her or wear her the entire time she's awake to keep her sweet heart satisfied) but I admit that waking up with the tiny bundle of goodness next to us is amazing. People are shocked to hear that we routinely sleep 6-8 hours a night.

[wild fire child]

I never considered anything else, and it's going just as expected - great. DH is not scared of rolling over on him (he was until he was born), and nursing is so easy in bed.

My only issue is that he likes exercising his legs, so he'll bend around until he finds something to push against, and push with his feet. He scoots himself up in bed and then gets mad when he can't nurse. It's silly, and cute, but kind of frustrating.

[dsaucone]

haha. I've noticed that I have a "snuggler".

I can move him so that there is a foot or more between us and some how he just scoots his little body back to cuddling full force.

[lemonapple]

We're loving co-sleeping! We're still waking ever two hours for a nursing session, but being in the same bed allows me to still grab enough sleep. Kaius goes down with me around 9pm most nights and wakes for the day between 7-9am. I love how he cuddles so close to me!!!

[terrainthailand]

I am another accidental co-sleeper - but can't imagine doing it any other way now. It seems so natural. Like Chic2chic, DH and I go to bed when Hazel does (between 8 and 9:30). She usually wakes 2 or 3 times between then and 7AM, at which point she is ready to greet the day. Lately it has only been taking us about 30min to do the dipe change and feed so I feel like we're doing pretty well on sleep. Lately I have been using the moses basket (at the foot of the bed) more. She is sleeping well in there and DH and I are enjoying the space.

[Mommy2anangel]

I love our set-up. The arms reach cosleeper is pushed up against the bed, DD sleeps right next to it, on the bed, then I sleep next to her, DS sleeps next to me and then DH is on the other end

I cuddle with one going to bed and wake up with one cuddling my back. My kids are both serious cuddlers

Nursing is so easy too with this arrangement. I leave the girls somewhat hanging out and just position my body to meet her needs when she needs to nurse.

[Luv2bemommy]

I love it.. I love how he wakes me snuggling against me sucking, trying to find the boob. I can't nurse laying down, I just can't get the hang on it.

[Starfish11]

Evangeline is a snuggler, too. She will breach any space put between us.

I LOVE when I wake up and she is rooting against me to eat. For some reason, I just think it's the sweetest thing.

I don't worry so much about her sleeping on her back (or rather the fact that she does not sleep on her back) now that we are co-sleeping. Lying on her back can be painful for her so she normally sleeps on her sides.

[dsaucone]

Originally Posted by Starfish11

Evangeline is a snuggler, too. She will breach any space put between us.

I LOVE when I wake up and she is rooting against me to eat. For some reason, I just think it's the sweetest thing.

I don't worry so much about her sleeping on her back (or rather the fact that she does not sleep on her back) now that we are co-sleeping. Lying on her back can be painful for her so she normally sleeps on her sides.

Yeah DS usually sleeps on his side smack dab against me. Maybe that's what DD always likes sleeping on her side?