Our DS *really* is interested in moving. So much so that he is already able to roll both ways, and can get up on his knees and hands and shimmy a bit but not crawl so well (he is not balanced well when he does it so he goes forward a bit and then rolls on to his back)
I'm thinking the cosleeper is just not going to cut it anymore for naps (we have it freestanding in his room, at night he sleeps w/ us in our bed) We usually have to do a LOT to get him to go to sleep (bouncing on the ball) so we usually are putting him in it asleep, and we live all on one floor, so we hear him stir before he'll move, so its not a *super* big deal, (I hope!) but the mr. (who is home w/ him during the day) would like to experiment more w/ putting him down awake to see if he can fall asleep on his own occasionally. We just don't know *where* to put him down awake! He could easily move and fall off our bed, and the cosleeper is small and I'm thinking wouldn't take his moving and flailing for too long.
should we get a crib just for naps? I guess we'd really need bumpers. He really is very strong and can really throw himself around.
during the day when I'm home (weekends and my day I work from home) I usually put him in our bed for naps so I can nurse him sidelying right when he gets up (he nurses better lying down, less distractions, etc) so all the options of bed rails and such don't seem that appealing since they'd have to be removed anyway before I could lay down and nurse him. Plus nursing to sleep (when it happens) is easier on our bed as well, how else to do it? Plus we'd need four of them on every side of the bed, right? At night he's just in between DH and I.
what do folks do when they cosleep for where to put a hard-to-get-asleep extra-mobile DS for naps? I was thinking a small mattress on the floor in his room might actually be easiest (since I could also nurse him there) but I guess I'd need a gate around that as well or something? It wouldn't be dangerous for him to fall off a mattress from such a small height but then I do want him to be falling asleep on the bed, not the floor!
I'm guessing our 'experiment' won't work that well and he'll just careen into the sides of whatever blockade we use (crib, rail, whatever) and eventually cry because he can't get out. But it seems like we should be trying it, at least.
I'm thinking the cosleeper is just not going to cut it anymore for naps (we have it freestanding in his room, at night he sleeps w/ us in our bed) We usually have to do a LOT to get him to go to sleep (bouncing on the ball) so we usually are putting him in it asleep, and we live all on one floor, so we hear him stir before he'll move, so its not a *super* big deal, (I hope!) but the mr. (who is home w/ him during the day) would like to experiment more w/ putting him down awake to see if he can fall asleep on his own occasionally. We just don't know *where* to put him down awake! He could easily move and fall off our bed, and the cosleeper is small and I'm thinking wouldn't take his moving and flailing for too long.
should we get a crib just for naps? I guess we'd really need bumpers. He really is very strong and can really throw himself around.
during the day when I'm home (weekends and my day I work from home) I usually put him in our bed for naps so I can nurse him sidelying right when he gets up (he nurses better lying down, less distractions, etc) so all the options of bed rails and such don't seem that appealing since they'd have to be removed anyway before I could lay down and nurse him. Plus nursing to sleep (when it happens) is easier on our bed as well, how else to do it? Plus we'd need four of them on every side of the bed, right? At night he's just in between DH and I.
what do folks do when they cosleep for where to put a hard-to-get-asleep extra-mobile DS for naps? I was thinking a small mattress on the floor in his room might actually be easiest (since I could also nurse him there) but I guess I'd need a gate around that as well or something? It wouldn't be dangerous for him to fall off a mattress from such a small height but then I do want him to be falling asleep on the bed, not the floor!
I'm guessing our 'experiment' won't work that well and he'll just careen into the sides of whatever blockade we use (crib, rail, whatever) and eventually cry because he can't get out. But it seems like we should be trying it, at least.
