What we love about bedsharing

[sdbeachy]

I think it's great that we have this forum to post about problems and encourage each other--now I'd like to see a thread with the positives about co-sleeping/bedsharing. What do you love about sleeping as a family or with your baby?

I love that I get to be with my two favorite people in the world all night, my husband and my son. I usually nurse my 7 month old to sleep in the early evening, then come back to bed a couple hours later. He looks so beautiful sleeping there and it's wonderful to crawl in, one on each side of him, and join him in sleeping. Sometimes he wakes up when we come to bed but (usually) easily nurses back to sleep.

My husband sometimes holds hands with him while he sleeps, which I think is the sweetest thing ever.

This isn't to say we don't have those nursing-every-hour nights or kicking, etc, but really I love sleeping with my baby. What about you?

[crazylady]

I love that even if it has been a hard day night is not hard! I have my 2 beautiful kiddos and my handsome hubby to snuggle all night long. Plus in the winter no one gets cold!!!

[alfabetsoup]

I just loves the cuddles!

[Super~Single~Mama]

I love waking up in the morning before my little babe, and seeing his sweet little face so content and happy sleeping.

I LOVE the way he snuggles up to his daddy's arm when he finishes nursing.

I love the way my BF snuggles Lincoln back, without waking up!

I love when Lincoln wakes up before us, and he wakes us up by playing with us, and the way he smiles at us when we wake up! Its wonderful

[guest9955]

i love how its the time of day when i can relax fully- knowing everyone is happy, safe, warm, fed, and close.

i also love the way dd smells

[Maluhia]

I love how safe we all feel together.
I love smelling DD's sweet head.
I love seeing DD and DH snuggle in the a.m.
I love curling around DD in the early mornings...

[Shanny2032]

I love that you started this thread!

And I love that Kate is so happy when she wakes up, but anytime she isn't I love that I am right there to comfort her. Mostly, I love not having to be away from her all night.

[hrsmom]

I love hearing her breathe! I love how she says "hi" in the morning to wake me up! When we go visit family and she's been with Nana all day, I love that it's just us at the end of the day and we get to reconnect. It is super sweet! Even with all the nights of horrible sleep, and there have been many, I wouldn't trade that closeness!!

[77sugaree]

Sweet little baby farts when they stretch and roll over in the middle of the night.
Getting woken up in the morning by a baby finger in my nose and a "whaz zat."

And the best thing ever: I don't have to get up in the middle of the night, trip over toys in the dark, walk all the way down the hall to the other bedroom in the middle of the night (did I say that already?) to retrieve my crying hungry baby, try to nurse him without falling asleep myself, try to put him back in his crib without waking him up, go back to my bed and try to fall back asleep myself....

I just roll over, insert breast and go on back to dreamland

[cville-rn]

Everything! (well except the teething-up-every-hour wakings)
I love the sleep I get. I seriously think I would have had PPD issues if I was up every 2-3 hours and having to tend to hungry baby in the crib.
I love watching him while I sleeps. I love waking up to find that he and hubby are "spooning".
And the best alarm clock in the world is a grinning baby trying to climb over mama.

[ann_of_loxley]

So far there isn't much I don't love! hehe

What I really love is...

My own personal heater! aka - DS! hehe He warms the bed up so nicely, espeically on a cold winters night! hehe

His breath. I know that sounds odd - but I love the way my DS smells, including his breath! hehe

[JessicaS]

When Ezra was born he was in the NICU for two weeks. It was extremely difficult after a complicated pregnancy and a c-section. I didn't go home really I just sat there with him taking breaks to go and pump. I even slept there.

Once we got Ezra home we started co-sleeping right away, it was so soothing and healing after sleeping at the hospital and having to walk all the way to the NICU every three hours to nurse in the middle of the night.

That first night he got to sleep in my arms was the best sleep I had gotten in awhile. It was so lovely to just hold him and nurse and fall right back asleep cuddled up rather than have to lay my baby down in a bassinet under the bili lights and trudge back down the hallways of the hospital.

With my first child co-sleeping was something I took for granted but now it is truly something that is important to me.

[bluegirl91695]

I like the snuggles and closeness like everyone else. What I also like is seeing and hearing him laugh when he's dreaming. It's so cute!

[annemoonstar]

I love the way, if I turn away or move away from him at all, DS wiggles and throws his arm out until he touches me, then gets still. Or how he will roll away from me but still wiggle until I spoon him. I WOH so its very nice to re-connect at night and sometimes that time when we are falling asleep snuggling is the most relaxing time of day for me!

I love that when ds wakes up the first thing he does is look at dh and laugh. The second thing he does is look for the dog and when he sees him, laughs again. Then he looks back at me and snuggles up. It's like he is just so happy and content that his family is right there with him!

[sunshynbaby]

I'm so glad I stuck it out with cosleeping, it was difficult for us at first!

I love waking up to him looking at me and whispering to him before I pull him over to nurse. He smiles like we've shared a secret moment... and we have!

[JessicaS]

Originally Posted by bluegirl91695

I like the snuggles and closeness like everyone else. What I also like is seeing and hearing him laugh when he's dreaming. It's so cute!

Dh and I love that too!



We often wake up to ds laughing. It is so sweet!

[bugginsmom]

The bond we have with my ds. He made a comment a while back about how he feels safe at night because he is cuddled next to me and how he feels sorry for kids who have to sleep alone, especially if they have a bad dream. I wouldn't trade it for the world!

[lisavark]

I love how DD smells and the feel of her cuddly warm little body. I've been trying to transition her to a mattress next to ours, because our queen sized bed is getting a bit small for a wiggly toddler, but sometimes I have a hard time falling asleep without her curled up next to me.

When she was a newborn, I loved so much being able to just touch her and know she was ok. I tried (unsuccessfully) to get her to sleep in the Amby a few times, but I would wake up constantly worrying whether she was still breathing, even though she was right next to us. There's nothing like having your baby right there where you can feel their movement and their breath.

And I love knowing that if something awful happens like our house gets broken into or burns down, I won't have to find my baby; she'll be right there and I can rescue her. (Is it awful that I think about things like that?)