Another question

[deuxceleste]

And this does definitely belong on another board, but I just love you all so...

What are your plans for co-sleeping? What kind of "furniture" did you choose, if you *are* doing it, and what's the most cost-effective way? DP wants to drag the crib into the MB... not gonna happen.

Thoughts?

[sparkprincess]

We have a crib in the nursery and we have a bassinet in the MB. We'll go back and forth between the bassinet and co-sleeping for as long as we can. After that we'll either do outright co-sleeping or maybe bring in the crib. I dunno yet. We are just going to see what this baby is like and take it from there.

[lotusdebi]

DH and I fought nonstop for the first two+ years of our son's life, in large part because neither of us slept well with DS on the bed between us. DS was never a good sleeper, either. This time, we sidecarred the crib, so the baby will be on one side of me, and DH on the other. Hopefully, with the extra room the crib provides, we'll all sleep better. Getting in and out of bed is going to be a pain for me, though. I'm not looking forward to that. I hope this baby sleeps better than DS did, and doesn't nurse as much at night (I can't sleep through that - always been a light sleeper.) We'll see how it all works out!

[DayDreamer]

My plans are to see how the baby and I react to cosleeping.

With my DD she slept in bed with me from the time she was born til she was about 2.5. My DS, however, hated sleeping in bed with me. It was funny b/c with DD we put up a crib and never used it. Then with DS we never put up the crib and ended up doing it after he was born b/c he just would not sleep in bed with me.

I've really got used to sleeping alone, since DH is hardly ever home. I think I'd do fine with the baby next to me though, especially for night time BFing. I am going to put up a crib in my room though, just in case. If the baby doesn't sleep in it I will use it to keep things in. LOL

[4imprints]

We have a bassinet in the master bedroom that I pull next to the bed. But my other children always ended up in bed with us at some point during the night. The baby usually sleeps in our room till about a year - unless she turns out like my oldest and decides to stay till she's four! Honestly though - it really depends on the baby. Now that my middle is 2 years old - he is a horrible sleeper when he sleeps in bed with us!

ETA - its not a true bassinet. Its one of those pack n plays with the "bassinet" top. Then I use the regular pack n play once the baby out grows that and until we move her to the crib in her room. I don't see how that would be much more different from the crib though.

[Island_Mama]

I have a small nursery with a crib in it, I was planning on having a twin bed squeezed in there to alternate between co-sleeping and the crib.
The nursery is sadly empty, just the crib. I have no bed in there yet, not even a chair. I don't know what I will do, I sleep on the living room couch at the moment. Going back to the bedroom and co-sleeping in there still requires a mattress cover cuz our mattress is really old and nasty, and the dogs are still not trained to stay off the bed.

I really hope to get a bed for the nursery, since I HAVE to be in the same room with the baby. We might end up getting a co-sleeper or a bassinet for the bedroom. I know my bf will be adamant about me sleeping next to him once again, and he will also want to be close to baby.
SO we'll see!

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[mommietime]

We wanted to do co-sleeping, but found we were both paying too much attention to baby to get any sleep, so we bought a wooden bassinet, and have it next to the bed. We take turns sleeping next to baby, and it's perfect because it's the right height to have a hand on her, and we can rock it if she cries.

[mrskennedy]

We're planning to swaddle the baby for sleeping at night and keeping him in our bed. DH has even volunteered to sleep on the floor if need be, since we only have a double and it seems small for some reason. But we have a Pack N' Play for naps, or maybe he'll just sleep in a sling. Who knows? But since I'll be working, albeit from home, and need as much sleep as possible (not much?), I want baby as close as he can get so BFing isn't as much of a chore--get baby, bring him to bed, nurse, take him back, eventually fall asleep again, only to get up in a short time! But we'll see how it goes. You can only make so many decisions before seing babe's personality, after all.