my cousin offered me her crib...i said sure, because i figured someday i might want to use it for afternoon naps, being that i don't like the idea of my son sleeping alone in the bed and he will soon outgrow the swing that we use solely for napping...i told her i didn't need it anytime soon, since i am sleeping with my son and plan on doing so until he decides he is ready to sleep alone (unless of course that's when he's 30,haha). she emails me telling me that her coworker smothered her baby in the bed, and that she doesn't want to see me suffer the same tragedy.....AAAAAAUUGH! so annoying. first of all, i want to ask her if he coworker was on drugs...there is no way i could roll over on my baby and not know it, i wake up everytime he breathes loud, as well as 2 seconds before he wakes up to nurse...when i emailed her back with a great article on co-sleeping in other cultures,and the benefits of doing it in our culture, she replied that she wondered how many co-sleepers are low income families who can't afford a crib even though they must want one. it makes me sad to think of how uninformed so many people are on the benefits (and just plain fun) of co-sleeping...not to mention i just read in a copy of parents magazine that the American Pediatics Association says that co-sleeping increases the risk of SIDS (AKA crib death....CRIB death people, not co-sleep death)....i just wanted to vent.
anybody else's family and friends talk smack on their co-sleeping habits?
anybody else's family and friends talk smack on their co-sleeping habits?
--and are already complaining that their 2-br condo needs even more space between rooms for "their privacy." We are much different, but as the younger sib, I get compared.
: ).
) and while there are some days I long to be in a bigger space, we are very cozy and happy together. There's always *somewhere* for spousal "alone time" and thankfully DS virtually never wakes once he has fallen asleep for the night. We can move him, bring him back, sleeps through it all!
: my mother she told me she will never sleep in her own room in her bed then when my dd got about 2 then she started telling her you need to start sleeping in your own bed in your own room she is almost 5 and still comes in to my bed now it about ds telling me to put him in the crib oh ya cribs are great the best thing ever it is like having a super sized laundry basket 
