where do your babes sleep?

[IncaMama]

for naps? overnight?

ava sleeps great in her moses basket but rowan's hooting and hollering and squealing and singing often wakes her up since she's in the family room with us. i'm considering putting her upstairs in our bedroom for her naps (in the moses basket still, but sitting on the bed maybe). there's the issue of not transferring well, potentially, so i'm not sure if it'll fly.

overnight we're still split up. dh and ds in bed upstairs, me and dd downstairs in the recliner. lately i've been having ava sleep in the moses basket overnight too, so that i can eventually have her sleeping in the cosleeper upstairs in the bedroom. eventually. LOL

anybody sleeping in bed with more than one kiddo? we have a king sized bed but i'm not sure we'd all fit! and i'm not sure Ava would really like it. any time i've tried to actually lay down with her she gets pissed off. LOL she either wants to be ON me or in her moses basket. NEXT to me just doesn't cut it. at least not yet.

so what do you all do?

[Taedareth]

He sleeps in our bed at night and during the day when he falls asleep in my lap after nursing, I just sit on the couch for a few hours and read a book. Seriously. If I move he might wake up. lol... I've tried moving him and he usually wakes up within a few minutes of being moved. It's like he can tell that no one is within touching distance anymore and he gets distraught and wakes up.

[judybean]

At night, Lucy sleeps in the cradle right next to the bed on my side. dh is totally paranoid about a bitty baby sleeping in our bed .. (so now I'm trying to remember when Katherine began sleeping in the bed and not the cradle... it was when she began to roll over if not before, if I recall correctly... he still didn't like her in our bed at first, but I told him that his days would go much better -- i.e. no cranky wife! -- if we all got better sleep!)

Lucy naps ... well, wherever she falls asleep! In the sling, in my arms, on the couch, in our improvised moses basket (i.e. a laundry basket with handles that is kind of bendy and has a nice quilt in the bottom I made). Luckily she seems to sleep through just about everything -- including her two very 'involved' sisters. Katherine is *always* hovering over her to see if "Louie" is "sheeping" or "wake" :lol

[aisraeltax]

usually wherever i am. at night, its simple that he sleeps with us. although i have learned that he sleeps longest if he is on his back and has his own space. he wants to be near, but wakes up more if he's on my chest of in the cradle of my arm (which is how my other ds's slept best). the only problem is that we only have a queen. i would really really love to have a king size bed but right now i know that wont happen.
during the day, he usually sleeps on our bed, or on me. i try to take a nap w/ at least one of his naps. we have a bassinet in the bedroom and sometimes i put him in that but he wont sleep long.
they are soooo cute at this age but like another thread acknowledged, the interaction nonexistent..i just wish he was more responsive...sometimes its just a hit and miss with him and where he will sleep.

[birthjunkie27]

at night she sleeps in bed in between dh and I. She sleeps the best when she's against me.

naps, either on the couch, or in her swing, or the past couple of days, she'll fall asleep in the car on the way home from picking older dd from preschool, and she'll sleep in her carseat for like 3 hrs. I know there's a bunch of mom's who frown on the "bucket" type carseats and (gasp!) leaving baby in it to sleep, but hey....it works for us! She's obviously comfy and it gives me a few hours to get stuff done around the house or spend time with the older 2 sibs.

[ldsapmom]

Jonas mainly sleeps in our bed. He probably naps once a day in his swing. At night he sleeps in bed with me and dh, sometimes on the side, sometimes in the middle -- depending on what side he nursed on. Right now he is asleep in my bed. He transfers pretty easily to my bed if he falls asleep in my arms.

[Panthira]

At night Greyson usually falls asleep in our bed, on daddy's chest. My DH will then transfer him to the Amby where he'll sleep for a few hours, sometimes more. When he wakes up, DH will give him to me for nursing and we'll fall asleep with the baby snuggled up to me nursing, then using my boob as a pillow. :wink

During naps he'll sleep wherever is convenient for us. In the bouncer (where he is right now), the co-sleeper, Daddy's arms, or cuddled up nursing. For some reason he doesn't like sleeping in the Amby during the day.

[Emmy142]

Maybe get a co-sleeper to put next to your side of the bed so that way you are still getting the benefits of co-sleeping and have enough room for you all? I have to say I'm glad Alex is not co-sleeping anymore. We've taken some naps before Teagan was born together and he is a flip flopper and kicker, so it would not work. Unless we put Teagan between us and him on the side, and we bought guard rails, which I guess is something else you can consider? Alex is quite happy in his crib, so not a concern for us.

Teagan sleeps in my arms, in her swing, or in her portable crib for naps. At night, she sleeps either in bed with us or in her bassinett on the floor next to us, depending where she falls asleep.

She is starting to be more alert to what Alex is doing, so I'm probably going to try to transition her into her crib for naps. Her bassinett is too close to the ground and it rocks, so Alex could easily tip her over and once she is rolling, which she can do quarter rolls, I would not trust her up there on her own. I would be afraid she could tip herself out.

[IncaMama]

we have a cosleeper...but lost the damn mattress to it! WTF?? where could THAT have gone?? LOL luckily, the moses basket fits in there so i could put her in there if i wanted to...and she likes her moses. :) i'm just still so nervous about the kids waking each other up and it being a big ol' hot mess in the middle of the night. LOL

maybe we'll try it tomorrow night when dave doesn't have to get up early the next day.

[mariposita]

reed will never lets me set him down, so he naps on my lap on the nursing pillow. at night he sleeps on my arm on his side snuggled up against me close. am i the only one here whose baby must be on them at all times??? i'm feeling worn out and frustrated. :(

[iris0110]

Tharen spends the first four hours of the night in his swing (I know I know, I am a bad ap mommy, but I need the sleep and so does he and it really helps with the reflux). Then he moves into bed next to me for about 2 to 3 hours. Then it is a toss up, some times he goes back to the swing, sometimes we lay back down together, and sometimes we just get up for the day. It depends on how well he is sleeping, and wether or not Kearnan is ready to be up for the day. When Tharen is in bed there are four of us in our king sized bed and we all fit just fine. It would be better if Kearnan didn't crowd me though. We do have a co-sleeper, but Tharen will not sleep flat on his back by himself. In fact it is hard for him to sleep flat on his back period because of his reflux, which is why we use the swing. During the day he either naps in the swing or on me in the Maya wrap (tummy to tummy) or in the mei tai. He will also sleep for 10 minutes or so in the bouncy seat or propped up on his boppy sometimes. He doesn't sleep nearly as much as Kearnan did at his age, or even as much as I think he probably should be. His tummy really bothers him, and I think that keeps him up alot, plus he likes to eat every 30 minutes during the day.

[IncaMama]

am i the only one here whose baby must be on them at all times??? i'm feeling worn out and frustrated. :(

well, not my *current* newborn but Rowan was TOTALLY like that. he was my velcro baby. who is now a velcro toddler, but also the cuddliest child i have ever seen in my entire life. the boy is content to literally just sit beside me for HOURS. i mean...HHHOOOUUURRRRSSS. and it's the sweetest, most wonderful feeling knowing that he is just THAT happy being by my side.

of course...when i DON'T want him there, it's annoying as f%(@. LOL!!! Ava's very different already and lets me plop her down away from me for HOURS at a time (sleeping) or at least 10-15 minutes if she's on the changing table.

now that i have ava here who is totally different i've been wondering if maybe Rowan would have let me put him down or thinking back questioning how much i actually *tried* to put him down. but then i snap back to reality and realize that if there had been an option to get some time to MYSELF, i damn well woulda taken it...so yeah...rowan was mr. velcro. and maybe your babe will be too...and believe me, you'll love it eventually. :)

[Jeanne_L]

reed will never lets me set him down, so he naps on my lap on the nursing pillow. at night he sleeps on my arm on his side snuggled up against me close. am i the only one here whose baby must be on them at all times??? i'm feeling worn out and frustrated. :(

my elliot is like that, too... he's starting to let me set him down on his belly on a quilt on the floor for, oh, maybe 5 or 10 minutes... at night it's a challenge to put him on the bed next to me... sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't... for naps i can sometimes get him to sleep in the sling; definitely can't put him down very easily. often he'll sleep on my lap.

mr. velco - hee hee - i like that!

[aisraeltax]

reed will never lets me set him down, so he naps on my lap on the nursing pillow. at night he sleeps on my arm on his side snuggled up against me close. am i the only one here whose baby must be on them at all times??? i'm feeling worn out and frustrated. :(

im in the same boat. if i put him down in the bassinette, its never longer than 15 minutes or so. today i had to change the whole bed (duvet cover, sheets, etc.) due to spit up, urine and feces (all from Ethan, k?)...IT TOOK ME OVER AN HOUR!!! he wouldn't let me do anything. i had to nurse him, then watch him fall asleep in my arms...i put him down and 10 minutes later he was screaming!!!! all he wanted was to lay down with me...but i really did need to make the bed. this isnt like so many other things that can wait...this really needed to be done. i am so with you...worn out and frustrated.

take solace in the fact that it cant last forever. and try to get some sleep...thats my only salvation at this point

rach

[amygoforth]

Evan sleeps and naps in his big boy bed. He flips, flops and kicks all over the place, so we knew we couldn't have him in our bed with the new babe. Luckily he transitioned VERY easily around his second b-day while I was still prego. We didn't want to rock his world in every way possible once the baby came. Drew sleeps wherever he happens to be when he falls asleep: my arms, my shoulder, the carrier, the bouncy, the swing, the co-sleeper. At night he is either in bed with us or in the co-sleeper.

And I'm going to duck when I say this out loud cause I know some mamas will want to knock me out, but I have to share... Drew can fall asleep on his own when I put him down!!!
:dropjaw :jumpers:
I didn't think babies like this existed in real life. Evan was one of those babies who had to be in my arms the whole time. Each time I tried to put him down he'd cry. Made for some sleepless nights... until we made the co-sleeping switch at four months. Now, when I put Drew in his co-sleeper while he's awake, I just wait for the cry to come. A few minutes later I'll check on him and he'll be sound asleep. I'm waiting for this blessing to take a hike. This can't last...

[MinnieMouse]

Hmm... let's see

For naps, Ben will sleep ..on the floor of the LR on a blanket, in his sling or in the swing. He is totally oblivious to Beth making noise although I try to keep it to a dull roar.

At night, if it was up to Ben he would be sleeping on his tummy in the cosleeper or in our bed all the time but I'm not comfy w/ him on his tummy by himself.

Up until Wednesday night Ben started out in his car seat, I would nurse him somewhere around 3:30/4 and then he would sleep the rest of the night in bed w/ us or if I was awake enough I would put him back in the seat.

Weds, I tried having him sleep on his back in the cosleeper and he went out like a light and it was great. Thurs he was like a different child. He kept moving around and waking himself up, I finally turned him on his tummy and he settled down right away and slept just fine.

I'm not overly comfy w/ him sleeping on his tummy in the cosleeper while I'm sleeping as well so last night (Fri) I tried him on his back again...no go...same as the previous night. Turned him on his tummy and he was fine...but "I" wasn't! So I pulled out the car seat again. Switched him and he slept like a rock until 3:30am when I nursed him and he slept w/ us through the morning.

I am guessing until he gets a bit bigger he wants to be all snuggled in like he is in the car seat. We've tried swaddling but he's like his older sister and HATES it...which doesn't make sense does it?

Sigh

[beachcomber]

At night Carys sleeps between Relic and me in the bed. It's just proven a lot easier than trying to settle her into her Amby while we were figuring out the breastfeeding thing. I'm sure we'll gradually move her into the Amby once we get her routines figured out.

During the day she sleeps either on one of our chests on the couch or in her bouncy chair. But mainly on one of us. :D She prefers that and it gives her tummy time which she likes a lot after a big feed.

[SMR]

mariposita - same thing here! Gwen HAS to be sleeping ON someone.. she passes off easily most of the time.. but now that daddy has gone back to work, I'm holding her almost all day long! Sometimes I gotta pee, ya know!!? OR EAT!? haha Mostly I just love her snuggly self on me all the time.. but I'd really love if she's sleep in the bassinet - at least sometimes! My husband and I are still sleeping in the living room.. him on the couch, me in the recliner with a little furnace (the baby) keeping my toasty!
How do people get their babies to sleep in a bassinet/crib/cosleeper/basket?!! It seems like she wakes up almost immediately after I set her down!?

[mariposita]

so glad i'm not alone! this can get really frustrating, not to mention a sore bum from sitting all day! :lol i'm totally with you SMR, rachel, and jeanne!

[IncaMama]

SMR
i'm not sure how. rowan never let me, ava loves it. i have no idea why. i suppose with rowan i didn't really try often bc i *could* hold him all day. but with ava, i really *can't* do that bc i have rowan. so i guess it's just necessity that's made me try more...maybe if i had tried more with rowan he would have gotten used to it. if it's really something you want, i'd try it a couple times a day at least...

[gemelos]

For naps they either sleep on my lap, on the couch or in the bouncy seats in the living room. At night they sleep in between dh and I. Sometimes dh will go sleep with Gabe and we have the bed all to ourselves.

[DesireeH]

At night Daphne sleeps in our bed. We just went and bought a king mattress and it's being delivered on Thursday. I cant wait cause frankly, I am sick of falling off the bed! LOL

For naps she will sleep on anyone who is holding her (usually me), in a sling, in a swing or if I am gonna be in my room anyways (my computer is in here) then I lay her on my bed.

[MistyB]

With me..on me. :throb Naps on Dh when he is around. He usually holds her a large chunk of the night after he gets home from work until he goes to bed. This kiddo is literally in arm 23 hours a day! ; )

I sleep downstairs with the kids, DH sleep upstairs as he can not sleep well with any noise and he wakes at 5 am :nut Hell no.

We do not have a crib, cradle, basket..anything. She goes in a swing when I am showering or cooking but I am usually holding her all of the other times.

[hottmama]

Luka sleeps on or next to me for naps and night. His big brother sleeps with us, too- we have 4 in a full size. Neither boy has ever had their own bed, and we don't own a swing, bouncy seat, etc. Julian used to sleep in a Moses basket for naps as a baby, but now all the stuffed animals sleep in there.

[IncaMama]

4 ppl in a full??? OMG!!!! i don't think dave and i would fit in a full together! LMAO!

[perditafoster]

Ivy naps in her swing...thank you, sweet Lord of mercy. I :love it. Plus, I get to spend time with just Bridget. Bridget, however, napped on me until she was 14 months old. I tried absolutely everything and we owned absolutely ever baby gadget that has ever been made in a desperate attempt to get her to sleep anywhere but on my body. No such luck. Mamas of velcro babies, take heart...it's not you, it's them! :lol Ivy sleeps either on my chest or beside me with her head on my arm at night. I'm not comfortable with her not sleeping right next to me at night. I'd get up a million times to check on her if she was anywhere else. Bridget trained me up right, eh?

[Thursday Girl]

i'm glad the sleeping thing was brought up b/c i have a question. i read that if you co-skeep the baby should never be in the middle and you should have a guardrail on your bed. well we don't. I put her down in the bassinett at about 10-10:30 and she sleeps there until she wakes up at (oh i don't know my eyesight is so bad i would have to put my glasses on to see the clock and in the middle of the night i am not doing that, but) maybe 2-ish then sleeps with us. well sometimes she is in the middle and sometimes on the outside. then we fall asleep nursing. now usualy but not always i fall asleep with her in the crook of my arm, and if she is in the middle i won't alays hold onto her. but is this ok i thinki t was a dr.sears thing. do you have rails on your bed do you put your baby in between you without one of those beddy do-gad thingy's?

also does youe neck hurt in the morning and your shoulder a little bit?

during the day she sleeps in her bassinett, on me, or in the wrap. wrap works best, and i can clean (i actually vacumned my whole house today) and play with jewely.

courtney