[vermontgirl]

I always read of people transitioning to the crib and for me that never even enters my mind as an option. (not that there is anything wrong with it)
I just really love cosleeping and it is SO easy to just nurse him and then fall back asleep. I couldnt imagine dealing with a crib. Not only does it take up a lot of space but it seems inconveniant. Harvest loves being close to us at night as well. It just is not even an option.

 

[blsilva]

Once we started cosleeping, we didn't want ds in a crib at all. We bought him a bed when he was old enough to request it.

With ds2, we never even put up the crib. We gave it away to a women's shelter.

 

[Jenlaana]

I go by my family's cues on everything we do. I homeschool, but public school is an option. I cosleep, but not cosleeping is an option. I cloth diaper, but disposables are an option. I have never been one to go solely down one road without considering the other ways available, but for us, cosleeping/homeschooling/cloth diapering/recycling/etc/etc work for us. If we couldn't get it to work, we would find another path.

Personally, there are some downfalls to cosleeping w/ my toddler. She hurts me fairly often (I'm pregnant and kicks to the belly in the middle of the night are especially discomforting). She also is always between my husband and I which means I have not fallen asleep in my DH's arms more than half a dozen times in almost 2 years (my favorite passtime), as we cannot put the bed against the wall (again, w/ me pg I am up 5-10 times a night to use the rest room, and also my DH gets up very early for work). With another baby coming and her being so restless, its going to get really complicated for us in a few months, and I'm not sure how I'm going to handle it. We don't nurse anymore (thats another pregnancy story) so there is not that need. She is also drinking a LOT and wets the bed almost every night (thank goodness for baby bed pads!). But all that being said, I love having our daughter with us and it feels empty when she is gone. She is not comfortable sleeping anywhere else yet, so I'm not comfortable with her sleeping anywhere else either. We had her in her own bed in our room for awhile, but recently she stopped liking it (either teething or she is sensing the baby coming I think) so she came back to our bed full time.

 

[arlecchina]

not cosleeping not an option!

baby has a crib cause his grandparents wanted him to ahve one for naps in the living room, and it stays in the living room... he still naps on the boobie though

 

[Neth Naneth]

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[Charming Opal]

I can't imagine not co-sleeping with my daughter. It is so precious to just watch her sleep, and hear her breathe. Plus as you've mentioned it is so easy to just nurse her at night, and she never wakes up. People always asked me from the day she was born how she slept at night, and I always tell them "wonderfully".

 

[Jamie19]

I never used a crib even ONCE with my oldest DD but around 10 months younger DD started wanting to sleep on her own, we used a pack and play for a while, and then when we moved put up a crib. She still co-sleeps for naps and at about 4am wakes up and moves to our bed.

 

[EvansMomma]

I was a reluctant cosleeper at the beginning, and we said "Well for the first few weeks he can sleep with us"...then - "the first couple of months is fine but then he's off to his own room"...then - "well okay 6 months then out he goes"...then "when he's sleeping mostly through the night"

And THEN finally at 8.5 months old I gave away his crib along with a bunch of other stuff to a program that gives baby items to mamas in crisis. We have now just decided he'll go on his own when he's ready to, and asks for it.

I think I laid him in his crib a couple of times, maybe twice. And each time I yanked him outta there fast as I could. It just didn't feel right to have him there.

Not cosleeping is not really an option for us. We like it.

 

[MissMommyNiceNice]

I don't know...we do a lot of sharing between bed & crib. I don't like to leave him alone on the big bed, and he goes to sleep around 7 for the night. Then I bring him to bed when I go or at first diaper change. But sometimes, he just sleeps through the night in the crib. Not by choice, but because he sometimes sleeps all night. I don't like those nights, but they happen.

 

[DreamsInDigital]

We don't even own a crib and have not for the last two babies. We had a crib for DS2 but never used it, not once.
DS3 and DD will each get a bed when they're old enough to ask for one.

 

[AlexisT]

Depends on what you define as "not cosleeping". I always knew the baby would be in our room but wasn't sure of the exact arrangements. We still use a mix of bed/crib. Often she'll start between us, and then we'll move her to the cot so we can spread out and sleep a bit better.

 

[zeldabee]

My parents bought me an Arm's Reach Co-Sleeper after I told them I planned to co-sleep, and didn't want a crib. So I set it up, but never used it. The cat slept there. I eventually sold it.

My son will be 4 in September, and he has a bed. He calls it "his bed," and he refers to the bed we sleep in as "my bed." He likes his bed very much. He's even napped in it a few times. He has zero interest in sleeping the night in it, though. He says he'd be lonesome.

My sister has decided it's about time he was sleeping in his own bed. She tells Sprogly that she'll take him to the beach as a special treat when he sleeps in his own bed. Their latest exchange on the subject was funny:

Auntie: When you sleep in your own bed, I'll take you to the beach!

Sprogly: ...I'll sleep in my bed for a little while.

Auntie: No, you have to sleep in it all night.

Sprogly: <thinks> Do you want to watch me?

Smart kid. Looking for a loophole.

I'm perfectly happy for him to be sleeping in my bed, and I've never felt otherwise. I'll miss it when he does decide to sleep in his own bed. He's warm, he's snuggly, he smells nice, and he doesn't hog the covers. What's not to like?

 

[DreamsInDigital]

LOL Sprogly's such a funny little guy.

 

[deditus]

I grew up with the family bed as "normal", in my immediate and extended family, so it wasn't a decision for me. It's just the way it was/is.

 

[NaomiMcC]

Hmmm...I'm the only one going against the grain here...no co-sleeping for us. The bassinet will be beside/at the end of the bed.

 

[Juvysen]

Yep... I'm trying to figure out how to keep dd (17 mos) in our bed while adding the new baby, too.

 

[JamieCatheryn]

Pretty much not an option. I took care of my brother pretty much all the time, he slept in a crib, and I knew how much work it took to put him down and care for him at night. Somebody gave us a crib, DS took a few naps in it but putting him down to for the night was not gonna happen. It seems to me the only reason to do it would be to keep a child in who didn't want to be there, and DS is a cage-free baby. He sleeps in his bed now, and gets out when he wants to, come to us or whatever.

 

[AlexisT]

Quote:

Originally Posted by JamieCatheryn Pretty much not an option. I took care of my brother pretty much all the time, he slept in a crib, and I knew how much work it took to put him down and care for him at night. Somebody gave us a crib, DS took a few naps in it but putting him down to for the night was not gonna happen. It seems to me the only reason to do it would be to keep a child in who didn't want to be there, and DS is a cage-free baby. He sleeps in his bed now, and gets out when he wants to, come to us or whatever.

1) All babies are different, some are fine with the crib, some even prefer it
2) What do you mean, "the only reason to do it"? If the parents' bed isn't suitable for whatever reason, baby has to sleep somewhere, and there's a time in a baby's life where he needs to be protected from rolling out of the bed.
3) It's only a cage if the baby doesn't want to be in it.

 

[Peony]

Yep, it was only recently that DD1 realized that not every child sleeps with their parents and she is 4y.

We co-sleep until they don't want to any more. DD1 recently asked for her own bed, so she has a mattress pressed up to our's.

 

[eviesingleton]

I have severe sleeping disorders that may make co-sleeping impossible.