[2bluefish]

We had a freak thing happen the other night. We have been approved for the MDCP Medicaid waiver program in TX. The letter of the law is that you have to be in a Medicaid approved bed in a nursing home at midnight to be able to fill out the paperwork that you had a nursing home stay. So at 11pm Fri we showed up at the nursing home to spend the night. Usually at home Juju sleeps in his own crib in his own room on his back now. But here we were sleeping together.

My other two kids had gotten a bug where they threw up 1 time in the night, and then were perfectly fine after that. Well, I guess Juju got the bug too. At 3 am I drifted into consciousness and felt him wimper. I was hunting for the paci when I felt something warm on my hand. It was like an 8 oz bottle of milk was dumped all over us. It was such a freak thing that we were at the nursing home. I believe he would have aspirated at home on his back. He didn't make any kind of sound that I could have heard from another room even with a monitor. And there was so much of it.

I told Juju "Somebody loves you!!"

 

[ShadowLark]

OMG, I'm SO glad you were cosleeping! My biggest fear about putting babies on their backs is aspiration. I mean, what are the numbers for SIDS? Two or three THOUSAND babies a year die of it, right? Now what are the numbers for spitting up? Oh yeah - EVERY baby spits up. So what's the greater danger? I still think it's aspiration.
Brendon tummy slept, and Hypatia co slept (still does) which means for the most part, she was on her back anyway, but she was with me where it's safe. (And feel free to disregard my nonsense if the doc gave you good medical reason for back sleeping. My experience is with HEALTHY kids, that's what I'm basing this on.) I just don't think "risk of SIDS" BY ITSELF, is reason enough (for my kids).

 

[savithny]

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Originally Posted by ShadowLark OMG, I'm SO glad you were cosleeping! My biggest fear about putting babies on their backs is aspiration. I mean, what are the numbers for SIDS? Two or three THOUSAND babies a year die of it, right? Now what are the numbers for spitting up? Oh yeah - EVERY baby spits up. So what's the greater danger? I still think it's aspiration. Brendon tummy slept, and Hypatia co slept (still does) which means for the most part, she was on her back anyway, but she was with me where it's safe. (And feel free to disregard my nonsense if the doc gave you good medical reason for back sleeping. My experience is with HEALTHY kids, that's what I'm basing this on.) I just don't think "risk of SIDS" BY ITSELF, is reason enough (for my kids).

You know, the 1940 edition of Dr. Spock told moms to put babies on their backs -- because of the danger of aspiration. The thought was if they were on their tummies and spat up, their noses would be in the pool of spitup and they'd aspirate.

 

[KimPM]

...yes, things happen for a reason, even when they seem random...

If it were me, I would continue having him cosleep at least until he gets over this bug.

 

[pixiekisses]

Cosleeping saved our sweethearts life several times when she was a baby actually, before we knew how bad her lungs where and put her on a monitor when she slept, after se came home from NICU. And she stopped breathing for no reason, and I'd wake up bc she stopped breathing, so I could stroke her and help her start breathing again when she didn't herself. (Or, bag her of course, if touching didn't help.)

 

[mamaverdi]

cosleeping has definitely been a life saver for both of my boys due to apnea.

 

[williamsmommy2002]

Yay for cosleeping. I've often worried on nights where my ds has woken up puking what would hapen if we didn't cosleep. It really has hit home this last week when ds1 was very ill and barely escaped a hospital stay.

 

[bandgeek]

We co-slept up until DD was a year old because I didn't feel she was safe anywhere else. But having a suction machine, a feeding pump, pulse-ox, oxygen tubing, ect draped all over the bed was annoying, so I finally moved her to her crib. She does wonderful sleeping alone (of course she's so drugged up I don't think she knows the difference

). At first I slept on an air mattress next to her crib and then I went and bought a video monitor and it is the BEST thing ever! You can hear every little noise on it and I like being able to just look and see her breathing.

So anyway, I'm glad everything worked out that way. If you want to keep him in his bed, I'd invest in a video monitor.

 

[2bluefish]

I like the idea of the video monitor! I guess it did happen that way for a reason. I found out today, that they screwed up and we have to go back to the nursing home. Grrr... Gov't, what can you do? We wanted to get this Medicaid stuff squared away so we could order his seating system on this calendar year, but it looks like it probably isn't going to happen. So many knit-picky little hoops to jump through.

It was the weirdest bug. Each kid just puked up once. It hit me last night. It was awful, but I'm feeling better this afternoon.

 

[bandgeek]

http://www.toysrus.com/product/index...ductId=2437590

This is the one we have. It's *awesome*! At first it was annoying because you can hear every. little. thing over it. But that's a good thing, you just have to get used to everything at a slightly higher volume.

 

[Jilian]

Co-sleeping is awesome! It saved my little guy too. Before we knew he had a heart defect he had bouts of rapid breathing and I'd just let him sleep on my belly and his breathing would regulate with mine. I think if he were in his crib he would have died, not to mention that having to cry to get our attention would have surely killed him. Everything happens for a reason.

 

[Ofwait]

Co-sleeping has saved my youngest as well.
When she was newborn we struggled constantly with respitory issues, there was more than once where she started silently choking on her phlem, but because she was right there next to me I *felt* her struggling. If she had been in her own crib, I don't think I would have heard her, she would have died, because she couldn't clear her air way on her own and I wouldn't have known.

 

[momtoalexsarah]

I coslept with Megan unitil she had her apnea monitor and then after we quit with it then I co sleep with her any time that she has a cold. I've spent the last 4 nights snuggled up in her bed. Strangly she can be caughting a chocking for some time before i lay beside her (I'm alway sitting beside her at this point) once I lay with her her breathing regulates and the congestion/postnasal drainage subsides. and she can sleep cough free for the rest of the night