Sleeping

My baby won’t ever go back to sleep after he wakes up at 5am (unless I’m holding him). If I lay with him on my chest on the couch, he’ll let me sleep until 7. I always feel guilty doing it, but it’s the only way I survive. That extra sleep in the morning is what gets me through the day. 😅 I try to keep myself propped up a bit and lay against the back of the couch for extra support…that way I can’t roll over and he can’t fall off my chest.

I normally bring my baby into bed with us from her bassinet around 3-4am. She will be six weeks on Sunday. I don’t move in my sleep and absolutely love waking up with my baby cuddled up next to me

When my first child was bigger and started nursing at night after she hadn't for a while I would do lay down nursing and we'd just fall asleep. It wasn't intentional at first but it became routine and then the final months leading up to her first bday we snuggled every night. I think it made us close. With baby 2, my bf handles night shift and I'm all day. Baby 2 wakes once a night so it isn't too rough but it's not too late for him to change habits 😂🫠though my bf is against bed sharing- not for safety reasons necessarily. He already co sleeps (shares the room) with baby. He just wants us to eventually (after first year) be able to put baby to bed in own room without much difficulty cuz he wants to love on mama too. And I think that's reasonable.

By contrast with my first, I didn't get along with her dad so bringing her to a spare bed away from him was a sweet escape 💗

You might find this interesting/useful if nursing

https://llli.org/breastfeeding-info/sleep-bedshare/

I didn't read it or vet all the content and I'm not a doctor but some of the content interests me here

I have a little lounger bassinet thing for him on my bed. If a baby sleeps for you and you take precautions, screw what people say. Just don't be stupid about it basically is how i see it

Mine only sleeps if I'm holding her. If I try putting her in the bassinet she'll only stay asleep for 2 hours max. Plus she likes to hog the bed. My poor husband had to start sleeping on the floor due to her sleeping like she does.

I tried getting my baby to sleep in his crib but he would still end up in bed with me every night so i completely gave up on his crib before he was even a week old. If you cosleep the right way the risk is so small it's not even worth mentioning. Both me and my baby sleep so much better when he's in bed with me and it makes breastfeeding him at night so much easier.

We’ve been cosleeping since day one lol he sleeps in a nest between us. There was a period where he had to be on me so I slept on a wedge on my back with him on my chest. Right now the nest feels safest because he’s already turning on his stomach and I can kinda keep him from doing that in the nest.

We bedshare some. Don't all the time, but nights where it was literally 5 am and he was finally asleep, I literally just laid him down and laid down next to him ..... thankfully we haven't had a night that bad in a while .... or sometimes we take a nap together 😊

I am, its so important to do it safely and its possible to do so, i breastfeed to sleep to start the night and anytime he wakes up in the night we feed back to sleep, i recently started sleeping on a separate mattress with my baby in the same room as my fiance, he is a very deep sleeper and it made me nervous anytime baby was between us because he is not responsive at night, i feel 100x safer being on a separate bed even if i miss sleeping next to him

I co-slept with my daughter until I got married. I was a single mom at first. It's what worked for us. It helped both of us sleep especially when I went back to work. I looked up information about it because I know we're "not supposed to" but there's even psychological benefits to it so I'm all for it. Idk if I can do it with this one cause my husband is dead to the world when he sleeps and he moves around and I like to sleep near the edge

I tired the crib but he doesn’t really sleep good in it .. he sleeps with me