I co-sleep
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I was honest, with my son’s pediatrician, (not with the people who visit you pre discharge at the hospital lol) My sons pediatrician said that their family bedshares too. 🤷♀️
I tell the truth, I’ve been cosleeping for 4 years. They just told me how to be more safe with cosleeping
Our first pediatrician was very against bedsharing and tried telling me it was making my anxiety worse(very false) and lectured us about getting our vaby in his own bed and sleep training. Our recent pediatrician was all about bedsharing and said she currently does with her baby too. When I told her about our old pediatrician's reaction she got upset for us and said that he should have never lectured me about bedsharing and just discussed ways to be safe about it.
I’m in the UK where it’s becoming a lot more normalized - if you say something to any of the midwives or health visitors 90% of the time they’ll say like oh cool make sure you’re following the lullaby trust safe 7 etc. If you’re worried about their response I’d just go in saying what you said on this post which is you know how to do it safely and are doing that
In the UK when we were being discharged after our little one was born we were asked by the midwife if we were going to co sleep we said no and they said well most people say no but end up doing it so here's some leaflets on how to do it safely all said with a kind smile. There was no judgment at all they just cared it was safe not if you did it or not. (As much as we thought we wouldn't co sleep we've done it since our little one was one and done over a year now and love it)
Be honest, but also do what your comfortable with while following safe sleeping rules. We've Co slept with both since they were Newborn. My eldest is now 7 and youngest is 6 months
I lie 100% . I had a friend whose baby passed from SIDS , and the social workers wrote it as neglect because they co-slept with the baby. Ever since then I will always and forever lie and say my baby sleeps in his own bed.
Be safe and be proud of supporting your baby through the night in such a nurturing way. Sweet sleep by Le Leche Leauge is a wonderful book that can teach you all about how to co-sleep safely ❤️
I didn’t co sleep until baby was around 9-10 months old. I lie to my partners family as they are very judgemental x
To those that have been honest—- what is the pediatricians response? If you don’t mind sharing.