Cosleeping

He’s still so little and it’s the biological norm to sleep with our babies. X

My advice is get rid of the portable bassinet. It’s more of a hazard than anything. I’d look into safe cosleeping and decide if your mattress is safe enough and if you can set your bed up safely. If you can, I would. If not, I’d move him to a floor bed you can sleep with him on and hubby can sleep alone 🤣 I love co sleeping personally. There are soooo many benefits! And if you enjoy it I would continue, explain to your husband why it’s important and that it’s such a great bond for you and baby. It’s amazing for baby’s development.

Could he sleep with just your hand then? At your side of the bed?

If your husband doesn’t want to anymore I understand that but you can if you want to x

The time to make the change is when both you and the baby are ready for it. For me it was at 6 months, I felt we would both sleep better separately since he was bigger but it was my decision and not my husband’s since he sleeps like a brick anyway. Still nowadays if he wakes up in the middle of the night, he comes to bed with me.

I love cosleeping with my baby he one yr now, he screamed everytime I put in crib and I ebf so it was far better for both myself and baby being together. I will miss it when we plan do transition him to his own bedroom around 2. Do what’s best for u but look I to the safe sleeping rules x

They don't need to learn to sleep on their own for a while yet.

I would look into getting a better setup like a floorbed (although I've still not got round to upgrading from just a matress on the floor). Hubby sleeps alone so it's just me and LO, I couldn't imagine her sleeping in a crib/cot and she's 9 months now.

Personally, I think we'll be going straight to a toddler bed when she's old enough.

Also, we have a cot (which turns into a toddler bed) and I look at it all the time wondering how on earth people get them in and out of there.. even at 9 months they are getting crazily heavy!

He's only 5 months old! He's not too old to be sleeping in your bed. It's biologically normal for babies to sleep with their mothers. It is emphatically not selfish to keep your baby close. It's what is expected by your body and his.

It’s actually better to sleep together - have a look at this

https://www.instagram.com/p/DWo9iwiD6Qp/?img_index=6&igsh=Nnljd202MDlqOHc0

I have co slept with all my babies & love it but also have a husband that was ready to have the bed back. We ended up taking our crib and taking one of the sides off (like a toddler bed) and then attaching it to our bed like a sidecar crib setup. I can still hold their hand or comfort them and love having them still safe next to me.