I saw in another post that Rafe is doing the family bed. We sorta are...hubby has decided that he needs to snore incessantly loud lately and has moved to the couch until he looses 10 pounds (we think that's what did it) since he wakes up Willa a lot at night. So it's just me and the babe right now!
Just wondering who else is doing this and wondering what your experiences are - how long did you do it (I know some folks say to stop after a year or you will never get the kids out of bed), worst parts/best parts, reactions from family/friends who knew you were doing it, etc.
For the most part, it's been a positive experience. Willa started sleeping through the night at 2 months so I no longer needed her in bed since she wasn't nursing every hour (seriously thought I was going to go crazy for awhile there...). But it was still so much easier to just have her near - though she did sleep on a side car then (3 sided crib next to the bed). When she started teething at 5 months, it was back to needing lots of night time parenting. That's when hubby got kicked out since he wasn't helping the light sleeping! But it's been nearly 2 months now and sometimes I feel like she is simply in the habit of latching on since I'm right there. She rarely truly 'feeds' at night, but she wants to latch on every few hours. I've gotten to the point where I can fall back alseep nearly immediately, but I'm still not sleeping as well as I'd like. So I'm thinking of going back to having her on the side car, then moving to a crib in the room. Possibly to her own room by the time she's not nursing at night at all (that will happen again, right?!?! :-\)
My mother-in-law thinks its weird but she's too nice to say much. My mom thinks I need better sleep, but otherwise has no problem (they did family bed when I was little).
Anyone else?
Just wondering who else is doing this and wondering what your experiences are - how long did you do it (I know some folks say to stop after a year or you will never get the kids out of bed), worst parts/best parts, reactions from family/friends who knew you were doing it, etc.
For the most part, it's been a positive experience. Willa started sleeping through the night at 2 months so I no longer needed her in bed since she wasn't nursing every hour (seriously thought I was going to go crazy for awhile there...). But it was still so much easier to just have her near - though she did sleep on a side car then (3 sided crib next to the bed). When she started teething at 5 months, it was back to needing lots of night time parenting. That's when hubby got kicked out since he wasn't helping the light sleeping! But it's been nearly 2 months now and sometimes I feel like she is simply in the habit of latching on since I'm right there. She rarely truly 'feeds' at night, but she wants to latch on every few hours. I've gotten to the point where I can fall back alseep nearly immediately, but I'm still not sleeping as well as I'd like. So I'm thinking of going back to having her on the side car, then moving to a crib in the room. Possibly to her own room by the time she's not nursing at night at all (that will happen again, right?!?! :-\)
My mother-in-law thinks its weird but she's too nice to say much. My mom thinks I need better sleep, but otherwise has no problem (they did family bed when I was little).
Anyone else?
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