Questions about the cosleeper?

Question

I have 3 children and am having my 4th. He was a pleasant surprise but he won't have his own room. I've always but my babies right from the hosiptal to their room in their crib. This time I am thinking the cosleeper, so the baby will only wake me. Will the baby transition to his crib easily or want to move into our bed? when do they out grow the cosleeper?

Answer 1

i don't personally recommend co sleeping, its fun, easy, and special, but its so hard to break the habit. maybe try putting a pack in play/bassinet in your room, that's what i will be doing too, to avoid the baby waking my daughter as they will be sharing a room.....if i can get her out of my bed by feb. (btw shes almost 2 yrs old, and still want to sleep with me and be in my bed)

Answer 2

Hi! I highly recommend co-sleeping. We didn't start out cosleeping and weren't planning on it. We kept his bassinet right next to us and then the same with is crib, but last fall he seemed to get sick a lot and slept with us more and more. It took a little while to adjust, but what's new. You will already be adjusting the way you sleep with a newborn anyways!  My son is now 14 months and since my husband is away on business often my son sleeps with me when he is away. Unlike what others are saying to you, it hasn't been difficult to get him to sleep in a crib at all! He will sleep there, on the couch, or in the bed without problems. He is about to start sleeping in his own toddler bed and I am not worried about the transition at all. We will start him off next to our bed since that is what he is used too and in a few months he will be in his own room. You can basically stop co-sleeping whenever you feel the time is right. Most babies very much enjoy cosleeping and you will have to make that decision to stop, but other parents continue cosleeping until they are old enough to verbally say they want their own bed. I am sure you don't want to wait that long, though! I know I wouldn't! At most you may have a few nights and getting up to check on a crying baby when transitioning him, but babies thrive on a routine and after about 3-5 nights they should already have the hang of sleeping alone. Good luck and enjoy. I think the hardest part of it all is me letting go and letting my son grow up and sleep alone. I don't want him to! :)

Answer 3

My five month old sleeps in a co-sleeper.  As a new mom I allowed her to sleep on my chest and then gradually moved her to the co-sleeper. She shows little tendency to move back into the bed. Since you have already experience in getting babies to sleep, I doubt the co-sleeper will cause you any problems with bed-invading babies.

The label on the co-sleeper says, it is good until baby is able to climb out of it.

Answer 4

We have a mini co-sleeper (we live in a very small house so the mini was a good size) and she has almost grown out of it at 7 months! I almost wish we had a larger one, we aren't ready for her to go to her crib yet!

She doesn't like sleeping alone, but then again, we don't want her to sleep alone so it works out well for us.