Even knowing the risks, do you bed share?

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It's anon, so please answer honestly. Even knowing the potential risks, do you bed share with your baby? Particularly if you EBF.

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I was so against bed sharing up until it was the only way my little girl wanted to sleep. She would sleep 20 minutes in her bassinet, would wake up instantly in her rock and play and this momma was so tired. I slept with her on my chest for the first two weeks. Then she has been laying next to me in bed the last two. I tilt her slightly away from me and snuggle her so she's my little spoon. I don't have the comforter covering her or have it anywhere near her face and just have a Swaddle blanket under her so I can move her if needed. Now that we're hitting the month mark I plan on transitioning her either to her bassinet or a cosleeper I got. I still don't feel super Comfortable bed sharing but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.

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I end up sleeping with her in my bed cause she sleeps longer. I don't move in my sleep cause I know she's there and she's fine.

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I am so very aware of my children even if I'm sleeping. Granted there are some people who are not that way but I am that way and co-sleeping keeps me sane. This is my sixth baby and I have coslept with all of them.

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I (and my husband) are personally strictly against bed sharing for many reasons. The main reasons are:
1) Safety (although I know bedsharing *can* be done relatively safely
2) I don't want to start our kids off on a bad habit. I have friends who have they're toddlers (and older) sleeping with them every single night and I don't know how they do it! They are miserable!!! The habit is so strong for them now, breaking it is no where in sight. We have our NB sleep in a bassinet in our room for the 1st 2-3 months and then they go into their own crib, in their own room. I also EBF our 1st for 7 months and continued to BF until she was 13 months. It's all a personal choice, ours just happens to be that, at night, our bed is for my husband and myself.

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The most I will do is nap when she is sleeping on my chest during the day or at night after a feed. I set timers on my phone to prevent me from falling into a deep sleep. I would only consider cosleeping with a cosleeper in the bed. Personally I'm confident now that even her lightest stirring wakes me but my partner is a very deep sleeper and doesn't seem to wake when she cries. That would worry me.

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I have co-slept with all 4 of my kids. My newest will only sleep in my bed with or without me next to her.

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I dont lay him down on the bed because my husband is on one side and the floor on the other,  but he sleeps on my chest.

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" Another sleeping and SIDS researcher, Dr. James McKenna has published his belief that co-sleeping is safer than crib sleeping namely because of his research showing steadier breathing and heart rate while bed-sharing and that co-sleeping babies are likely to sleep on their backs. McKenna’s Research is compiled here. An international survey by the SIDS Global Task Force showed that countries practicing the most c0-sleeping and bed-sharing had the lowest rates of SIDS. They also happen to be countries with high breastfeeding rates. And what’s more? JAMA published a review of data from theNational Infant Sleep Position Survey that recorded numbers actually rising of self-reported bed-sharing during the same time period that SIDS deaths lessened. That’s what we call very interesting indeed. "

https://savvyparentingsupport.wordpress.com/2014/10/20/original-sids-researcher-says-baby-bed-sharing-is-not-dangerous/

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I planned for my baby girl to only sleep in her playpen but she refuses to sleep anywhere but mine or her daddy's chest. Its a little scary and I do get paranoid and wake up constantly to check on her and make sure she didn't fall off or the blankets covering her face or anything. But right now she's still little and new to the world and if she feels she needs to be held while she sleeps I'm not going to deny her that.

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I co shared with my first two and doing the same with this baby

Even knowing the risks, do you bed share?

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