Anyone still afraid of co-sleeping?

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No matter how little sleep I get, i am ABSOLUTELY still terrified of co-sleeping. I wish I was able to do it, but my paranoia and fear get the best of me. (We had a small incident around the 2 month mark when we tried -blanket got on his face but my husband was awake- and I’ve been traumatized since.)

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Heck no I can’t. I’ll go in her room thirty times a night before do sleeping at this age. I would never forgive myself if something happened. I know it works for other people but I just can’t. I stuck to putting her in her bassinet when she was little and after two nights she was fine and slept great in it. Same w crib never had an issue and I think it’s bc I made it the only option from the start.

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I don’t think bedsharing is a great idea. I worked in child welfare and saw the traumatic accidents firsthand. I told myself we never would do it...then we hit leap 4. All through leap 4 my daughter has slept with me. Only because my husband still sleeps elsewhere, so we have lots of space. She also always sleeps on her back. If she were rolling in her sleep, I definitely wouldn’t. I position my arms in a way that I feel help keep her safe. I think it is definitely valid to worry about bedsharing. It certainly isn’t safe sleep practice.

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My baby scoots too much. I could never sleep well co sleeping. She's slept on her own since birth, which is great because now she knows no different. We all sleep great!

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We coslept only in the AM up until 3 months, he’s been in his crib since. Sometimes I miss those cuddles but I refuse to put him in my bed. I don’t want to create a bad habit. I’ve heard too many stories about kids being 7 sleeping with their parents still and parents with no sexy time.

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Nope. I was but since she was 2 months we have been co-sleeping. She wouldn’t sleep for more than 30 minutes her crib. After passing out with the baby in my arms in the middle of the night and almost dropping her twice (my heart aches just to think of it), I concluded that co-sleeping was safer. Once I put her in bed with me she slept for 3 hours straight. It is actually the norm where I live, but I was trying to be different. Didn’t work. We are being safe, obviously. We don’t drink alcohol, smoke, or take drugs, and I’m a light sleeper.

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Our little boy goes to bed in his crib at around 8:30pm and sleeps there until around 4-6am. Then when he wakes up he has a feed and sleeps until about 9am. Once he's had the early morning feed he comes into our bed for a few hours. We have a kingside bed and he sleeps with the nursing pillow so he can't roll away and we have a portable safety rail that goes on the side that baba sleeps on. He has slept in our bed all night before, particularly when he's been sick (CMPA and seizures) and we had no problems with him sleeping with the nursing pillow either in a grow bag or a cellular blanket. We have the duvet pulled right over to the side away from him. I sleep in the middle of the bed and he sleeps next to me due to his daddy being a heavy sleeper. I love sharing our bed with him but I also feel that it's important for us as parents to have our own time in the evenings to spend time together, even just cuddling up in bed with a movie 😊

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My daughter has been in her own crib since 3 weeks, and now that she’s been out of the swaddle for 2 months now, I realize I could have never co-slept with her- she moved SO MUCH! Literally I don’t understand how she manages to scoot all over the crib on her back and tummy 😂 how do y’all have babies that stay in one place while they sleep?!

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I refuse to co sleep and have since she was brought home! My husband is an extremely heavy sleeper and I would get less sleep with her in my bed than if she woke up every hour. Worse case scenario I’ll sit in my glider for hours with her and let her sleep in my arms

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I could never do it because a friend of a friends baby passed that way. Even when we brought her home I would wake up in sheer panic thinking she was in the bed with me when she wasn’t and never has been. I still do it sometimes but not nearly as much as the beginning 😅

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I rarely do it with my son but when I do I put pillows either side of him and take the blanket fully off bed he sleeps in a baby sleeping bag and I will put him in my bed when my bf at work x

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