Bed Sharing

in our culture bed sharing with your child is frowned upon, in other cultures it is actively encouraged to encourage the bond with your child. I personally think that it is a dangerous thing to begin doing unless you have a double bed and are in there on your own. It is soo easy to roll over when you are asleep and in the early days of having a baby sleep is soo precious that you want to be able to sleep properly with out worrying about this. If you roll on a hild the results can be devistating - they are just too small to take this risk. This is one of the things that the health workers were consistent with when i was pregnant and since i have had my ...  Read the complete review

This is probably the one thing that every prospective parent says that they won't do and I was no exception. There was no way I was going to have my little baby next to me in bed. Apart from the obvious concern of 'What if I roll over and crush it in the night?', I knew that it could affect my relationship with my husband because if you want to keep a marraige going then sex is a really important part and it's going to be ten times harder doing that when you've got your little one lying next to you cooing away. The time came when I gave birth to my son and all of the above went out of the window. I was just so tired that I didn't have the energy to keep ...  Read the complete review

This is one thing I never thought I'd do but ... My little boy was born by emergency caesarean and so, for the first night in hospital I still had a catheter in etc and couldn't get out of bed. I was on a ward with other mums and whenever my baby cried I had to buzz for a midwife to come and lift him out of his cot for me. I fed him and cuddled him and when he was asleep I had to buzz again for someone to put him back. Then, a few minutes later he was crying again and I had to buzz for someone to get him out for me etc, etc. After a few goes one of the midwives suggested that I sleep with him in my bed - she said they would watch us to make sure he was OK ...  Read the complete review

As a parent myself this is a difficult situation for all parents. Do you let them into bed with you? We have all been through this,child wakes in the night and comes into parents room and wants to get into bed with you. What we did from an early age,and still do now if my 6 year old daughter wakes,take her to the toilet then back to bed holding her hand,put her back into her bed,give her a kiss and say goodnight. She knows that she will be going back into her own bed regardless and its all about routine,so the experts say! We have done the backwards and forwards for most of the night bit and this works. It is horrible to go through as ...  Read the complete review

I guess that whilst pregnant I was adamant that baby would sleep in her cot. My sister had little ones and hadnt had a good nights sleep for six years! When little one arrived my sister passed down my nephews moses basket and from the first day she came home this moses basket moved from room to room with us! Baby loved it and I had no problem with her sleeping eight hours through the night. At night I would put the moses basket as if it were an extension of my bed and if my daughter awoke in the night I simply reached out and felt her tiny hand curl around my fingers and she was soon asleep again, if it was a feed that she was after I simply lifted her ...  Read the complete review