Bed Sharing Reviews

I have 2 young children and have never understood why parent allow their children to share their bed. I think it's really important to get babies into a routine when they're young and learn that when it's bedtime, they have their own space and mum and dad have theirs. Having said that it is each to theri own but you hear of stories of ...

I have never understood the purported virtues of bedsharing. Although Id never tell anyone how to bring up their baby, or indeed how to organise sleeping arrangements, I cannot understand what longterm benefits can be gained from sharing your bed with a baby or toddler. I know that in the short-term we all take drastic measures to save our sanity; ...

Bed Sharing? Don't go there! I made the mistake of bringing my son into bed with us when he woke up in the middle of the night refusing to go back to bed. That was 14 months ago. He's now 20 months and we are trying to get out that habit and it's now become so hard. My husband and I are permanently exhausted. My son sleeps through once in a ...

All of our friends have allowed there children to sleep in there beds from babys, then they wonder why they still have a 5 year old jumping into there bed every single night. Not me i said right from the start and yes i have stuck to my word not one single night have either of my children been allowed to get into my bed. Yes ...

Ok - so hands up who has actually co-slept with a baby. Bet you thought you were the only one didn't you!! Well you'll be surprised to know that many parents sleep with their babies they just don't tell their doctors, health visitors or in-laws about it. Everything is kept hush hush; parents have to "confess" that they sleep with their ...

personally speaking learning to lie down and breastfeed was the only thing that helped me to continue breastfeeding through the hardest times. (i can imagine it being especially useful for mums who have had c-sections so the dont have to get up out of bed as often and can get plenty of rest.) bed-sharing helped this furthur. my baby was ...

I share my bed with my younger two kids all the time. I usually give up and let my boy come in after several battles to get him to stay in his own bed, then about an hour later his sister usually toddles in and i just pick her up and put her in, i think she only comes in because she hears big brother wake up, most nights i'm at home on my own so i ...

I feel there are many benefits in sharing a bed with your child especially when you are breast feeding. You don't have to get out of bed for the night feeds, you build a very strong bond with your baby who in turn feels very secure and to me it feels the right, instinctive thing to do. I also believe being so close helps regulate baby's ...

I have a cot in my bedroom, which has only been slept in perhaps 6 times in 2 years. The reason for this is that my baby decided that our bed was the place to be! When I had my first child prematurely I was terrified he would stop breathing in the night, something he was prone to do. He woke frequently for feeds for many months. As I was ...

When I was pregnant I was absolutely paranoid about cot death. I used to have nightmares and wake up in cold sweats. This was until I read a book called 'Three in a bed' which was about how to help prevent cot death. It explained how in other countires like china and sri-lanka cot death does not exist because due to poverty and ...

When I was pregnant I had a vision of introducing a night time routine and never having any sleep problems with my son – oh dear! In actual fact what happened is that he slept in a baby seat for 2 weeks as he refused his moses basket very vocally. Then in sheer desperation I put him down in his cot when he was screaming his little head off ...

In the early weeks after my son’s birth, I was breast-feeding and decided that having him in my bed was much easier. The few times I tried to put him down in his moses basket, he didn’t settle- and as bed-sharing was more convenient, I didn’t perservere. My partner left the decision up to me, as I would be the one getting up ...

Now I am sure that most people would say that you should not let children sleep in your bed but I am not so sure that I agree. Children should learn to sleep on their own but to what extent should we push them to do so. My daughter was not allowed to sleep in our bed and this caused major fears of going to bed as she hated to be left alone ...

This opinion is about my own thoughts on the subject of sharing a bed with your child, and I want to stress that I believe very strongly in intuitive parenting, that is, doing what you instinctively feel is right. I, nor anyone else has the right to criticise what others do, my chidren are both still very young, and of course things can always ...

Well let me start by saying that I would never judge or look down my nose at anyone who has their children in their bed. It is not my place to. If I am being honest it does form a loving close bond. I am however concerned about the safety aspects. I am not just talking about the danger of rolling over but also the ever present risk of cot ...

Whether or not you should sleep with your baby is really a tough question because the answer depends on a lot of different things. After seven children, let me share our stories: My first son was born in a small mobile home. The heating system did not work very well, and every night I would get up to nurse him and he would be ...

I would advise parents not to bring your baby in to your bed. If you put your newborn baby in to the habit of sleeping in the cot s/he will most probably kep that habit as they grow. However if you bring them in to your bed, it will be very difficult to get them to sleep separately. My baby has been sleeping in her cot since shewas ...

There seems to be so much conflicting advice from health visitors about what to do with your baby at bed time, so I'll just tell you what we did and leave it to you to make your own minds up. Our first daughter will be 2 ina few weeks. When she was born she spent a week in our room in her moses basket and then went into her own ...

There's one guilty secret I love letting slip at the playground. It invariably gets a few shifty-eyed glances around to see who else is listening, then everyone edging closer, lowering their voices and whispering.. "My kids sleep with me too..." It's one of those hotly contested issues of parenting -- do you take your ...

I will start off by saying my children do not sleep in my bed but sometimes on a morning they climb in but stay awake.There are different opinions on bed sharing I for one think my bed is mine and my children have there own. I do admit when my children were new-born I did put them in my bed.Many parents sleep with there babys to keep them ...