Four in the morning,

[marielapin]

[quote name='prose' date='Aug 18 2005, 03:32 PM']I can't imagine never sharing a bed with my kids. 

I like the bonding. 


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Me too. A friend of mine who doesn't co-sleep has been recently taking naps with her 14 month old. She told me today that she awoke to her baby giving her kisses and how wonderful it was. I told her that was what it was like every morning for me!

[cmotherofpirl]

[quote name='prose' date='Aug 18 2005, 03:54 PM']Holy cow!

Does every child do the sideways thing?  Anna is exactly the same.  In our queen sized bed, my hubby sometimes leaves to sleep on the couch while she kicks me over to the last 4 inches of the bed!!!

Silly kids!
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Children are not born to sleep alone, so they sleep much better if they have physical contact when sleeping. Thats why the family bed works so well. its natural.

[FlyLikeABird]

Don't know about the bonding thing... I do remember that my mom would wake me up for a potty break (I tended to be a very heavy sleeper) and occasionally I would fall asleep on the toilet.

[jasJis]

[quote name='cmotherofpirl' date='Aug 19 2005, 08:42 AM']Children are not born to sleep alone, so they sleep much better if they have physical contact when sleeping. Thats why the family bed works so well. its natural.
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Kids ARE born to sleep alone. We don't need the amount of sleep a child does, while a child NEEDS the sleep to develop properly. Kids MUST learn to relax and becomfortable to fall asleep by themselves. Can you imagine the behavior of a 3 yo who only goes to sleep if somebody lays with them. Either the parent won't ever get anything done, or the kid will become a psycho-rug-rat.

I mean it's nice to hang out and fall asleep together, but it should be the exception, not the rule. We never let our kids regularly sleep with us, but as teens they still like to lay on the couch or in our bed with us to watch tv or read and sometimes sleep half the night. I'm pretty sure we didn't create cold-hearted kids.

[prose]

I think it is important that kids can fall asleep (and stay asleep) on their own also, but every so often it is so nice to cuddle with her!

Anna slept with us until she was about 4 months old, then for about a year she would sleep in her crib for the first half of the night and then come into our bed at like 6 in the morning. That was nice.

Now, she rarely joins us (she is 2 next month).

They sure grow up fast...

[jasJis]

[quote name='prose' date='Aug 19 2005, 11:51 AM']I think it is important that kids can fall asleep (and stay asleep) on their own also, but every so often it is so nice to cuddle with her!

Anna slept with us until she was about 4 months old, then for about a year she would sleep in her crib for the first half of the night and then come into our bed at like 6 in the morning.  That was nice.

Now, she rarely joins us (she is 2 next month).

They sure grow up fast...
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[/quote]Too fast. That's why you need one of those lazyboy rocking chairs. For the longest time, I would occaisionally read with my girls on my lap at bed time and fall asleep with them. I really miss that.