We co-slept with the kids during a recent trip and now our daughter is hooked! I haven't been too strict about it because she's still a bit jetlagged. But she's almost back on track and then we'll have to get her used to falling asleep on her own again!
Right now though, I'm trapped in her room while she's trying to fall asleep...
Do you co-sleep with your kids when you travel?
honeydew / 7295 posts
We do! I partially co sleep with my son most nights but its fun when we travel because its all three of us. It's cute but my husband needs his space so he definitely likes coming home.
GOLD / wonderful coffee bean / 18478 posts
No. We have our usual sleeping arrangements. The kids sleep fine by themselves so we just stick to that when traveling.
admin / wonderful grape / 20724 posts
@Andrea: I'm impressed! Usually we're all in one room... is it possible to manage the usual sleeping arrangements in a single room? I may be doing this traveling thing all wrong!
hostess / papaya / 10540 posts
Nope, we have always brought a travel bed for LO. No one ever sleeps well when we co-sleep.
GOLD / wonderful coffee bean / 18478 posts
@mrbee: we always look for houses to rent so we can have the extra bedrooms and space!
pear / 1799 posts
Yep! We don't bed share at home, but when we travel, we usually do. Since our daughter is still young (7 months), it makes sense. At home we use a co-sleeper my husband built. On the road, one of us sleeps in a bed with her, and the other will pick a couch or air mattress.
I think while traveling, especially with little kids, there's an element of magic that there just isn't at home. Rules can be broken. It's kind of like building a fort in the living room ... Suddenly it's like a different world!
pomegranate / 3577 posts
We always try the hotel crib, but the kid ends up in bed with us by midnight! I don't mind as long as everyone gets some sleep.
grapefruit / 4712 posts
Yep. However we cosleep at home anyway. So it is pretty normal for us.
honeydew / 7586 posts
Nope. We usually room share but he sleeps in the travel crib. We haven't had any issues so far.
cantaloupe / 6687 posts
Nope - she's 2 years 9 months and every trip we either get a suite set up or a 2 bedroom.
nectarine / 2521 posts
@mrbee: @Vegmama: @Espion: I am so curious about how the co-sleeping goes on vacation - does your LO get excited they are in bed with you and it keep them up (and you)? We are traveling next month and our 9 month old will be in the same room as us for the first time since he was a month old. I want to try his PnP, but have a feeling it's not going to go over well when he sees us...
admin / wonderful grape / 20724 posts
@Andrea: Wow, that never occurred to me!! Usually we're just visiting our parents though... but if we do go on a real vacation, I'll look into a house!
@Tanjowen: When the kids were younger, they were fine with a crib... but now that they're older, they love to cosleep with us! Usually they're seriously jetlagged, so we relax all of our sleep rules to get them as rested as possible!!
persimmon / 1128 posts
No. We take our travel crib with us everywhere because our youngest thinks that when he's in our bed it's time to play and no one would ever get any sleep.
To be honest, the travel crib lives in my car because I'm paranoid of being unprepared for a nap/overnight on any sort of trip.
pomegranate / 3577 posts
@Tanjowen: E was so out of his element that he mega snuggle-bear'd up and fell asleep in our arms. He does pretty well in his crib at home, so we haven't had a problem with transitioning back. It actually kind of took us by surprise, since he had been doing so well in his crib at home And we're not schedule driven parents by a long shot!
nectarine / 2217 posts
we don't co-sleep, vacation or otherwise, but I TOTALLY wish I could have a nap or two with my LO's once in awhile.... that must be such a sweet experience 
I hardly ever see what they look like sleeping, because we don't have a video monitor
when travelling, we just use pack n plays and cribs in the same room, or a different room if it's available
kiwi / 575 posts
We let DS take only a few of his naps with us in our hotel bed(s), but we were resistant to let him co-sleep overnight because we were reasonably sure that this wouldn't acclimatize him to the travel crib (that he isn't wild about in any case). Also, he gets a better night's sleep in the crib—despite his initial protestations—so co-sleeping is a little counter-productive for us.
pomegranate / 3845 posts
Yes. For my LO, I think it helps him feel more secure in a strange environment.
cantaloupe / 6730 posts
We've only done one trip so far and only coslept in the early morning the first day when she was up every hour.
cantaloupe / 6017 posts
No, we just don't sleep,
We have had the best luck with the pack and play in a separate room. Girl will not go to sleep in bed with me anymore, no matter how hard I try (in an effort to get her to sleep at all).
hostess / wonderful persimmon / 25556 posts
Yes, if by co-sleep you mean in the same room. I could never sleep with her in my bed because I'm afraid I'd smother her (heavy sleeper) but this past week we were at my parents and had to share a room. It was so hard. Every time I moved, she moved and I was afraid she would wake up. At 5:30am, she would be up yelling at me, "mommymommymommymommy!" She would usually come into the bed for 10 minutes or so, and spend that time kicking me in the head. It is no fun!!
blogger / eggplant / 11551 posts
Yes. We actually cosleep with our daughter a couple times a week. It's nice that she can alternate back and forth between our bed and hers.
nectarine / 2521 posts
@Espion: I am going to hope for this! I love the baby snuggles when I can get them
pineapple / 12526 posts
We were forced to the night before we flew back to the US. HUUUUUGE fail.
eggplant / 11716 posts
We've done it both ways, but our no-sleeping wonder baby doesn't like sleeping with OR without us when she's in a new environment, so it doesn't really matter what we try.
The best travel luck we had was when we went to my mom's and LO was sleeping in my mom's (gigantic, larger than most NYC bedrooms) interior, windowless closet. I guess because of the total darkness and quiet. Everywhere else has been a major sleep fail.
pear / 1895 posts
He currently will usually sleep fine in a pack n play in the same room as us. When he has transitioned out of his crib and into a regular bed, we will either take an air mattress or a roll-up futon or something, and he will sleep on that, if we're sharing a room.
pineapple / 12053 posts
we try to get her to bedshare with us sometimes (if she wakes early, etc) but she likes to party in our bed, so we usually do that for 30 minutes and back into her travel crib she goes. we typically room share.
eggplant / 11287 posts
We always sleep in the same room when we travel, and usually end up with at least one of them in bed with us for half the night.
When we travel, both girls tend to wake up extra early, but if we pull them into bed with us we can get them to sleep a bit longer.
pomegranate / 3791 posts
Nope - if L wakes up in the night and can see us, things go to hell in about half a second. Our vacations have been cut back because we basically have to have a suite so that there is another room we can put him in!
grapefruit / 4441 posts
Sometimes! I missed a flight coming home with LO from a trip in June and had to stay in a hotel unexpectedly. I didn't have a pack in play or anything so she slept with me. Usually she sleeps better though in her own space, but it was fine.
persimmon / 1343 posts
I did for the first few months, but since then we always use a pack n play because I worry that she will get too used to it and we both sleep better in our own space!
honeydew / 7589 posts
Yes, but we always bed share. I think it makes travel easier for us because she always feels secure in new environments because she's in that familiar space between the two of us.
It's one of the big perks of bed sharing, especially for a family like us who travels/moves often!
watermelon / 14206 posts
Nope. M has a pnp and D sleeps in his own spot. He's old enough now to handle sleeping on a couch, so that makes it easier.
pineapple / 12566 posts
We do a mix. We are traveling right now and the baby has ended up in the bed with us almost every night. I would prefer she stay in her crib, but it isn't happening. Our older LO is fine sleeping in new beds alone.
watermelon / 14467 posts
Yes, because it is an epic fail every time we try to get her to sleep in her PNP. Last time, she slept the first night in the hotel crib and after that refused to sleep in it. We just roll with it.
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