https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:07:15 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-from-cosleeping-mamas-please#post-1594107 Fri, 25 Apr 2014 21:40:30 +0000 Zbug 1594107@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@JoyfulKiwi: @MoonMoon: yeah we should probably try the crib again soon. Using the mattress as a floor bed is a good idea! We have been a bit reluctant to try because she now will sleep at least long enough for us to eat dinner and hang out for a bit. Worried that the crib will lead to a wakeup after an hour (or less). But you never know till you try, I guess! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-from-cosleeping-mamas-please#post-1594006 Fri, 25 Apr 2014 20:24:09 +0000 MoonMoon 1594006@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm in the same boat-hello, writing this from bed, haha!</p> <p>We're going to wait until the baby turns 1, then try the crib first idea that PP mentioned. I think just having those first few hours of the might to myself will make a difference for me.</p> <p>For what it's worth, lo is 10 months and we're just now more or less coming out of a really tough few months, and he's sleeping longer stretches. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-from-cosleeping-mamas-please#post-1593968 Fri, 25 Apr 2014 20:08:03 +0000 JoyfulKiwi 1593968@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Zbug: I also regularly drank one glass of wine/beer and would breastfeed shortly after, so as long as you don't feel drunk you're likely fine in that arena (if you're comfortable with that). </p> <p>So. For us, we started the crib-first, co-sleeping after wake-up method around 7 months. We would have to hold him until he was completely zonked out before putting him in the crib (yeah, that's not ideal) and then he'd wake up at 10ish, which is when we go to bed anyway &amp; he'd come sleep with us. We're still doing that at 18 months and we're happy with it. You might want to consider a floor bed. We found that it was easier to "transfer" him without the crib railing &amp; we can sit next to him/pat his back/etc. </p> <p>It's just a phase, though. Sleep is always a phase - it's just about how long we parents can function! :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-from-cosleeping-mamas-please#post-1593672 Fri, 25 Apr 2014 16:24:31 +0000 Zbug 1593672@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thanks all! First, thank you for making me feel better about the wine. I was totally comfortable with it knowing there would be several hours before she wanted to eat again, but started to feel a little guilty now that she insists on BFing so early. </p> <p>The crib has been pretty much a fail so far. We actually started cosleeping bc the transition from the rock n play to the crib wasn't working. Luckily, we ended up liking cosleeping. I tried the crib for a nap this week, but she woke up immediately. It probably wouldn't hurt to try it again at night though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-from-cosleeping-mamas-please#post-1593415 Fri, 25 Apr 2014 14:25:03 +0000 Kemma 1593415@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Is there a chance she would be happier starting the night in the crib and then moving into bed with you when she wakes? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-from-cosleeping-mamas-please#post-1593390 Fri, 25 Apr 2014 14:14:23 +0000 MamaJ 1593390@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We had the same issue. I hated feeling "trapped" in my room so early. I mean I loved cuddling and being with him, but I was like "it's 8 pm, I should not be in bed". </p> <p>We ended up moving DS to the crib at that point. It may just be a phase though? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-from-cosleeping-mamas-please#post-1593389 Fri, 25 Apr 2014 14:14:16 +0000 Mamasig 1593389@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think it's probably a phase. DS would go through times when he would wake up as soon as I moved from the bed. Now he pretty much stays asleep but I'm in bed a couple of hours later at the most. He goes to sleep on the later side. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-from-cosleeping-mamas-please#post-1593311 Fri, 25 Apr 2014 13:54:03 +0000 matador84 1593311@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I love, love, love co-sleeping with DD. Maybe it is time to make a transition to the crib? Possibly trying a sleep sack and night might help with the transition if you're open to the crib. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-from-cosleeping-mamas-please#post-1593305 Fri, 25 Apr 2014 13:51:53 +0000 Revel 1593305@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Commiseration from me! We have been having a similar issue with my 11 month old on and off for a while now. Same early waking, same hysterical crying for dada. I'm currently working on transitioning her back to the crib, but can't say if it's working yet, we're only a few days in. We ended up co sleeping just by default not because we were really committed to it. I bet you can ride it out if you want to keep cosleeping though, just might take a little while. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-from-cosleeping-mamas-please#post-1593143 Fri, 25 Apr 2014 13:02:31 +0000 rrachael 1593143@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No real advice, except that I've been where you are and I can say that it is most likely a phase ... That her sleep with improve, be crap and improve again :P</p> <p>Dd is 16 months now and we are starting the process of night weaning/ transitioning her to her crib. It's only working now because she *finally* is okay with dh comforting her. I never thought that would happen.</p> <p>One that thought ... For what it's worth, I've always been okay with a small glass of wine or a bit of beer and nursing, too. I follow the okay to drive, okay to nurse rule .... Conservatively of course! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-from-cosleeping-mamas-please#post-1593104 Fri, 25 Apr 2014 12:54:18 +0000 Mrs. Oatmeal 1593104@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't really have advice, because it was this reason that led us to stop co-sleeping (I was in bed by like 9 every night). Like @sapphiresun, I don't really worry about a little bit of wine and nursing. </p> <p>I really hope it works out for you though - I know there are other co-sleeping moms who have done so successfully. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-from-cosleeping-mamas-please#post-1593049 Fri, 25 Apr 2014 12:42:31 +0000 Sapphiresun 1593049@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't worry so much about a small glass of wine and nursing, so no real advice there.</p> <p>I co-sleep with our almost 9 month old, and her sleep was a wreck the last month and a half or so. Apparently there is a sleep regression about this time, as they have major brain development for all the moving they're about to start. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-from-cosleeping-mamas-please#post-1593012 Fri, 25 Apr 2014 12:34:23 +0000 Zbug 1593012@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For the most part, we like cosleeping. Lately, however, DD (almost 7 months) has been waking up more before DH and I go to bed. Sometimes just finding her pacifier does the trick, so it's no big deal. More frequently though she just gets more and more upset until I BF (won't take a bottle). The problem is, honestly, I often end up going to bed before I would like to and, also, I like to have a beer or a glass of wine with dinner sometimes. When she wasn't nursing until 1:00 or so, I didn't worry about this. Now she sometimes cries until I feed her at 9 or 10. She just seems to sleep so lightly until I come to bed. We have tried having my husband settle her, which leads to hysterics. She will cry and scream until I come get her (although she loves her daddy during the day). I have tried just getting into bed with her and cuddling and singing. This used to work but rarely does these days. We use white noise, and I leave my pillow next to her but she isn't fooled. </p> <p>Any advice? Could this just be a phase? Do I need to just accept a booze free, early to bed life? Please tell me no! </p>