Not looking to get into a debate of the pros/cons ... just a practical question.
If you co-sleep and your LO goes to bed before you and your spouse do, what is your routine/how do you handle that practically?
TIA!
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I nurse to sleep and roll away.
It doesn't work once they're mobile though. But at that point I've had them in cribs. -
When she was younger we nursed to sleep and I get off the bed. We still co-sleep at 17 months... I build a fort around the bed, and I lay with her till she falls asleep. Currently she throws a little tantrum when I don't get her get off the bed,but she eventually settles down. When she was younger, she was pretty compliant and will just roll around herself. Sometimes I have to move her when we come back in and it's never been an issue.
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I usually put her in the crib and get her when we go to bed. But we also have a floor bed so I can nurse her down and leave her on the bed. She knows how to climb off it safely.
Honestly some nights I go to bed with her and read a book on my phone for an hour or two and then just go to sleep. I don't love doing that all the time because then I don't get any evening time to myself and with my spouse.
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My daughter is almost 9 months. She sleeps the first stretch of the night in her crib, and then I bring her back to bed with us if/when she wakes up in the middle of the night. Sometimes she wakes at 1am, sometimes not til 7am, but she almost always ends up in our bed.
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I only co-slept with DS until he was about 7 months old. Once I went up with him, I'd spend the rest of the night in our bedroom. I would nurse him side-lying and he'd fall asleep. I'd then get up and get ready for bed and DH would come up and we'd watch a show on a laptop with headphones. I did always try to get DS to sleep next to me in the PnP, but sometimes had mixed results.
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I nurse to sleep and roll away like @oliviaoblivia. But once he was mobile I got a video monitor and watched him like a hawk until we just ditched our bed and just put the mattress on the floor. Still use the monitor but he usually cries before he goes anywhere if he wakes up. Now that I quit nursing to sleep, I rock him till he's asleep and then lie him down and lie with him for about 1 min till I know he's totally asleep. My husband does bedtime when I work by lying down with him until he's totally asleep. He normally goes to bed around 8-9 and we join him around 10-midnight. We tried a floor bed in his room and he would just wake up faster, the thin mattress must feel totally different than our comfy thick memory foam!
Eta he's 16 months and we've been bed sharing full time since 4 months.
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We do LO's bedtime routine (brush teeth, book, etc.) and then put her to bed (in our bed). I don't think it's really different from if you put them down in their own bed, really.
Then we come to bed when we are ready. We have a video monitor, which we would have wherever she slept, and I put up pillows along the edge of the bed. We have a King bed and LO doesn't really roll around a lot so there wasn't a huge concern of her rolling off (especially since I watch her on the monitor), but we put up body pillows along the sides anyway.
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Thanks for the responses! So it seems like most people put LO to sleep in their own bed and blockade it with pillows. That is what we have been doing, too. He goes to bed around 8 and us around 10. He falls and stays asleep on his own in our bed so thats not an issue. I am a bit worried about him falling out of the bed (?) but I guess it's ok so far. We do have the monitor.
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@wrkbrk: I think so far that's the only "annoying" part... With all the pillows we get less space! I actually have her crib mattress propped up on our bed ledge on one side, supported by a pnp on the other side, so it's like a wall!
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My baby sleeps in the crib from bedtime to 11 or 12, then wakes up. I try to nurse her to sleep and put her back. The next time she wakes up, around 3 am, she won't be put back and we end up cosleeping. And some nights if she's sick, she won't even go back to bed after her midnight wake up...
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