You sleep with kids?

@dhawanbm (3705)
India
June 22, 2009 11:47am CST
Do you sleep with them or not, its not a matter of worry, theyll feel lonely no, not at all, kids have a world of their own. Important is a good night kiss, Do you give them their due, a sweet kiss on the forehead?
6 responses
@jessi0887 (2788)
• United States
22 Jun 09
I use to be against cosleeping untill I had my son. At first I was determined to make him sleep in that dorn bassinet. Thats when I found out every time I would lay him down he would wake and start crying again. It got to exhausting. I got to the point he was sleeping on my chest. It was uncomfortable and hard to get use to at first but he still sleeps with me. Right now I dont care but i hope to have him in his own bed soon.
• Australia
23 Jun 09
This sounds just like a page right out of my life! I too tried to sleep my son in a cot but he had other ideas. He slept on my chest for a few weeks then beside me on my bed...right up to this day. The only issue here is that now I have another little baby - she is a fantastic sleeper, fortunately - however I need to ween my son into an independent sleeping pattern before my daughter is old enough to comprehend co-sleeping. Otherwise I'm sure I'll have the both of them in the bed with me & then I would have the added task of teaching her to sleep alone also.
@lelin1123 (15595)
• Puerto Rico
30 Jun 09
Well I'm the grandmother and my daughter, her husband and my 3 year old granddaughter live with me. When my daughter and her family had their own apartment the baby would sleep with them. When they moved in with me she continued to sleep with them. Then we made the guest room the babies room and she loved it. In the beginning she slept in her room everynight but would wakeup in the middle of the night or early morning crying. So my daughter would get her and put her in the bed with her. About a month ago my granddaughter got frighten by something in her room. I really think she was dreaming but she was scared to sleep in there for a few weeks. Now she is back in her own room. I was really surprised though how she took to her room in the beginning. I thought it was going to be hard to get her out of her parents bed.
@deebomb (15304)
• United States
22 Jun 09
My kids never slept with me. the wiggled and thrashed around too much and would keep me awake. I didn't mind if they came in in the morning for some snuggles. I pretty much raised my 2 grandkids. now their mom had been scared of storms, no mater how mild she had passed that ear on to the kids so when I got them and a storm would wake them up I would let them come into my bed. At first the two of them were small enough to fit in my bed with me but as they got older it was a case of who got there first and the other one had to sleep on the floor with their bedding. I enjoyed curling up around them not they are way to big to curl up around and I do miss that..
• United States
22 Jun 09
Sometimes if we are getting a quick nap we would sleep together. At night they sleep in their own beds unless they had a bad dream or a bad thunder storm woke them up. If they are sick they either sleep with me or I go sleep by them. It just depends, but for the most part I try not to sleep with them because they sleep so wild, it almost looks like they are fighting sometimes.
@emilie2300 (1882)
• United States
22 Jun 09
When my children were younger they did sleep with me. Now they sleep in there own room.
@meandmy3 (2227)
• United States
22 Jun 09
I do not sleep with my children. I read them a story and kiss them good night every night, but they each sleep in their own beds in their own rooms. I have nothing aganist those that do Co-sleep, it just was not the right thing for us or our family. With three of them it would have been difficult. Some decisions were made for us based on well the fact that we had triplets.