Where does your baby slumber?
By sukandar_ag
@sukandar_ag (880)
Indonesia
May 8, 2007 11:03pm CST
With you in your bed, or you put the baby in a box?
Where is the box? next to your bed or apart from your bedrom? How do you do that?
In my country, mothers usually let their babies slumber in the same bed with them, to give a quick service as soon as the baby needs it.
3 responses
@Gemmygirl1 (2867)
• Australia
9 May 07
I don't believe in co-sleeping, it gets the child in to a bad habit of not being able to sleep on their own & not being able to sleep in their own bed & this can be a hard habit to break - it can go on for years - which cant be good for parents personal relationship & intimate time etc.
My daughter was next to my side of the bed in her bassinet until my in-laws bought a cot for us (they insisted on paying for something so they offered to buy it) & once we had the cot, our daughter was put in to their around 6 months old & the cot was in her room, which is right next to our room.
She was already in a good routine & she kept the routine even in her own bed & in her own room.
I don't think people put babies in boxes do they?
@vokey9472 (1486)
• United States
9 May 07
I think in other countries they have differnt words for cribs and bassinets. So I am sure that is what is meant by the word box. Like some people call the hood of the car a bonnet. I really hope that is what is meant. I would hate to think that people actually put their babies in boxes.
@sukandar_ag (880)
• Indonesia
10 May 07
Thank you Vokey9472 for helping me to explain what I mean with "box". Yes, Mrs. Gemmygirl1, I should replace "box" with "crib" or "bassinet". I'm sorry for this miscommunication. You see, that thing is not familiar in my country, Indonesia, though I believe that few mothers here use it.
@apakabar2007 (1693)
• Netherlands
15 May 07
My daughter sleep with us. A lot of people dissagree with us having our daughter in our bed. But we still did it anyway. We love to cuddle her when she's asleep, watch and feel every breath she take. As a matter of fact....both my husband and I can't sleep without her. She does has her own bed. But we just take it easy...because when it's time for her to sleep on her own bed, she'll let us know and for now we just enjoy every moment of it.....
@sukandar_ag (880)
• Indonesia
15 May 07
That's one of many ways to enjoy time with babies, I think. Thank you Mrs. Apakabar2007.
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@vokey9472 (1486)
• United States
9 May 07
Well, I read all the books and totally planned on putting my baby in his own bed in his own room by the time he was 3 months old. I started by putting him in a crib in the master bedroom with my husband and me. Then I put him in his own room. I forgot to turn on the baby monitor. I woke up to hear my baby screaming his little lungs out. I was frantic for about 20 seconds and then I remembered that he was in his own room. I brought him into my bed that night. He never left my bed until recently. I told him that he was getting to be a big boy (he was turning 4) and I got him his own bed. We put it in our room next to our bed. He has slept there for about a year. He started going to bed and to sleep by himself (no one in the room wtih him) about 4 months ago. So we are going to try moving him into his own room for his 5th birthday. Most kids his age sleep in their own rooms, but he got so used to being cuddled that he just wouldn't stay in his own bed or room, so I just let him stay in my room.
I actually miss holding him at night now that he sleeps in his own bed all time. Sometimes I want to ask him to come into my bed so I can cuddle him, but I know that he has to grow up and so I don't.
@sukandar_ag (880)
• Indonesia
9 May 07
Thank you Mrs. Vokey9472,
I understand how you miss holding your kid at night and cuddling him. Sometimes my mom still do that to me even I am an 35 years old boy. Sometimes I miss it too.




