I was falling
asleep in the rocking chair or on the couch while breastfeeding my daughter.
Which is fine, except now I'm so exhausted that I fall
asleep in the rocking chair and end up spending half the night in the chair (getting painful, crappy sleep) and half the night in the bed (also getting crappy, but less painful sleep).
Not exact matches
but we
rocked him to sleep
in the
chair by his bed for another almost 5 months and then he got so big he didn't care to so we put him
in his crib after a nursing session and lay next to crib (one of us, likely my hubby) until he falls
asleep.
In addition, newborns need to be fed often through the night, and falling
asleep with a baby while on a sofa,
rocking chair, or recliner is incredibly dangerous.
While many families breast or bottle feed their babies to sleep or simply
rock their babies to sleep
in their arms
in a
rocking chair before putting them into bed sound
asleep, this non-separation of feeding to bed transition often leads to sleep problems.
So, to stay awake, Mom may decide to breastfeed her baby on the couch or
in the
rocking chair — locations that are well - documented to be dangerous for cosleeping — where she might then fall
asleep.
They even said that sleeping with your baby
in your bed was way safer than falling
asleep with them on the couch or
in a
rocking chair, if you knew what you were doing.
I noted that she used to fall
asleep in the
chair either after a long time (20 - 25 mins of
rocking or not at all).
Normally, we make it barely past a page and a half before he falls
asleep and I fade off,
rocking myself into a stupor
in the old nursing
chair.