I finally just
started cosleeping with him on a bed on the floor in his room every night, and I love the arrangement, but your post has me wondering if this would help him to sleep for longer stretches at night.
Since
he started cosleeping we would still put him in the crib on occasion.
For this reason
I started cosleeping, with two older children in school this was the only way I could get some sleep.
A week after the feeding change, I moved out of their room (I had
started cosleeping when left NICU because breastfeeding twins that way was less exhausting) and as I realised that they were eating little at night I also I dropped the night feedings, by watering down in 3 days.
Not exact matches
(If I remember correctly, discouraging
cosleeping — a topic for another blog —
started in Great Britain?).
Neither I nor my toddler is ready to stop
cosleeping yet, so a few days ago my hubby
started sketching and measuring and pulling out stacks of wood he'd saved from other building projects, and the next thing I knew I had a custom cosleeper sidecar for our toddler!
We
started off
cosleeping with our newborn in a bassinet on the headboard (it is a very wide headboard!).
we had planned on
cosleeping using a sidecar arrangement but after a week of putting my son in the cosleeper to
start the night and ending up with him in the bed with us we just keep him with us from the
start.
As it happens, we discovered that our baby needs to
cosleep, and once we
started doing this (around six weeks) everyone
started sleeping a lot better.
Still, my mom breastfed her kids past six months in the eighties and did natural childbirth, so when I am practicing extended nursing,
cosleeping and baby wearing, I feel like I am just taking the next steps down a path she
started on, and that helps, even when she doesn't understand why I would choose to nurse past age 2.
One more thing before we get
started: you can
start doing this homework for children of any age (minus the lovey) and for almost any method you use, even some
cosleeping lifestyles.
I'm happy to
cosleep during and to roll with it as best I can but I am afraid of setting bad habits and not really knowing when to stop «rolling with it» and
start sleep training because the regression should have ended.
We had a crib and it was totally unnecessary for us (we never planned to
cosleep, but that's what happened and we never needed the crib, even when DS
started sleeping in his own room we just put him on the toddler mattress on the floor).
I made the deliberate decision to
cosleep when he
started to experience separation anxiety around 6 months and I was getting out of bed to resettle him every couple of hours (before this he would wake twice a night which was fine).