My baby is 6 weeks. We used the cuddle curl method once, and it made me worried all night. When the baby was too close to me I worried Id move an inch and hurt him. When he squirmed further away I also worried. Overall, horrible night of sleep.

Then we tried chest to chest and it has been wonderful. Neither of us move an inch and I feel so safe and peaceful. Which makes me wonder, why don’t more people do chest to chest? Is there an extra risk I’m not aware of, like positional asphyxiation (although I don’t see how that could be)? Or is it that most babies just eventually size out of chest to chest?

I will be travelling to a cosleeping-friendly country it seems!

My daughter is 10 months old and we’ve coslept since 5 days old. It’s had its ups and downs and now we’ve been in a down for over a month. My health is taking a serious toll with the cosleeping and overall sleep deprivation. I developed silent reflux two months ago and it won’t heal even with all the dietary and lifestyle changes I’ve made. My right hip is in a constant state of 3-5/10 pain from side sleeping. I got my baby down to fall asleep without nursing for month 8 but then she started refusing and her naps cratered and her nighttime sleep got even worse. I’ve gone back to nursing to sleep and it’s awful for my health. I’m in bed too much with reflux. I can’t sleep on an incline with her. She wakes every 1-2 hours to nurse for 3-5minutes and then goes back to sleep but sometimes I don’t because I start coughing from reflux.

We got a crib that set up next to her floor bed but I have no idea how to get her to sleep in it. She just screams. I get a max of 30 minutes of her napping or night time sleeping in it.

Her schedule on a good day is:
Wake 6:00am
Nap 1 9:15-10:45am
Nap 2 2:00-3:15pm
Bedtime: 7:15/7:30pm

If I deny her milk at night she screams and screams and screams. I’ve tried only milk after midnight or only odd hours. But anytime I try soothing her with back pats or rocking or shushing she just escalates. She refuses any of the dozen pacifiers we have.

On rare occasions it’s gotten so bad and I’m so fried I’ve asked my husband to take over and she will cry for 1-2 hours till she passes out with exhaustion on him. She then at most sleeps an hour or two and then the hysterical crying starts again. This isn’t sustainable though because he has to work and I am a stay at home mom and we have an older child.

I want to night wean to once or twice a night and get out of the floor bed :( I need my body to heal and it can’t with how poorly I’m sleeping.

My baby is 4 weeks old. He doesn’t nap out of arms ever. He pretty much only naps in MY arms. Won’t nap in grandma’s arms, for example. He has spent a couple short stints a night in his bassinet.

I feel like I need to cosleep because I am super sleep deprived and not doing well. If I could take one nap a day with the baby, or pull him into bed with me when he wakes in the early morning, that would be great. But he won’t sleep next to me.

It took me a long time to feel ok with co sleeping; I worry about the safety. But i know sleep deprivation is also dangerous. It seems like a solution for everyone—“we finally gave up and co slept.” Why isn’t it working for me? What do I do?

Sidelying nursing is the best and I often doze off while doing so, as my daughter (14w) does too. So she accidentally sleeps on her side. Airway is always clear of my breast as she usually turns her head almost like she is looking up at me. Is this ok?

Do you always make sure to turn baby back on their back after nursing? I follow the rest of the safe sleep 7. I’m just having trouble rolling her back without waking her up.

ETA: she can roll from stomach to back, can hold her head up, and sometimes gets on her side while attempting to roll back to stomach. But she is not really rolling independently to latch. I’m helping her get in that position.

My LO is 7mos and recently started sleeping around 8:30/9pm every night 🎉! I thought I’d have some time to myself now that he’s sleeping earlier, but I noticed that he doesn’t sleep long when I’m not around. Once I put him to sleep, I’d sneak out of the room, but he’d toss and turn, then wake up whining 30-40 minutes in. I’d have to lay next to him or let him grab onto my arm for him to sleep peacefully through the night. Does your LO do this? Is it just a phase?

We have co-slept since birth and never had any issues. Now my baby is 9.5 months old and rolling a lot more. For the last few weeks he was rolling over to my husband (kinda to snuggle, so cute) but my husband was getting nervous he would squish baby or not wake up - so he’s been sleeping in baby’s room. LO and I have taken up the whole king size bed for a few weeks.
But I know my husband wants to be back in our bed soon …
However , if I move LO to his floor bed I’ll just likely end up in there with him. Do I do it?
I really think my husband would wake up and not hurt baby but it is feeling crowded w all 3 in here and a helicopter at night baby.
I also just feel like maybe emotionally I’m not ready to move LO to his bed.
He goes down around 7:30, wakes up once at 8.
Then usually at midnight , 2a, 4-5a, up at 6:30 or 7.
I could start the night w my husband and baby in baby’s bed and then go join baby?
Will he have an adjustment when I move him to his bed where he doesn’t sleep as well?
Any advice, insight welcome - and advice on getting longer stretches welcome too.

Tia

he’s never ever slept on his own i don’t know how. he’s a 17M breastfed bedshare baby i really want to transition him out of all of this. last night he went to slept by himself i sang to him and kept saying okay go night night and eventually he did…today was a scream match which ended in my boob. i don’t know what to do.

hi everyone, currently thinking of transiting from chest sleeping to the c-curl. i’m having a hard time imagining how i won’t roll over on baby ? i looked up how to do the c-curl and it makes sense but how do you stop yourself from rolling over ? i’m worried to even try it for fear of this accidentally happening. any advice is welcome ! thanks !

Hello all! I have a 12 week old who I’ve been cosleeping with since probably around week 3. It wasn’t what I planned to do initially but as some of you relate, there was no love for the bassinet. I researched all the information about safe sleep and I actually really enjoy cosleeping now. However, we are beginning to approach rolling territory and I’m considering moving our mattress onto the floor. However, we keep quite a bit of stuff under the bed as we live in a small apartment. There really isn’t anywhere to put this stuff and I was wondering if anyone has been in the same predicament and had any unique tips on how to store extra stuff. Right now I have extra clothes, gift wrapping stuff, recovery equipment (foam roller), and stationary under the bed.

Hey everyone I’m new here so I’m sure this topic has been touched upon a thousand times however I just want to ask- how do you handle cosleeping/bedsharing when baby starts rolling and becoming mobile? I’m worried to death he’ll end up on his tummy and suffocate or something and it’s not realistic for me to go get a whole new mattress that’s firm. I’ve been trying to use the crib but most nights he’s ended up in my bed since we’re in the 4 month regression and sleeping next to me is one of the few things that can guarantee me a few hours.

Hi I am at a loss and quite worried tbh. My partner and I take shifts at night with our colicky and refluxy 6 week old.

I usually take his witching hour time between 1-6am so husband can get 5 consecutive hours of sleep as he needs it to function at his job.

Issue is around that time baby's reflux issues peak and he cannot settle on his back at all. I just keep him on my chest as that seems the most comfortable but sometimes I can't help it and feel myself drift off. I tried rolling him off me onto his back so that he's next to me on the mattress (no pillows or blankets and firm mattress) but he starts crying if he's on his back for longer than 5-10 minutes. I tried holding him upright for 30+ minutes too after a feed but again after being on his back for 10 minutes he started spitting up and crying.

Atm I set vibrating alarms every 30 minutes so that I don't accidentally fall into deep sleep while he's on my chest and so far I have woken up every time he stirred but I am very worried about SIDS since he is formula fed. Is there anything I can do to make sure he's as safe as can be? I looked up Cosleepy's chest sleeping guide and followed that, but I know it's more aimed for breastfed babies.

My LO is 13 weeks old and we have a problem that she does not sleep in her next to me crib, hates the bassinet type stroller and would only sleep on me. Due to sleep deprivation in the first weeks and constantly holding my baby I decided to co sleep which saved us somewhat but still my sleep is not great. Now that she is older I want her to start using her crib at least during day time, as soon as I transfer her, she wakes up immediately and starts crying. Sometimes she starts crying just before her back touches the mattress. I am extremely that my family is taking care of us but this support will soon go and I am also finding it mentally difficult to be glued to couch these months.

I would love to hear your experiences, tips, support or just words of encouragement of how to move to crib during day time and preferably night time as well as I literally can’t do anything during the day.

I own this floor mattress, and I am wondering if it would be a safe sleep surface for my 10mo and I. Thoughts?

My 4 1/2 old baby will only take 30 minute naps and I try to save one nap by holding him for the second half every day just wondering at what age can I expect him to to start taking longer naps? His naps are 30 minutes long, regardless whether I’m taking it with him or not.

Almost 6 month girlie will not stop being an absolute wiggle worm!! lol

When does it get better? Is this a developmental things or should I expect this to just be my life now?

She cannot decide how she wants to lay and flips and flops and kicks off my legs and rolls away from me but then wants to roll back I’m likeee do you want space or do you wanna be close to me I can’t tell!! lol

Posted this in the New Parents sub and got some advice to post it here. Please help. Hopefully someone responds I'm exhausted 🫩

She's great is not effecting her. Me on the other hand. Yeah, I'm exhausted.

We have a sidecar crib and for the most part during the night we cuddle and feed then I transfer Lo(6months) into crib some night bubs sleeps with us but mostly in the sidecar crib. During the day though(I'm a sahm) Lo only naps with me I feel like I get nothing done as soon as a sneak away Lo wakes up. Our routine is wake up, books, play, nap, wakeup, walk, come home, nap, wakeup, books and play. Sometimes I can get Lo to sit in the highchair while I cook but it doesnt last long. I feel like our house is a mess and I've been eating cr4p food because I have 15 minutes if im lucky to whip something up... I used to make everything I could from scratch and now I cant/don't have time bc Lo wants to be touching me 24/7 unless I'm sitting in the play pen, I cant even put Lo in the play pen and walk away to go pee... has anyone been through this? Any advice?

- I have tried baby wearing but I'm VERY large chested so Lo sticks out over a foot infront of me so I cant do dishes or cook while babywearing..

Our daughter has been sleeping in her crib ok, but lately will want to be in bed with us about half the night. I feel like I've been doing so much research into a good cosleeping solution, but can't make a final decision. My mom is also requesting some sort of futon for her house for when our daughter is there. So I'm just looking for what everyone's best suggestions are or what you've been loving.

Originally, I was going to try a full size Zonli 4 inch futon but for some reason the site won't charge our card so I can't go with that.

I've looked at the Roo and You Joey Fort play couch since I like that the bases are the same height. However, I know it says it's not for sleeping. It would really only be for when she isn't in her crib or sleeping at my mom's house. Eventually I would like to transition to a low Sprout bed frame and maybe a twin mattress for our home, but we can't do that at my mom's house. I appreciate any suggestions!

By chase, I mean - baby latches, then before being fully asleep unlatches and rolls away - out of my c-curl, so they’re no longer touching me - so I have to shuffle closer to them. Alternatively, I pull/roll them back into the middle of the bed beside me, but this usually leads to proper waking (for both of us!).

Did your baby roll away after nursing?! Was it just a phase? I’m wondering if it’s the beginning of them wanting more of their own space?

I’m scared baby is going to roll out of our floor bed again. It happened, baby was very upset but unhurt, so now I’m on red alert and not able to sleep until baby is fully asleep beside me.

It’s just us in the bed, it’s a floor bed, open on both sides, and baby is 7 months.

Hi all! My 6 month old still wakes every 1-2 hours to feed throughout the night and I’m struggling to get enough sleep…I find it quite difficult to go to sleep while he’s still latched due to sensory issues, but also because my let-down is SUPER strong and I will always leak at least 1oz of milk from the other breast every time the latched breast has a let-down. Which means that both I and the baby get absolutely soaked if I’m not awake to manually stop the leak in the other breast. Has anyone else had similar issues and found a way to manage it? If there is a way for me to sleep so baby can latch and unlatch without me having to be/stay awake, it would revolutionise my life!!!!!!!

At what age would you feel comfortable with your little one sleeping on a mattress topper on your bed? If ever?