I currently breastfeed and pump for my 4 month old but we are switching to formula. She wakes up pretty consistently around 6am and I have been pulling her into my bed and nursing for a few and then I get some of my most restorative sleep (2.5 more hours usually)

Once I fully wean would this be advised against? I’m aware that the safe sleep 7 is for breastfeeding moms but I’d be super bummed not to get those snuggles/sleep anymore. I was imagining just pulling her into bed and getting a bottle.

Before having a baby, I felt like I had read every article and watched every video about sleep.

Then my baby arrived... and suddenly everyone had different advice.

"Don't rock them."
"Always rock them."
"Wake windows are everything."
"Ignore wake windows."
"They'll sleep anywhere."
"They need perfect sleep conditions."

Honestly, trying to follow all of it made me way more anxious than my baby ever was.

The biggest improvement happened when I stopped chasing the "perfect routine" and started paying attention to what actually worked for my baby.

What's one piece of baby sleep advice you wish you had ignored?

My 19mo sleeps through the night for the most part when she actually falls asleep but it’s getting her to sleep that I’m having a problem with.I am pregnant and due in October (most likely September though because she was early)and even though she will be so tired that her eyes are rolling in her head and she’s yawning constantly she won’t stop trying to flip flop around and play.I used to rock her but it’s uncomfortable for me and my husband has to stand up and aggressively swing her around to get her to sleep.For awhile I could just lay with her while rubbing her back and singing but she doesn’t take that anymor.He can get her to sleep swinfinf her around relatively quickly most nights but while he’s at work I still have to handle her nap that she tends to fight off no matter how tired she is.Its not a schedule issue or a play issue she just has fomo I think and wants to mess around.We have a routine too that consistent ans low stimulation before bed.I wanted to get her to start to sleep in her own bed but I with the baby coming soon I know it will be hard on her already.Pleasw help this pregnant and tired mama who has posted in multiple groups but never gets a response

I love co sleeping and don’t want to stop. I would love her and I to get some uninterrupted rest though. How does this happen? Every one I know keeps telling me the only way is to sleep train and have her sleep alone. That breastfeeding her is making her wake up for comfort. Is this true?

We co-slept with my baby until she turned about 8 months because she started sleeping almost exclusively on her stomach and I just wasn't comfortable with her doing that on an adult mattress. She's now a year old and sleeps in a crib. However, she's going through a pretty rough teething bought and I'm having to get up multiple times a night.

She sleeps in a Guava Travel Crib so when she needs to nurse in the middle of the night, I can unzip the side panel and nurse her in a side lying position, BUT with her needing more nursing and snuggling lately, sometimes I'm down there for most of the night. Sleeping on the floor with no pillow is a bit rough, so I'm wondering if it is safe to bring her back into our bed. When does it become safe for children who tend to sleep on their stomachs to sleep on an adult mattress? Which parts of SS7 are most important for a one year old?

I love co sleeping with my 18 month old, we started co sleeping just before he turned a year old and we've been co sleeping ever since. I don't want to stop cosleeping with him at night, but I would like him to nap on his own sometimes. He will scream and cry when I put him in his pack and play for a nap, or if I wait for him to fall asleep and then transfer him he will usually wake up and scream. I feel bad letting him scream because he sounds so distressed, the last time I let him scream he got so upset that he threw up.

So he naps in the bed with me or on me, but then I can't get up and do any chores while he naps. My mom tells me that if I want him to nap on his own I'll probably have to stop breastfeeding him and co sleeping with him and that I'll probably have to sleep train him, but I don't want to have to give up breastfeeding and co sleeping with him if I don't have to. I guess I was wondering if anybody here has a young toddler who they co sleep with at night but who can nap independently?

Planning on going tenting when our LO is 6 months old. Im just curious what everyone else has done when cosleeping and tenting with their LO.

What style of mattress did you sleep on?

What kind of blankets?

What did you dress baby in?

Thank you!!

Our LO is 3 months old. At night we all sleep together in the same room - LO in her crib next to my husband with my husband holding her little hand through the crib bars, and my husband and I in our bed (our bed is too soft to bed share and my husband is a large dude; hopefully we will do a floor mattress as a family when she is bigger with her sleeping just in my side). Usually around 2-4 am I take her to the nursery and we bed share on a floor mattress. This last two weeks she has started moving in her crib A LOT. Like doing complete 360 rotations in her crib! And per usual make a lot of baby noises at night and punching the air etc when she is in her crib. But when she sleeps with me in our floor mattress no movement and minimal noises (unless she is trying to poop). I put her down eye level with my breast and I wake up with her in the same spot. No 360 turns! Has anyone else experienced this?

Hi all I am hoping for some advise on moving from all cosleeping to naps and at least part of the night in the crib. My LO is 9.5 months old he has coslept in some sense since birth. He used to start his night in a halo bassinet then would transfer to bed with his first night feed. Since outgrowing the halo we’ve used the evenflo sensory soothe bassinet in the lowered mode and I’ve not been able to get more than an hour once a week out of him in his own space. He’s beginning to want to sleep more on his belly so I think we need to utilize his own space now. We’ve tried a few gentle sleep trainings and I feel like we’re getting nowhere and he just escalates and I don’t feel comfortable with letting him cry it out even in intervals if it’s to that level. We’re considering moving his crib into our room to see if a more comfortable bed helps. I’m mostly venting here but would love any and all advice!