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Just interested in knowing how many of you allow them in to your bed at night if they wake up?

A few weeks back, Cerys was poorly and was unsettled at night so I i let her in my bed for cuddles. Mmmmmm now it seems to have become a habit because she wakes each night around 1-2 am and wants to come in with me. Up until a few weeks back she would sleep all night in her cot and never wake, or if she woke, she would settle herself back to sleep.

Do you think I've done a boo boo by continuing to let her in bed with me? Have I started a bad habit or do you think its ok? xx

mari how on earth would you get your groove on with little eli next to u in bed at night??!!!

Amy wrote:

mari how on earth would you get your groove on with little eli next to u in bed at night??!!!

hehe

mariheartselijah wrote:

as you probably know, elijah sleeps in our bed pretty much every night - after 11 months of getting up over 8 times a night i just physically and mentally could not deal with it anymore and needed to sleep - it can be as late in the night as 3 or 4am when he comes in or as early as 11 if hubby isn't there...it has saved my sanity (to an extent ) but obviously it's a very different situation from yours!!!

we are also quite pro-co-sleeping and have considered putting our mattresses (ours and elijah's) on the floor and having done with it...i have personal views about it and feel that actually it's quite a natural and nice thing to do...but we need to be sure we are committed if we are going to take it that far!

I'm like you (although probably because I have a child that doesn't sleep too). Most of the world co sleeps. Its only in the western world its seen as strange. The only reason we don't is because hubby is a fidget and I hold Jamie so he doesn't get hit. That makes us both very hot and holding a 25lb plus baby also gives you a dead arm. Its fine when hubby isn't there as I can rest my arm on a pillow

I would love ava to come into bed to snuggle up and sleep but she thinks its playtime when I try and bring her in, I have a non snuggly child!

hahaha amy with a child who wakes up if you breath too loudly sleeping in the same room its impossible to get up to anything in bed wether he is in his cot or not!!!