Who on earth would want to sleep like a baby? Babies don't sleep long although they do sleep often. Maybe this is what that infamous person meant by the phrase. Undoubtedly, it was a man! While I get so much support from my spouse in night parenting, I know there are a lot of women who don't. There are so many different approaches to sleep and babies. In keeping with our philosophies of parenting, we have chosen to bedshare/cosleep. And with exclusively breastfeeding, it just seemed natural to us. Mason slept with us off and on (mostly on) for the first couple years of his life. When he moved to his own bed in his own room before Willow was born, it was so weird not having him with us! I think the transition was harder for me than it was for him. Now that Willow is 9 months old, we are finding her preferences are like her brother's were at that age...she only wants our bed. I can't say I blame her. Have you felt how hard those crib mattresses are? While most nights this arrangement works, we wanted to make the eventual transition to her own bed a little easier by starting some different habits with her than we did with Mason. (ah, the advantage of experience)
My neighbor suggested to us using her crib like a co-sleeper so that she was still right next to me and able to nurse on demand but not actually in our bed. So, we decided to give it a go. We are now in night 5 of our transition from bedsharing to co-sleeping. So far, it is actually going smoothly. The first couple nights she kept trying to roll over into bed or crawl over me to get in between Dave and I. But I would just nurse her and roll her back over into her crib. She still tries to roll into my bed but not as often. I am hopeful that this strategy is going to work once she is used to it. I'm just glad we all get what we want, she gets to sleep snug and close to mama, I get to have her close too and Dave and I can spread out in our bed once again!
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