Topic : Where Should Your Child Sleep?

It will be hard and take a couple weeks to break her of the habit.  I agree with the last post though and you can always start with letting her sleep with daddy on weekends.

I used to sleep with my daughter beside me but stopped at 6 weeks when she got pertusis (whooping cough) and needed to sleep in a reclining posistion instead of lying flat. I believe sleeping with an infant in the bed is ok if you aren't a heavy sleeper and havent had any alcohol or anything that night because that also makes you sleep heavy. There are dangers to sleeping with an infant in the bed, mainly dangers from you rolling ontop the infant and suffocating him or her. The best way to have an infant beside you in bed is to put then in their bassinet or cot and lower the side so they have a space away from you but are still very close.
But no problems as long as you are smart and safe about it and also try and keep them from making it a habit because it can be very hard to break.

Ok i amitt my daughter 15 months and she will not sleep in her own bed. I just dont know how to get her to sleep in it. I can't even try any kind of menthod since the living stiuaction stinks! The house is to cold, the bed room gets to 56F, and that is cold. Plus my sister likes to stay up late. I am hoping for a merical, a house to move to that would help me work on getting my daughter to sleep in her own better. I dont think mericals happen, i have lost hope on the world. Life stucks end of story, never going to get better. i still dream and i know how to dream...a nice house for rent, not to much money, four bed rooms or three with attic and basment to hind onwoing family members in, only need one 1/2 bath but that is a dream. There is not a house out there we can move into not my family. So my daughter sleep with me or her dad or both ever night.

Hi everyone,

 

my name is Stefanie and i am from the Netherlands, i hope i can join in the discussion of where children should sleep. (if everyone can read my english)

 

My daughter is almost 10 months old now, and she has never slept in our bed. We just don't think thats good for her.

Plus i woud not like to think of what would happen if we did. We know story's of people accidentally killing their child.

We think her own bed en room is where she should be because that will teach her from an early age to be independant.

 

Hello all, this is my first time on here, and I am hoping someone has experienced something similar.  I am  28 years old and pregnant with baby number 4.  My youngest is now 14 months old, and since she was two weeks old, she has blessed us with sleeping for 10-12 hours straight every night!( I followed a fairly strict schedule the first few weeks!)  We moved into a new home about 5 weeks ago, and she had no problem adjusting to her new room at all.  She continued to sleep all night, until about 6 days ago.  She goes to bed great as usual, but then she has suddenly started SHREEKING in the middle of the night.  She screams like she is being attacked.  I will walk to the living room with her, give her a sip of water, and she instantly dozes off..until I walk into her room.  She actually panicks, and screams like she is being hurt.  She is frantically trying to get out of her crib.  She is fine at nap times, and like I said, I put her to bed awake as usual, and she instantly puts herself to sleep as usual, its the middle of the night shreaking!  I am paranoid now as someone said<"maybe you have a ghost" but only in her room?  Can anyone help me???

A ghost was the first thing I thought of before you even mentioned it.  But I don't know why that would be scarying her unless it was getting too close.

 

Besides the ghost comment (because really, I don't know if you have one) maybe she is trying to get more attention from you.  You bring her out into the living room, maybe she likes that.  Do you have a night light at all in the room?  Maybe she doesn't like the dark and gets scared because she can't see anything.

 

Just a few possibilites. =)

 

Take care.

I do believe in ghosts so I'm not gonna laugh at ya.  Do to the fact that she slept fine before.  I would let her sleep in your room until you figured out what was going on.  Maybe you should spend sometime in her room and see if there is anything weird going on there.

Sometimes she sleeps in her crib sometimes she sleeps in my bed. lol  She usually starts the night sleeping in her crib but often times when she wakes up in the middle of the night I let her finish out the night sleeping with me.

 

Sometimes I take naps with her during the day.  She sleeps in her crib most of the time but when its 4:30 in the morning your exhausted and she wakes up crying what are ya to do lol.

I think kids and parents should be comfortable when sleeping and personally I think kids will become comfortable in whatever setting they are introduced to. I prefer that my kids do not sleep with me and their daddy, for one thing the bed is not big enough for us, both my girls are bed hogs,LOL, Hubby is a very heavy sleeper and has knocked ME out of bed without waking up and I like every opportunity I can get with hubby alone and being in our bed is one great place to be. This does not mean they do not ever sleep with us, in fact, once in  while they do,( more so, since they have gotten older) not often, as they also enjoy their bedroom and they usually end up in one or the other's bed, they love being together and I do not have a problem with that. but snuggle times are great, sometimes one will sleep with me and one with daddy, daddy tends to fall a sleep with them at bed time as he is usually the one who does the bed time routine with them and in cases like that, well, it's nice to have my bed all to myself,LOL.

My kids have always pretty well slept in their beds, they started off in the bassinet in our bedroom,  then to the crib in their own room and then in the toddler room into a  new room, the transition was great with with very little problem times. I also do not have a problem with moving a sleeping child into her own bed, for there has been times when I felt compelled to be with hubby and a child needs to be transported from my bed into their own bed, they know that if they fall asleep in my bed, chances are they might wake up in  their own beds, they are used to that.

I think parents need to be sensitive to their child's needs and know what is right and not right for them and becasue we are all different personalities and mindsets, we are gonna do things differently, it doesn't make one or the other right or wrong, just a different way of doing things, My way works for our family.

In fact, right this moment, the five year old is sleeping in my bed, snuggled up against her daddy, the three year old, is in the recliner watching Toy Story 2, and it's 1:00 in the morning,LOL. The child woke up and needed to be with me for a bit, so we had some together time, we had a snack and off she disapeared and put a show in. She will soon be carried off to her bed, the other will be picked up and placed in her bed, and I will sleep comfortably in my own bed next to my husband because that is the way it is the majority of the time and there is no harm done.

Where should a child sleep? I personally think they need to get used to their own beds and that is why we did/do the things we did/do to make that happen but to each their own. To know that our children are safe and happy are imporant.