07/01/2009
pdqaeight b, cincinnati, OH
Thanks for sharing. Very interesting
07/01/2009
Tarah C, Ellwood City, PA
I agree with you that babies need soothed at night until a certain age. I do not agree with your 8 month old sleeping in your room so that YOU feel better. You are going to have trouble later.
07/01/2009
LS, Louisville, KY
I didn't let either of my daughters sleep with me because of the experience with my step-daughter. She was 2 when her parents divorced and her mother slept with her every night. SHe was 5 when I married her daddy and we could not get her to sleep in her own bed. SHe would cry, throw a fit, scream if we tried. We went through this for 4 years until she finally started sleeping in the same room as her younger sister, our oldest daughter. I learned then and there that my own children would be sleeping in their own beds because I didn't want to deal with that again.
07/02/2009
jessica f, west fairview, PA
I totally agree with you. My son sleeps in the same room as us and sometimes with us because that's what he wants. I hate that some people expect kids to act like adults and do adult things right when they're born. There needs need met no matter how we need to do it. I'd feel like I was neglecting him by letting him scream himself to sleep. I don't think they're soothing themselves to sleep, I think there little bodies are just so exhausted from screaming they just pass out. So I definetly agree with you.
07/02/2009
Lisa B, Lake Isabella, CA
What does this have to do with DIAPERS ??? This is commments on LUVS not a blog on parenting !!!
07/02/2009
Xanthia D, Edison, NJ
My 6 week old baby girl sleeps in our room in a bassinet for 4 hours and then the rest of the night in bed with us. I definitely didn't want to be a 'co-sleep' parent but there is a happy medium. Soon she'll be transitioning to the crib and I'm considering putting the crib in our bedroom until she seems able to sleep most of the night by herself. I also think that some babies are naturally more independent, but for now I have to go with what works for my baby and believe me I tried to get her to sleep longer in the bassinet! Oh and to Lisa B., your comment is ignorant. Obviously Luvs set up this forum to talk about parenting issues or else every topic would be about diapers and God that would be boring!
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