Co-sleeping with multiples: yes or no?
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By Peapodsquadmom | Leave A Comment
Had I birthed a singleton, I probably would have chosen co-sleeping. I didn’t, however, feel like that was a viable choice for me once triplets came along. There were times when one of the babies ended up in our bed, but we never actually had all three of them sleeping with us every night. I honestly cannot imagine how that would have worked out, so I’m especially curious to hear from any of you who had success with co-sleeping with multiples.
Here’s one mom’s take on the whole thing. In addition to really making me giggle at times, she also makes some valid points. What do you think? What worked for your family?
(video from gotcrtwn09)
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Dude, I am probably the only freak in the world who co-slept with TRIPLETS. LOL. They slept in our bed for 2 1/2 months before moving to co-bedding together in a crib.
I could not help it. As a mom of singletons before entering the world of multiples, it’s what I was used to!!!!!
We don’t have twins but se7en kids with a couple a year a part… and we have a large (two double futons pushed together) family bed… At one stage we had five in the bed but now 3 are in their own beds and just four in our bed… Whoever is nursing sleeps on either side of me – I need my sleep and I am getting up for no-one!!! I had to comment on the intimacy issues: You have no idea haw many people say (like it’s their business – not!): “Family bed, what a great contraception” While we are standing their with se7en kids! Yeah right!!! hehehe!!! They are obviously not very creative!
My twins are going to be 6 soon and they still hop in the bed with us. When they were newborn until 2years I nursed them and it was just easier for them to be with me at night. Now they start out in our bed fall asleep we put them in their beds and enventually they end up back in our bed. I wish we had room for a king size bed in our bedroom.
NO!! We don’t co-sleep with any of our kids. Not the singletons, not the triplets. My oldest was in my room in one of those co-sleepers for like 2 months, my son in the same co-sleeper for a few weeks – the triplets for about 5 days and that only because their nursery was occupied over Thanksgiving (they came home from the hospital the day before Thanksgiving). After that it was off to their own rooms!
I cannot sleep with a baby anywhere near me – I hear every moan and groan. If I don’t get sleep I don’t function – so it’s everybody to their own rooms day and night!! That’s what works for me
We co-slpet with our twins – they shared a cot ‘side carred’ to our bed with one side taken of… so they had their own space and so did I. I can’t imagine doing it any other way. I do believe little babies need to sleep near their parents (not necessarily in the same bed if that doesn’t work for you, but in the same room) but mostly I am just lazy… there was no way I was getting out of bed in the middle of the night to feed or settle anyone.
It worked great for us.. the girls slept in our room, either in the side carred cot or their own cots each next to our bed until they were almost two.. when we moved house and took the opportunity to move them to their own room. Even then they would still come into our beds in the wee small hours some mornings… even now at five they still love to come for early morning snuggles and sleep ins….which means we sometimes have three kids in our bed
For a little while my husband and I each had a five-pound twin on our chest and a two-year-old between us. We soon moved the toddler to a pallette on the floor and then figured out one of the twins preferred her own space in a crib next to us. The other twin slept with us in the bed for a couple of years until #4 came along.