Sleeping habits - poll

[momm]

Just wondering how you mammas handle/ handled newborns and kids sleeping. Poll coming up!

[kristenk]

I voted the first option, but it was really more like

bassinet-contraption side-carred to the bed
bassinet set up like a stand-alone in our bedroom
bassinet in DD's bedroom
crib in DD's bedroom

I think we made the final transition to her crib when DD was almost 5 months old.

[BabyBearsMom]

I voted for the first one but what really happened was everytime I tried to put DD down in the bassinette in our room she would scream. In the end, the only place she would sleep for the first 6 weeks of life was a swing. Then she moved into a crib. I had her in our room for the first 4 weeks but then I couldn't get a wink of sleep with her there, so we moved her to her own room (swing and all).

[wellyes]

I voted option 1. DS goes to sleep in a bassinet. But honestly he is brought into our bed by 3 a.m. every night for night nursing.

With DD it was similar but she slept in a swing at the beginning of the night, then our bed.

[elektra]

Voted option 1, but once DD transitioned from the crib to a big bed, it's OUR big bed that she's in and not hers.

[lizzywednesday]

We used the carseat for the first week.

Then DD slept in our bed.

Then I'd let her fall asleep in my arms/while nursing & then transferred her to the bassinet.

When she outgrew the bassinet, we moved her to the crib.

Currently, we've regressed & she's back in our bed.

[edurnemk]

We used a bassinet in our room, pulled up against my side of the bed. When he outgrew that we used the PnP with the bassinet thing. After a few weeks, I finally learned to BF lying on my side and that was the beginning of our unofficial partial cosleeping! DS would sleep most of the night in his bassinet, but usually after the 3-4 am feeding he'd stay in our bed.

We moved him to his crib in his own room at 7 months.

For our next one I'd like to look into a cosleeper.

[LMPC]

First we had DD in the room with us but in her crib...then at about 4 months old, we moved her into her room (across the hall from us). I was totally freaked out those first few days after we moved her! Of course, both she and DH slept much better!

[BabyMine]

M was a preemie and had some medical problems so he slept in a bassinet in our room for a couple months until we moved him to his crib.

TT was in a bassinet for 4 weeks then went to the crib. He actually hated the bassinet but we had problems with severe reflux so we had him by us.

[babychi]

We did a crib from day one in DD's own bedroom...we have a spare bed in her room, so I slept there for the first few weeks to make nursing at night easier.

We are very happy with our decision...she started sleeping through the night at 9 weeks and is still such a great sleeper! This arrangement has worked well for us...DD, DH and I all get a good night's sleep!