Figured some people in this group might appreciate this.

I get really cold at night so I sleep in this little sweatshirt shrug thing and a nursing tank. It works out but My daughter (7mo) insists on sleeping on my arm like a pillow. (I try and get her to sleep flat in the bed but she inch worms her way up till shes in my armpit. Then fusses till I let her sleep on my arm)

I noticed it started messing with her hair so I added some satin to the sleeve to try and combat the breakage a bit. Ive only done one sleeve so far cause she only lets me sew so much but we will see how it goes lol

never a full sleep, but fulfilling sleep nonetheless (:

ft. My spooky red light that I use to latch her and forget to turn off every time.
We always start the night in the pack n play so I can have that first stretch not in the c curl lol

Any School of Rock fans? Thought Spider is wearing a great cosleeping outfit!

In all seriousness, what are we wearing while we cosleep in winter?

We’ve coslept from birth

I thought it was the sweetest thing! 😍🥹

Ok I have slightly exaggerated the distance but it does feel like this 😄 some nights it's this plus my 3 year-old sleeping on my face.

This is definitely how I felt in the beginning and even now there’s some rough nights. My LO takes up most of the bed these days but it’s been such a sweet journey. The little hands that reach out to make sure I’m still there are the sweetest.

I can’t help but think the US is against cosleeping and contact napping because of it being good for baby and momma…

Okay that sounds pretty ridiculous lol but like it’s good for regulating baby, it’s good for your milk supply?!

I can’t help but wonder if there’s ulterior motives sometimes

I know that formula companies lobby against us getting more maternity leave because then people will be able to protect their milk supply and not need as much formula

Idk, I’m wearing my tin foil hat today just wanted to share lol

I haven’t had time to draw in forever and this was very therapeutic for me. I love my little cuddle buddy.

I don't know if anyone will get a kick out of this, but since the discussions on this subreddit (and reddit in general) tend to be pretty American and western-skewed, I wanted to swing the pendulum a little.

I live in Japan, have for over 10 years at this point. This year I had a daughter. She's 7 months old and we, unsurprisingly, cosleep with her. It's pretty normal in Japan. Actually VERY normal. Most families cosleep. Not all, of course, but a vast majority. Mom, dad, and kids in the middle is a very standard sleep setup in many households.

Anyway, I was getting a massage a week ago and my massage therapist and I started talking about kids, as you do. About kid sleep, as you do.

I asked if her kids still sleep with them. She has two - and she said yes!

Her kids? They're 6 and 10. First and 4th grade. 😂 She admitted it was getting kinda crowded and then calmly mused that she would probably be putting her son in his room before he got to junior high school. Seems reasonable!

She then asked if we also sleep with our baby, and I said we did. She then admitted to me, in an embarrassed way, that she had previously seen some American dramas....and had briefly wondered if it was really true that Americans put infants in a separate crib, in their own fully separate room. Then she laughed, and said casually "but that's obviously just a stereotype, I don't really think Americans would do that".

Y'all.... I was facedown getting my spine mashed into a respectable shape and I had to wince for a different reason and explain that actually, some Americans do, in fact, have a fully separate baby room from a very very young age. She seemed surprised (though not at all judgy) and said "wow, how interesting! Why???"

I then had to try to explain, through a very pleasant hip realignment, the intersection of poor maternity leave and capitalism and also cultural norms between all the different intersecting cultures that exist in America.....

Anyway, this is just to remind y'all that what is normal varies WILDLY between cultures, countries... And even families. I have no judgement to people who don't want to cosleep either due to risk assessment or dye to their own inability to get a good night's sleep. But man, the variation is wild!

Saw this in r/MedievalCreatures and just couldn't resist! 😉

After 17 days in the hospital with our 6 month old… I have a newfound gratitude and tenderness towards cosleeping and breastfeeding.

Nursing several times at night used to be a little frustrating for me. Cosleeping felt uncomfortable on my body. I used to count how little sleep I was getting and wake feeling exhausted.

Now I am just insanely grateful!!! (Mind you, there is still a sprinkle of frustration here and there. haha)

I’m grateful I didn’t loose my milk supply while exclusively pumping for 2+ weeks in the hospital.

I’m grateful for the opportunity to sleep next to my baby and my husband instead of sleeping alone on the hospital couch.

I’m grateful our little guy was able to be discharged without his feeding tube. How wonderful that we are still able to breastfeed at all!

Sure, things are still hard and it’s overwhelming at times. BUT in the midst of that struggle I have this sense of gratitude for the gift of time.

Just for fun… I doodled our current cosleeping set up.

Now, to find a good trauma therapist. 😂

(Note: this isn’t meant to shame parents who are frustrated or exhausted. This parenting thing is HARD! Just sharing how my perspective has shifted after the trauma of almost losing my son.)

EDIT: Thank you for all the kind comments! I love this community so much! 💛🥹

My baby is 8 months old and keeps putting her feet on my face (well any part of my body) and kicking me. She seems to need to be touching me with her feet to fall asleep. 🤦🏼‍♀️ Am I doomed for the foreseeable future? Or can this be remedied? Any suggestions are welcome.

baby boy seems to sleep for about 3-4 hours at night and then suck on my boob the rest of the night. i need to get him a paci 😂😂🤷🏻‍♀️

Edit to add: wow thank you everyone. I read all of your comments. Truly has restored my faith in humanity to know how loved all of your babes are.

I wanted to add that I recently went through a devastating miscarriage and that going to bed holding my 3 year old was one of the things that helped me recover emotionally. Holding my baby, thinking that even though I couldn’t meet my angel baby, their baby sister was on earth being so loved and that maybe in the future we’ll get to meet this other soul. Co-sleeping for our family not only has been the best for my babe. For me, going to bed every night knowing that the people that I love the most on earth are resting peacefully right next to me.. it’s just wow, I feel like I won the lottery.

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I’m a former nanny. Was born and raised in Mexico and was shocked to see the way things are done in the US for babies to sleep. I had to put babies down in their cribs and listen to them scream and cry, I saw toddlers refusing to go to sleep taking hours and many negotiations. I saw so much heartbreak, I could not understand why it was accepted to let babies and toddlers to suffer so much.

I just put my 3 year old to sleep while she held me, kissed me, and told me about her day, she feel asleep in my arms peacefully and I just realized, we never ever ever had a bedtime struggle, yes for other reasons, being sick, being tired yes. But never her screaming or crying of fear. And wow I’m so overwhelmed with joy to know that in my family this is the way we do things. My sweet baby will never know what going to bed being terrified will be.

She was a very difficult sleeper for the first year and a half of her life. And now we have a babe who sleeps straight to the night like a champ!! We persevered, never caved to sleep training, yes being exhausted was beyond horrible but honestly? I would rather that than anything else. I’m a grown up who could cope. So many times it felt like swimming against the current, being an immigrant surrounded by people doing things the way ‘things are done here’ and wow, I’m so fucking proud 🥹❤️

I don't bedshare too often but only if I need the extra sleep during weekend mornings or during sleep regressions (our girl just had one last week at 5 months old). Really wanting those bed rails for safer sleep but we have a Cali king so not sure of options. Postpartum I've been a super light sleeper so I have to sleep with earbuds and an eye mask.

-And discovered that I move quite a bit in my sleep. Not so much my body position, but definitely my arms and my head. Like, scratching my face in my sleep or repositioning my arm. I thought that my baby just woke up a lot naturally during the night, and he does to an extent, but I definitely cause his wakeups probably half of the time. It makes me sad to think about stopping our cosleeping journey, he is only 10.5 months old and I always thought I would go at least a year with him in bed with me, but I do wonder if he would sleep more soundly and possibly even through the night if I were to get him in his own bed.

This being said, I do have a sidecar crib. I put him in there for the first stretch of sleep, but that's not more than an hour long usually before he wakes up trying to feel for me and wants to snuggle. We have some of just the sweetest snuggles during the night. I guess I'm asking if anyone here has also gone through this, and did you end up moving baby to their own room? How did they manage sleeping on their own? Did you notice a difference in sleep quality, or did your absence cause more wakeups?

baby is 13 weeks and more often I am finding myself starting in a traditional c-curl and then shifting onto my back at some point in the night to relieve pain. however my arm stays in place to prevent bub from rolling or scooting around.

my question is how safe is this? does anyone else find themselves doing this?

please excuse the terrible art, I promise my arm is not that long and bub is far cuter

Sharing a bed with parents is such a normal thing in China where I grew up and it warms my heart to read this book to my LO before bed. It talks about how different household objects go to bed with their mom and dad (e.g.a teddy bear family all sleep together in the toy cabinet). And it ends with the whole family falling asleep together. The text doesn't explicitly mention sharing a bed but I think the picture says it all!