"Lizajane" <lizaambler@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:8b9ea4b.0305241751.7b6ef067@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Gabriel Day Evans was born to us on May 16th. He is wonderful - of
> course I think he is the most beautiful child ever born. I can tell he
> will have a sweet disposition, he smiles to himself all the time and
> though I know they are not "social smiles" I think it means something.
> The only problem is he WILL NOT sleep by himself, even if we are in
> the room. We have two bassinets, one for our bedroom and one for the
> den. Even if he is sound asleep, if I try to put him into one of his
> beds, he almost immediately wakes up and wails until someone comes to
> get him. This is after he has been fed, changed, burped, etc. I don't
> feel right just letting him cry, but I tried to yesterday and he went
> on for 5 minutes. I don't believe in "crying it out," and even if I
> did, his crying for a long period of time causes a physical response
> in my body that is uncomfortable! He sleeps well in a "family bed"
> situation, which suits me fine, but my husband is afraid that one of
> us will smother him, or that we will never be able to make the
> transition in to his crib in his own room. Also, we just need some
> time to cuddle and kiss and generally be together and it's hard to do
> if a baby is crying! I expected some of this, and don't expect to have
> much uninterupted sleep, but jeez, 15 minutes would be nice. What does
> everyone else do?
Well what I did was to let him sleep with me. I beleived the folks here
who
said you would not squish him. However, the same cannot be said of my DH.
I
put DS on the outside of the bed, with a pillow between the edge and him
and
then me then DH. Honestly, for me co-sleeping was miserable. I slept
poorly
at best. What I *wish* I had done, is stayed with him and soothed him in
the
cradle by patting his head or rubbing him and singing or something like
that. My DH is going to build a cosleeper thingy to attach to the bed for
this upcoming baby. That way she can be nearby for me to touch and sooth
without being right next to my body.
Stephanie
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