Stephanie S wrote:
>"Lizajane" <lizaambler@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>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?
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>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.
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>Stephanie
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I didn't really care for co-sleeping, either, although we did it with
our first child because at
least *she* slept better. If I had it to do over again, I think I'd
have tried what Larry & Monika
(I think they were the ones) did - put a twin bed next to their bed, and
put the baby on the twin bed.
Luckily, #2 was OK with the crib from the start, so I wasn't nearly as
sleep-deprived as
with #1.
Clisby
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