{"id":87,"date":"2007-10-25T11:20:16","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T18:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=87"},"modified":"2015-08-31T17:58:12","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T00:58:12","slug":"co-sleeping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"Co-Sleeping"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s an article in the New York Times about co-sleeping<\/a>, which is what they call it when your baby sleeps in your bed, next to you. This is what we are doing these days, even though we have a lovely and confusingly-named “co-sleeper” that is like a little crib attached to our bed. I posted a picture of it before:<\/p>\n

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The thing about the dedicated co-sleeper is that we started calling it the “Baby Wake-Up Box” when we noticed that, after a midnight feeding, he was vastly more likely to fall asleep when placed in his daddy’s arms than in the co-sleeper. He likes cuddling with us; who can blame him? So we pretty much gave in and brought him into bed with us. Now he sleeps between us, where with one well-aimed flailing motion he can punch us both in the nose at the same time. It’s fine actually, I like it. I like feeling his warm little body curled up against mine, and hearing the breathy little sounds he makes in sleep. I don’t feel that there’s any danger of rolling over on top of him. I’m very aware of him even when I’m asleep.<\/p>\n

Actually Robin doesn’t like being out of physical contact with us in general, when he’s awake or when he’s asleep. I think the thought process goes like this: “No Mommy you cannot put me down, tigers might get me! Oh no my mommy has left my eyesight! Maybe I am lost! Maybe I am lost in the middle of the dark dark woods with tigers circling around me! I must cry very very loudly so that my mommy can find me again!” So I do hold him most of the day, or wear him around in a sling, which he also likes.<\/p>\n

I’ve drifted off the topic of co-sleeping. I dunno, people have big arguments about this but I don’t see what’s to argue about. Some people do it and some people don’t. Presumably everybody just picks the sleeping arrangements that work best for their family, right? There is nothing here to argue about. It’s exactly like the so-called “mommy wars,” which are also awful, because there is not one right answer and everybody should just do what suits them best<\/em>. I mean, duh.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I liked the article, if only for the Doritos dream at the beginning. “It was such a good dream, Mom!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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