Dear Cas, the good thing about this is you have learnt that you are def not alone in this one. We also have done the whole "help, what do we do?" sleep thing. Our third boy ended up being our first co-sleeper, partly because we wanted to, but mostly just to sleep. Well, he broke all the rules of what you might expect of a co-sleeping baby, shocking sleeper who fussed and wiggled all night, plus feeding very frequently. He fell out of bed despite what barriers we used. We ended up ditching the bed frame, queen matress on floor for myself and baby, hubby next to me on a single matress. I looked after the baby and hubby took care of the other two, who love their beds and do sleep very well, only needing the occ support on a restless night. It took just over 2 years for Angus to sleep at night, I now can just speak to him and gently comfort him, having a feed at around 6am ish if wanted. The most frustrating thing is that Angus sleeps in my bed space and I have to keep pushing him over, still he makes an excellent hot water bottle. My husband was away all last week and Angus slept poorly, I believe he missed hearing his Dad near him as all is quiet again. I really believe that the two of them are much closer because we co-sleep, despite him not having bodily contact at night. It has helped my husband to fully understand what goes on at night time for a mum and baby, and we have survived, quite well.
Our next journey is with number 4 due in a few months and how we adapt to having another body in the bed. Maybe you could show your husband the e-mails you have received and see what he thinks, he might be worried about what his peers and colleagues think too. If the men and women he works with were honest he would discover that many of them probably have a child sleeping with them for some part of the night. Best of luck with it all, Megan This message was sent through MyMail http://www.mymail.com.au -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit <http://www.acegraphics.com.au> to subscribe or unsubscribe.
