[blparent] co-sleeping with toddler

[Stephanie Mitchell]

Can you feed your baby to sleep in his room? I do this at 7, they 
my toddler who is 14 months joins us at about 11 when he wakes.  
Sometimes, I will feed him again and put him back down in his 
crib if we aren't going to bed yet.
Steph


 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Erin Rumer" <erinrumer at gmail.com
To: "NFB blind parent listserv" <blparent at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:11:53 -0700
Subject: [blparent] co-sleeping with toddler

Hello parents,



I'd love to hear from those of you who chose to co-sleep with 
your babies.
My son Dawson who will be one years old on Halloween has been 
co-sleeping
with my husband and I since he was ten months old.  I absolutely 
love the
co-sleeping arrangement and in many ways wish I had started it 
earlier.  The
only snag that I'm finding is that Dawson used to be able and go 
down in his
crib for the first stretch of the night which was a couple of 
hours and then
by the time he woke-up I'd be ready to go to bed or my husband 
would just
bring him into me to co-sleep.  Now Dawson doesn't want to do the 
first
stretch on his own and refuses to go down without me.  I'm an 
early to bed
person but now not having that few hours on my own is difficult.  
How do
those of you with co-sleeping toddlers usually start out your 
night?  I'm
finding that just letting Dawson play a little longer in my room 
with the TV
on low helps him start to calm for the night and then around 8:30 
we can lay
down together with no stimulation noise or lights on and he'll 
fall asleep
quickly.  This isn't giving me any time to unwind for the night 
though.  I'm
still nursing Dawson so daddy putting him down to bed is out of 
the question
since he needs boob to fall asleep and that's not a battle I want 
to start
right now especially since breast feeding is so special and 
something both
Dawson and I love very much.  I'm against cry it out methods and 
want sleep
time to continue to be a positive and pleasant experience for 
everyone.



Thanks,



Erin

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