Did your newborn sleep with you or in a crib?
When did you finally get them into a crib?
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2brandon2 · 18-21, M
My dad works in a pediatric emergency department. There have been several cases of mothers rolling over their babies in suffocating them just this year alone he had four. It is so dangerous. In fact that parents are not allowed to sleep with their babies on a bed in the hospital because the hospital does not want the liability. The most nurturing thing that you can do for your baby is to swaddle them nicely tightly and comfortably in their crib And then bring them to your bare skin several times a night if you’re breast-feeding. It’s about the baby safety.
ElwoodBlues · M
@2brandon2 Twenty odd years ago when my wife & I were having our kids, we looked into the stats on rollover deaths vs SIDS (crib death) and the rates were roughly comparable. There are cultures (e.g. much of India) where babies usually sleep in the parents' bed and cultures where they don't. Our conclusion was that rollover deaths are much more common where drinking or drugs are involved.
@Notsimilarreally Our first child, from birth, really wouldn't fall asleep without a human mattress. So he was in the bed between us. I still remember the lovely feeling of him kicking or poking me in the night.
After a few months when he was stronger and less satisfied with the "human mattress" we tried to move him to a crib, and we read up on "Ferberizing." We made up our own modified Ferber process where we let him cry himself to sleep in the crib for the first sleep of the night, but when he woke up for feeding he would stay in the bed with us. This eventually transitioned to full nights in the crib.
Then there was that afternoon nap that ended with him climbing out of the crib and dropping 4 feet to some padding we had on the floor. He chose a "big boy bed" but then preferred to sleep under it. Or making a nest next to it or a nest elsewhere in the room. Or in a kiddie Winnie-the-Pooh tent. Oh, those were the days!
@Notsimilarreally Our first child, from birth, really wouldn't fall asleep without a human mattress. So he was in the bed between us. I still remember the lovely feeling of him kicking or poking me in the night.
After a few months when he was stronger and less satisfied with the "human mattress" we tried to move him to a crib, and we read up on "Ferberizing." We made up our own modified Ferber process where we let him cry himself to sleep in the crib for the first sleep of the night, but when he woke up for feeding he would stay in the bed with us. This eventually transitioned to full nights in the crib.
Then there was that afternoon nap that ended with him climbing out of the crib and dropping 4 feet to some padding we had on the floor. He chose a "big boy bed" but then preferred to sleep under it. Or making a nest next to it or a nest elsewhere in the room. Or in a kiddie Winnie-the-Pooh tent. Oh, those were the days!
Notsimilarreally · 31-35, F
@ElwoodBlues that is sweet 😊