Is it acceptable for a 0-12 month old child to sleep with its parent every night?

Answer 1

I personally don't like the idea. The child will get used to sleeping with someone and will have a harder time going from bed to crib. I like the idea of starting with a bassinet next to the bed and switching over to a crib in their own room when they are old enough.

Answer 2

It depends on the parents and depends on the child. My son (first child) slept in my bed until he was 9 months. He was still getting up for a 5:00 feeding at the time and when my doctor said he should be sleeping through the night I knew I needed to move him to his own bed. So by 10 months he was in his own bed. With my daughter I tried her in my bed a little but it didn't really work out .. she actually woke up more, woke me up more so she went to her crib much earlier than my son. I am pregnant now and I have know idea what the future holds, I will go with what he/she needs.

I really don't think there is a right or wrong answer here it's what works for your family. If you are a heavy sleeper you need to be careful because you don't want to roll over on the baby. I put up a bed rail and my son slept next to me and the edge because I was afraid my husband would roll on him. Good Luck!

Answer 3

I think it is. With my oldest (now 13) I never let him in the the bed...my parents didn't and i had actually never heard of such a thing! lol! My hubby on the other hand has a whole family full of bed sharers. So he mellowed me a little with the 2nd child and now with the 3rd he sleeps with us about 1/2 the time. It is a personal opinion, there is no right or wrong. If you and spouse are comfortable having a child sleep with you and don't mind the effort to move him to his own bed later than no problem. I will say as they get older (my youngest is 4) they start wanting to sleep in their own bed.

Answer 4

I slept with my daughter for part of every night until she was appx. 2 years old, it was the only way I could get any sleep. She is 5 now and sleeps through the night in her own bed and does not come into our bed at all. My friend has a daughter who is 6 days older than mine and started her in her own bed immediately. She wakes up every night and goes into her parents bed or cries until one of them goes in and lies down with her. The moral of the story do what feels best for your family and try not to be swayed by public opinion. I did not sleep with my daughter because of any great philosophical belief, I did it so I could get some sleep. My friend did what all the experts say to do and she now has a 48lb five year old in her bed.

Answer 5

I would have to say NO. If you are nursing a bassinet is a good way to have the baby near the bed. Its very hard to break a child from it. My wife started letting my son sleep on her side of the bed when he was a baby. Now he is 5 and most every morning/night he tries to sneak in to bed with us. He flips and flops and talks... this usually happens 2-4 hours b4 I have to get up for work so i get no sleep after this happens. If i send him back to his room the cries and fusses till my wife or I have to get out of bed and get him back down in his room. So please do yourself a BIG favor and don't get the bad habit started. YOU WILL REGRET IT

Answer 6

If you choose to. Its all about what the parents prefer. For me, it was a big no. It was hard to get my eldest to sleep on her own, so I started from birth with my other two. They stayed in the room with me until they were about a week old, then they slept in their own crib. It was alot easier because I wasn't waking at every sound and didn't wake the baby when I wiggled around at night. I am such a light sleeper that a baby in my bed was pure torture because I never slept! The best part was I never had to break the habit of them sleeping with us. And my youngest never had issues with falling asleep on her own because its all she knew. So do what works best for you.

Answer 7

I always slept with my babies in the same bed..but recently I found out that most of the cases of SIDS are because the parents rolled over and smothered the child accidentally of course. Now that's a scary thought and I thank God nothing bad ever happened like that to my kids. Something to consider.

Answer 8

I wouldn't do it in fear that someone would roll on top of the child and suffocate it. Or the fact that the child will never want to sleep in its own bed and then you will be back on yahoo asking how to make the child sleep in its own bed after being in yours for so long.

Answer 9

No, the child will get used to that and want to sleep with the parents all the time, that doesn't leave much for the parent's privacy either.

Answer 10

NO !!! Children should be sleeping in thier own bed in thier own room from the beginning. Allowing them to sleep in the parents bed sets up a habit that will be hard to break later .