I also agree that having your baby either next to your bed in a basinette or in bed with you is so much easier!!When youre nursing or bottle feeding.And when you’re a new mom or done it before you always sleep with one eye open and ears open to that baby.So rolling over on a baby in my mind isn’t possible! I have 2 daughters and did it with both. They both went into their cribs when a few months old with no problems.

Also,
I named my youngest daughter (5 now) LiLia it means “Delicate Blue Flower”.

I co-slept with my newborns up to about age 6 months. It makes it so much easier to nurse and get sleep! Then when they were a bit older and not nursing as much, I moved them to a crib. IT is so hard to get up and stumble down the hallway for a nursing in the middle of the nigh– I’d rather have them right in the bed, but unfortunately, each of my children got too active when they were around 6 months. I have co -slept with 4 newborns and never felt afraid of rolling over on them and never did!

I did Hypnobirth and I had my son in about 15 minutes, no pain at the age of 41. He’s my first. The nurses at the hospital were surprised and so was I. The one thing they don’t tell you about Hypnobirth is that the surprise factor and shock is so high because it happens so fast. I think it also helps that I had a hypnotherapist hypnotize me for pain about a week before I was due. I can’t wait for Busy to share her experience with hypnobirth.

As for the co-sleeping, my son is 11 months old and we still try to introduce the co-sleeping once in awhile but he doesn’t want it. Sometimes I find that as a parent I have to be flexible and not everything goes as I plan. But I’d still love it if my son would just snuggle in the bed with us and fall asleep. Who knows, maybe Busy will change her mind.

I want of address some of the co-sleeping concerns/questions expressed here. Many co-sleepers never planned to co-sleep with the baby before they had their baby. It often end up doing out of convenience or necessity and find they it actually works for them better then they imagined it would. Thus, Busy may end up doing it anyways despite her current feelings on the matter. Secondly, how you sleep when it’s only your partner and you and how you sleep with a baby in bed with you often quit different. Co-sleeping mothers often report being more attuned to the presence of their baby then they ever were their partner. Also she could end up using a bed-side co-sleeper bassinet that allows greater bed sharing style convenience while not actually having the baby in bed with her. Regarding husband/partners bonding with the mother, I would hope one is bonded to one’s partner prior to birth. Any continued bonding can still happen while co-sleeping. More intimate bonding between partners can occur in other rooms. While I might make it more difficult for you to get the child to sleep in his own bed later on, not every parent believes that sleeping on one’s own from early on is that important. Some parents (especially Attachment Parents), feel that allowing their kid(s) move to their own bed when they are ready is better choice for their family (often happens at 2 to 3 years of age on average). In terms of the risk of rolling over on a co-sleeping infant, advocates of co-sleeping argue that co-sleepers are generally very attuned to the presence of their baby and that following basic co-sleeping safety guidelines will also prevent that from happening (this includes not going to bed intoxicated or on sedative drugs, not co-sleeping if obese, using proper co-sleeping bedding, not co-sleeping in a water bed, etc.).

It’s very personal to decide family bed or not. My husband loves it too and we both have found it makes us all closer; we do not feel less close as a couple even more so in our arrangement. Our baby is still an infant and could not be a happier baby. And we’ll know when it is time for our baby to go it alone. It feels natural for us and also- people around the world in many cultures do the same thing.The bond feels even stronger with my baby too.
There are tons of ways to bond with your child though so it’s really up to the mom and dad. We started it actually b/c I was deadly scared of the SIDS thing (I read too much when pregnant so I psyched myself out) and accd’g to Dr. Dears book I saw something about how the mother and baby’s breathing becoming regulated or in sync being so close together. Also it comforted me to just look over and see my child and know all was well.

As anything in parenting, whatever works for you. Trying what works should (and doesn’t) should be fun and without input from anyone else.

I’ve always assumed, and heard that having the baby sleep WITH you is not a good idea. Number one, you need that time to bond with your husband/partner, I think, and that’s kind of taking that time away from the two of you. I have also heard that it makes it next to impossible to get them to sleep in their own bed! Not to mention rolling over on the baby, or is that no longer a legitimate concern? I like the basinet route.

I feel sad she doesn’t want to co=sleep with the baby- I did that with my little boy and it was wonderful, of this little person breathing in my face- there is always an awareness of the baby sleeping next to you as you have one eye on the baby all the time while sleeping- I always was tired but it’s so worth it, I had this great bond with Pierre, my son and I was so upset when he was 3 months old, he slept in the cot- I knew I needed to do it as I was going to have to detach myself from him in the sense I was gonna wean him at 4 months because he wasn’t getting enough of my milk.
Anyway, wish her all the best with the new baby

Yey for Hypnobirthing!! If you want a natural birth you should do the training so good for her! Hypnobirthing helped me deliver my son naturally and I am eternally grateful to the method.