i used to let my girl sleep in her own cot beside my bed till she was about 10mths old iirc. she still sleeps in her cot but then we removed one side of her cot and join to our bed like this Our Precious Princess!: Koala Bear the reason n conclusion.. is all in her blog. hehe. lazy to type all over again. LOL
BUT if your baby is still young like you said, i would sugest letting her sleep in her cot alone to train her to sleep better. btw, are you breastfeeding? the reason why i dont support co sleeping at such young age is because IF you are breastfeeding, most of the time you will just shove your breast to the baby while you n baby are still lying down n baby will most likely suck her way to sleep which is not very good for such young babies as they cant learn how to fall asleep by themselves n might grow dependent on the breast.. my girl is already old enough n knows how to go to sleep by herself so i dont mind co sleeping...now she just come to me, suck n crawl back to her own cot n fell asleep. sometimes she does fall asleep on my breast though but not often.
STAND in her cot?! i think i must keep a lookout cos ds loves to stand. though now he still cant master the tactic to stand with support but i think must lower his cot soon haha..haffa, dont worry. its ok to let your baby sleep in cot alone. you are all in the same room isnt it? i wanted to move my girl to another room but was feeling a bit bad to throw her inside an empty room haha. seems so lonely..
yea regina, my girl also sometimes does what your son is doing when she was sleeping alone in her cot last time.. she always stand up n cry and dont want to be put back to cot.. so i let her sleep in between me n hubby but i cannot sleep well as i keep worrying that she will be crush by us or roll down the bed... n she will kick n punch me in her sleep!
chiro, my girl now dosent stand up on her bed or our bed dont know why. but then when she was sleeping in her cot alone, she often stood up crying in the middle of the night n want to be put in between us...after we somehow co sleep, her night cryings stop as well as she can always crawl out to us if she wants to thus no need to stand up and cry hehe. anyway i think you can try. there are ppl who move baby to their own room after 1yr old successfully so i think moving him to cot is worth a try. i didnt want to co sleep at all cos i want my girl to be able to sleep in her own bed by herself.. now she is not yet sleeping through the night thus i let her sleep in her cot joined to our bed.. once she start to sleep through the night im gonna move her cot away! whahahha. since she dont need the milk anymore... n shall put back the other side of her cot so she will be back to HER cot all alone again hehe
thanks. i think it is too late we removed her playpen. now she sleep on the mattress we placed on the floor.hi isabelandrew,
my boy too. he sleeps better on our bed cos the ceiling fan is directly above our bed. plus my smell from BF too. even when we turn on the aircon, his cot which is on the other end of the room from the aircon, still feels warmer than our bed. we installed a fan blowing towards his cot and the situation improved. so maybe you can try this too.