The REALITY of Sharing A Bed with a Baby | Honest Review of Co Sleeping 1 Year In

Let's talk the REALITY of sharing a bed with a baby! When I was pregnant I remember asking myself if I should co sleep with my baby and now that we are 1 year in officially I wanted to share our experience, some bed sharing pros and cons, and answer the question I get constantly: How can you have sex when co sleeping?! This is our experience personally and I hope it helps you make the right decision for your own family!
To dig into more info on safe bedsharing, the research, and how to do so safely, I highly recommend checking our Dr. Mckennas work. I will link resources below.
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[@HillsCo2006]

Oh the back pain!! I have a terrible back and can’t even just sleep on my back without waking up in the morning with a really stiff sore back. But add cosleeping and it makes it much worse! Currently have my 8th, who is 10 weeks old. I cosleep half the time - she’s an amazing sleeper and sleeps really well in her own bed. I have to wake her up once during the night to feed her and to keep my supply up, then she mostly goes back to bed, but then the second time she wakes up I just bring her into my bed and nurse her back to sleep. We never coslept with our babies until we had #6 and 7, who pretty much did it the majority of the time out of necessity for sleep- as well as sleeping on my chest during the day in my wrap because I just couldn’t get them to sleep well enough in their bed. I did love it though as I love baby cuddles. My 2 year old still comes in at some point every night and sleeps with us, and my husband actually really enjoys the extra snuggles and closeness he experiences with her.

[@wholenesscampaign]

Thank you so much for this video!! There aren’t many videos this in depth!

[@jessicarothley]

my pleasure!

[@beccaleigh524]

I know this is an old video so I have no idea if you’ll even see this but I do have a couple genuine questions!
1. Do you still get a similar closeness/milk boost with a bedside sleeper that attaches to your bed? I’m very interested to see if it would help my milk supply (it’s been a struggle before) but I absolutely cannot bring myself to have baby in bed with me. We had a family member lose their baby to SIDS while they were co-sleeping and it terrifies me.
2. At what age do you feel is a good transition for baby to be in their own bed? I have friends who have always co-slept and their two girls are now 4 and 6 and one parent still sleeps with one while the other parent sleeps with the other kid. To me, it seems like that would make it exponentially more challenging to have intimacy in any form with your partner in that scenario. What are your thoughts?

[@amberherron8637]

You deleted your tiktok 😭 I hope all is well, but I miss your videos!

[@jessicarothley]

haha temporarily deactviated for a break! But Ill be uploading them here over the next few months:)