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Question by Maritime Mummy to 2 Little Imps!:
Co-sleeping parents, did you ever get over the fear and anxiety of harming your baby in your sleep?
I never co-slept with my daughter because I knew both my husband and I slept very heavily and tossed around all night. For me, having her in her crib seemed much safer. Now I have a newborn son and we are short on bedrooms for the time being, so until we complete renovations and he has a room of his own, we have a co-sleeper set up next to our bed. Right now though, he is a very active nurser, and really doesn’t sleep well unless he is directly next to me. As soon as i place him in the co-sleeper he wakes up screaming.

What is my fear? Last night I must have fallen asleep burping him (in the chest-to-chest position), and when I woke up, he was in between my husband and I. While I laid there trying to figure out how he got there, my husband almost put his elbow down on our son’s face.

Like, really scary. And on top of all of that, I keep thinking about what might have happened had my son ended up in between my husband and I face -down in the bed instead of nicely on his back?

He’s going to be sharing with us for at least 4 months. At the rate that he’s waking and nursing, it’s out of the question to have him share a room with my daughter. Does the fear and anxiety ever go away? Any tips on how to keep myself from crashing while holding my baby, or from falling asleep so heavily that I harm him?

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