You can’t sleep alone in a strange place, you can’t sleep with somebody else
By Michelle | September 13th, 2009 | Category: Mothering | 2 commentsI’ve been thinking a lot about sleeping arrangements lately as we settle back into a school year routine. Co-sleeping is one of those discussions that leaves me a bit confounded as the kids get older. When they were small and sleep was all we and all our baby-bearing friends discussed, the family bed vs. the cry-it-out (CIO) method was pretty polarizing. And we were largely on our own at our pole.
But now that they are older, like weaning/breastfeeding discussions, everyone assumes that co-sleeping is a thing of the past. Sometimes it is, but sometimes it’s not – and the new variable is that the kids have started liking to sleep together, whether one of us is there or not (we take up a lot of room I guess). It seems to be working for us now and like all things sleep related, I figure if we’re all resting, I’m not going to mess with it.
So, dear readers, what happens in your house? The poll above probably doesn’t have nearly enough variations – so feel free to comment below.
You didn't give an option for "Partner, you and kids together". That's how we sleep, and we all sleep well because of our arrangement.
I think one of my friends who adopted from Haiti still sleeps with her son and he's almost 8. She is a single parent and it works for both of them. She coslept from the time he came home at age 3.
I only partly coslept with one of my kids but I support every family's right to what works for them.