Just because you know baby is safe from predators, and fire, and has a monitor on so they can be heard etc doesn't mean that the baby knows that. I think instinctively the safest-feeling place for a baby would be next to mum. So that's why I co-sleep.
Easy feeding and cuddles and quiet midnight giggles when he throws up his legs and lets one rip are just bonuses
:yeahthat: Besides the fact that we started co-sleeping out of necessity and for survival DH and I soon came to realise that is also felt totally natural also to have her in the same room/bed with us! It would feel very strange having her down the end of our LONG hall away from us. I can imagine it would feel very lonely for DD and at times scary in the middle of the night.

So we started co-sleeping out of necessity but it also became a natural progression too.... as she no longer preferred her cot, and wanted to be in with her parents and she let us know that is what she wanted