Yeah, I love other people's opinions on co-sleeping...like a hole in the head! My GF has just announced her pregnancy and it must be an immaculate conception...because her boy slept on his own for the first time last week!
And the amount of people who don't own up to it because of their fear of public opinion - more of us co-sleep than admit to, anyway.
Routine - I don't have a 'routine' in the common sense of the term, as in, things don't happen by a timeframe, rather by cues, no matter what the time is. Bedtime can be anytime, but it is always going to the same bedroom, same family bed, a feed and if a feed is finished before sleep arrives then either a burping to sleep session in a sling, or just lying with my eyes closed, arm around Oscar, gently patting his body (often with my boob still in mouth) and he follows suit. Mornings are varied in that he wakes, I feed, he goes back to sleep. I try to wait until he is properly asleep before removing myself from the bed and then have a shower and get some things done (prioritising the things I CAN'T do with him in the sling...like wax my legs, blow dry hair, boil eggs and eat them!). Sometimes, however, I fall asleep again so I just wait for the next hungry waking, feed and try again! Very, very rarely he won't go back to sleep in the morning so I just suck it up and spend the rest of his awake time unshowered...sometimes I just don't get round to it, but since he was born I have been able to manage a shower 99% of the time. Again, there's no time for being up and about, it's the cues that I provide him and that he provides me. I am happy and unstressed, enjoying my baby like I would never have believed possible AND unless he has been unwell, I always wake feeling rested.
Good one for choosing co-sleeping That and BFing are the two loveliest things, huh?