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  1. #1
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    Red face Cosleeping and DTD?

    Hi to all you co sleepers...

    Well the 'bringing up baby' program brought up the issue of DTD with bubs in bed with you and how it can affect your newborn - well some believe.

    We have DTD with DD in bed with us, she was asleep and on the other side of the bed,(not being actively being 'bounced around') we didnt actually think anything of this, but as it was raised we have thought about what age would be inappropriate.

    So - when did you stop?
    What age do you think that it is appropriate to
    I am asking this in the scenario that your child is asleep - i dont think that I could actually DTD if DD was awake, i think that it would be a bit of a mood killer - however i am not condemning it, nor passing judgement if any of you do so.

    We are part time cosleepers so at times its not an issue, but sometimes, you know, you get the urge to do it RIGHT NOW

    thanks in advance

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    I can't do it when Jazz is in bed with us. Actually I can't do it when Jazz is in the same room LOL! I just need it to be us two, zone out and do our thing and not have to think "am I being too noisey?" We do it other places... theres LOTS of places...

    I don't find it inappropriate, at 7 months I don't think its going to have any negative effect (and in fact if you want to get down to it apparently the sound of parents DTD is supposed to be relaxing because of the yummy hormones that would go through the placenta and apparently they associate the noise with the feeling... this is what I read somewhere anyway... so in fact it seems it quite the opposite of harmful PMSL!) at 7 months.

    I'm not sure what age I'd find it inappropriate... I suppose it depends on when they become aware of whats actually happening KWIM. So whenever they get to that age. It would be different for each child I guess wouldn't it.

    i didn't anser your question did I? Sorry!

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    Jan 2007
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    We don't co sleep but have DTD in front of DD. Sometimes we just get the urge and she'll burst into the bedroom and wonder around the bed or we'll do it in the lounge. I do find it off putting, but at 1 year old she doesn't know what's happening. I think a bit later in the year as she approaches 2 it might become less appropriate.

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    Our babes always seemed to sleep through it, and before it became an issue they had moved into their own beds, by choice!! HHmmm maybe....they instintivly knew what was going on and had to leave the bed

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    i think its once they can start interupting by more then just crying or whinging... so by crwaling over or walking in the room...

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    I could not DTD with DS in same room let alone in bed, but if you are ok with it go for it.

    DS is a very light sleeper so would wake him uo and screaming baby is a mood killer Lol, we have turned off moniter while DTD when he woke but were finished quickly as momment gone!

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    Have done it with DS asleep in the same bed, on the other side since he was born. Now he goes to sleep in his own bed, so mostly, that's when we'll go for it. Otherwise, when DS is awake, he's awake and there's no concentrating on satisfying horniness!