where does your co-sleeping bub sleep during the day?

where does your co-sleeping bub sleep during the day?

I've been co-sleeping for the week since I've been home from hospital with my new baby, and during the day I've been putting him just in the lounge room (where I am) on a 'my little bed' on the floor, or in a bassinet next to the lounge. It seems a bit unnatural for me to put him somewhere by himself to sleep, even though I know its the way its 'normally' done in our culture, so I didn't think anything of it really. Until my sister and a friend visited the other day, came in and said oh so where is he? while looking up the hallway, and when I said he's just here and pointed at the floor next to the coffee table.. the looks on their faces was pretty much surprise/shock. He sleeps perfectly fine with all the noises going on and the daylight coming in, and I like that he's so close that I can hear and see him easily. So I suppose I'm just curious to see where other night time co-sleepers put their sleeping babies in the daytime...

We're doing exactly the same. He's been sleeping on our lounge (with a system in place so he can't roll off) since he came home from hospital. He sometimes sleeps on a blanket on the floor, and won't sleep in his bouncer. Very occasionally I've had to put him in our bed, when he's been unsettled and needing a dark space, but I'm usually there with him anyway.

I like him in the loungeroom - we have a small terrace house in the inner 'burbs, so there's nowhere else to put him anyway. I think some co-sleepers have a cot or bassinet for day sleeps, but we actually don't have the room for either of them, even if we'd wanted to.

I think as long as Bub is asleep and comfortable and you feel happy with where they sleep, then that should be fine. You might need to change his sleep location when he gets distracted by the world around him, but that's up to you. Our DS is still asleep on the couch (right now in fact) and he's four months old.

ETA - And congratulations on your little man!

Congratulations on your new arrival!

I'm with you, DD slept in the lounge room when she was new too. Having said that, as a Velcro baby she usually slept on me anyway, but if I ever could put her down it was wherever I was.

Charlotte slept in her bassinet, which I used to move around the house with me, or just on my bed.
Most often I took her afternoon sleep with her though, so that was on our bed.
She also slept in her rocker chair thing, the mat on the floor sometimes.
The pram she also slept in, as again, I wheeled it around the house and could take it outside with me when I was doing the washing etc.

Personally, I think that the more noise you make while they are sleeping the better. Charlotte used to wake as soon as it went quiet lol But if it were quiet in the house when she fell asleep, the slightest sound could wake her.
The noise was always on - the dishwasher, the washing machine, radio, tv whatever, and we are not "silence please the baby is sleeping" kind of people. She slept well and still does.

90% of the time, she was in the lounge or dining room of the lounge, so ignore people's looks, and do what works for you. More often than not it is the people who have never had kids and only have the opinions formed for them by parents or media as to what is 'normal' when you have a newborn. ;)

When DD was a newborn, she would sleep in her bassinet or the pram as I could wheel them around the house with me. These days she does have her morning sleep in her cot which is in my room just off the main area in the house so still close by. Afternoon sleeps are often in my arms or on my bed if I have a nanna nap with her.

As a newborn, in her bassinet, now in her cot. At night she goes down in her bed then comes into ours;)

(side note, your sig and ticker have your sons name spelt different;))

For the first few months my son had all his day sleeps in the hug-a-bub. After then he started managing the occasional sleep in the cot- which was next to our bed in the bedroom. We were living in a small apartment so I jsut shut the cat out and left the bedroom door open so I could still hear/see him. At 2 weeks old though I would want baby right with you too.

thanks for sharing, its great that everyone has a different way of doing things, and it makes me feel better to go with my own instincts rather than rely on a definition of 'normal'.

Thanks Dedicated mummy, how embarrassing! Just proves how sleep deprived I am, my brain doesn't really function most of the time these days! haha I'll fix it now...

congratulations! On two things. First on the arrival of your little boy and secondly for doing what you feel is right, right from the start. I wish i had refused to listen to all the people pressuring me to put DS in his moses basket when he only wanted to sleep on me or in the sling. It took me a while before i just trusted my own instincts. When i finally did, DS slept on me between cluster feeds and then in his sling when i needed to do something or go out. You are lucky too that your baby sleeps on the couch! Mine would scream if he was put down! These days i feed him to sleep on our bed and i still sometimes use his naps as a chance for a sleep myself! He has also started falling asleep on me again after not doing so for ages. I love it as it is a lovely cuddle and a chance for me to sit back and do nothing. When they start crawling you start to miss those early days when all you did was feed on the couch!

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congratulations! On two things. First on the arrival of your little boy and secondly for doing what you feel is right, right from the start. I wish i had refused to listen to all the people pressuring me to put DS in his moses basket when he only wanted to sleep on me or in the sling. It took me a while before i just trusted my own instincts. When i finally did, DS slept on me between cluster feeds and then in his sling when i needed to do something or go out. You are lucky too that your baby sleeps on the couch! Mine would scream if he was put down! These days i feed him to sleep on our bed and i still sometimes use his naps as a chance for a sleep myself! He has also started falling asleep on me again after not doing so for ages. I love it as it is a lovely cuddle and a chance for me to sit back and do nothing. When they start crawling you start to miss those early days when all you did was feed on the couch!

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This is how things are working for us at the moment. I would like to put DS down at times just so I can get a few things done bur alas! Lol. We use the close carrier alot! And he usually only sleeps for 20 to 40 minutes.

We went to sleep school on Friday with the aim of day sleeps in a cot. DS still fed to sleep on the boob as he was not happy with the cot and was waking when I put him in. They have refered us to the four day stay but I now feel that him sleeping on me during the day is what he needs from me right now.

He is sleeping through the night 9pm to 5am most nights if not then wakes later!!!

Sleep school said he was only doing this cause he is exsaused WDYT??

So I say what ever is working for you at this time. Go with that.

My friends and family were shocked but impressed that DS was sleeping in a bassinet out in the living areas during the day time with noise around. But mil is a mw and was telling all her friends at work who asked if this was my second/third as they thought it was great!

I have a friend who would only put their child in a cot in a very very quiet house. We could never flush the toilet or turn the TV up higher than 8! (we have ours on 20)

I want DS to sleep wherever if he needs to (I'm an out and about person) so this helps that he will sleep on the go! Lol.

Go with what you are both enjoying

bubba sleeps pretty much wherever she is when her eyes close lol. this morning though she fell asleep on the Big Bed (ours) and i needed to get brekkie and have a shower so i transferred her to the cot next to us. which is where she is catching the zzz's at the moment.

she can sleep in the moses basket which is in the dining, or in the pram that can be taken anywhere, or our personal fav: the sling or close carrier.

As a young baby my co-sleeping son slept either in the swing, car, sling (homemade hug-a-bub) or co-sleeper (little bed on our bed) during the day.

Now that he is older (turned one 10 days ago) he mainly either sleeps in the car or on our bed. I still breastfeed him to sleep though.

rocker thats it except for the pram which doesnt roll around this house too small im thinking about getting a hammock for her

I used to put DD in the lounge on a rolled up bed pillow top thing when she was about 8 months old. it was too hot to put her in the bedroom last summer because we had no insulation. Prior to that it was with me when I had a nap (she was a horrible sleeper and still is but now i manage better). When she got a bit bigger she slept in mine and DPs bed and still does. At the moment I'm climbing in with her during the day to have a sleep :lol: but prior I'd roll the doona or a spare blanket up and make a barrier so she couldn't roll off if I had to desperately get housework done. I love waking up and getting a cuddle or she wakes me up with big sloppy kisses!

I've come up to this problem again since I started the thread, seems like ages ago now! Isaac has grown so much, and he was having day sleeps in his pram bassinet or on me in the sleepywrap. I'm going to keep using the sleepywrap for his lunch time/afternoon sleep, but he has grown out of the pram as of a few days ago. I've made up a 'bed' out of a folded up doona and cellular blanket on the floor in the loungroom.. he's asleep there now but I've just discovered there are ants! Might have to invest in a portable bassinet or something maybe.